The slow descent into tyranny is about to get much quicker.
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With all due respect, its not so slow anymore. He senses weakness in the congress and is putting the pedal to the mettle. We are on the precipice of becoming a dictatorship.
With all due respect, we're already there. The difference between "hard" tyranny and "soft" tyranny is one "racially-motivated" attack against the government.
I've said for years that we won't see Barack Obama leave the White House. He's setting himself up to be grand dictator of the first caliphate of the United States of the Levant.
...An islamist dictatorship.
The expression is, "put the pedal to the metal" .... Referring to old "Rubber-duck" truck-driver talk back in the day of Smokey and the Bandit.
"The metal" implies a truck floorboard without carpeting. Variant: "Put the hammer to the wool", in which a hammer wedged under the throttle linkage connectors substituted for a worn-out and broken-down accelerator pedal.
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