The thing is that when Obama does something, it isn’t a scandal. Look at the way Bush was treated for Katrina compared to Obama with BP. Bush was criticized for being like Herbert Hoover when he had 6.6% unemployment. Rahm Emmanuel has committed a felony, yet he is treated differently from Rove, who was never indicted or convicted of anything. Obama just stole money from preferred Chrysler bond-holders without it being a scandal. The media never criticize his Rube Goldberg healthcare reform legislation, which arrogantly attempts to reform 1/6 of the US economy. Obama has also told many lies about the healthcare legislation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-bY92mcOdk

The problem is that the storylines in the media versus what actually happen are very different. You could call it Orwellian.

Obama has abused his power: firing two CEOs of GM, changing the loan terms before Chrysler went bankrupt, treating TARP like a slush fund, outlawing drilling, lying about the healthcare bill, etc.

To be fair, some of what Obama has done was quite reasonable. He criticized the Bush admin on civil liberties issues, just like he criticized him on Iraq, because it was cheap political points. Some politicians will say anything to get elected, and the rude stuff Obama said to Petraeus in 2007 is a great example of that.

In a war, many of the things Bush did are reasonable, and when your job is to protect the American people from terrorists rather than just complain about it, you gain a different perspective. There is a big disconnect between being a journalist, and being responsible for the lives of others. There is a famous line that the Bill of Right is not a suicide pact. If we are dead, our civil rights don’t matter.

Many left-wingers called it the Bush “regime” when he was in power. And if it was true for Bush, it is even more true for Obama. Obama believes government is the answer, and that he can decide best. Look at the way the healthcare bill was rammed through via reconciliation and without going to conference and with the arm-twisting and judgeships offered and fake executive orders.

Republicans want Obama to fail because they view his ideas as bad for the country. They view his healthcare bill as making the situation worse. That his stimulus bill wouldn’t fix the economy and would add $800B to the national debt and just prolong the bloated state governments and the day of reckoning.

As Milton Friedman wrote, the government solution to a problem can easily be worse than the problem. The Republicans disagree with Obama on principle. Congressman Paul Ryan has good legislation for healthcare reform. Obama ignored the Republican ideas and has less bipartisanship than what Bush had. Whereas the Democrats criticized Bush not based on policies but based on politics. They criticized him for the Patriot Act yet voted for it. They criticized him for interrogation and yet Obama of course reserves that right. The Democrats criticized Bush for social security, but didn’t have a plan of their own. That is the biggest difference between the two situations. The Republicans have better ideas, but the Democrats don’t and just criticize to score political points.

There is a backlash against Obama’s policies, civil liberties and otherwise. The Tea Party movement is about all kinds of smaller government. Join up!

It’s time to walk away from this false paradigm and wake up. The Constitution won’t save you, that guy running for office won’t save you, and whomever your favorite jackass in D.C. is won’t save you either. Only YOU can save you! DUMP DC and work locally. Make Washington totally irrelevant. Make it so worthless that it becomes a non-issue. Take the power away from the Whores of the Potomac and stick with your local and state governments. They’re made up of people who live next door to you and are much less likely to want pissed off neighbors. Make them make D.C. irrelevant.