Henry Holzer: Look for a brazen Supreme Court-packing scheme like Roosevelt's in the 1930s

"...Obama may be tempted to channel Roosevelt. As I said in Part I of this essay, to achieve his comprehensive undemocratic plans for the United States Obama’s appointment of Sonia Sotomayor will not be enough.

For Obama to turn this country into the socialist/fascist paradise he desires, it is essential that he seize control of the Supreme Court. In Part I of this essay I wrote that “Barak H. Obama must emulate the cynical, utterly un-American but not unconstitutional tactic of the predecessor with whom he is most often compared: Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Barack H. Obama must ‘pack’ the Supreme Court of the United States.”

While Roosevelt failed, Obama may not — because there are ominous parallels. Just switch the names in the next three paragraphs.

When Roosevelt took office, Wall Street had crashed, unemployment was at serious levels, Hoover’s response had been misguided and inadequate, some people were starving, public confidence was at an all-time low.

When Roosevelt took office, he was surrounded by a charismatic aura, he carried the banner of a New Deal for the American people, he was perceived as energetic and having all the answers, he enjoyed enormous public support, he had substantial Congressional majorities, he touted more government as the cure for the country’s economic ills, he was unafraid to spend incalculable sums of treasure to buy our way out of depression. FDR was seen as the savior—in stark contrast to his predecessor, Herbert Hoover, who was perceived as bumbling and incompetent.

Once Roosevelt had the government firmly in his hands, he surrounded himself with a cabal of likeminded unprincipled zealots, dozens of new laws were passed altering forever America’s financial and economic system, and federal appropriation of private property took a quantum leap.

And when a bare majority of the Supreme Court of the United States tried to stop him—successfully for a while, but ultimately unsuccessfully—Roosevelt and his henchmen took on the Court itself.

Yes, the media and chattering classes have been correct: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Barack H. Obama do have a lot in common. And if the latter takes on the Court, as the former did, the fight we must wage will have to be brutal."

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Obama ousts bust of FDR's wartime soulmate

"A bust of the former prime minister once voted the greatest Briton in history, which was loaned to George W Bush from the Government's art collection after the September 11 attacks, has now been formally handed back.

The bronze by Sir Jacob Epstein, worth hundreds of thousands of pounds if it were ever sold on the open market, enjoyed pride of place in the Oval Office during President Bush's tenure.

But when British officials offered to let Mr Obama to hang onto the bust for a further four years, the White House said: "Thanks, but no thanks."

Diplomats were at first reluctant to discuss the whereabouts of the Churchill bronze, after its ejection from the seat of American power. But the British Embassy in Washington has now confirmed that it sits in the palatial residence of ambassador Sir Nigel Sheinwald, just down the road from Vice President Joe Biden's official residence. It is not clear whether the ambassador plans to keep it in Washington or send it back to London.

American politicians have made quoting Churchill, whose mother was American, something of an art form, but not Mr Obama, who prefers to cite the words and works of his hero Abraham Lincoln. Indeed a bust of Mr Lincoln now sits in the Oval Office where Epstein's Churchill once ruled the roost.

Churchill has less happy connotations for Mr Obama than those American politicians who celebrate his wartime leadership. It was during Churchill's second premiership that Britain suppressed Kenya's Mau Mau rebellion. Among Kenyans allegedly tortured by the colonial regime included one Hussein Onyango Obama, the President's grandfather."

My take: Odds are that Obama is not even aware that Churchill was very close to President Franklin Roosevelt and lived in the White House for months on end while England was under siege by the Luftwaffe. What a doofus.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/4623148/Barack-Obama-sends-bust-of-Winston-Churchill-on-its-way-back-to-Britain.html