Thoughts of Obama from Bama

Week Twenty: Obama’s Secret Shadow Government, Part II – The Salary Czar & the Slippery Slope Towards Socialism

“Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed.”

Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist

Our 44th President achieved another unprecedented milestone during week 20 of his “Yes We Can Trample on the Constitution, Convert Us All to Socialism and Bankrupt the Country All at the Same Time” Administration. The appointment of Kenneth Fienberg as the country’s first ever Salary Czar is truly one of the most extraordinary events in the nation’s 233 year history, which as we all know is chock- full of extraordinary, historic, milestone events.

This Administration has already broken more new ground and pursued dozens of unprecedented actions and initiatives. Until now we would have considered it an abuse of power and possibly even criminal. In only twenty weeks the President has compiled quite an impressive list of transgressions that have Big Brother’s and Big Government’s oppressive fingerprints all over them:

· Breaking his own Executive Order by appointing several lobbyists to senior positions.
· Appointing several admitted tax cheats to Cabinet and other senior level positions.
· With no apparent Constitutional Authority he is in the process of Nationalizing/Socializing the US Banking, Financial, and Auto industries. Not even FDR, the author and chief advocate of the New Deal, which served as the catalyst of plunging our nation into a quasi democratic/socialist welfare state creating a new class or demographic of people; “Victims”, dared to veer as far left as Mr. Obama.
· The President, his Car Czar and comrades in Congress fired the CEO of a private sector company, GM, appointed all but 2 of their new Board members and will now dictate the types of cars they will make and sell to “We the People”
· The same group has dictated what dealerships should be closed and in a lot instances with no consideration of their profitability but with much more emphasis given to who’s congressional district their located in. (Barney Franks GM dealership in Boston was miraculously saved while a lot of dealers who recently supported GOP candidates got the shut down order, go figure.)
· They are proposing a Nationalized, Socialized, government controlled, single payer healthcare system that is estimated to cost $15 Trillion over 10 years. Government bureaucrats deciding what doctors we see and when, what treatments we are allowed and drugs we are entitled too.
· The EPA is hoping with the probable passage of Cap and Trade to tax every carbon emission made by every business enterprise, building structure, mode of transportation, human dwelling and citizen. Will this include criminal illegal aliens? Rumor has it they exude massive quantities of carbon emissions. According to a news report today cows emit staggering amounts of methane. May not be carbon but according to Al “I’m full of methane too” Gore still contributes to Global Warming and must be taxed, regulated and Big Brothered out of existence.
· Strong arm tactics and threats to persuade “Front of the line” creditors to aqueous to auto companies offers of pennies on the dollar so he can reward the unions for their loyalty and generous support.
· The President’s authorization to release classified CIA documentation about W’s, who has admitted responsibility openly and without shame, use of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques. This blatant misuse of power and attempt to embarrass his predecessor at the expense of National Security has needlessly placed US service men and woman in harms’ way.
· “Thoughts of Obama from Bama” addressed the unprecedented unchecked abuse of power of the Obama Administration’s appointment of 18 Czars in our Week 16 Article, “Obama’s Secret Shadow Government”. At that time, we pointed out the unconstitutional nature of these appointments and our concerns about the corrupting influence of absolute power.
· We also addressed the President’s appointment of his Energy/Climate Czar in Week 16, Carol Browner. Another dubious milestone for the “Change We Can Believe In Like Having Known Socialist and Communist Sympathizers Openly Working in the West Wing” crowd. Ms. Browner is a card carrying member of the Socialist Party, another unprecedented first for a senior White House official. A strong advocate of the President’s radical energy agenda they are both currently busy plotting another major intrusion into our personal lives with extremist views as recently expressed by our fearless Big Brother-in-Chief "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,"

Not satisfied with Nationalizing a major chuck of our private sector economy; providing aid and comfort to our fanatic Islamic terrorist enemies; over taxing every form of energy known to man unless it’s green, doesn’t work, and cost prohibitive. The President of the United States has appointed a Salary Czar to establish executive compensation levels for private sector companies. If we get any further down that proverbial slippery slope towards Socialism and Communism you can probably just paint my arse red and call me Comrade Uri.

All of these unprecedented milestones, including the formation of the President’s Secret Shadow Government, 19 unconstitutional and unaccountable so called Czars who for all practical purposes are running the country, achieved in Mr. Obama’s first 20 weeks begs the question – What’s next? “Thoughts of Obama from Bama” has it on good authority that we can expect the following Presidential appointments:

· Anti-Torture Czar – Teddy Kennedy: A internationally recognized pacifist, humanitarian and do gooder. He was recently overheard expressing his views about torture with CIA Director Leon Panetta. “Making detainees think they are about to drown is torture and should not be tolerated”. Mr. Panetta replied, “Couldn’t agree with you more Senator Kennedy, not one of them will ever be allowed in your car”
· Truth Czar – Nancy Pelosi: Finds herself on the wrong side of the truth so often she can recognize a lie faster than white gets all over rice. When backed up she can always call on Madame Secretary Hillary “Ducking From Sniper Fire” Clinton and impeached Hubby “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Monica Lewinsky”
· Alternative Life Style Czar – Barney “Freddie in the Fannie Mack” Frank: Openly gay since a homosexual sex scandal in 1990 which involved a male prostitute and favors from the congressman. Reprimanded by the congress, Frank is now a strong public advocate for alternative life styles including his right to be one of the goofiest individuals to ever serve in the US congress
· Propaganda Czar(s) – Chris Mathews; MSNBC; CBS; NBC, Katie Couric; PBS; ABC; the AP; Each and every Late Night Host; the entire multi-media apparatus with the exception of Fox News and Talk Radio
· Smoking Czar – President Obama hiself: A closet smoker protected by his comrades in the press. Sources who would know tell “Thoughts of Obama from Bama” our Commander-in-Chief sneaks off daily with first pooch Bolshevik the Waterdog to chain smoke French cigarettes sent to him from his good friend and comrade Fidel in Cuba
· Immigration Czar – Teddy Kennedy: Because of his big heart Mr. Compassion gets double duty. He summed up his feelings about immigration stating, “ I just couldn’t bear the thought of anyone drowning in a river while trying to make a better life for themselves”

Big Brother Baracky and his Shadow Government aren’t just singing, dancing and pulling rabbits out of hats they are doing double back flips and running about the White House like their hair was on fire. In only 20 weeks they have artfully and deceitfully pushed us further down that slippery slope towards socialism than any other Administration in the history of the Union. We best push back soon or we will all be walking a dog name Bolshevik, assuming the Pet Czar allows us the privilege of owning a pet of course.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes