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Old September 3rd, 2010, 03:53 AM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly
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Default OT - political..only for democrats

On Sep 3, 1:54*am, D. LaCourse wrote:
He, opinions are opinions. *Right?

http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...ntial-plummet-...

Dave


You gotta laugh at his style, however. This paragraph, in particular:

" I am neither accusing President Obama of having committed high
crimes and misdemeanors nor advocating his impeachment. Many of us
were preoccupied with such pursuits during the Clinton high-crimes
era, for which I don’t apologize. But I’d rather focus on the more
realistic goal of alerting people to Obama’s egregious personal
behavior and policies as we try to turn this nation around in the 2010
and 2012 elections. Having said this, intellectual honesty compels me
to confess that some of Obama’s audacious and shocking abuses of power
could arguably constitute impeachable offenses were we less apathetic
about the Constitution and the rule of law, but I am certainly not
advocating going there, if for no other reason than it would likely
backfire and enhance Obama’s popularity as a sympathetic victim. One
example is his pledging of $140 billion to the IMF not only without
executive authority, but in contravention of legislative directives.
Another is his four cabinet secretaries’ sending simultaneous letters
to Arizona senator Jon Kyl threatening to cut off Arizona’s stimulus
funds because Kyl suggested that Obama freeze stimulus spending due to
the failure of stimulus money to stimulate anything besides debt. This
is incredibly abusive stuff — an administration threatening to
withhold federal money to punish an entire state because one of its
senators expressed an opinion they deemed critical. This is what I
mean by “Crimes against Liberty” — it refers to Obama’s policies and
actions that are systematically undermining our liberties, to his
bankrupting the nation, and to his undermining our national security.
The book abounds with further examples."

Paraphrased, little brother is saying:
"I'm not accusing him of treason, although I could. But I won't, but
if I was, I'd mention this, and this, and this. But I won't because
I'm intellectually honest, so it does no good to mention this, and
this, and this. But I won't mention these, because they are in my
book."

SSDD

--riverman