Is Obama the New Nixon?

The White House is threatening legitimate and legal businesses with ACORN-like tactics.

Oh, wait, ACORN was trained by Obama so what I should have said was, using the thug-like tactics he trained ACORN to perform, the White House under Obama is threatening legitimate and legal businesses with tactics such as "pitchforks" (metaphorically, of course) and public humiliation.

For The Chosen One to threaten medieval stockades really says something about liberal post-partisan enlightenment.

Hat Tip: Just One Minute

Don't believe me? Here is a New York Post Op-Ed by Irwin M. Seltzer titled "Contract Killers" that lays it all out pretty clearly exactly how Obama's actions destroy rule-of-law....

Obama is pressuring the some 20 "speculators" who are holding out to accept the crumbs that he's offering. But there is more here at stake than the money immediately involved. As George Schultze, managing member of Schultze Asset Management, a hedge fund, told The Wall Street Journal, "This is about contract and bankruptcy law, and upholding agreements -- which is important in the grand scheme of things."

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More broadly, if lenders know that any deals they strike can be overturned by a president who, like Langella/Nixon, can do things that are otherwise illegal because he decides "they are in the interest of the nation," they'll raise the price they charge for their money -- and not only when lending to the government.