It’s 2009 and your President has confiscated billions in private wealth. Where are your calls for impeachment?
The federal government is in the process of seizing ownership of two major American corporations with the sole intent of dividing its equity between the government and one of its largest political donors.
But it was Bush who trampled the Constitution with “illegal” wiretaps and, in other matters, fired his own employees for political reasons.
What constituency did Bush reward with wiretapping?
Where are the consitutional critics who not only blasted Bush’s “overreach” on legal (and congressionally-approved) warrantless wiretaps but went as far to call for his impeachment over the matter?
The silence is strange. After all, the wiretapping program had received congressional support, and although parts of the program were rebuked by the courts as unconstitutional, the current administration not only supports the concept but employs it as deemed necessary in the global fight against terror.
How possibly can we view the Chrysler takeover as a constituional action?
Cliff Asness couldn’t have described the Chrysler annexation more clearly:
“The President’s attempted diktat takes money from bondholders and gives it to a labor union that delivers money and votes for him. Why is he not calling on his party to “sacrifice” some campaign contributions, and votes, for the greater good? Shaking down lenders for the benefit of political donors is recycled corruption and abuse of power.”
Of course, we’re told, it’s NOT socialism. It’s NOT fascism. So what the hell is happening here?
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