THE WASHINGTON TIMES - 1ST PUBLIC NEWSPAPER TO CALL FOR IMPEACHMENT

FINALLY - SOMEONE IN THE MEDIA HAS STATED THE OBVIOUS. Please share widely!!!
Perhaps other writers will grow SPINES. A strong article and hopefully not the last
public newspaper to do so.

President's socialist takeover must be stopped

By Jeffrey T. Kuhner

The Washington Times

President Obama has engaged in numerous high crimes and misdemeanors. The Democratic
majority in Congress is in peril as Americans reject his agenda. Yet more must be
done: Mr. Obama should be impeached.

He is slowly - piece by painful piece - erecting a socialist dictatorship. We are
not there - yet. But he is putting America on that dangerous path. He is undermining
our constitutional system of checks and balances; subverting democratic procedures
and the rule of law; presiding over a corrupt, gangster regime; and assaulting the
very pillars of traditional capitalism. Like Venezuela's leftist strongman, Hugo
Chavez, Mr. Obama is bent on imposing a revolution from above - one that is
polarizing America along racial, political and ideological lines. Mr. Obama is the
most divisive president since Richard Nixon. His policies are Balkanizing the
country. It's time for him to go.

He has abused his office and violated his oath to uphold the Constitution. His
health care overhaul was rammed through Congress. It was - and remains - opposed by
a majority of the people. It could only be passed through bribery and political
intimidation. The Louisiana Purchase, the Cornhusker Kickback, the $5 billion
Medicaid set-aside for Florida Sen. Bill Nelson - taxpayer money was used as a
virtual slush fund to buy swing votes. Moreover, the law is blatantly
unconstitutional: The federal government does not have the right to coerce every
citizen to purchase a good or service. This is not in the Constitution, and it
represents an unprecedented expansion of power.

Yet Obamacare's most pernicious aspect is its federal funding of abortion.
Pro-lifers are now compelled to have their tax dollars used to subsidize insurance
plans that allow for the murder of unborn children. This is more than
state-sanctioned infanticide. It violates the conscience rights of religious
citizens. Traditionalists - evangelicals, Catholics, Baptists, Muslims, Orthodox
Jews - have been made complicit in an abomination that goes against their deepest
religious values. As the law is implemented (as in Pennsylvania ) the consequences
of the abortion provisions will become increasingly apparent. The result will be a
cultural civil war. Pro-lifers will become deeply alienated from society; among
many, a secession of the heart is taking place.

Mr. Obama is waging a frontal assault on property rights. The BP oil spill is a case
in point. BP clearly is responsible for the spill and its massive economic and
environmental damage to the Gulf. There is a legal process for claims to be
adjudicated, but Mr. Obama has behaved more like Mr. Chavez or Russia's Vladimir
Putin: He has bullied BP into setting up a $20 billion compensation fund
administered by an Obama appointee. In other words, the assets of a private company
are to be raided to serve a political agenda. Billions will be dispensed arbitrarily
in compensation to oil-spill victims - much of it to Democratic constituents. This
is cronyism and creeping authoritarianism.

Mr. Obama's multicultural socialism seeks to eradicate traditional America . He has
created a command-and-control health care system. He has essentially nationalized
the big banks, the financial sector, the automakers and the student loan industry.
He next wants to pass "cap-and-trade," which would bring industry and manufacturing
under the heel of big government. The state is intervening in every aspect of
American life - beyond its constitutionally delegated bounds. Under Mr. Obama, the
Constitution has become a meaningless scrap of paper.

To provide the shock troops for his socialist takeover, Mr. Obama calls for
"comprehensive immigration reform" - granting amnesty to 12 million to 20 million
illegal aliens. This would forge a permanent Democratic electoral majority. It would
sound the death knell for our national sovereignty. Amnesty rewards lawlessness and
criminal behavior; it signifies the surrender of our porous southern border to a
massive illegal invasion. It means the death of American nationhood. We will no
longer be a country, but the colony of a global socialist empire.

Rather than defending our homeland, Mr. Obama's Justice Department has sued Arizona
for its immigration law. He is siding with criminals against his fellow Americans.
His actions desecrate his constitutional oath to protect U.S. citizens from enemies
foreign and domestic. He is thus encouraging more illegal immigration as Washington
refuses to protect our borders. Mr. Obama's decision on this case is treasonous.

As president, he is supposed to respect the rule of law. Instead, his administration
has dropped charges of voter intimidation against members of the New Black Panther
Party. This was done even though their menacing behavior was caught on tape: men in
military garb brandishing clubs and threatening whites at a polling site. A Justice
Department lawyer intimately involved in the case, J. Christian Adams, resigned in
protest. Mr. Adams says that under Mr. Obama, there is a new policy: Cases involving
black defendants and white victims - no matter how much they cry for justice - are
not to be prosecuted. This is more than institutionalized racism. It is an
abrogation of civil rights laws. The Justice Department's behavior is illegal. It
poses a direct threat to the integrity of our democracy and the sanctity of our
electoral process.

Corruption in the administration is rampant. Washington no longer has a government;
rather, it has a gangster regime. The Chicago way has become the Washington way.
Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is a political hit man.. He is an amoral, ruthless
operator. It was Mr. Emanuel who reached out to Rep. Joe Sestak, Pennsylvania
Democrat, offering a high-ranking job in the hopes of persuading Mr. Sestak to pull
out of the primary against Sen. Arlen Specter. It was Mr. Emanuel who offered
another government position to Andrew Romanoff to do the same in the Colorado
Democratic Senate primary. And it was Mr. Emanuel - as the trial of former Illinois
Gov. Rod Blagojevich has revealed - who acted as the go-between to try to have
Valerie Jarrett parachuted into Mr. Obama's former Senate seat. The only question
was: What did Mr. Blagojevich want in exchange?

This is not simply sleazy Chicago machine politics. It is the systematic breaking of
the law - bribery, attempt to interfere (and manipulate) elections using
taxpayer-funded jobs, influence peddling and abuse of power.

The common misperception on the right is that Mr. Obama is another Jimmy Carter: an
incompetent liberal whose presidency is being reduced to rubble under the onslaught
of repeated failures. The very opposite, however, is true. He is the most
consequential president in our lifetime, transforming America into something our
Founding Fathers would find not only unrecognizable, but repugnant. Like all radical
revolutionaries, he is consumed by the pursuit of power - attaining it, wielding it
and maximizing it. Mr.. Obama's fledgling thug state must be stopped.

If Republicans win back Congress in November, they should - and likely will - launch
formal investigations into this criminal, scandal-ridden administration. Rep.
Darrell Issa, California Republican and ranking member of the Oversight and
Government Reform Committee, has promised as much. Mr. Obama has betrayed the
American people. Impeachment is the only answer. This usurper must fall.

Jeffrey T. Kuhner is a columnist at The Washington Times and president of the Edmund
Burke Institute, a Washington think tank. He is the host of "The Kuhner Show" on
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SOURCE: KUHNER: President's socialist takeover must be stopped - Washington Times

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Surprised they actually printed this...

Thanks GH for correction REO

Last edited by REO 54; 07-24-2011 at 05:13 PM. Reason: corrected the link

There are four boxes used in the defense of Liberty and Freedom;the soap box,the ballot box,the jury box,the ammo box,use them now in that order.

Bring it on Barry!
The glorious truth: Tea Party Movement outnumbers Obama Libs!

Judi McLeod Saturday, August 6, 2011

The name for Tea Party members hated and feared most by Barack Obama and his cohorts is `patriot’.
That’s why they hurl the names racist, bigot, bitter clinger and domestic terrorist at the Tea Party, and that’s why the Obama running dog mainstream media so desperately works to keep up the big smear.
Even in the midst of all the Obama Regime destruction, America has something to celebrate: Tea Party Patriots are keeping Obama from completing his threatened Fundamental Transformation of America.
No one elected to public office from either side has ever stepped forward to ask Obama who is he to fundamentally transform American. No one.
But from its inception, the Tea Party Movement has never stopped asking.
Freedom lovers everywhere owe the Tea Party admiration and gratitude.

It has long defied belief how far the Obama Regime would go to demonize the Grandmas and Grandpas in the Tea Party Movement.
Thanks to the Gallup Poll, we now know why.
“The percentage of Americans who expressly state that they are supporters of the Tea Party movement is currently about as large at 22 percent of the population as the 21 percent who say they are liberals, according to recent but separate Gallup polls.” (CNSNews.com, Aug. 5, 2011).
Hallelujah!
No wonder why Obama hightails it out of sight most Friday nights, including this one just before the news hit that for the first time in its noble 235-year long history, the USA had been demoted by the reputable Standard & Poor’s.

Laughable that after nearly three years of trying to edge America over the abyss that Obama and his ridiculous ring of czars and movie stars are vastly outnumbered by the “enemy”.

Not only are the Lib-Left seriously outnumbered by the Tea Party, at 41 percent of the population, self-described conservatives outnumber both Tea Party movement supporters and liberals by nearly 2-to-1.
For Obama, there’s no Hope and Change to be seen anywhere in the facts presented by Gallup.
Most laughably, it wasn’t the no-Social-Security-check scare tactics trotted out in the Debt Ceiling fiasco that drove most people into the arms of the Tea Party Movement: “In fact, the July 27 and August 2 polls showed a considerably smaller percentage of Americans saying they were Tea Party supporters than previous Gallup polls conducted over three-and-four-day periods.
“For example, a Gallup survey conducted April 20-23 of this year, found that 30 percent of Americans described themselves as Tea Party supporters. Similarly, a Gallup poll conducted Jan. 14-16 this year also found that 30% of Americans described themselves as Tea Party supporters.
“In previous Gallup polling, Tea Party support hit a low of 26 percent in a series of polls conducted in October 2010—immediately before the midterm congressional elections—and peaked at 36 percent on Nov. 4-7, 2010—immediately after the midterm congressional elections.”
Interestingly, in polling conducted through the first half of 2011, and published Aug. 1, Gallup discovered that 21 percent of Americans described themselves as liberals. That is the same percentage that described themselves as liberals in Gallup surveys in 2010 and 2009.

Even with all the unelected czars at his command; even with the mainstream media in his tank; even with all the money and all the propaganda in his bag of tricks, the Liberals are not growing under the Marxist in Chief, but remain at a breathtaking standstill.
For all of his arrogance, for all of his omnipotence, Obama’s big plans for the Transformation of America have hit the brick wall of something admired worldwide: the undying passion of American patriotism.
Little Davids everywhere are shouting to Goliath: “Bring it on, Baby!”
No wonder Obama, boss ladies Michelle and Valerie Jarrett are holed up at Camp David after dancing barefoot with tinseltown celebrities in the White House Rose Garden this weekend!

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/39186

Standard & Poor's Downgrades US Credit Rating From AAA to AA+

For the first time ever, the United States lost its perfect credit rating as Standard & Poor's reduced its U.S. long-term debt assessment from AAA to AA+ with a negative outlook.

In announcing the move late Friday, the ratings agency said a deal this week to reduce the nation's debt did not go far enough and exposed paralyzing political dysfunction.

The downgrade could cost the government and ordinary consumers billions of dollars by jacking up interest rates the U.S. must pay on its $14.4 trillion debt and a host of rates consumers pay for items such as mortgages, car loans and credit cards.

The move by S&P follows decisions by two other major ratings agencies, Moody's Investor Service and Fitch Ratings, to maintain the United States' AAA rating, though Moody's assigned a negative outlook.

Moody's stood by its rating Friday, though Fitch said it "expects to conclude its scheduled review of the U.S. sovereign rating by the end of August in light of the Aug. 2 [deficit reduction] agreement."

S&P on US Government: 'Less Stable, Less Effective and Less Predictable'

Standard & Poor's gave strong emphasis to that agreement in announcing its decision.

"The downgrade," S&P said, "reflects our opinion that the fiscal consolidation plan that Congress and the administration recently agreed to falls short of what, in our view, would be necessary to stabilize the government's medium-term debt dynamics."

In particular, Standard & Poor's added, it grew more pessimistic about U.S. debt because of the bitter political fight over raising the debt ceiling.

"The political brinksmanship of recent months," the company said, "highlights what we see as America's governance and policymaking becoming less stable, less effective, and less predictable than what we previously believed."

The agency pointed to political reluctance to make cuts to entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security, and Republicans' refusal even to consider increasing revenues by, for instance, ending the Bush tax cuts.

"Compared with previous projections, our revised base case scenario now assumes that the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, due to expire by the end of 2012, remain in place," the company said. "We have changed our assumption on this because the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues, a position we believe Congress reinforced by passing the [debt ceiling deal]."

Last month, Standard & Poor's warned that the U.S. risked a downgrade to AA status if Congress did not lift the debt ceiling and reduce the total debt by $4 trillion over the next decade. The eventual deal called for barely half as much deficit reduction.

S&P: 'We Could Lower the Long-Term Rating to AA'

Though today's downgrade was to AA+, S&P said it was possible the U.S. credit rating could drop even lower.

"The outlook on the long-term rating is negative," the company's announcement said. "We could lower the long-term rating to 'AA' within the next two years if we see that less reduction in spending than agreed to, higher interest rates, or new fiscal pressures during the period result in a higher general government debt trajectory than we currently assume in our base case."

Ironically, it's possible the downgrade itself might lead to a weaker economy. That would mean less revenue. And it likely will mean higher government interest costs, which would mean more expenditures. Both would seem to make a further downgrade more likely.

The federal government had been expecting and preparing for Standard & Poor's to downgrade the rating of U.S. debt, government officials told ABC News before the reduction was formally announced, but they were fighting the possibility.

John Kerry: Media Has ‘Responsibility’ to ‘Not Give Equal Time’ to Tea Party

John Kerry has waded into the media waters and now wants the news to cut out conservatives he doesn’t agree with.

During a discussion of the debt deal and the economy on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Friday, the current Massachusetts senator and former presidential candidate lambasted the Tea Party and conservatives and the idea that they should be given “equal time” in the media. According to him, their ideas are so wacky that they don’t deserve air time:

“And I have to tell you, I say this to you politely. The media in America has a bigger responsibility than it’s exercising today. The media has got to begin to not give equal time or equal balance to an absolutely absurd notion just because somebody asserts it or simply because somebody says something which everybody knows is not factual.

“It doesn’t deserve the same credit as a legitimate idea about what you do. And the problem is everything is put into this tit-for-tat equal battle and America is losing any sense of what’s real, of who’s accountable, of who is not accountable, of who’s real, who isn’t, who’s serious, who isn’t?”

And this guy was almost president.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIRYITd5pq0

First Lady Says Obama's Gray Hair 'Proof' He Deserves Second Term

ABC News’ Devin Dwyer (@devindwyer) reports: On the president’s 50th birthday, First Lady Michelle Obama says her husband’s ever graying hair is “proof” he’s handled his the job well, and deserves re-election in 2012.

“Every day, I see Barack make choices he knows will affect every American family,” Mrs. Obama said in an email blast to supporters. “That's no small task for anyone -- and more proof that he's earning every last one of those gray hairs.”

The message is the latest effort by the president’s re-election campaign to use the occasion of Obama’s birthday to energize his followers and, indirectly, encourage the contribution of their time and money in the months ahead.

“This next year will challenge us all to work harder than ever before,” Mrs. Obama said, “but the crucial thing is that you're here now, early on, helping to build this campaign.”

The first lady said she and her daughters wanted supporters to send birthday wishes to the president by signing an electronic card.

“Your names and notes will become part of a book that tells the story of this campaign -- who's building it, why we're in this thing, and what he means to us,” she said. “We'll deliver a copy to Barack and send one to our campaign offices across the country.”

The first family will celebrate the president’s milestone birthday at two private events with friends and staff at the White House today. Last night, Obama attended two birthday-themed campaign fundraisers in Chicago and spoke via video conference to more than 1,160 grassroots house parties in his honor around the country.