I wish I could believe that O’s law-breaking and desecration of the Constitution thus far were anything more than a mere warm-up. But with the health care initiative, it looks like he’s just getting started.

Incidentally, I share James H’s and Dr. T’s concerns that O and his disciples will try to push for a third term (if he doesn’t completely destroy the country first). But let’s not be silly: he has already successfully violated many other provisions of the Constitutions. There’s little reason to believe the 22nd Amendment couldn’t be illegally circumvented somehow as well.

For a “Constitutional Law professor”, he certainly doesn’t seem to know much about the quaint old piece of paper.

“…Obama stresses the fact that Mel Zelaya was “democratically-elected.”

Of course he does. If Obama cannot get the presidential term limits amendment repealed by 2016, he’ll pull a Zelaya so he can continue on into a third, a fourth, and a fifth (have to beat FDR’s record) term. After all, the people want and need to retain their ObaMessiah.

I would like to make a prediction that if he is elected for a 2nd term, that there will be a great deal of rhetoric about term limits and how much more he would like to accomplish. There will be a whole bunch of ends-justifies-the-means types of arguments with big speeches about “we can’t continue on the path of cutting off progress after 8 years are up” or some such BS.

Once the parasites — welfare recipients, pensioners, bureaucrats, politicians, subsidy-dependent farmers, assorted grant recipients and so on — gain an electoral majority … it is effectively over.

Nobel Laureate Douglass North in his groundbreaking 2005 book, ‘Understanding the Process of Economic Change,’ paid particular attention to the problem of institutional inertia, especially those institutions developped to deal with human uncertainties, rather than natural ones.

He commented that political structures lead either to economic efficiency (depressingly rare) or to stagnation (far too common). Parasites vote for the imposition of structural stagnation because it makes their lives somewhat easier.

Those who seek true liberty and freedom in society account for probably no more than one-third of the total. Democracy, therefore, can lead easily to entrenched interests resentful of freedom, especially when freedom leads to differentials of outcome.

Capitalism is not a philosophy: it is the natural result of freedom. Obama has a demonstrable track record in opposition to capitalism. To defeat it, he must therefore and perforce first oppose and defeat freedom. Democracy is a convenient shibboleth with which to do that, both abroad and at home.

removing him from office was clearly the right idea.

the one problem is this: there is, oddly, no provision anywhere in the honduran constitution for impeaching a president. i’m not even sure if there is a removal for incapacity clause or, if there is, under what conditions it may be invoked.

the mistake was grabbing him out of bed and whisking him out of the country. it creates too much opportunity for him to grandstand and cry “coup”. what they should have done was arrest him and take him, very publicly, before a grand jury or the supreme court for violating his oath of office and then called a snap election. air his crimes and let civil, not military, authorities handle it while showing immediate commitment to democracy.

a accelerated election looks like the best way out of this mess. get rid of zelaya, get a new popularly elected leader ASAP.