(2Ki
9:33 NKJ) Then he said, "Throw her down." So they threw her down, and
some of her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses; and he trampled her
underfoot.
O Must Go -Hentoff
"Most un-American president ever"
A
different dispensation and our Constitution dictate gentler methods for the
removal of evil from governance in our Nation and century.
But as
the eunuchs of the painted Jezebel came to think clearly and to assist in her
removal, so also, those American liberals of the old-fashioned puritan conscience
sort, are coming to their senses.
Liberal icon urges Obama impeachment
'The most destructive, dangerous president we've
ever had"
WASHINGTON
— Worse than Richard Nixon. An unprecedented abuse of powers. The most
un-American president in the nation’s history.
Nat
Hentoff does not think much of President Obama. [/] And now, the famous
journalist says it is time to begin looking into impeachment.
Hentoff
sees the biggest problem as Obama’s penchant to rule by executive order when he
can’t convince Congress to do things his way.
The
issue jumped back into the headlines last week when, just before his first
Cabinet meeting of 2014, Obama said , “I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone …
and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions.”
“Apparently
he doesn’t give one damn about the separation of powers,” Hentoff told WND. “Never
before in our history has a president done these things.”
And just
to make sure everyone knows how extremely serious he regards the situation, the
journalist added, “This is the worst state, I think, the country has ever
been in.”
[N.B.
Also see a short American Thinker article: May 21, 2013 / The Case for
Impeachment / By Bruce Walker / http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/05/the_case_for_impeachment.html
or http://bit.ly/1bfPCqV ]
Many
have regarded Hentoff as the conscience of civil libertarianism and liberalism
for decades.
Recognized
as one of the foremost authorities on the Bill of Rights and the Supreme Court,
Hentoff was a columnist and staff writer with The Village Voice for 51 years,
from 1957 until 2008, when his columns began appearing in WND.
Hentoff
left the Voice after he looked into the abortion industry, was shocked by what
he found and had a falling-out with colleagues.
The
First Amendment expert still hews left on many issues, railing against former
President George W. Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, the prison at
Guantanamo Bay and the National Defense Authorization Act.
But he
hasn’t liked Obama from the start.
“Within
a few months after he was elected, I wrote a column saying he was going to be
the most destructive, dangerous president we’ve ever had,” he
said.
Hentoff
said people he’d known for years told him to stop being so negative and to give
Obama a chance.
“Well,
we’ve given him a chance. I understated the case a little.”
In other
words, Hentoff thinks Obama is the most dangerous and destructive president
ever.
And,
that’s why the veteran journalist thinks it’s time to begin looking into
impeachment.
Get the
bumper sticker that tells everyone to Impeach Obama!
“He has
no right to do these executive orders,” Hentoff insisted, his voice reaching a
crescendo of indignation.
Nat
Hentoff
He says
Obama gets away with it only because there is no outrage in Congress, no
coverage by the media and no knowledge by the public.
“He’s in
a position now where he figures he’s going to do whatever he wants to do.”
In fact,
Hentoff said, Obama doesn’t even pretend to care about the separation of
powers between the executive branch and Congress anymore, because “He’s the
boss and hardly anybody cares enough” to stop him.
The most
well-known examples of Obama changing or issuing laws with the stroke of a pen
by issuing executive orders include: [/] Delaying the employer mandate in
Obamacare [/] Changing the types of plans available under Obamacare [/] Ensuring
abortions would be covered under Obamacare [/] Enacting key provisions of the
failed Dream Act to halt deportations of illegal immigrants [/] Enacting
stricter gun-control measures [/] Sealing presidential records [/] Creating an
economic council [/] Creating a domestic policy council [/] Changing pay grades
As WND
previously reported , even the the far left-leaning FactCheck wrote, “It’s true
that President Obama is increasingly using his executive powers in the face of
staunch Republican opposition in Congress. He’s changed federal policies on
immigration and welfare and appointed officials without congressional
approval.”
“I would
say that never before in our history had a president done these things,” Hentoff
mused.
He noted
that while Nixon merely claimed that winning an election gave him the right
to do what he wanted, Obama is actually doing whatever he pleases.
The
journalist said he doesn’t think any other president has acted so lawlessly
as a matter of habit.
“So, if
this isn’t a reason for at least the start of an independent investigation that
would lead to impeachment, what is?”
Hentoff
is baffled that Obama should escape such scrutiny when former President
Bill Clinton faced impeachment just for being “a lousy liar.”
[N.B.
Actually President Clinton was probably the most skilled prevaricator and
spinner to hold high political office. Our current president is as unskilled at
prevarication and spinning as he is at most everything else. Except, of course,
his chameleon capacity to project a false self, appearing as a normal and
exemplary member of the culture in which he is immersed.]
A big
part of the problem, the journalist believes, is what he calls the utter
ignorance of a huge portion of the population, which is not outraged at losing
its basic right to be self-governing.
And
Obama “doesn’t give a damn, because he can get away with whatever he wants.”
That’s
why Hentoff called this the worst state the country has ever been in, “Even
worse than Woodrow Wilson’s regime, when people could be arrested for speaking
German.”
Compounding
the problem he says, is the digital age, which has allowed the president to
engage in unprecedented domestic spying with the apparatus of the National
Security Agency.
WND
asked if Obama really posed such a threat, considering he was a professor of
constitutional law.
“People
forget, he taught a course that he was not fully qualified to teach. But nobody
seemed to care,” Hentoff observed.
He also
pointed out that Obama was the only editor of the Harvard Law Review to
never publish an article, something that went virtually unnoticed when voters
considered his qualifications.
“See,
that was a case of affirmative-action and people feeling, ‘Hey we ought to
do something important, symbolically, and here’s a black guy, and he’s
articulate, so we’re gonna do this.’”
Hentoff
mentioned that former U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, the man
Time Magazine once called “the most doctrinaire and committed civil
libertarian ever to sit on the [Supreme C]ourt,” once personally lectured him
that “Affirmative-action on a racial basis is a total violation of the 14th
Amendment, no doubt about it.”
And,
referring to Obama’s presidency, the journalist said, “That’s what that kind of
affirmative-action did for us.”
He told
WND that he firmly believed the president does not care about due process, the
separation of powers, the concept of a self-governing republic or many other
basic American ideals.
And
that’s why, he said, “What Obama is
doing now is about as un-American as you can get.”
Hentoff wanted
to make sure no one thought he was engaging in hyperbole.
He said
it was literally true that Obama is “the most un-American president we’ve ever
had.”
And just
to make sure everybody heard him, he added, “I hope the FBI got all of
that.”
Hentoff
is just the latest public figure to be added to the growing list of those
mentioning the possible impeachment of President Obama. [/] WND
has been keeping track , and that list now includes: [/] Reps. Steve
King, R-Iowa; Blake Farenthold, R-Texas; Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas; Rep.
Bill Flores, R-Texas; Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif.; Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.;
Rep. Kerry Bentivolio, R-Mich.; Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas; Sen. James Inhofe,
R-Okla.; Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah; Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C.; Rep. Michele
Bachmann, R-Minn.; Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas; Rep. Trey Radel, R-Fla., and
Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla. [/] Follow Garth Kant on Twitter @DCgarth .
Garth
Kant About | Email | Archive [/] Garth Kant is WND Washington news editor.
Previously, he spent five years writing, copy-editing and producing at
"CNN Headline News," three years writing, copy-editing and training
writers at MSNBC, and also served several local TV newsrooms as producer,
executive producer and assistant news director. He is the author of the
McGraw-Hill textbook, "How to Write Television News." [My emphasis. Perhaps
overdone because I have had the same thoughts about our president over the same
period of time. Happy to have someone so articulate and of a different
political persuasion expressing these thoughts so well.]
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