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December 1, 2010

Little Barry Thinks He's Carter

As we approach the midpoint of the Obama Administration, we can begin to determine the answer to something we've all been wondering: whether this will be Carter II or something much worse. John F. Di Leo believes the key difference is a fundamentally different understanding of the limits to the office ... and how the national Democratic leadership has altered its position on executive power in the intervening years.

John offers his thoughts at Illinois Review today in his "Little Barry Thinks He's Carter". Here's a few excerpts to pique your interest:

...[t ]here is a difference between them. Whatever the pathetic and shamed Jimmy Carter may have become in his dotage - socialist, anti-semitic, embittered - at least he was still a normal liberal during his presidency. In those days, he recognized the basic rights of Americans. Sure, he called for Americans to live with less, to give up the pleasures of energy and success, but at least he recognized the American people's right to refuse his fatalistic requests.

Barack Obama recognizes no such right. The Troika - the entire leftist wing that rules today's Democratic Party, in fact - neither believes in the rights of man nor in the Oath of Office they take to obey the Constitution. If the winners - 50% plus one, however many stolen and fictitious votes may have put them over - choose to pass a law, they can and will - Constitutional barriers and the laws of economics notwithstanding.

So when this team decides that nobody should use an incandescent bulb or high-flow showerhead, they criminalize the very manufacture of such products, and shut down the factories that make them.

When they decide nobody should drive "gas guzzlers," they nationalize Chrysler and GM, force 3000 innocent dealerships to close, and then they direct their new pawns in Detroit to kill existing brands and automobile models, to make room for worthless but overpriced "green machines" that nobody wants....

... [I]t may be forgivable that some politicians just don't appreciate the economic damage that unconstitutional excesses can do to an economy.

But it's unforgivable that elected officials would violate such clear Constitutional limits in the first place.

To be a Carter, unable to comprehend that diminished economic activity would do more harm than good, is just a matter of intellect; you can't indict a person for being thick.

But to be an Obama (or Pelosi, or Reid ...), unwilling to respect a sworn oath to preserve the people's liberty by restraining oneself and one's bureaucracy from excess, is a matter of morality. ..

Carter II, or much worse? I never thought it was possible for a president to actually be not only worse than Carter ... but much much worse. That is, until Barack Obama came along.

Posted by Richard at December 1, 2010 10:49 AM

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