Remember during the campaign - Obama promised unity? Forgive me for my small town values, but I can’t for the life of me figure out how a White House that kneecaps its perceived enemies is what can be considered a unifying force.
Kimberly Strassel provides a comprehensive rundown of the actions of the Chicago Gang in the White House. It should be disturbing to anyone who believes in freedom.
They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That’s the Chicago way.
When Barack Obama promised to deliver “a new kind of politics” to Washington, most folk didn’t picture Rahm Emanuel with a baseball bat. These days, the capital would make David Mamet, who wrote Malone’s memorable movie dialogue, proud.
A White House set on kneecapping its opponents isn’t, of course, entirely new. (See: Nixon) What is a little novel is the public and bare-knuckle way in which the Obama team is waging these campaigns against the other side.
In recent weeks the Windy City gang added a new name to their list of societal offenders: the Chamber of Commerce. For the cheek of disagreeing with Democrats on climate and financial regulation, it was reported the Oval Office will neuter the business lobby. Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett slammed the outfit as “old school,” and warned CEOs they’d be wise to seek better protection.
That was after the president accused the business lobby of false advertising. And that recent black eye for the Chamber (when several companies, all with Democratic ties, quit in a huff)—think that happened on its own? (“Somebody messes with me, I’m gonna mess with him! Somebody steals from me, I’m gonna say you stole. Not talk to him for spitting on the sidewalk. Understand!?”)
The Chamber can at least take comfort in crowds. Who isn’t on the business end of the White House’s sawed-off shotgun? First up were Chrysler bondholders who—upon balking at a White House deal that rewarded only unions—were privately threatened and then publicly excoriated by the president.
Next, every pharmaceutical, hospital and insurance executive in the nation was held out as a prime obstacle to health-care nirvana. And that was their reward for cooperating. When Humana warned customers about cuts to Medicare under “reform,” the White House didn’t bother to complain. They went straight for the gag order. When the insurance industry criticized the Baucus health bill, the response was this week’s bill to strip them of their federal antitrust immunity. (“I want you to find this nancy-boy . . . I want him dead! I want his family dead! I want his house burned to the ground!”) ….
It doesn’t get better from there, but it’s still worth reading in its entirety. Knowledge is power. Our only hope is that the American people will be so disgusted by the Chicago thuggery practiced by the White House and their friends that some how, some way, we’ll be able to undo the damage they’re doing.
Obama and his minions in the Democrat Party have precious little time to implement his version of American Marxism before election cycles begin. I sense that the Quislings of America will be delt a staggering blow in 2010 and a coup de grace in 2012. If not, “Houston, we have a problem”.
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I hope you’re right Michigan. If not we will have a problem. What a bunch of rotten thugs.
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This smashing of any opposition is just one more characteristic of banana republic politics and tyranny
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[...] morning joe, obama, valerie jarrett, white house Morning Joe October 23. Be the first to comment! Um, is this really what you call bringing people together? – lonelyconservative.com 10/23/2009 Remember during the campaign - Obama promised unity? Forgive [...]
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