INCONVENIENT QUESTION

From the Virginian:

Following the weekend firing of GM’s chairman and board, the only issues I hear being discussed is the wisdom of this take-over. Is it good for the auto industry? Is it fair to the unions? Why just fire the chairman of GM and not the heads of major banks? Should the head of GM's union be fired? Is the government any good at running a car company? How is this affecting the polls?

... What inherent or legislative power did Obama exercise? Or is the assumptions that Obama can pretty much do anything he wants because there’s nobody to stop him?

Is the argument being made that the government is a major creditor of the auto companies and therefore can take over? Is that the law? The last I heard, removal of a board requires a vote of shareholders. Last I heard only a board of directors can fire a chairman...

That common culture of freedom is now under its greatest test in over a century. The next few years will determine if this is forever lost. And when the proper questions are not being asked about the exercise of unprecedented government power in civilian affairs, I’m concerned that this culture is failing the test.

More on The Obamunist's gleeful shredding of the Constitution from Attack Machine:

• rammed through a $1trillion spending bill without holding hearings or tolerating input from the minority party. While this doesn’t rise to a constitutional breech, it certainly violates the spirit of our government.
• Barack Obama appointed himself CEO of GM (Government Motors), crossing a line no president had crossed before, unless you’re counting presidents of banana republics.
• Obama is bringing control of the US Census into the White House, politicizing what should be a straight up national headcount.
• Now the Democrats are proposing to literally violate the Constitution in order to gin up new Democrat Congressional seats in DC. Consider:

Justice Department lawyers concluded in an unpublished opinion earlier this year that the historic D.C. voting rights bill pending in Congress is unconstitutional, according to sources briefed on the issue.

As my favorite music critic, John Petric, put it, "rope-a-dope hope and spare change."