President Mu-Barack

You lead a behind-closed-doors, bribe-based effort to take over one-sixth of the US economy, in express disregard for the will of the American people.

Your actions cause Americans to take to the streets in tea party protests against out-of-control, defiant government.

You will not enforce border security laws, and direct the Department of Justice to sue the State of Arizona to prevent the legislature of Arizona from acting to enforce those same laws. You are acting in direct defiance of the will of American citizens living in Arizona.

You can’t get legislative support for a massive cap-and-trade regulatory scheme, because the will of the people has been made clear and is opposed to it. In brazen defiance of the will of the people, you lead and direct an effort to implement the same scheme via executive order and action by an unaccountable EPA.

You can’t get legislative support for an amnesty bill for illegal aliens, because the will of the people has been made clear and is opposed to it. So you lead and direct an effort to implement the same amnesty objectives via executive order and an unaccountable DHS.

You want to muzzle political opposition but are blocked by the First Amendment, so you lead and direct an effort to implement as much muzzling as possible via an unaccountable FCC.

You endorse the building of a mosque near Ground Zero, in express disregard for the will of the American people.

You witness the American people voting in droves in November 2010 to reject and repeal your agenda—most especially the out-of-control government spending—an agenda which they never saw coming in the election of 2008. Yet you deliver a State of the Union address proclaiming your intention to do more of the same, in defiance of the will of the people.

How are these actions different from those of a dictator?

Well, the Ivy League’s professors could give you a hundred sophisticated explanations as to why these are not the actions of a dictator (all of which boil down to: we are all liberals and agree with the actions, so there must be a way to rationalize them as not the actions of a dictator). But the American people have the common sense the Ivy League’s professors don’t. The American people have sensed for nearly two years that something is not right with Obama; that he is not remotely close to the presidential candidate he portrayed himself to be in 2008; that his defiance of the American people simply must stop.

The Egyptian people have arisen en masse, and they may not know where they are headed, but they know they want the dictator to resign.

The American people rose up in November 2010, and made clear that they DO know where they want to go, and that is back to an American government that is responsive to the will of the people and respectful and frankly obedient to the principles of limited government set forth in the Constitution of the United States of America. But they are receiving continued defiance and disdain from the Obama administration.

Most of the elitist American punditry would scoff at the idea that the American people would ever rise up en masse and demand the resignation of a President. We're not so sure. The American people have never had a President exposed after inauguration as so out-of-touch with them and willfully, repeatedly defiant of them. Their vague unease about a President who can seem downright anti-American is becoming less and less vague.

This is new territory for Americans. They have not been eager to confront this reality, just as they have never been eager to go to any war unless and until they believe their vital interests as Americans are truly at risk. But as they've proven many times in the past, they CAN ultimately be convinced that America is at risk, and they WILL rise to defend her.

The news of the day may be focused on Egypt, but percolating under the surface may be a much bigger story: just one or two more acts of defiance by the Obama administration, and Americans may take to the streets to demand that their dictator resign.

Paul Gable

February 1, 2011