according to Jeff Dunetz, how about BHO himself?

Going around the will of the people? Not only did the president push through the Obamcare bill over the will of the people, but he has ignored American voters demand to cut spending and cut taxes.

Rick Santelli voiced the frustration of the American people for being ignored by the President, when he ranted on CNBC, ‘Mr. President, cut spending.”

While the people have been asking for the President for a real jobs  effort, he has spent his time on issues that US voters do not want, such  as Obamacare, Cap and Trade, Buying GM and Chrysler.

When the president had a real crisis to deal with, the Gulf of Mexico oil  disaster, instead of fixing the problem he has concentrated on using  the disaster to pass his energy legislation.

Watering Down One Man-One Vote; The President has been working toward watering down the people’s right to vote for their leaders.  His continued support of ACORN and their history of voter fraud (though the AG’s refusal to investigate their crimes), the Justice Department’s refusal to prosecute the New Black Panther Party because they are African Americans, and the refusal to effectively protect our boarders are all designed to go around the American people and keep his progressive government in power for a very long time.

” the Disclose act.  Disclose “Get it?”asked Schumer when he announced the bill.

Oh, we get it Senator, this is another progressive attempt at silencing dissent against the progressive agenda, and it has strong Presidential approval.

When campaign finance lawyer, William McGinley testified at a congressional hearing regarding the Disclose act, he warned:

“the broad reach of the new definitions of independent expenditure… and covered coordinated communications… now appear to regulate internet communication, including the liberal and conservative blogosphere.”

McGinley said the media exemption provision does not include web sites or internet communications in the same manner as current law, which does protect political speech on the internet from government regulation and restriction. He concluded that

“this legislation does not exclude bloggers or internet communications, and places them at risk. If this bill passes, the internet’s status as a free-speech zone is in danger.”

Ignoring the Will of Congress. In the year since the House passed its version of the Cap and Trade program, nothing has gotten through the Senate.  It would have been hard to get the program through the Senate a year ago, now with all of the proof that “global warming” may one of the biggest frauds perpetuated on the American people, it is dammed near impossible. The President’s reaction is for the Environmental protection agency to regulate CO2.   In other words, the executive usurping the responsibility of the legislature.

It is clear that both the American people and the US Senate want the borders sealed prior to any discussion of amnesty for illegal immigrants already in the country.  That is why the McCain/Kennedy bill proposed during the Bush administration failed. That is also why the vast majority of Americans approve of the Arizona legislation designed to enforce the existing immigration laws (depending on the poll between 55%-70%). Yet according to a letter sent to Obama by Senator Grassley and Sens. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah; Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga.; David Vitter, R-La.; Jim Bunning, R-Ky.; James Inhofe, R-Okla.; Thad Cochran, R-Miss.; and Johnny Isakson, R-Ga there is a real fear that the President will go around the Congress and grant illegal immigrants Amnesty via executive order.

Ignoring the Judiciary. Last week a Federal Judge struck down the President’s ban on deep water drilling. Rather than simply going  through the appeals process to challenge the ruling through the judiciary as called for by the constitution,  at the same time the Secretary of the Interior is re-imposing the ban with different language as a way of getting around the judge’s order.

For a moment, forget the “this can’t happen in America” thoughts running though your mind. Imagine we are talking about an imaginary country, “Freedonia.” Freedonia has been a constitutional republic for over two hundred years with guaranteed freedoms of speech and dissent, and a strictly enforced balance of power between the executive, judicial and legislative branches of government.

If you found out that the Prime Minister of Freedonia, was grabbing power from the legislature and the judicial branches of the government, would you be concerned?  If on top of that power grab, the Prime Minister was trying to water down the voting power of the people and pass legislation that could result in the silencing of dissent by the people of Freediona, wouldn’t you start to get concerned about the future of the Freedonian people?

Folks, that “Freedonia” scenario is the United States today.  Based on that, if you are not frightened about the future of this country, you should be.

 Will The Next Obama Administration Czar Be Barack Obama?

Bat-wielding Union Thugs Attack Non-union Workers

Police say the incident began Wednesday morning when non-union construction workers attempted to gain access to the new Toys R Us site, but were blocked by protesting union workers.

When the victims were unable to gain access to the construction site, they drove to the area of the Transportation Center in the King of Prussia Plaza lot to wait for police assistance.

Authorities say while waiting for police to arrive, a black sedan pulled up and several white males exited with baseball bats and shattered both rear windows of the two work trucks. As the victims exited the trucks in fear, police say at least two were physically assaulted with the baseball bats. One of the victims was taken to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania for treatment.

In addition to, um, actually playing to win, as suggested earlier …..

1. for the WC, and any larger league capable of implementing …. instant replay on goals. There were more goals disallowed (wrongly) than over half the WC teams scored. Since it happens so seldom, and carries such great importance why not get it right?

2. Related – use that IR to review flops/dives. Any “untouched” dive gets a yellow card.

COMMENT OF THE DAY:

A reason for the “wealth or income gap”: Smart people keep on doing things that are smart and make them money while stupid people keep on doing things that are stupid and keep them from achieving.

People who get an education, stay off of drugs, apply themselves, and save and wisely invest their earnings do a lot better than people who drop out of school, become substance abusers, and buy fancy cars and houses that they can’t afford, only to lose them.

We don’t have an income gap. We have a stupid gap.

Justices extend gun owner rights nationwide

No.  They didn't.  We as citizens  have the right to keep and bear arms.  The City of Chicago was restricting that right.  The Suremes have ended Chicago's attempt to deprive it's citizens of a basic Constitutional right.  There was NO exension of said rights.  My class will be reviewing the headline on Tuesday as impricise and erroneous.

Meanwhile

Clark Neilly, Institute for Justice: “Today’s outcome is a tremendous victory for liberty, and we are pleased that it hinges on Justice Thomas’s compelling account of the history and purpose of the 14th Amendment, including the central role of the Privileges or Immunities Clause.”

Ilya Shapiro, Cato Institute: “Thomas’s clarion call for a libertarian originalism provides a step on which to build in future.”

Josh Blackman, Harlan Institute: “For the first time in the history of the Supreme Court, a Justice found that an essential liberty is protected by the Privileges or Immunities Clause.”

Timothy Sandefur, Pacific Legal Foundation: “While some parts of the decision are disappointing, the bottom line is that the state of Illinois may not legally disarm law-abiding citizens. They have a constitutional right to defend themselves from criminals who never have obeyed anti-gun laws themselves.”

Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit.com: “I’d like to note that a lot of ‘respectable’ commentators were, just a few years ago, calling the individual-rights theory of the Second Amendment absurd, ridiculous, and something that only (probably paid) shills for the NRA would espouse.”

David Rittgers at National Review: “The McDonald decision is a harbinger for the end of gun prohibition as an idea. The simple, undeniable truth is that gun control does not work.”

Randy Barnett at SCOTUSblog: “Neither Justice Alito for the plurality, nor Justices Stevens or Breyer in dissent, even attempted to impeach Justice Thomas’ analysis, which now stands uncontradicted in the Supreme Court Reports.”

Dem Congressman: We Must Have Campaign Finance Disclosure To Stop Republicans From Getting Elected.

and

NPR LAMENTS the “tyranny of the constituency.” Stupid voters.

land on the moon, swiftly win wars against weak opposition and then control the defeated nation, secure national borders, discover “breakthrough” medical treatments, prevent crime, design and build to a tight deadline, educate people so they are ready to work before the age of 22, block an undersea oil leak…

Medical/psychiatric gadfly Bruce Charlton, professor of theoretical medicine at the University of Buckingham (in England), thinks he knows the answer: because the human spirit has been “overwhelmed by bureaucracy.”

Those quotes are from a striking entry on Bruce’s blog, headlined “Human capability peaked before 1975 and has since declined.” Read the whole thing here.

...

Maybe Charlton is right. Maybe this explains why subduing a bunch of goat-herds in the Hindu Kush is taking longer than it took to subdue the fully mobilized German and Japanese empires -- a lot longer. And why sending Mexican illegals back home was a breeze in 1954 but colossaly impossible in 2010, and why we could conquer smallpox but can’t cure Alzheimers, and why it takes 15 years to execute a murderer, and why we can’t stop the gulf leak, and why…

from No We Can't -- By: John Derbyshire

Part One:

"No one will know until this is actually in place how it works."

That's a "teary" Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), on the financial overhaul bill assembled by leaders in both houses this week. So Dodd, the chair of the committee with jurisdiction over the bill, has no idea how the bill work. Which also means he has no idea if it will work. Which also means he has no idea if the bill will do more harm than good. Nonetheless, he's certain it was needed, and is proud to have helped make it happen.

Part Two:

 In the comments section addressing Foreign Central Banks Going for the Gold

The election of Obama was really the penultimate expression of our social and political neurosis. Think about it. He was black so he allowed people to feel good about themselves voting for a black man. Racial neurosis check. He was young, so it allowed people to think they were going to relive JFK. Boomer nostalgia neurosis, check. And he was from the upper middle class uber educated doucheoisie. Status and class neurosis check.

It was really all there. A perfect storm of shallow stupidity.

Part Three:

In the comments section of On Being a 21st-Century Peasant

The other thing that amuses me is that we end up in some kind of subsistence peasant lifestyle either way. If we ignored these clowns, all of their gloom and doom predictions turned out to be true, we would end up in the same place that we would be in if we had followed their advice, except of course that they wouldn't be in charge.

I used to apply this to "gun control" but now it's applicable to the whole Gulf situation as well.  "Before we pass a bunch of NEW laws (regulations) lets try enforcing the OLD ones."

We keep hearing from the lef that the economy, the housing/banking meltdown, the Gulf situation are ALL the result of not enough regulations. 

And yet ...

Regulators Failed to Address Risks in Oil Rig Fail-Safe Device.

Federal Gov’t Halts Sand Berm Dredging: Nungesser Pleads With President To Allow Work To Continue.

Govt. Required BP to Use Flawed Models In Cleanup Planning

The EPA has gone mad cow disease: EPA classifies milk as oil

IDIOTIC PC SAFETY RULES: “Transocean’s ban on employee knife possession nearly killed several BP drilling rig survivors, by preventing them from cutting the rope that attached the life boat to the drilling rig.”

And Obama took the cash to look the other way: OSHA: BP Less Safe Than Other Oil Companies