Thinkable but Unspeakable - So Far

“…the White House is in over its head, isolated, insular, arrogant and clueless…”

Surely these are the words of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin or some other rabid right-wing commentator, right?

No, these are the words of Time magazine’s Mark Halperin, a card-carrying member of the leftwing elitist media if ever there was one. The fact that he would go so far publicly only hints at how serious Obama’s predicament is privately. We take it as a signal that what was unthinkable just a few months ago is now very thinkable: should political pressure combined with constitutional machinations be set in motion to encourage Obama to resign or face impeachment and removal?

In fact, we think it is an absolute certainty that the question of Obama’s removal from office before the end of his four-year term is now officially on the table in the elitist wings of both political parties. It has been on the kitchen tables of America for months now. So far, however, the topic remains unspeakable in any sort of official public way. We think that will change very soon.

Halperin, of course, would hyperventilate at the suggestion that his commentary means any such thing. He would scream to high heaven that he made clear that Obama is merely in a predicament which he can’t do anything about until after the November elections—thereby making clear that Obama can and will do something about it after the elections. But like most who live in the left-wing media bubble, they have no real sense of how deeply and irreparably Obama has lost the trust of the American people.

Once the election returns are in, the backroom political discussions will take on a very different tone. The Democrat Party will have gone in two years from juggernaut to utter rejection, and the state of panic will cause enormous consternation as to whether that party can afford to carry this guy for another two years. Public pronouncements will initially be confident, and there will be a few wildly out-of-touch ‘experts’ who think Obama can masterfully triangulate the Republicans into PR mistakes and gaffes, and roar back into viability by 2012. But behind closed doors, their polling data and their own eyes and ears are going to tell them Obama has established an alienation from the American people that is unbridgeable and irreversible.

Democrats will not want to eat their own, and they will flounder around for awhile trying to find an alternative, but open intra-party warfare is inevitable as Obama retreats to an even more radical leftist circle of advisers and confidants. They will start aggressively looking for a way to create new faces of the party, but will realize even as they are doing so that it is an impossible task when the President is of your party. And they will start looking for a way they can get behind an exit plan.

We’ve said before—look for some of the long-secret records of Obama’s past to miraculously come to the surface, whereupon Democrats like Jim Webb or Diane Feinstein will somberly reflect on the seriousness of the discrepancies between what the American people were told about Obama vs. what the truth is. The revelations may or may not involve the infamous birth certificate; they may just be academic records that show he historically identified himself as a Muslim, or a foreign student, or that the cost of his education was financed by undesirables of one kind or another. But whatever it is, it will allow Democrats to claim the high road of integrity, not politics, as the reason for their reluctant decision that Obama must go.

On the other side of the aisle, Republicans will be cautious almost to the point of paralysis as they fret about (1) Pravda’s reaction to any talk of removal, (2) charges of racism, and (3) very legitimate national security concerns from a long, drawn out removal process applied to an angry, cornered narcissist.

Even in the courageous realm of talk radio and Glenn Beck, the thinkable will likely remain unspeakable for awhile. Limbaugh, Hannity and Levin know they have a tight emotional bond with their audience; they also know there would be no greater threat to the yanking of their broadcast licenses than if they were to say anything that could be soundbitten into an accusation of inciting rebellion. So they will be stalwarts on the inviolability of the four-year Presidential term.

But this is where the real power of the tea parties will overwhelm the caution of Republican Party elites and bypass the talk radio figureheads. The American people want Obama out because Obama committed fraud on them. It is as simple as that; only the intellectual class is unable to grasp the basic revulsion felt by normal people when they realize they have been deliberately lied to.

The American people have been patient and law-abiding, and they are not going to suddenly break out of character and turn impatient and law-breaking. But the American people will not stand for two more years of lies—and Obama shows every sign that he will continue and enlarge those lies as the committed radical leftist ideologue that he is. The American people are therefore rightly and righteously indignant, and they are not going to be denied. They know better than the elites that Obama is a national security threat every minute that he occupies the office of the Presidency; and they know the perpetuation of this fraud presents the real threat of social and economic instability. The solution is removal from office, either by pressured resignation or the impeachment process, and they will demand it.

Mark Halperin has demonstrated that all of this is now thinkable; it won’t be long before it is also speakable.

Paul Gable

October 12, 2010