The coming Barack Hussein Obama thugocracy

[Usually Lurkin]

his own party thinks his partisanship is too thuggish.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28638.html

[dude1394]

Boy I love me some Krauthammer.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...203801_pf.html

Fox wars
The 'post-partisan' president makes an enemies list
By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, October 23, 2009

Rahm Emanuel once sent a dead fish to a live pollster. Now he's put a horse's head in Roger Ailes's bed.
Not very subtle. And not very smart. Ailes doesn't scare easily.

The White House has declared war on Fox News. White House communications director Anita Dunn said that Fox is "opinion journalism masquerading as news." Patting rival networks on the head for their authenticity (read: docility), senior adviser David Axelrod declared Fox "not really a news station." And Chief of Staff Emanuel told (warned?) the other networks not to "be led [by] and following Fox."

Meaning? If Fox runs a story critical of the administration -- from exposing "green jobs" czar Van Jones as a loony 9/11 "truther" to exhaustively examining the mathematical chicanery and hidden loopholes in proposed health-care legislation -- the other news organizations should think twice before following the lead.
The signal to corporations is equally clear: You might have dealings with a federal behemoth that not only disburses more than $3 trillion every year but is extending its reach ever deeper into private industry -- finance, autos, soon health care and energy. Think twice before you run an ad on Fox.
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Fox and its viewers (numbering more than those of CNN and MSNBC combined) need no defense. Defend Fox compared to whom? To CNN -- which recently unleashed its fact-checkers on a "Saturday Night Live" skit mildly critical of President Obama, but did no checking of a grotesquely racist remark that CNN falsely attributed to Rush Limbaugh?

Defend Fox from whom? Fox's flagship 6 o'clock evening news out of Washington (hosted by Bret Baier, formerly by Brit Hume) is, to my mind, the best hour of news on television. (Definitive evidence: My mother watches it even on the odd night when I'm not on.) Defend Fox from the likes of Anita Dunn? She's been attacked for extolling Mao's political philosophy in a speech at a high school graduation. But the critics miss the surpassing stupidity of her larger point: She was invoking Mao as support and authority for her impassioned plea for individuality and trusting one's own choices. Mao as champion of individuality? Mao, the greatest imposer of mass uniformity in modern history, creator of a slave society of a near-billion worker bees wearing Mao suits and waving the Little Red Book?

The White House communications director cannot be trusted to address high schoolers without uttering inanities. She and her cohorts are now to instruct the country on truth and objectivity?

[dude1394]

Originally Posted by Usually Lurkin

his own party thinks his partisanship is too thuggish.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28638.html

Not everyone lives in liberal lala land. Some of those representatives have to actually get re-elected. It doesn't help to have the prez and his minions calling their constituents nazis, racists, teabaggers, etc.

The representatives had better bone up on Alinsky's book however if they want to understand their leader's politics and methods.

The attack against the Chamber of Commerce is particularly troubling...just who the heck does barry think creates jobs anyway, a magic pony?

Some of that article sounds like whistling past the grave.

Some Democratic critics of the White House attacks say it may strengthen the relationship between the Chamber and moderate Democrats in Congress, who will fast become the organization’s best hope for addressing its concerns if it is frozen out by the White House.

“I don’t think the White House’s relationship with the Chamber will have any effect on individual members’ relationships with the Chamber,” said Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh, a centrist Democrat. “I think we’ll be judged on how we conduct ourselves.”

Sure being attacked by the democrat leader is going to make business more apt to work with ....democrat reps? Evan Bayh seems to be distancing himself from Barry also...I expect many dems will do so in this upcoming election. 10%+ unemployment and > 1.4trillion debt every year is tough to run on.