The Taxinator — Time For Impeachement?
Posted By: 'Okie' | 8:13 pm — 3/6/2009 | 
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Lying awake this AM a thought briefly flashed through the ether of my consciousness — if the Obama administration continues apace and totally bankrupts the U.S. economy, would that be grounds for impeachment? Evidently, my fevered brain isn’t the only wad of gray matter on this side of the planet firing the same neurons. Ace is looking at the economic fallout and the dire potential outcome:
Even if one concedes that this is a legitimate ideological goal for The Leninist One to pursue, should he be pursuing it so vigorously when there’s a thirty percent chance of the economy turning into a depression?
Yeah, thirty. A commenter tells me the economist who previously figured it at 20% has now upped it to 30%. It was 20% when the markets lost a quarter of their value; now that they’ve lost 50%, it’s a 30% chance.
His link to Roger Kimball puts it in the strongest of possible terms regarding Obama and this question — is President Obama “intentionally attempting to bring the stock market to its knees?”
And here we have the ’enry ’iggins moment: “By George, I think he’s got it!” “Each step strengthens the role of government in people’s lives.”
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That’s where Obama’s much heralded–and astronomically expensive–”green” initiatives come in. Only they aren’t really (or are only incidentally) “green,” i.e., concerned with the environment. At bottom, they are pink, i.e., they are political weapons in a socialist battle against “greedy” business interests.
Who, I wonder, was the political genius who saw the advantages of exploiting people’s sentimental gullibility about the environment for partisan profit? We’ve long known that environmentalism, as the philosopher Harvey Mansfield put it, is “school prayer for liberals.” But I wonder whether even Professor Mansfield could have foreseen what a tool pseudo-environmentalism would be for the radical wing of the Democratic party? The inestimable value of a green, that is, a pink, philosophy is that you can never be green enough. And in pursuit of zero-carbon-emissions purity a government can impose crippling sanctions in order to force compliance. And don’t say Obama didn’t warn you: as I and many others pointed out during the campaign, he promised that, if elected, he would do all he could to “bankrupt” the coal industry.
And this brings me to my new favorite section of the Constitution of the United States: Article II, Section 4, “Disqualification”:
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
What we need now is some clever legal talent to show how deliberately sabotaging the United States economy counts as Treason, a high Crime, or at least a Misdemeanor. Any takers?
Read the comments under Kimball’s post — the term “groundswell” comes to mind. Michelle Malkin has tales of folks all over the place goin’ all John Galt. Laer Pierce has numbers to back up his game, and says that they show the American voter damn sure bought themselves a pig in a poke last Nov. 4th.
But my numbers show conclusively that the American voters were wrong when they decided to put their bet on a spend-crazy Obama who said before the election that he would not cut a single spending program despite the worsening downturn – a promise he’s kept.
Wall Street is not buying the Obama spin, just like it didn’t buy Carter 30 years ago, despite his popularity. And Wall Street won’t buy the spin, ever. It will buy – or sell – based on real, not political, results, something Obama has never delivered in his flighty career
I don’t think aspirin is gonna help with this fever . . . alright, now where’s my copy of Atlas Shrugged?
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18 March 2009 | Glenn Speck Said:
I hope your better half is warning her clients that tax refunds will soon be a thing of the past. The profiteers here in Oklahoma are already charging the 60cents-per-pack federal tax increase on cigarettes with intentions to pocket it until April 1 methinks. Another group is buying up all of the popular ammo from Walmart as soon as it arrives and charging much higher prices for it at gun shows.
18 March 2009 | 'Okie' Said:
Glenn –
She has been warning of the HUGE tax increases since way before the election. The Lefty true believers didn’t care then, and many don’t care now, although the prospects of 70-90% rates are causing a few of them to begin to think.
In CA, smokers are lower than worm dung, don’t ya know. Besides, all these wannabe/out-of-work screen writers, directors, producers and actors don’t make squat anyway so what do they care as long as the unemployment gets extended.
A young friend of mine was lamenting yesterday the cost of ammo for his new 45 magnum — over a buck twenty per round. Seriously limits his time at the range.
Gonna be a bumpy ride . . .