George Rebane
People are asking whether Obama has become irrelevant. My answer is an emphatic NO. As long as he is in office, President Obama will remain a loose cannon impacting the fate of our country with his jaundiced ideology of an America destined to disappear into the woodwork of a new global order. I agree with Gene Healy (Cult of the Presidency) that Obama sees himself as a “redemptive president”. Healy observes that “the problem with ‘redemptive presidents’ is that when they fail to deliver national redemption, they invariably demand more power for the task.… Decades of longing for a national redeemer have turned the presidency into a constitutional abomination: an office that promises everything and guarantees nothing, save public frustration and the steady growth of federal power.”
You already know that the feds want to know who has what guns. Now infowars.com reports that the feds are starting to compile lists of who has bought and is storing food for longer term emergencies. This is all coming out of our Dept of Homeland Security and FEMA, and revolves around the implementation of two presidential executive orders, EO10999 from the Kennedy era which was rolled into the more comprehensive EO12919 (pdf here) signed by President Clinton. Now your IQ has to be lower than that of a 2by4 with a face painted on it if you don’t believe that the purpose of compiling these lists is for the government (or its para-military FEMA) to confiscate your guns and food and/or criminalize your possession of them at some future time of their liking.
Iran has an RQ-170 US reconnaissance drone, that it claims to have brought down. US officials confirm their possession of the UAV, and that it contains the latest and greatest surveillance gear that we have. The aircraft clearly made a controlled soft landing, and now the mullahs have some serious hard capital to trade with the Russians and Chinese, further weakening what have already been ineffective sanctions against the biggest sponsor of ragheads in the world. Obama refused three different scenarios to either recover or destroy the RQ-170, stating he didn’t want to really piss off the Iranians. But what hasn’t been discussed, and what I have brought up locally with aviation professionals, is why this extremely valuable UAV was operated in a mode that caused it to default into a controlled landing when over enemy territory. As a military systems guy with some experience in these matters, the first thing I would prescribe as SOP in such cases is that its default response to an emergency or control compromise is nose down and maximum throttle. Neither the media nor the Repubs have yet to pick up on these dual lapses in operational protocols and the more serious command response.
The President’s Osawatomie speech revealed his 2012 campaign strategy along with his continuing assessment that his far Left base is stupid. Since he can't point to any successes, he will now wage class warfare at the most regressive level, starting by painting a picture of America as a static society with the rich as always rich, and the poor as always poor. This 12th century state of medieval Europe is a common antithesis with which progressives have always painted our country. Now Obama is re-dredging it as his flagship idea for the campaign. And, of course, the other half of his message is that bigger government is the necessary leveler to bring about the great age of collectivist social justice.
It’s hard to see why Attorney General Holder should not be impeached and prosecuted, or simply fired for incompetence on the ‘Fast and Furious’ gun walking case. The man claimed ignorance of that farcical operation by stating that he had not read the emails from his direct reports that informed him of the operation. Grant him a pass on perjury, but then nail his butt for being terminally incompetent in operating an agency as complex as the DOJ. If he can’t even set up inter-office communication protocols through which he can be reliably contacted in such important matters, then he is simply incompetent and Obama should relieve him. Don’t hold your breath.
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