The Evil Triumvirate

Barack Hussein Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid are ruling virtually unchecked. They will pass the stimulus bill that even the Congressional Budget Office which is nominally non-partisan but which typically is dominated by the party in power, in this case the Democrats, says has no prospect of reversing the recession but will saddle future generations with unprecedented and unmanageable national debt. There will be just enough Republican support to prevent filibuster but not enough for any credible claim of bipartisanship. The bill is a liberal wish list and in spite of slight reductions from the bloat that took place in the Senate, a behemoth disaster. One cause celebre of the left has been to abolish the death penalty but as was just manifested by the execution of an inmate in Tennessee whose culpability could have been in question, the Obama regime which has broad Constitutional powers of pardon, clemency, and commutation did nothing to stop the state-sanctioned killing. That this President wants to retain the apparatus of death to direct against American citizens should be terrifying particularly since Obama emerged from Illinois which instituted its own moratorium on state killing after it emerged that so many who were innocent were on death row and that police investigators had used physical coercion (some would say torture) to elicit confessions that led innocents to receive death sentences. Obama obviously wants to keep the ultimate tool of power to use against fellow Americans while having a fetish for the rights of foreign terrorists who have murdered or would with no restraint or scruples. Jihadists will have legal protections never before accorded to illegal enemy combatants but American-born dissenters could find themselves in one of Alcee Hasting six concentration camps established on US military bases to detain unruly US civilians and who knows, with the death penalty still in the toolbox, stir the pot too much and you might earn yourself a lethal injection. The Democrats leading both houses of Congress and holding the Presidency will prove to be the worst of all worlds.