Lies Have Consequences, Too

We’ve had our fill of the sage reminder, “elections have consequences”. It has its value as a pre-election encouragement to exercise the right to vote, and it probably has had historical value in the post-election context in tempering the losing side’s range of reactions. But the election of 2008 needs to mark an exception to this reminder, which is that ‘lies have consequences, too’.

It is now obvious to any adult with an ounce of intellectual integrity—and we mean any adult, whether Democrat or Republican—that Barack Obama is a fraud. In terms of experience and leadership ability, he is monumentally in over his head as President of the United States; in terms of governing philosophy, he is radically out of step with the candidacy he represented. But the ‘elections have consequences’ crowd would have us just accept this fraud, and sit on the sidelines, perhaps angry, but ultimately passive because this is the way democracy works; this is the only safe way to preserve our civil society. If we don’t like what’s happening, we have to wait for another election cycle to correct whatever we think needs to be corrected.

But what if the election itself was a fraud? And what if, upon assuming the powers of the Presidency, there is enough payola handed out to ACORN and other voter fraud groups, such that there is much less confidence that the next election cycle will be an honest election cycle?

In the 2008 election, Barack Obama’s singular economic ‘plan’ was a tax cut, for 95% of Americans. Obama was also harshly critical of the budget deficits incurred under President Bush. A tax-cutting, ‘deficit hawk’ appeals to center-right America, and Obama got enough of center-right America to drink the Kool-Aid and elect him.

But as is now obvious, Barack Obama is as far from being a tax-cutting, deficit hawk as is imaginable in America. He is wildly out of touch with and opposed to center-right America on virtually every issue of concern, whether in attacking capitalism, relaxing immigration law enforcement, tempering the fight against radical Islam, nationalizing healthcare, and imposing cap-and-trade taxation on an economy that can’t handle it toward a goal—controlling planetary climate—that is seen by growing numbers of people as chimerical at best.

What we experienced in 2008 is out-and-out fraud in a national election. We the people know it; we feel it; and that’s why we’re angry. We can tolerate political pendulum swings borne of honest, open and full debate settled by elections. We can’t tolerate radical ‘remaking’ of our country based on a dishonest agenda that was consciously hidden from the people. We the people aren’t going to rest until the fraud is unwound, rescinded, reversed, and overturned.

How can this be done? The least likely option is that grown-ups in the Democrat Party—maybe an Evan Bayh type?—can take Obama to the woodshed and get him to slow down, turn away from the hard left, and in the process attract some serious people into responsible positions in the government, most notably, someone to replace Timothy Geithner.

Impeachment exists in theory, but in practice that involves handing things over to the lawyers, and nobody has confidence that lawyers can focus on or even understand core moral issues.

The option we’ve advocated for awhile is a nationwide public call for Obama's resignation. Tea parties are nice, but their focus is on a symptom of the problem, not the problem itself. We think the moral force of the people demanding the resignation of this fraud would be more powerful than anything any American politician has ever experienced. But it’s going to take moral courage on the part of a lot of people who may not be sure they have it in them. That’s because of the question…

“What about the race riots that surely will arise if there are demands that Obama resign?” This question will stop 99% of our current leaders from ever venturing into the subject of resignation. We think it is a groundless fear. This is about fraud. Fraud is about dishonesty, and dishonesty is repulsive to every human being, regardless of the color of their epidermis. Of course the race-baiting industry would try to stir something up, and in a country of 300 million people, we can count on some number to take the bait. But our gut tells us that the vast majority of we the people are smarter and more balanced than the elites believe. This is simply not about Obama’s position as the first African-American President. That is now an irrelevant sideshow. This is about Obama’s position as the first President elected on the basis of demonstrably fraudulent presentations of who he was, how he thought, and how he would govern.

Moral power is actually overwhelming. No amount of media obstruction, and no amount of military power (should Obama unwisely invoke it to ‘quell unrest’), can stop the moral force behind a nationwide demand for resignation. That’s because there really was a fraud; there really is such a thing as honesty; and honesty trumps fraud, every time. May not happen as fast as we’d like, but it happens.

“But how are we any better with Biden as President?” is another question that will pop up. It’s true that he is a laughingstock, and about as unqualified for executive office as Obama. But he’s mostly just a run-of-the-mill career politician, who likes the perks of office enough to follow where the wind is blowing. He’d be scared out of his wits by the power of a nationwide demand for Obama’s resignation, and if he moved into the Presidency as a result, we think he’d move to appoint John McCain as Vice President in a classic, pragmatic politician’s ‘national unity’ move. We wouldn’t be enthusiastic about Biden or McCain, but at least we’d feel we’re back into a mode of seriousness and adulthood, without ambition to ‘remake’ America. And then we could make it to the next election cycle.

Brushfires doesn’t yet have the visibility to stir to the forefront a nationwide demand for Obama’s resignation. But we think it will happen anyway. Commentary doesn’t make things happen; truth does. The unraveling confidence of the people, and the unprecedented stirring of unrest throughout the country are directly attributable to the people’s grasp that they have been lied to. Truth is doing this, and truth isn’t going to be stopped. Obama will find this out. Lies have consequences, too.

Paul Gable

Posted March 20, 2009