Boots on the Neck and Ass-Kicking?

The Coming Ouster of Obama

The biggest silver lining of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is the revelation it has provided to mainstream Democrats into the character of Barack Obama and his hard-leftist administration.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar spoke early in the spill episode of the administration’s determination to keep its ‘boot on the neck’ of British Petroleum to get the problem fixed. His metaphor was applauded and repeated by White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. Attorney General Eric Holder then announced in the middle of efforts to stop the leak that the federal government will explore criminal prosecution of BP representatives. And now comes Obama’s bravado, telling an interviewer that he is consulting with locals on the spill so he can know whose 'ass to kick'.

This act is deeply, almost indescribably offensive to Americans across the political spectrum. Americans understand that accidents happen, and Americans respond to disasters by joining together to fix any fixable causes, and help the damaged recover. The blame-game may follow after the disaster is over and recovery has begun—and even then, most Americans are turned off by the ambulance-chasing lawyers whose primary motivation is fees, scapegoating and demonization, rather than simple justice through accountability and responsibility. If, as and when evidence turns up that indicates true moral culpability, then Americans will get on board the prosecution of the culpable.

But while the disaster is ongoing? While men and women of good faith throughout the oil industry (and other industries) are working around the clock to come up with a solution? The simple reaction across all but the hard left fringe of the political spectrum to the Obama administration’s actions is: who the hell are these people?

Observing the mainstream media news coverage will never clue the reader in to just how much change in thinking is really going on as it relates to the nation’s attitude toward Obama. The American people increasingly and actively do not like this man’s attitudes toward this nation and its history and its institutions. And their dislike has nothing whatsoever to do with the color of his skin. His attitudes are flat out un-American; they are distasteful; they are disgusting. And they reveal a man and an administration and an agenda that simply were not elected by the American people.

There is a proliferation among the punditry now of talk that Obama ‘is not up to the job’; there has been a drip-drip-drip of accumulating dissatisfaction and unease with countless aspects of what this administration is doing across every front of government; and there are Democrats across this country, including political office holders, who are starting to figuratively choke at what Obama is doing and how the American people are reacting.

These phenomena are far more potent than anyone on the left currently comprehends; they are far more potent than at any time in the last 50 years, including the time of Richard Nixon. And they all point in the same direction, and that is toward the ouster of Obama as President. The Blago trial or the Sestak Lies may provide the tools for impeachment and removal, or the talk of resignation may just go mainstream enough to build pressure Obama cannot withstand. Either way, forget the Obama façade of cool, shrewd and cleverly calculating. Forget the sweeping tut-tut dismissals that ‘he’s never going to resign’. He’s being exposed every day as a fraud relative to who he claimed to be. He’s lost the vast majority of the American people. His government may appear on the surface to have the ability to govern without the consent of the people, but that is a lie. Government by ‘boot on the neck’ and ass-kicking—whether it’s a company or a people--cannot govern. It can only tyrannize, and its tyranny foreshadows and foreordains its fall.

Paul Gable

June 8, 2010