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Why Barack Obama's imperial presidency is imploding
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Leroy N. Soetoro
May 18, 2013, 7:04:10 PM5/18/13
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This has been a nightmare week for Barack Obama, without a doubt the worst
of his presidency so far. Steven T. Miller, acting commissioner of the
Internal Revenue Service has just resigned over his agency�s targeting of
conservative groups, which even The Washington Post labeled this morning a
�horror story�.
Yesterday Obama�s Attorney General Eric Holder testified before the House
Judiciary Committee on a host of issues including the Benghazi debacle, in
what can only be described as a train wreck of a performance. Holder was
simply unable or unwilling to answer most key questions, and demonstrated
a level of contempt for elected officials in Congress that was
breathtaking. It was yet another public relations disaster for the Obama
team.
In addition the administration has come under heavy fire over the Justice
Department�s monitoring of phone records belonging to Associated Press
journalists.
All this has combined to create a perfect storm in the first year of
Obama�s second term, a wave of scandals that has been so damaging to the
standing of this administration that even The New York Times today carries
the headline on its front page: �An Onset of Woes Raises Questions on
Obama Vision�.
When even the usually subservient inflight newspaper of Air Force One has
doubts over the job the president is doing you know the situation is
really desperate for The White House.
George F. Will, one of America�s most influential political commentators,
and a columnist for The Washington Post, believes there are �echoes of
Watergate� in both the IRS and Benghazi scandals. As Will wrote earlier
this week:
The burglary occurred in 1972, the climax came in 1974, but 40 years ago
this week � May 17, 1973 � the Senate Watergate hearings began exploring
the nature of Richard Nixon�s administration.
Now the nature of Barack Obama�s administration is being clarified as
revelations about IRS targeting of conservative groups merge with myriad
Benghazi mendacities.
Will doesn�t go as far as saying that Barack Obama will suffer the same
fate as Nixon. After all, Obama benefits from a Senate controlled by the
Democrats. But there is no denying the parallels between the sense of
impunity in this White House and that of Richard Nixon�s four decades ago.
In fact it�s considerably worse on many fronts.
Political analyst Michael Barone warned back in October 2008 of what he
called �The Coming Liberal Thugocracy,� referring to then Senator Obama�s
call for his supporters �to get in their face� when confronting
Republicans and Independents.
Barone argued at the time that �Obama supporters who found the campuses
congenial and Mr. Obama himself, who has chosen to live all his adult life
in university communities, seem to find it entirely natural to suppress
speech they don�t like and seem utterly oblivious to claims this violates
the letter and spirit of the First Amendment.�
Barone�s predictions have been proved correct. As I�ve noted in previous
pieces, this is a nasty, brutish, imperial-style presidency that is highly
intolerant of dissent, and which goes out of its way to target political
opponents.
It is ironic that one of the journalists threatened by the Obama White
House in recent months has been Bob Woodward, one of two Washington Post
reporters who originally broke the Watergate scandal, and who was
immortalised in the 1976 Oscar winner All The President�s Men, where he
was played by Robert Redford.
Woodward was warned back in February by White House economic adviser Gene
Sperling that he would �regret� remarks he made on the sequester issue.
Other writers, including Bill Clinton�s former special counsel Lanny
Davis, have faced similar threats.
Is it any surprise that conservative groups have been targeted en masse by
the federal government following the kind of deeply unpleasant rhetoric
used by Vice President Joe Biden, who supported the charge by Democrat
Congressman Mike Doyle of Pennsylvania that Tea Party Republicans had
�acted like terrorists� over the debt issue?
Biden has been a master of this kind of divisive, heated language, telling
union members at an AFL-CIO rally in Detroit in September 2011 that �you
are the only folks keeping the barbarians from the gates.�
At the same rally, Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa declared: "President
Obama, this is your army, and we are ready to march. Everybody here�s got
a vote. If we go back, and we keep the eye on the prize, let�s take these
son of a bitches out and give America back to America where we belong.�
Needless to say, President Obama remained silent on both the Biden and
Hoffa remarks, and in the following year called on his supporters to take
�revenge� against Republicans at the ballot box.
This week, thanks to unprecedented levels of Congressional and mainstream
media scrutiny of the actions of the Obama administration, the American
people have been given a powerful insight into the way in which this
presidency has operated.
For far too long, the Obama administration has acted like an imperial
court rather than a government that is accountable to the nation. The
White House�s culture of arrogance and impunity, coupled with a deeply
unpleasant vindictiveness, is increasingly there for all to see.
Suppression of political dissent, a callous disregard for the loss of
American life in Benghazi, and the relentless rise of big government �
these will be three of the most of enduring images of Barack Obama�s
imperial presidency.
--
Barack Obama, reelected by the dumbest voters in the history of the United
States of America.
Eric Holder, racist black murdering United States Attorney General, still
has his job.
Nancy Pelosi, Democrat criminal, accessory before and after the fact to
improper vetting of Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama, a confirmed
felon using SSAN 042-68-4425, belonging to a dead man.
Obama ignored the brutal killing of an American diplomat in Benghazi, then
relieved American military officers who attempted to prevent said murder
in order to cover up his own ineptness.
Obama continues his goal of disarming America while ObamaCare increases
insurance premiums 200% and leaves millions without health care.
Obama helped bankrupt Illinois. Democrat run Chicago closes 54 public
schools.
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This has been a nightmare week for Barack Obama, without a doubt the worst
of his presidency so far. Steven T. Miller, acting commissioner of the
Internal Revenue Service has just resigned over his agency�s targeting of
conservative groups, which even The Washington Post labeled this morning a
�horror story�.
Yesterday Obama�s Attorney General Eric Holder testified before the House
Judiciary Committee on a host of issues including the Benghazi debacle, in
what can only be described as a train wreck of a performance. Holder was
simply unable or unwilling to answer most key questions, and demonstrated
a level of contempt for elected officials in Congress that was
breathtaking. It was yet another public relations disaster for the Obama
team.
In addition the administration has come under heavy fire over the Justice
Department�s monitoring of phone records belonging to Associated Press
journalists.
All this has combined to create a perfect storm in the first year of
Obama�s second term, a wave of scandals that has been so damaging to the
standing of this administration that even The New York Times today carries
the headline on its front page: �An Onset of Woes Raises Questions on
Obama Vision�.
When even the usually subservient inflight newspaper of Air Force One has
doubts over the job the president is doing you know the situation is
really desperate for The White House.
George F. Will, one of America�s most influential political commentators,
and a columnist for The Washington Post, believes there are �echoes of
Watergate� in both the IRS and Benghazi scandals. As Will wrote earlier
this week:
The burglary occurred in 1972, the climax came in 1974, but 40 years ago
this week � May 17, 1973 � the Senate Watergate hearings began exploring
the nature of Richard Nixon�s administration.
Now the nature of Barack Obama�s administration is being clarified as
revelations about IRS targeting of conservative groups merge with myriad
Benghazi mendacities.
Will doesn�t go as far as saying that Barack Obama will suffer the same
fate as Nixon. After all, Obama benefits from a Senate controlled by the
Democrats. But there is no denying the parallels between the sense of
impunity in this White House and that of Richard Nixon�s four decades ago.
In fact it�s considerably worse on many fronts.
Political analyst Michael Barone warned back in October 2008 of what he
called �The Coming Liberal Thugocracy,� referring to then Senator Obama�s
call for his supporters �to get in their face� when confronting
Republicans and Independents.
Barone argued at the time that �Obama supporters who found the campuses
congenial and Mr. Obama himself, who has chosen to live all his adult life
in university communities, seem to find it entirely natural to suppress
speech they don�t like and seem utterly oblivious to claims this violates
the letter and spirit of the First Amendment.�
Barone�s predictions have been proved correct. As I�ve noted in previous
pieces, this is a nasty, brutish, imperial-style presidency that is highly
intolerant of dissent, and which goes out of its way to target political
opponents.
It is ironic that one of the journalists threatened by the Obama White
House in recent months has been Bob Woodward, one of two Washington Post
reporters who originally broke the Watergate scandal, and who was
immortalised in the 1976 Oscar winner All The President�s Men, where he
was played by Robert Redford.
Woodward was warned back in February by White House economic adviser Gene
Sperling that he would �regret� remarks he made on the sequester issue.
Other writers, including Bill Clinton�s former special counsel Lanny
Davis, have faced similar threats.
Is it any surprise that conservative groups have been targeted en masse by
the federal government following the kind of deeply unpleasant rhetoric
used by Vice President Joe Biden, who supported the charge by Democrat
Congressman Mike Doyle of Pennsylvania that Tea Party Republicans had
�acted like terrorists� over the debt issue?
Biden has been a master of this kind of divisive, heated language, telling
union members at an AFL-CIO rally in Detroit in September 2011 that �you
are the only folks keeping the barbarians from the gates.�
At the same rally, Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa declared: "President
Obama, this is your army, and we are ready to march. Everybody here�s got
a vote. If we go back, and we keep the eye on the prize, let�s take these
son of a bitches out and give America back to America where we belong.�
Needless to say, President Obama remained silent on both the Biden and
Hoffa remarks, and in the following year called on his supporters to take
�revenge� against Republicans at the ballot box.
This week, thanks to unprecedented levels of Congressional and mainstream
media scrutiny of the actions of the Obama administration, the American
people have been given a powerful insight into the way in which this
presidency has operated.
For far too long, the Obama administration has acted like an imperial
court rather than a government that is accountable to the nation. The
White House�s culture of arrogance and impunity, coupled with a deeply
unpleasant vindictiveness, is increasingly there for all to see.
Suppression of political dissent, a callous disregard for the loss of
American life in Benghazi, and the relentless rise of big government �
these will be three of the most of enduring images of Barack Obama�s
imperial presidency.
--
Barack Obama, reelected by the dumbest voters in the history of the United
States of America.
Eric Holder, racist black murdering United States Attorney General, still
has his job.
Nancy Pelosi, Democrat criminal, accessory before and after the fact to
improper vetting of Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama, a confirmed
felon using SSAN 042-68-4425, belonging to a dead man.
Obama ignored the brutal killing of an American diplomat in Benghazi, then
relieved American military officers who attempted to prevent said murder
in order to cover up his own ineptness.
Obama continues his goal of disarming America while ObamaCare increases
insurance premiums 200% and leaves millions without health care.
Obama helped bankrupt Illinois. Democrat run Chicago closes 54 public
schools.
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