John Podesta, A Very Dangerous Man

By Semperpapa

I am sure that this is all in the name of egalitarianism and the community of people, not to mention that he is one that knows best.

His name is John Podesta and he is the head of a group called Center for American Progress. And he is a dangerous man.

John Podesta became a familiar name during the Clinton presidency when he became Chief of Staff at the White House.

Of course Podesta is also a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, which also explains once more why the generation of college students we witness today has a generally negative image of our country. It is thanks to dangerous docents like John Podesta.

During the Bush administration, the American Left, including the ultra-progressive Podesta, had accused the President to engage in policy aimed at placing the White House above the law, above Congress and above the will of the American people.

Practically, President Bush was continuously charged with the intention of making himself into a dictator, bypassing the Constitution and the powers of elected officials (Congress).

Podesta was one of the more pungent voices in the attacks against the President.

It is therefore sort of surprising that the former Chief of Staff of a US President, that such a vocal enemy of Presidential over reaching, that such a critic of bureaucratic fiat would actually suggest the current President to bypass the Congress and realize his agenda via agency action. But that is exactly what John Podesta is counseling Obama to do. And in the case of Podesta, not surprising at all.

In a report authored by Podesta that the Center for American Progress sent to Obama last Tuesday, Podesta calls on Obama to take all the necessary steps to circumvent the Legislative Branch of our government in order to achieve the President’s agenda.

The report was triggered by the beating that the Democrats, and indirectly Obama, took in the November 2^nd elections, defeat that has reshaped both the House and the Senate in a non favorable way to Obama, ushering in a potential era of political fighting with the Executive Branch.

The results of the elections clearly assigned a mandate to the Republicans that the American people want them to oppose the reckless agenda of the President, and yet Obama and Pelosi and Reid still fail to recognize the fact, abhorring the idea that the American people may actually want to have a say in the vicissitudes of our country.

So Podesta is coming to the President aid with this report.

Here are some exerts:

“I think most of the conversation since the election has been about how President Obama adjusts to the new situation on Capitol Hill, While that’s an important conversation, it simply ignores the president’s ability to use all levels of his power and authority to move the country forward.”

Podesta is telling Obama that even as the call for the President to finally begin to listen to the people was loud and clear, it is more important that the President would employ all his power to ignore it. And the mention of moving the country forward is nothing more than euphemism for taking the Nation to a Marxist regime level.

“As noted in the Constitution and the laws of the United States give the president the ability and the responsibility to act as the chief executive using authorities granted to all presidents such as executive orders, rule-makings, agency management and public-private partnerships.”

The report also points out that the President has the power, as Commander-in-Chief, to utilize the Armed Forces for the pursuit of his agenda, hinting that it would be acceptable to send the American Military against the population that is unwilling to surrender to a tyrannical government. This is particularly disturbing coming from someone like Podesta, who headed the Obama transition team in 2008 and who has the financial backing of our friend George Soros.

And this is just a portion of the report from Podesta that details the steps that the White House should take to insure the success of the march toward Communism.

The suggestions made by Podesta are strikingly hypocritical. He was one of those who cried foul the loudest when Bush issued Executive Orders that were designed to safeguard the security of our Nation at a time of war. Those Executive Orders were a slippery slope toward totalitarianism.

Obama’s use of EO to impose his destructive agenda would be justified by the need to take the country forward. How convenient is that!

But what Podesta himself, just like Obama, does not realize is that the voices heard in Washington on November 2^nd were not of ignorant and unwashed peasants of some middle-of-the-country hillbilly community. But they were the voices of the majority of the American people.

What Podesta is suggesting, if actually followed by the President, will have the result of angering the people even more, which could translate into the Democrats and Obama himself being shown the exit door in 2012.

In conclusion, for all those Republicans who still contend that compromising with Liberals is the way to achieve or maintain political power, I give you a warning.

The stupid American people are paying a lot more attention to what is affecting our economy and security. We the People do not want compromises. We want the Fascist hordes of Obama and Podesta and Soros to just be defeated and go away in the sunset…for good. So if you don’t want to join them, resolve to do the job you were elected to do.

Just my thoughts!