First it was Rush Limbaugh, now it's Jim Cramer!
The Obama Administration's enemy list keeps on growing ... Here is CNBC's Jim Cramer listing his Democrat creds:
... some things are a matter of public record, including my substantial six figure donations to the Democratic Party before I was no longer allowed to contribute by contractual agreement. I regard two Democratic governors as my friends ...
I also made it clear in a New York magazine article that I favored Obama over McCain because I thought Obama to be a middle-of-the-road Democrat ... I actually embrace every part of Obama's agenda, right down to the increase on personal taxes and the mortgage deduction. I am a fierce environmentalist ...
Even believing all that non-sense, somehow Cramer had a rude awakening ... because now he's calling Obama a "Leninist!"
H/T to American Power for this one!
The next day on NBC's Today Show, he fired at the president again, saying we're heading for a "garden variety depression," and that "we have to change the attitude of the president, to go from being, what I regard as a radical agenda, to something that's slower and recognizing that times are bad."
The co-hostess then starts carrying on about "being positive," in which Cramer responds, "It must be rooted in fact." Something we talked about this yesterday.
Of course, our TelePromter-president actively attacks his critics, as witnessed with Rush Limbaugh. So press secretary Robert Gibbs responds saying:
I'm not entirely sure what he's pointing to to make some of the statements. And you can go back and look at any number of statements he's made in the past about the economy and wonder where some of the back-up for those are too.
If you turn on a certain program it's geared to a very small audience. No offense to my good friends, or friend at CNBC. But the President has to look out for the broader economy and the broader population.
The broader economy and population? Any person who owns a mutual fund, annuity, 401k, receives a pension, etc., ARE the "broader population" Bam! Our jobs and our retirements depend on healthy capital markets!
In response to Gibb's statement, Cramer said:
Huh? Backup? Look at the incredible decline in the stock market, in all indices, since the inauguration of the president, with the drop accelerating when the budget plan came to light because of the massive fear and indecision the document sowed: Raising taxes on the eve of what could be a second Great Depression, destroying the profits in healthcare companies (one of the few areas still robust in the economy), tinkering with the mortgage deduction at a time when U.S. house price depreciation is behind much of the world's morass and certainly the devastation affecting our banks, and pushing an aggressive cap and trade program that could raise the price of energy for millions of people.
The market's the effect; much of what the president is fighting for is the cause. The market's signal can't be ignored.
Barack Obama, from candidate to president, has shown a consistent pattern of attacking his critics, much of which is documented throughout this blog (start here, or go here for more).
After the Democratic Convention last August, he attempted to force TV stations into not airing an ad critical of him. He also tried to stop an NRA ad, went after John Edwards and Hillary Clinton's donors, made up stories about Sarah Palin, and sent "Obama Action Wire's" to his minions, telling them to harass radio shows, complete with a form to fill out to REPORT your call!
There's so much more ... from digging into "Joe the Plumber's" records, kicking journalists off his campaign plane because their papers didn't endorse him ... as reported in The American Spectator:
... state prosecutors and top sheriffs in Missouri ... responded to a chilling Obama campaign request. They styled themselves as a "truth squad" and threatened to prosecute anyone including media outlets that printed or broadcasted material they deemed to be inaccurate about the Illinois Senator.
Obama contributors in the Justice Department's Civil Rights section ... urged preemptive prosecution of individuals the Obama campaign believed might disrupt the November election. A cited example of anticipated disruption was to send mailings of a non-violent nature addressing voting issues unfavorable to Obama.
In precedent-setting action, Obama moved his director of political affairs, a highly partisan post, from the Old Executive Office Building into the West Wing. Political operative Patrick Gaspard was given White House access not experienced by his predecessors. Obama official Shauna Daly, a non-lawyer and career opposition researcher described as a "partisan dirt-digger," was assigned to the White House counsel office. The move signals not only a new low in partisan activities, but suggests the office assignment may be intended to hide Daly's political activities under the guise of the counsel's attorney-client privileges.
One cannot help but reach the conclusion an Obama Enemies List is already being compiled and free speech restrictions are being considered.
If he is considering free speech restrictions, he's got plenty of prominent Congressional Democrats that will be more than happy to pass that legislation for him. And they're going after the Internet too!
Bloggers beware, because the Democrats have a plan for you too! More from The American Spectator:
... policy and legislative advisers to House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman to discuss ways the committee can create openings for the FCC to put in place a form of the "Fairness Doctrine" without actually calling it such.
Waxman is also interested, say sources, in looking at how the Internet is being used for content and free speech purposes. "It's all about diversity in media," says a House Energy staffer ...
... putting in place policies that would allow the federal government to have greater oversight over the content that TV and radio stations broadcast to the public, and both the FCC and Waxman are looking to licensing and renewal of licensing as a means of enforcing "Fairness Doctrine" type policies without actually using the hot-button term "Fairness Doctrine."
Also involved ... the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank ... as well as the radical MoveOn.org, which has been speaking to committee staff about policies that would allow them to use their five to six million person database to mobilize complaints against radio, TV or online entities they perceive to be limiting free speech or limiting opinion.
"They perceive" ... doesn't that say it all?
One has to wonder ...
How long will it be before "the One" and the rest of the Democrats, start coming after Tea Party participants and those who've decided it's time to Go John Galt!
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