The Groundswell for Resignation has BegunThis Administration is offensive to America; it must be removed In case you didn’t pick it up from the Brushfires’ home page “Getting It” quotes from February 2010, we’ll note again that Powerlineblog, one of the granddaddies of internet blogging, placed as their lead item today this photograph from a Facebook page. This is a great sign that the resignation movement is going to take hold. All it takes is a little mindshare, augmented by serious conversation about the legitimacy of the grounds for demanding resignation, followed by a growing groundswell of agreement that resignation is in fact the right remedy for this fraudulent radical leftist takeover of America. Brushfires of Freedom is happy to have lit a few early fires on this theme. Here’s a partial catalog, starting with the earliest: It’s OK to Call for Obama’s Resignation We’re happy to update with another angle. Quietly, soberly, and inexorably, there is a growing recognition among serious people that Barack Obama and his radical leftist cabal are deeply offensive to a solid majority of Americans. As we’ve said for months, this is not a movement of thought that is within the boundaries of traditional partisan politics. This is not a matter of policy disagreement. It is a visceral and escalating disgust with the deceit by which these people gained public office; the disingenuousness with which they carry out the roles of public office; and the increasingly undisguised contempt they hold for the traditions, values and institutions that Americans hold dear. This is very, very significant. Bush Derangement Syndrome, by comparison, was never a grassroots movement throughout the country. It was largely the creation of the left-wing mainstream media, which intimidated the Political Class into going along, even if none of them individually could really figure out what it was about George W. Bush that was supposed to be so worthy of hate. He had his worldview; his Christian faith drove the godless intellectuals into hysteria; and 9/11 forced him into very tough calls as a President, but the American people, including the vast majority of those who may have disagreed with his policies, never hated him personally or distrusted him. Nothing George W. Bush did was offensive to the majority of Americans. Barack Obama still isn’t hated personally. But the character of the man and his cabal are starting to show, and serious people are reacting very negatively on two levels: (1) they don’t like the substance of that character; and (2) they really don’t like that it was disguised and hidden from view during the 2008 election campaign. There is abundant evidence that a little more than a year into his term, Obama has completely lost the trust of the American people, which could have happened solely as a result of reaction (1). But reaction (2) creates a very different and volatile dynamic. If a candidate says he’s a radical left-wing socialist and the majority of Americans elect him knowing full well that’s who he is, they may decide over time that his policies aren’t right after all, and gradually lower their view of him. But when the policies don’t feel right from the beginning, and don’t ring true to the imagery and message of the candidate, the discontent starts early, spreads rapidly, and very soon becomes all-consuming. No one wants to be suckered; everyone hates being had; and when the fraud is done for the purpose of destroying the freedom-loving, God-fearing nation that the vast majority of Americans dearly love—well, all hell’s going to break loose. The pollsters have picked this up with the antiseptic terminology of ‘disapproval’ ratings. But as the behavior of Obama and his cabal have moved into the category of ‘deeply offensive’, disapproval doesn’t begin to capture what Americans are feeling.
What do we mean by deeply offensive? There’s an endless list, so we’ll just pick a few recent examples. 1. The US government budget deficit in 2007--the year that Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats took control of the House and Harry Reid and the Democrats took control of the Senate—was $167 billion. In 2010, under Obama’s proposed budget, the deficit is nearly ten times as large, at $1.6 trillion. To claim, insinuate, imply or state that this reckless runaway spending is all Bush’s fault is not a partisan stretching of the truth, it is an offensive lie. It is made with full knowledge of what the facts are, and therefore it could only be made on the basis of an elitist disdain for the intelligence of the people. This is doubly offensive. 2. Scott Brown campaigned in Massachusetts in the most plainspeaking method imaginable that he opposed the Obamacare overhaul of the nation’s healthcare system. He promised early and often and explicitly that he would be the 41st vote in the Senate to block passage of such legislation. Brown of course won a convincing majority in the strongest of liberal Democrat strongholds. When Obama delivered his explanation for Brown’s election as another manifestation of the anti-Bush sentiment that swept Obama into power, this is far beyond the normal pitiable politician’s effort to spin the bad into the good. It is an offensive lie; an arrogant dismissal of the obvious message of the Massachusetts electorate; a disdain for American democracy. It is sickening. 3. When Obama rails one day about ‘fat-cat’ bankers on Wall Street, and then doesn't 'begrudge' multimillion dollar bonuses paid to the CEO’s of two of the largest Wall Street donors to Obama’s presidential campaign (Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan)—and in the process voices his long held respect for the free market—this strains credulity beyond the breaking point. Never mind the transparent hypocrisy. The President who is orchestrating a destruction of the American private sector while voicing his respect for it is operating at a level of disingenuousness rarely seen. That he does so is manifest proof that he doesn’t think many Americans are smart enough to notice or decent enough to care. This is offensive. 4. Let’s not forget Joe Biden’s contribution to the growing disgust. When he appears on Larry King to claim that the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq in the summer of 2010 (per an agreement signed with the Bush Administration), and the apparent continuance of stable democratically elected government in Iraq, will be ‘one of the greatest achievements of this (Obama-Biden) administration’, the result among thinking persons is truly ‘shock and awe’. Shock that Biden believes no one remembers his and Obama’s relentless criticism of the war, relentless efforts to block the surge that was the very reason the Iraqi government was able to stabilize, and Biden’s own proposal that Iraq could only be saved if divided into three countries. Awe in the negative sense that it’s almost impossible to conceive of a more arrogant and elitist position of contempt for the idea that Americans have no memory and no ability to gather information for themselves. This is offensive. We could go on and on. It’s past salvaging. There is no way to put an honest construct around the continuation in office of these abject liars and repugnant elitists. They do not belong in the American government. They must be removed. Resignation. Talk about it. Repeat it. Tell your Congressman you demand it. Tell your mainstream media you demand it. Tell your favorite blogs you demand it. Demand to see the removal of this blight on America and the world. Paul Gable February 12, 2010
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