Carte Blanche Presidency

From the days of the Magna Carta, the king was theoretically, at least, under the law. Barack Hussein Obama is subject to the same law regarding the inspector general as his predecessors. The nature of the job of inspector general (IG) is to go where the evidence leads and IGs often end up stepping on the toes of people in power. Obama, as US Senator, even sponsored a measure protecting the independence of IGs by requiring a thirty day wait before an IG could be terminated (for cause). In the recent Walpin case, involving point guard become Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, the Obama administration ignored Obama's own law. This is a President who seeks to widen the scope of regulation more than any previous US leader. Enormous, burdensome regulation of the financial industry is coming-regulation that lets slide the true cause of the fiscal collapse-the anti-"redlining" regulation that forced banks to give loans to those who were utterly unworthy of credit, which sparked the subprime loan crisis and led to the creation of liar loans and exotic derivative trading that fueled the fire of banking and insurance dominoes. Instead of ending the gifts disguised as low income loans, the new regulation proposed by Democrats fosters more of them. Obama wants to regulate industry and energy consumption with cap and trade and CAFE standards which will prevent you from driving the vehicle you want or that your large family may require. Obama wants to rob you of your choice in medical decisions with his national health care scheme which by the very nature of medical records will give the government access to the most intimate aspects of your lives. Obama reaches into every crevice of your life but exempts himself and his own from scrutiny. We have a leader whose missteps are covered up by his handmaiden media. Obama is not subject to law; he is above it, and we are rapidly losing the rights of citizenship and becoming subjects. Unless the public is roused from their slumber, we may have to endure eight more years of Obama (or more-if he ignores or bends the Constitution to his whim), but the damage Obama is doing, will last forever.

Cut the Fat

One of the revenue raising ideas circulating in states and in Congress is a tax on non-diet soda. This initiative is purported to promote health in an era of rising obesity. Drudge highlighted a study today conducted in Japan that "chubby" people actually survive longer than their svelte peers. Just like global warming, the science behind the push for a "fat" tax may be flawed. All people who drink soda are not morbidly obese, and people who drink diet soda are often overweight. The soda tax is not a plan to advance good health but a scheme to separate you from more of your money. It is long past time that the government showed more concern for shrinking budgets than growing waistlines. There are more than enough revenue streams for government, in fact many Americans are already drowning in them.

An Endorphin Rush

I was heartened this morning to think the God of the Bible is still at work today-not that I ever had any doubt. When I read on Drudge that our Secretary of State had just broken her elbow on the way to meet Obama to report on her efforts to strong arm Israel in a meeting with their foreign minister, I was reminded of the Biblical admonition that those who bless Israel shall be blessed, and those who curse Israel will be cursed. A plague of flies would be harder to swat, and the next time Clinton goes to shove the Jews from God-given land, I guess she'll have to push with the other arm.

Chicken Little Syndrome

Apologists for the Obama administration and busybodies who want to control your life are creating artificial crisis after crisis to mobilize the gullible and create momentum for more government overreach. The environmental wackos just brought forth more information to galvanize opinion against industry, automobiles (powered vehicles generally), power generation and consumption. This Al Gore sky is falling madness now says global warming is accelerating, moving so fast that only drastic, immediate measures will save our coastal cities such as Boston. The premise is beans-how can we forecast the weather a generation from now, when using the state of the art meteorological technology that exists today, experts can not predict next week's weather correctly? An accurate assessment of climate in a generation is now no more than a politically-tinged guess. Our rights will be restricted based on a formula of lies generated by cap and trade profiteers and professors whose grants are contingent on agreeing with a global warming consensus that science is increasingly showing to be flawed, that the world is actually entering a cooling period, hence the manipulation of language by some to alter "global warming" furor into "global climate change" which advances the same regime of regulation but under a different theory than debunked warming. That a Chinese under a relatively repressive Communist government will have more freedom and ability to select a vehicle, even a large, emission spouting SUV, than formerly free Americans defies logic. We used to be a free country.

Bias On Display

ABC Evening News promoted the Obama plan to finish the nation off by means of national health care last night. They suggested a false symmetry by interviewing one doctor who opposes the care rationing scheme, and another thirty-six year old female physician who is for Obama's great leap forward. They did not preface the two interviews by declaring the caveat that the young woman is among a small minority in the medical profession who would support this government intrusion into patient care, taking decisions away from caregivers and recipients and supplanting them with bureaucrats-bean counters deciding what surgery you are eligible for, what medicine you receive, and even whether you live or die. This Obama/Kennedy scheme is a grave danger to the least among us, those frail, incapacitated, or wholly dependent like Terri Schiavo will not pass the cost/benefit analysis of the newly created health system and their end-of-life will be hastened as a money saving measure. Unlike what the young female doctor said on ABC, the scheme is not going to be opposed because it will cost doctors a "small percentage" of their incomes, but because it will limit choice, deny treatment, and shorten lives. On another front in the propaganda war, PBS had Margaret Warner advance the big lie of Jews "ousting" Palestinians at the creation of Israel in 1948. It wasn't enough for her to let Arab Hisham Melhem talk and interrupt Israeli David Makovsky, Warner had to introduce the debate with this falsehood that leaves out that the Grand Mufti and the Arab leadership told the Arab population to leave, to get out of the way to facilitate the slaughter of the Jews so after their wholesale liquidation the displaced Arabs could simply come back to loot and claim the dead Jews' property. The rest of the segment was irrelevant after Warner revealed herself as an Israel basher with the lie in the introduction. The Arabs who did not heed the calls to leave and clear the field of battle for the massacre to eliminate the Jewish presence are Israeli citizens who enjoy full rights today. The rampant advocacy in the dinosaur media discredits it in the eyes of anyone with any historical knowledge or common sense.

The California Conundrum

California, which is itself running at a tremendous budget deficit, has announced plans to keep foreclosed homeowners in their houses. The Governator, a nominal Republican, revealed his true political orientation sometimes back when he said government must provide everything for everybody. This school of thought now largely permeates Washington as well and is a prescription for the end of the nation. When broke states bail out broke homeowners, the country is irrevocably broken. When someone on state aid buys a lottery ticket, you pay for it. When someone in subsidized housing has cable or a satellite dish, you pay for it. When someone enters the country illegally and accesses our medical system, you pay for it. When aliens send their children to our public schools, you pay for it. Under ordinary circumstances, no nation could afford to purchase everything for everyone as Schwarzenegger insisted the state is ultimately responsible for, but with Obama and the Fed and Treasury willing to print devalued money at a breathtaking pace, we can pay for it all, and when the hyperinflation sets in, we will all pay for it later.

Take Your Medicine

Many American liberals have a dour, Puritanical mindset. They fervently believe that if there is suffering anywhere, they should share the misery. They want to enshrine enough regulation to wipe "the pursuit of happiness" from the collective national consciousness. While Obama certainly excludes himself, his circle of confidants, and his entertainer and athlete backers from this enforced privation, he wants to impose it on the rest of us and turn us into worker bees. While Barry and Michelle lavish themselves with Paris adventures flying two separate 747s, they want you in a small, underpowered breadbox of a car (which is vastly more dangerous than a large vehicle because engineers simply can not repeal the laws of physics). While Barry may discreetly light up, you will have to spend your last dollar and find one of the few smoking-tolerated places to have your postprandial puff. Our Southern founding fathers were virtually all tobacco growers, but if a cigarette is suddenly a nicotine delivery device worthy of government micro-regulation, just do the right thing for a product so dangerous and ban smoking completely, but no, then government loses the revenue stream from the smokers (addicts). On the national health care agenda, Obama and his elites will enjoy a standard of care unavailable to us mere proles in his new system. They will have an opt out unavailable to the common folk forced into rationed care. The system will not be the gold standard for the people but a costly limitation of the choices we were formerly able to make. The national salary czar will be employed by Obama to limit executives who employ thousands while his Oprah entertainer and sports figure cronies who employ magnitudes less workers will still be able to command whatever the market will bear. So you will make less, pay more taxes, be subject to greater regulation (you will not be able to make your own dining, drinking, or smoking choices as your actions will affect the burden the system has to bear), and your life and death decisions will be stripped from you and yours and left with a cost-benefit analysis of a bureaucrat. Welcome to a Utopian nightmare of the damned.