Obama's End Run Around Congress - Call It a Stimulus Package!
Mood:
down
Topic: Treason, Democrat style
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/obamas_end_run_around_congress.html shows one way Barack Obama could get everything he's been promising his liberal friends in sotto voce discussions - all those drastic expansions of Federal spending.
Obama could call his outsize shopping list a "stimulus package," then demand that Congress pass it right after the Inauguration. And when our tax cuts expire in 2010, suddenly we're all going to see our tax rates go up. Can't expect all of this good Federal managing of our lives for free, can we?
Gee, we'll get Everything Corps (free non-parental consent abortions for minors at Planned Parenthood!), our First and Second Amendment rights abridged to an extent unheard of, a "civilian national security corps" funded like the Armed Forces and a tax hike, all for the price of a dirty election in 2008.
Don't know about you, but I think we've crossed more than one frontier with the election of Barack Obama.
Hitler promised Germany a lot of public works projects and cradle-to-grave government management of their lives, too. They wound up with a tyranny in the bargain - because Hitler, like Obama, had a mean temper and couldn't stand it when people criticized him out loud.
And Obama already has two people on the Federal Communications Commission - Copps and Adelstein - who want to give him a license to control political speech on the air. They call it the "Fairness Doctrine," but it's always been used by Democrats who wanted to tell radio station managers, news editors and political commentators to shut the Hell up. And it took Ronald Reagan to rid us of it.
Posted by V.P. Frickey
at 10:04 PM MST
Updated: Wednesday, 24 November 2010 6:55 PM MST
Nations can, and do survive with foreign troops defending them, Senator Boxer.
Mood:
irritated
Topic: Treason, Democrat style
On FoxNews' Sunday Morning show, Sen Barbara Boxer (D, CA-(ca)) once said "Nations cannot survive with foreign troops defending them."
By Boxer's reasoning Great Britain, Germany, Italy, the other countries in the military arm of NATO, Japan and South Korea should be alarmed, since their national existence has been in danger since 1945 owing to the presence of troops from the United States of America.
Germany in particular must be reeling if Senator Boxer is right, because it still has forces from several former occupying nations stationed within its borders. Apart from economic doldrums which can be satisfactorily explained by the ravages of socialism and deficit spending, however, Germany seems to be fine.
One of their largest multinationals, DaimlerChrysler, is not just Europe's biggest automaker (if you exclude European subsidiaries of the American-based multinationals General Motors and Ford, such as Opel, all the various national Ford operating companies, and the former passenger-car divisions of Volvo and Saab) but Europe's largest defense contractor.
West Germany was able, based largely on its economic might, to overcome virulent threats from Mikhail Gorbachev and dire predictions and warning from politicians throughout Europe of all political leanings to reunite with its ruined Communist other half and thus eliminate Soviet Russia's strongest European ally.
NO ONE would have predicted as late as the mid-to-late 1980s that this would happen - that Germany would become the master of her own political destiny again, in open defiance of the Soviet Union.
Imagine, SIXTY WHOLE YEARS have passed in which all of these nations and others have been defended by American troops, and according to Barbara Boxer, their survival is in mortal danger!
The major contribution Barbara Boxer made to political discourse in the United States is that just one of her shorter public utterances can sustain many paragraphs of adverse commentary on the thinking of the knee-jerk left which she helps lead.
Seriously, would Barbara Boxer have insisted that the US withdraw from Germany, Italy and Japan on a fixed, two-year timetable after the end of World War II? Or from the Korean peninsula by 1956?
If not, why does Barbara Boxer want to hand Iraq to Al-Qaeda, the Shia extremists and the Ayatollahs of Iran and their puppets? Is humiliating George W. Bush and Bush's party actually so important that Boxer, Pelosi and friends must encourage the terrorists of Iraq to kill our neighbors, sons and daughters while they are at it?
If the United States is ever balkanized - as Iraq will be if we pull out when Boxer wants to do it - it will be the crowing of chickens coming home to roost. Barbara Boxer's cynical lies, if successful, will destroy the unity and resolve that galvanized our country into action after September 11th, 2001.
If these people - Barbara Boxer and her friends - ever get the power they crave to the exclusion of our country's security, they will destroy our nation's will to survive as nothing has since the aftermath of the Vietnam War (another struggle against tyranny ended at the whim of the inside-the-beltway faction of the Democratic Party, with John Kerry playing a leading subversive role).
Senator Boxer made heavy weather of the fact that many of her constituents based in places like the Marine Corps air station at Twenty-Nine Palms are serving in Iraq and some of them are dying. I'd be very interested to learn what her constituents in the US Armed Forces think of her active political support of the terrorists in Iraq (and, by extension, Al-Qaeda - which has chosen to stake their global reputation on the success of the mass murderers to destroy that country's government).
My son also died in Iraq, killed by a bomb which would probably not have been built or buried if Al-Qaeda hadn't thought they could win their war at the American ballot box (as the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese did - with the help of John Kerry and his friends in Congress).
Specialist Armand Luke Frickey, Louisiana Army National Guard and US Army privately had nothing but the bitterest contempt for the Iraqi terrorists' helpers in Congress and Big Media. His death is directly traceable to Boxer and company's cut-throat political maneuvering and the support of the “mainstream media” to weaken our political stance in Iraq. If nothing else, the idea that the terrorists can win if they simply kill enough Americans can be laid directly at Boxer's and her political colleagues' feet for demanding withdrawal at any cost.
I blame Boxer and her co-conspirators for the death of my son. They have violated the tacit agreement that "Politics ends at the water's edge" (and not for the first time). Boxer and Company are aiding and abetting the enemy in time of war - exceeding legitimate dissent by spreading misinformation and tacitly encouraging people to murder our citizens overseas.
There is, of course, precedent for such convictions - the handful of Japanese-Americans who collectively were "Tokyo Rose" and the pro-Fascist poet Ezra Pound were tried and convicted of such conduct.
But did ANY member of Congress during World War II utter the sort of lies and garbage that Senator Boxer and the other members of her clique routinely emit? Constantly and publicly accuse FDR of botching the war effort? Demand the withdrawal of US troops from the battlefront, and afterward, from occupied Japan, Germany and Italy long before genuine democracy had taken root? Did any Congressman intrigue endlessly to stir up popular opposition to FDR or Truman with false or exaggerated charges of impropriety?
When our military intelligence failed to predict attacks or our decision-makers botched a hard call, did the press call attention to it day and night and attribute it to malfeasance on the part of the President? Did reporters like Michael Isikoff write inflammatory and false stories about our troops' supposedly desecrating holy objects, or highly regarded newspapers or magazines print them without fact checking and circulate them worldwide, ensuring riots in foreign countries against us?
Were incessant and redundant Congressional investigations used to shore up innuendo against the President, then their reports ignored when no deliberate wrongdoing was found? Did Hollywood campaign AGAINST American troops with movies that portrayed them as murderers and witless pawns during World War II? Did movie stars constantly and with really foul mouths insult our nation's leader as a fool and a crook (again, with no hard evidence)? Were half-wit antiwar activists elevated to the status of public celebrities and encouraged to spew obscene venom against FDR?
"Los Angeles Barbara," "Hyannisport Teddy," "Boston, Idaho, Miami and Washington John " and the others who give al-Qaeda reason to hope that they can win their war on OUR home front if they just kill enough of our troops should be tried for treason. Their body count is much, much higher than Timothy MacVeigh's when the innocent Iraqis who have also died in terrorist activity are counted with our own dead and those of our allies.
But on January 6th, 2005 it became very, very personal to me because of a single death. I guess that's unfair and illogical, but that how it happened.
The anti-war extremists, especially their people in Congress, are traitors in my opinion and deserve the penalty for treason in time of war. By law, this would be death - death at the Federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana after a proper trial and examination of that trial by appeal for legal propriety, something my son and all the other victims of terror in Iraq were denied.
They should be tried for treason in time of war and their venality and disloyalty to the rest of us exposed minutely, with all the attention, effort and frenzy the media devoted to Dan Rather and Mary Mapes' forged Texas Air National Guard documents.
Even were they convicted by some strange chance (for their behinds are covered as Ezra Pound's and Tokyo Rose's never were - members of Congress are immune from arrest until they are impeached or Congress out of session, and their remarks considered non-actionable), the executions of Boxer and friends would still stop far short of justice.
They would not die in an armored vehicle while hundreds of rounds of ammunition were going off around and through them, and their last moments would not be the agony of being burned alive or dismembered by explosions or bullet impacts. No, their deaths would involve only the prick of an intravenous needle and leave much more presentable corpses than my son's. His face was burnt off, requiring a closed casket funeral.
And I wonder how many people would attend these traitors' funerals, and what sort of people the mourners would be. I suppose Cindy Sheehan, Dan Rather and Bill Moyers would be leading the cortege.
My son's funeral and those of his comrades in that Bradley on January 6th were outpourings of love, respect and gratitude. His mourners were people I was proud and grateful to have met, the sort of people who will guarantee that our opponents in this struggle will fail and that the terrorists' cause be forever known as a waste and an abomination against God.
When the time of reckoning finally comes for the paymasters of these terrorists, it will be people like my son and his comrades who level their cities and salt the ground that remains so nothing ever grows there again.
Posted by V.P. Frickey
at 5:51 AM MDT
Updated: Friday, 11 July 2008 6:28 PM MDT
