Obama Takes the Bypass Again [Reader Post]

Let me see my Constitution.
“The Senate shall advise and consent…”
Okay. The Constitution no longer applies.
Since the Constitution no longer applies, one wonders (but not very hard) about what the actual governing documents of the United States would be.
I conjecture that we have a fascist dictator.
Fascism: the binding together of all the national instruments of production in the government. I include here the State ownership of GM, the State ownership of college loans, the State ownership of health insurance, … Sorry. I would spend the next two weeks listing all of the State controls; you can add to this list as you please.
I would not be surprised to see the November election repudiated by the White House, and the results disallowed, with the Democratic majority left in office. Thus have dictators done in the past; our dictator will be no different.
And few even bother to whimper as our rights are systematically exterminated.

I always thought that the States ran Consumer Affairs. Nothing better than duplication in government. Could cause competition!

Now that Wreckovery Summers is resigning in order to safeguard his tenure at Harvard, the last man standing is Geithner. I wonder if Goldman Sacks is still hiring?

Obama’s Afghanistan strategy: Don’t listen to the generals

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/09/22/obamas-afghanistan-strategy-dont-listen-to-the-generals/

President Obama urgently looked for a way out of the war in Afghanistan last year, repeatedly pressing his top military advisers for an exit plan that they never gave him, according to secret meeting notes and documents cited in a new book by journalist Bob Woodward.

Frustrated with his military commanders for consistently offering only options that required significantly more troops, Obama finally crafted his own strategy, dictating a classified six-page “terms sheet” that sought to limit U.S. involvement, Woodward reports in “Obama’s Wars,” to be released on Monday.

According to Woodward’s meeting-by-meeting, memo-by-memo account of the 2009 Afghan strategy review, the president avoided talk of victory as he described his objectives. …

Obama rejected the military’s request for 40,000 troops as part of an expansive mission that had no foreseeable end. “I’m not doing 10 years,” he told Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at a meeting on Oct. 26, 2009. “I’m not doing long-term nation-building. I am not spending a trillion dollars.”

The only really notable revelation here is not that surprising:

An older war – the Vietnam conflict – does figure prominently in the minds of Obama and his advisers. When Vice President Biden rushed to the White House on a Sunday morning to make one last appeal for a narrowly defined mission, he warned Obama that a major escalation would mean “we’re locked into Vietnam.”

Obama kept asking for “an exit plan” to go along with any further troop commitment, and is shown growing increasingly frustrated with the military hierarchy for not providing one. At one strategy session, the president waved a memo from the Office of Management and Budget, which put a price tag of $889 billion over 10 years on the military’s open-ended approach.

And instead of listening to his generals, particularly Petraeus, who kept saying that the only exit strategy was to defeat the enemy and keep Afghanistan secure, the man with no military experience whatsoever wrote his own doctrine. Petraeus, ironically, wound up having to implement a plan he very much opposed. This sounds closer to the errors of Vietnam than their solution.

So the Boy Wonder spits in My Face again and the faces of those deployed for his Political Agenda. I was in AFPAK when the request was made and expected this type of logic from a Punk Pretender that had nothing invested and nothing to lose. An Idiot took the sage advice of his appointed Idiots so the fate of the deployed is twisting in the wind. Way to Go America!

Less than 3% of America is currently serving so that is not a whole lot of votes involved but it is just a lot of Troopers at risk and his defeatist support base to pander to. Biden warns about Vietnam? He never Served in the Military and is far from being an expert on anything Military or Foreign Policy either.

Is she wearing a Mao jacket?
Are we going to be Mao-maoed?