Posted by
Ron Devito on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 11:18:03 PM
The Obama administration is an out-of-control, ineffective
thugocracy, according to Michael Barone, political analyst for the
Washington Examiner. Thomas Sowell, whose book, Conflict
of Visions, Gov. Palin referenced in Going
Rogue described how the United States is slipping into tyranny.
Obama's Leadership Philosophy: Ineffective Thuggery
In "Obama's
thuggery is useless in fighting spill," Barone cited Secretary of
the Interior Ken Salazar's infamous "boot on the neck" quote and Obama's
"so I know whose a-- to kick," as two examples of ineffective thuggery,
while BP's gusher gushes unabated 65 days later and state and local
governments do the heavy lifting to keep their beaches safe.
The now-reversed
moratorium on off-shore drilling is an example of ineffective
thuggery at work, for as Barone wrote, "[this] penalizes companies with
better safety records than BP's and will result in many advanced
drilling rigs being sent to offshore oil fields abroad."
Judge Feldman, who wrote the ruling reversing the moratorium was even
harsher. "An invalid agency decision to suspend drilling of wells in
depths of over 500 feet simply cannot justify the immeasurable effect on
the plaintiffs, the local economy, the Gulf region, and the critical
present-day aspect of the availability of domestic energy in this
country," as quoted by an Associated
Press report.
Gutting the Constitution and the Road to Tyranny
Sowell,
of Investor's Business Daily wrote about an even more insidious
form of thuggery, that went virtually unnoticed.
Just where in the Constitution of the United States does
it say that a president has the authority to extract vast sums of money
from a private enterprise and distribute it as he sees fit to whomever
he deems worthy of compensation? Nowhere.
And yet that is precisely what is happening with a $20 billion fund
to be provided by BP to compensate people harmed by their oil spill in
the Gulf of Mexico.
The $20 billion fund was arrived at absent due process of the law,
Sowell argues, which is a dangerous precedent that will lead to the
imposition of tyranny ostensibly "for the good of the people." In his
article, Sowell describes how arbitrary power grabs and over-stepping
constitutional bounds was the underpinning of the Nazi regime.
A Conflict of Visions
On Page 385 of Going
Rogue, Gov. Palin provided a cogent synopsis of Sowell's Conflict
of Visions:
People who adhere to the unconstrained vision (the label
applied to them is "liberal" or "left-wing") believe that human nature
is changeable (therefore perfectible) and that society's problems can
all be solved if only the poor, ignorant, disorganized public is told
what to do and rational plans are enacted. And who better to make those
plans than an elite bureaucracy pulling the strings and organizing
society according to their master blueprint?
Gov Palin continued,
Conservatives believe in the "constrained" political
vision because we know that human nature is flawed and that there are
limitations to what can be done in Washington to "fix" society's
problems....we do not ignore history's lessons and waste time chasing
utopian pipe dreams.
Conclusion
Gov. Palin wrote on p. 386 of Going
Rogue,
We don't trust utopian promises from politicians. The
role of government is not to perfect us but to protect us --
to protect our inalienable rights. The role of government in a civil
society is to protect the individual and to establish a social contract
so that we can live together in peace.
The foregoing clearly indicates a stark difference in visions between
Gov. Palin and the entire Obama administration. Gov. Palin clearly
supports limited federal government, and adherence to the Constitution,
in this case the Tenth Amendment - enumerated powers. She subscribes to
the constrained vision.
Obama clearly subscribes to the un-constrained vision with its
concomitant centralized state planning bureaus, czars and commissars. As
pointed out both by Gov. Palin and Obama his own words, he wants to
"fundamentally transform" these United States. The past 65 days give a
good glimpse as to where this transformation will lead. Obama wants us
to be not a Shining City on a Hill, but a bankrupt, third rate,
third world, ineffective thugocracy.
Regardless of his political leanings, Obama is absolutely unfit to
serve. He is not a leader, not a commander-in-chief and not conducting
himself as a President. He is not the best man for the job. None of the
men who are presumed to be running for 2012 against him are the best men
for job either.
The
best man for the job is a woman.