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  1. Just back from a week at OBX where I didn’t think about any of this…refreshing.

    I can’t really blame this on Obama… the blame really lies with the MSM, voters in general, and the GOP, none of whom have grown a pair to decide that enough is enough. Until that happens Obama will just keep pushing the envelope.

  2. The Left has dictators a thousand times worse than Hussein, waiting, just waiting.

    They are the ones they were waiting for.

  3. Talk is no substitute for action. This has all been talked about for a near infinitude. We are asymptotic to action; we approach and approach it but we never get there.
    Something just needs to go Bang! Let’s have it out and get it over, one way or the other. We cannot be Colin Powells here, unwilling to act unless we have overwhelming force.

  4. My tomato plants are doing well. It is a delight to see them grow.

    There is one green pepper plant and one jalapeno plant doing nicely.

    I do not say the following facetiously. The weather in Buffalo is exquisite, as it always is for six or seven months. (And it is not as bad otherwise, all things considered). Also btw, Buffalo is actually an interesting and wonderful place, just to pre-address the lazy stereotypical thoughts which ignorantly leap to mind.

    A great thing happening late in life is a growing closeness with my uncle. He and his wife (a delightful aunt) are coming over for a cookout Saturday.

    There is no personal utopia. As a young man, I could have believed as much, although the details now look too salacious.

    Has the coup taken place? I think so, understanding how it sounds crazy. It took decades, but it succeeded.

    No one can convince me that a local sausage maker does not make the best sausage (his name is Hanzalian).

    For a few moments, my uncle (81 yo and more alert than me) and I will go back over our memories. Part of that will be remembrance of free men.

    And the sausage will be delicious, with McIllhenny Tabasco and peppers and onions on toasted ciabatta.

    The 40’s channel will be playing on Sirius.

  5. Obama just told Americans in border states to “lock and load.”
    Governors need to confront these feds when they enter their states.

    If Obama sees the stirrings of resistance, he’ll back down. Just like Hitler, pre-1938.
    It will be interesting.

  6. I remember when Nixon fired the first Watergate special prosecutor, Archibald Cox. His final statement, “whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people to decide” always stuck with me, though I didn’t understand it at the time. Sadly, I do now and we’re about to become a government of men if nothing’s done about BO.

  7. Physicsguy: I trust that you post with tongue in cheek.

    Obama seems truly determined to force this into a confrontation. The problem is that once started, you cannot always control subsequent events.

    I just do not know how long the citizens and governments of Texas, Arizona, etc. can tolerate this situation. (I am in California where the tolerance for bizarre behavior is limitless)

    A little off topic, but an extension of some of the thinking. Back in the 70s when we had race riots on Navy aircraft carriers, and I was standing Command Duty Officer late at night (the senior Officer aboard); I was conscious that the only armed presence on board was our Marine detachment; and they were 1/3 to 1/2 Black. I always wondered if it came to it would they be U.S. Marines first, or Black first. Fortunately, it was never put to the test. The time may come when Federal forces may be put to the test if a state finally says “enough”.

  8. @Oldflyer,

    I’m pretty sure Obama hasn’t made any friends in the military. I’m pretty sure he knows that, too.
    So, he’ll try and rely on homeland security, or such.
    If the military ever comes off the bench, it will be game over for Obama.

  9. Obama will take action, we just may not know about it right away. After all, this recent immigration crisis didn’t just happen on its own.

    I also saw Obama’s chilling speech as a call to action – it’s up to the activists to demand Congress take action – more marches, more protests at legislator’s homes and offices, and civil disobedience such as shutting down ICE offices. Also, it was a nod to federal agencies & blue state-level to go ahead with activity to hasten amnesty, such as expanding Obamacare to non-citizens and NY issuing IDs to the “migrants.” They’ll insist that they had to do it because the immigrants are already here, but Congress has not done anything to assist them.
    This was the plan all along.

  10. Dennis Miller said on O’Reilly in 2009 that the next revolution will feature laser guillotines. Maybe we can test it on King Putt.

  11. My, my, my, our messiah sounds desperate to me. His poll numbers are sinking, a few in the MSM are hinting that perhaps the regime is getting too pushy, and all his lovely wickedness is spiraling out of control. I’ve known a narcissistic person, and when the world doesn’t conform to their expectations, they panic, become petulant, and lash at all who thwart the narrative that he/she is the fairest of them all.

    As scandals pile upon one another it becomes ever more difficult to keep your lies and excuses straight. I am starting to think one of the spinning plates will one day splinter upon the floor. I also suspect no one is going to throw themselves under the bus to save the messiah.

  12. The proper way for the President to go over the heads of Congress is the have a prime time Presidential Address in which he lays out the merits of his argument to solicit support from We the People.

    This President can’t seem to do that, though. He is incapable of addressing ALL the people as equals. Instead, he divides us into “us” and “them” and refers to anyone not of his party as “the enemy” which is hardly conducive to courting political participation.

  13. So we will find out if the US is to be a formal dictatorship within a week or two.

  14. I wonder if Obama has ever seen the 1975 movie, “The Man Who Would Be King”? If so, clearly he missed the moral. Of course, no chance whatsoever that he’s read the 1888 novella by Rudyard Kipling. Ah, the convergence of narcissism and hubris embodied by Obama but really, what could a mere Kipling offer of value to a lightbringer?

    The inimitable Richard Fernandez, over at the Belmont Club opines that,

    “The unrelenting liberal drive to expand the powers of the state unintentionally leads to [a] “winner take all” effect. The more power liberals get the more they must keep control, not just of that individual power but the whole system of powers.

    Every power grab represents at least as much danger to the grabber as to the grabbee. Obama, who attempted to seize control of 1/6th of the US economy via Obamacare finds he must retain control of health decisions for his political life. Anyone who creates Deep State instruments of political power cannot relinquish what he’s created lest it be turned against him. Having conjured up state demons from the vasty deep they must on no account be ceded to Republican sorcerers.

    Thus he becomes the slave, not the master of his own creation. Liberty is practical only while government remains powerless in some things. Once government becomes powerful in all things then it becomes just as much a menace to Sandra Fluke as to Hobby Lobby – though she hasn’t realized that yet.

    Every student of military history will recall that if you try to take Moscow you risk Berlin. Hitler forgot that. So alas, have liberals.

    “A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have” sounds good if you believe that you will always remain charge of government. Yet as revolutionists have found through history that the State is a slippery eel. One day it winds up in the wrong hands and that’s a bummer. The wielder of the phone and the pen should beware of the day when someone else is making the calls.”

  15. I can sum up these pages of long and careful analysis in one word: Surrender.

    Smaug is raging through the land. Let us carefully analyze the fine points of his wing movements.

    Where the hell is Bilbo?

  16. parker:

    I certainly hope you’re right.

    But remember that desperate people are often at their most dangerous. Obama is also a narcissist. He thinks he’s so close to pulling this one off that he can taste it.

  17. Parker’s “As scandals pile upon one another it becomes ever more difficult to keep your lies and excuses straight” no longer matters. See Maduro in Venezuela; he’s still doing just fine, trotting out the most stupid gibberish, though the country’s in the toilet. power failures, shortages of everything, and Lopez (who? don’t even remember him?) remains in prison.

    It No Longer Matters. Harry Reid spews vomit in the Senate, and it no longer matters. The US is flying illegals from McAllen, TX to Bakersfield, CA. So it goes.

  18. The border crisis is going out of control. I don’t think Obama and company thought there would be so many children with communicable diseases. Citizens will put up with a lot, but when disease vectors are allowed to be spread far and wide around the country, it will create a lot of anger.

    Obama may try to put a temporary stop to the border invasion to cool things down a bit, but his real ace card will be the program for amnesty that he announces before the elections. With the border problem under control he can say. “Look what I did. The border is finally under control. Now we must be fair and compassionate toward those who have been here working in the shadows. It’s time to make them full partners in our economy. Yada, yada.” I think he and his advisors believe it will give the dems a winning issue for November.

    I’m pretty sure that if the dems lose the Senate, then the border will be reopened. The Rs will not have enough votes to impeach even if they take control of the Senate. He may be emboldened to do even more outrageous things.

    It’s hard to believe this is actually happening.

  19. Neo,

    I too hope I am right… the would be ‘hero’ takes a fall.

    DC,

    Comparing 50+ million Americans to the inhabitants of Venezuela is an error on your part.

    A dedicated tiny minority wins every time the shooting starts. I do not doubt when it all comes down to dust and the blood flows, that tiny minority will prevail.

    Your mileage will vary depending upon where you reside. Take a vacation in eastern KY or TN; or the Rockies from Idaho southward, or the flyover country and TX. We are not helpless.

  20. I often feel discouraged, but I also find myself having faith in the human desire, for at least a strong minority, to seek freedom. I, my siblings, and a few cousins have prepared for many years a sanctuary for our kin. It is a place for a last stand, stand we will and we are strong in our desire to remain free. We are ready for the time when the bullet meets the bone. There more like minded and well prepared than those in the majority imagine.

  21. It’s hard to believe this is actually happening.

    The Doctor Class won’t be taking up arms, so they think in easy ways.

    As for belief, if you started on the road of accepting the LEft’s true power 4 or 6 years ago, it wouldn’t be so hard now. People are hard to change because they refuse to accept certain things, it’s not in the common sense, society doesn’t accept it as valid, and all that other stuff.

    3% of a population is all it takes to tell the 97% what to do, if that 3% are zealots, fanatics, or true believers.

  22. Oldflyer,

    Not tongue in cheek at all. Obama has been an amazingly honest and effective president in terms of what he said he was going to do and what he has accomplished. The reason he has been so effective is that no one, especially the MSM and the GOP seems willing to take him on and knock him down.

    If I was him (and Jarrett), I would be doing exactly the same thing given their agenda. Why stop when no one is pushing back at you???

  23. We are all just kicking our own can down the road. Lots of bluster, no action, and Surprise! the problems keep getting worse.
    The solution is not to retreat to mountainous topography a la Afghanistan, either. So, no impeachment and conviction, lots of Orders from the Executive, further legal lawlessness, and we’ll all finally be ready to go, and do what? Vote in October? Vote for whom? To do what?
    What are our options? Why should Obama and the Left stop when no one is pushing back, as physicsguy says?

  24. They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.

    Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

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  26. physics guy:

    I think it is hyperbole to say “no one” is pushing back at Obama.

    People who are angry at what he’s done might say that no one is pushing back effectively—and certainly not as effectively as we’d like—at him. But plenty of people are pushing back.

    There are members of Congress such as Cruz. I’ve seen some House members, too (Allen West used to be one of them, for example, when he was in office). During the process of passing Obamacare, practically the entire Republican wing of Congress pushed back; they just didn’t have the numbers, and the Democrats outfoxed them in tactics. But I certainly remember the Republicans pushing back.

    The conservative Supreme Court justices push back, but there are only four so they are only successful when joined by swing vote Kennedy (and sometimes even some of the others). Then there are plaintiffs such as Hobby Lobby and the others, as well as anyone else who sues against Obamacare, including many of the states a couple of years ago in an earlier case. Jan Brewer pushed back over the Arizona law, but she lost. Perry has pushed back on the border, calling out Texas security to do what the feds won’t. I could go on, but you get the idea.

    I don’t like the Republican leadership in Congress, and I wish they’d do more. And none of these efforts that I mention have been successful in the way we’d like—they are grandstanding or they are small victories, while the general trend of Obama’s worsening tyranny and escalating welfare state marches on. But that doesn’t mean no one is pushing back. Obama is ruthless and the left is powerful, and for his entire administration they have controlled the Senate.

  27. neo, “I don’t like the Republican leadership in Congress, and I wish they’d do more. And none of these efforts that I mention have been successful in the way we’d like–they are grandstanding or they are small victories, while the general trend of Obama’s worsening tyranny and escalating welfare state marches on. But that doesn’t mean no one is pushing back.”

    Just so. The Founders never envisioned that the citizens would elect a man with no ethics. A man who would not follow the law. At one time the media was well enough balanced between left and right to get the word out to people. Now it’s not. They never envisioned a situation where the balance of powers among the arms of government would be so ignored. There is really only one thing that can bring Obama up short and that is a galvanized electorate. Until they cancel all elections, the people still control who is going to represent them. The Founders could not have envisioned an electorate that was so ignorant of the process of government and their important role in it. They could not have foreseen a world where people were more interested in pop culture and games than in how much the government was lifting from their wallets in taxes. It literally takes some buildings falling down to galvanize the voters, but people have such short attention spans, even that doesn’t have an effect that lasts.

    They weapons of pushback available to the Congress and the courts are blunted by the fact that the administration does not recognize or follow the law. I don’t think the Founders ever envisioned two men as venal and partisan as Harry Reid and Eric Holder. It is Reid and Holder who allow the administration to ignore the law. It is also partisan democrat members of Congress who are allowing the President to usurp their powers. I am challenging my Congress Critters to stand up and quit being a doormat for the executive branch. Voters need to maker them feel ashamed for shirking their duties and allowing the executive to run all over them.

  28. Wonder why I think you, (and Bookworm Room and Gaypatriot and Ace all really) identify do strongly with Cassandra right about now?

  29. Lee:

    I’ve been identifying with Cassandra for some years now.

    It started to get very strong shortly after this, back in 2009. But actually, I had felt it even before the 2008 election, when I tried to warn friends that Obama had a political background and philosophy that ought to be frightening them but somehow wasn’t.

    I described that process in some detail in this post. Maybe I’ll recycle it.

  30. J.J.:
    Congresscritters, lo info voters and shame do not work in the same paragraph for me. Venality and ignorance do not know shame. Stupid people don’t know they’re stupid, so what’s for them to be ashamed about?

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