Done Compromising: Obama Unleashes His Inner Tyrant

A weak people will rally to a strong man on a horse, Mussolini's theory went.

Are we weak? Or-- are 51% of us weak?

Since when do elected officials get to decide that they are “done compromising,” as the president’s chief of staff asserted? Obviously, politics, which at its heart is the art of compromise, is too pedestrian, too . . . democratic for this administration.

In the eyes of the White House, the sham compromise on insurance payments was a sop to the serfs, granted by the magnanimity of the president, but in no way designed to derail the ideological objective of the policy. If we let this stand, if we buckle before such bureaucratic capriciousness, then we will have taken another significant step toward the imposition of government rule by fiat, and not by the will of the people. And once that victory has been secured, then the small steps will become larger and come faster and will not cease until liberty is defined solely by government officials. Or until they are opposed by a will just as strong and unyielding.

Anyway, this is my big fear with Obama. It has gone beyond the political, gone beyond policy, gone beyond preferences.

With a Republican Congress and an President determined to "win" By Any Means Necessary, as fellow radical socialist Malcolm X had it, Obama will resort to further and further tyrannical assertions of power.

No tyrant ever gets a taste of Rule Without Limits and decides he doesn't like it. No, they all drink more from the poisoned spring.

Via Monty, who's on twitter as @AoSHQDoom

posted by Ace at 02:40 PM

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