Quote of the Day: Bill Clinton on 'Gangster Government'
<http://www.bizzyblog.com/2010/04/18/quote-of-the-day-bill-clinton-on-gangster-government/>
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TBlumer @ 8:26 am
The quote
<http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/92735-clinton-finds-common-ground-with-okc-bombing-current-anti-government-fervor>,
concerning the current administration:
"They are not gangsters," Mr. Clinton said. "They were elected. They
are not doing anything they were not elected to do."
John at Powerline
<http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/04/026096.php> recalls, as
do I, that the first reference I recall seeing to "gangster government"
was made last year not by a Tea Partier or a GOP politician. It was
instead by Michael Barone, the usually measured columnist who doubles as
a walking election encyclopedia.
In a May 6, 2009 column
<http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/White-House-puts-UAW-ahead-of-property-rights-44415057.html>
decrying the way President Obama's car czars were ripping off certain
classes of secured creditors in the Chrysler bankruptcy, Barone wrote:
Think carefully about what's happening here. The White House,
presumably car czar Steven Rattner and deputy Ron Bloom, is seeking
to transfer the property of one group of people to another group
that is politically favored. In the process, it is setting aside
basic property rights in favor of rewarding the United Auto Workers
for the support the union has given the Democratic Party.
... We have just seen an episode of Gangster Government. It is
likely to be part of a continuing series.
And it has been. Unsecured Government/General Motors bondholders were
the next group
<http://www.bizzyblog.com/2009/05/22/here-we-go-again-this-time-govt-is-trying-to-shaft-unsecured-gm-creditors/>
to get the short of the stick. In Illinois, Obama crony and now U.S.
Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias applied gangster techniques to
intimidate banks involved with Republic Windows
<http://www.bizzyblog.com/2008/12/16/republic-windows-doors-files-for-bankruptcy/>
(Obama inserted himself
<http://www.bizzyblog.com/2008/12/13/obama-dangerous-appearance-as-community-organizer-in-chief/>
into this situation) and Hartmarx
<http://www.bizzyblog.com/2009/05/08/il-treasurer-intimidation-attempt-invoking-tarp-not-national-news/>.
An integral part of the political thought process in this administration
seems to be, "What can we do, with the help of the media, to embarrass,
humiliate, and intimidate our opponents?" Often it works (see AIG
<http://sweetness-light.com/archive/acorn-behind-protests-at-aig-ct-homes>,
Humana
<http://www.huliq.com/8059/86779/humana-letter-investigated-us-medicare>);
sometimes it doesn't, after which the establishment press assists in
making the "never mind" look innocuous (see Henry Waxman's cancellation
<http://www.bizzyblog.com/2010/04/17/ap-report-gives-waxman-cover-for-cancelled-hearings-on-corporate-obamacare-expense-recognition/>
of hearings whose purpose was to go after companies that dared to
properly account for and disclose the anticipated costs of complying
with ObamaCare).
Sorry, Bill Clinton. Michael Barone was prescient and right, and you are
wrong. This /is/ a Gangster Government, headed by a a punk president
<http://www.bizzyblog.com/2009/09/06/our-punk-president-and-his-gangster-government/>.
They're doing lots of things they weren't elected to do, many of them
things they specifically promised not to do.
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