Extortion IS a High Crime
Some call it "Politics as Usual". Some call it "Chicago Thuggery". I call it "Extortion, Racketeering and Fraud".
The President of the United States has continually engaged in this behavior by whatever name you want to call it. He engaged in this behavior against the rightful creditors of General Motors. He behaved in this with regard to the use of bail out funds. He has continually divided citizens by class, union versus non-union to determine protected classes. His style is closer to Jugo Chavez or Fidel Castro than it is to Franklin Roosevelt, Lincoln or Reagan.
It is time for our Congress to put a stop to this. Extortion is a felony, a high crime, an impeachable offense. It is my hope that with a Republican Congress in January that we will have sufficient men and women with stout hearts and strong spines who will confront this administration and put a stop to this shameful illegal behavior that is being demonstrated by this president and his many czars and cabinet thugs. We must rid our house of the vermin that has taken control of our government or we will be the worse for it. If this means racial rioting, we have dealt with it before but there is nothing racial about my call for impeachment. It matters little the color of the hand when it is illegally placed in the back pocket of any corporation from whom this president elects to extort money. I have no love for BP, nor should I. I do however condemn the most recent example of this behavior by the President's attitude that he was going to tell the corporation what they were going to do. I also condemn the manner in which the Congress chose to call the BP CEO before them for the sheer purpose of grandstanding. When do we as citizens get to shame those in the Congress for their malfeasant and derelict behavior and the fraud they perpetrated on us in the name of reform?
Until it is determined what the cause was of the explosion in the Gulf the only truly safe assumption that can be made is that BP did not intend this to happen. They have already lost millions if not billions of dollars of crude oil and they are faced with billions of dollars of cleanup. Further, we can expect that the American taxpayer will ultimately pay for this extortion. Who reading this can sanely state that the president's methods that have thus far followed this crisis will not result in higher costs at the pump and within our home energy bills? The Extortionist in Chief admits this. This is a continuing grand scheme to extort money from big business and pass their wealth to those individuals who are the cronies of this president.
Were I advising BP I would tell them to simply walk away. They are not contractually liable for the entire cleanup. Once they plug the hole they should walk away and not come back until this country displays the sanity to remove this scoundrel from the White House. In the end I hope they don't take this advise but who could blame them if they did?
You're kidding right? I mean, your piece is satire, correct? You’re satirizing those wackos who espouse this kind of garbage and substitute it for actual thought and political discourse, right?
You begin your rant by calling the President a "thug" and "extortionist" and demanding his impeachment because he wanted BP to post a clean-up bond for the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, and conclude by advising BP to just up and walk away from the mess it created until Pres. Obama leaves office.
Are you completely insane or just wacked on the Tea Party Kool-Aid?
(BTW, I think you should change the name of your ultra-right group of polemicist hot-air bags to the Kool-Aid Party, because you all sound like you're crazy in the head.)
By your logic it is “extortion” if the government were to impose a fine or incarcerate anyone for a crime. So if I get drunk, get in my car and then run over a bunch of children in the crosswalk I should "walk away and not come back" until Pres. Obama is driven out of office, rather than be sued or face criminal charges. Do I have that right?
You are completely blind to the illogical double-standard in your rant. You demand extreme accountability of the President (impeachment) and Congress for doing their jobs (enforcing the law and investigating whether a law has been broken or needs to be enacted), but believe BP should just “walk away” from the mess it created.
I suspect that you probably don’t see the double-standard you employ, or you wouldn’t have posted this piece of drivel. Clearly you have abandoned logic and reasoning and don’t even bother trying to use them to support your ideas. How many people do you think you can sway or influence with BS like this? I advise you to use a little critical thinking to examine your ideas.
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James, James, James
Are we getting personal. No I am not kidding.
This Chicago style thuggery has been prevalent in this White House and I will not pull any punches by describing it as any less than extortion. The Congress under Pelosi and Reid took their turns calling the BP officials into hearings to grandstand. When do citizens get our chance to grill Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid? Next month I guess. But the privacy of a voting booth does not compare to the intimidation I would like them to feel sitting across the table from me and like minded citizens.
Would I object to the government imposing a fine? No. Because for there to be a fine it would be necessary for there to be a law and the Congress would be involved. There would have to be an organization like the Department of the Interior empowered to exact a fine. The President has no such Constitutional power to fine BP or to insist they set up that fund.
From the very beginning of this administration Obama has had his intent on destroying business and disbursing the residual to others. Well what happens when the economy is destroyed and all that capital has been consumed? Who then makes the TV, grows the food or builds the home or the automobiles? Who creates the jobs to enable people to live next year? The government? It won't have any money either because the government depends upon the private sector economy for its own funding. Your prescription would make us look like Greece.
Your analogies are absurd and you should consider a reasoned conversation in place of your ridiculous rant.
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Certainly, I would not want BP to just walk away from a disaster like this - certainly it was not criminal (at least the evidence I have seen so far does not paint it that way .. but.. maybe there were some oversights that have bordered or wandered into the "illegal" arena ..?) but still they are "responsible" for their actions, regardless. That would truly be a disaster, and in more than just one way - they are intimately ties to our economy, as well as the pensions of numerous Brits and other investors.
I have heard of the loss to bond holders of GM, but surely if this were a legal issue worthy of a fight there will be a court challenge? No?
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Not necessarily, no. The story I heard comes closer to White House extortion against the bondholders. Original accounts indicated that the bondholders were threatened by the White House. They were promised that the government would unleash its regulatory powers against these bondholders and ruin their businesses if they didn't agree to take a back seat. The person I heard discuss this was an attorney for one of the bondholders who would not keep his mouth shut about the agreement and as a result was dismissed. One doesn't know if they weren't actually there but understanding the Chicago way of playing politics, nothing would surprise me. http://www.businessinsider.com/white-house-directly-threatened-perella-weinberg-over-chrysler-2009-5
The above link discusses the offer made to Chrysler but I think it reasonable to assume a common tactic by the White House as they assumed control over both Chrysler and General Motors.
The Patriot
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Maladministration at the Executive level is an impeachable offense. Our President Barrack Obama is a Maladministrator clear and simple. Our problem with expelling him from this most important leadership position is that his party controls the Senate, the branch of our government which would make impeachment of this president a reality. Clearly at this stage of his term they are not ready to do that. In addition, the Presidents successor is an inept replacement which could be argued was selected by design to make impeachment inconsequential.
Change on my level as a voter is just that, one person, one vote, along with letters of concern and calls to my State Senators and Representatives with my views and my concerns and my involvement with groups whos views I agree with. Vial rhetoric and name calling have no value in this discourse. Common sense certainly does. Common sense would say that our nation should employ a plan for self reliance on energy such as natural gas and drilling of oil on our soil. Common sense would say any stimulus package should be injected into the economy at the taxpayer level in the form of a payroll tax reduction coupled by a reduction in government spending. Such action would spawn spending by the tax payer across the economic spectrum in all areas including increased personal savings and state tax revenue.
Such common sense does not exist at the White House.
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