Is Obama Flipping Out?
by James Glaser
October 22, 2009

Barack Obama came to Washington with a decisive victory under his belt. There were no hanging chads, no thoughts of a recount, and he had a massive lead in the popular vote. The man won the election, maybe not in a landslide, but quite handily.

So, we have to ask ourselves what is he doing now? I have referred to Barack Obama as being George Bush's third term, because he has kept Bush's wars going, he has used the Patriot Act to further his hold on power, and he has maxed out America's credit cards, just like Bush did.

But now President Barack Obama is going too far. Barack Obama is now emulating another Republican President, Richard Nixon. For some strange reason, Obama is getting paranoid, and is starting an "Enemies List", just like Nixon did. He is after Fox News, the Chamber of Commerce, Wall Street, the Humana Insurance Company, those who held GM and Chrysler bonds, and the health care insurance industry.

No, I don't know why a popular president would do something like that, but there is no doubt the man has a "get even" mentality. Senator Lamar Alexander worked in the Nixon White House, and yesterday he warned President Obama not to go down that path.

Here is how Roll Call reported Alexander's warning.

A top Senate Republican took to the Senate floor Wednesday morning to suggest that the Obama White House is plotting a political strategy similar to that of ex-President Richard Nixon and may be on the verge of preparing its own "enemies list."

Republican Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), who served in the Nixon White House, offered what he said was a "friendly suggestion" to the White House not to repeat the errors he saw committed by the staff of the disgraced former president.

Alexander read off a list of examples he says support his contention, including: a reported effort by the White House to marginalize the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a supposed effort by the Health and Human Services Department to put a "gag order" on the insurer Humana, the White House move to take on Fox News, Obama's repeated criticisms of banks and investment houses, his alleged "taking names" of "bondholders who resisted the GM and Chrysler bailouts," and the president's move to make insurers the bogeyman of the health care debate.

After Alexander's remarks, Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) rose to speak on a different topic, but he first commented that it appeared Alexander was accusing the administration of "Nixifying" the White House—adding that he hoped the term would enter into "the lexicon." Alexander replied that he was "seeing some signs" in the Obama White House that he had seen "at the early stages of Nixon."

Richard Nixon almost destroyed this country. We don't need another paranoid President thinking that the world is out to get him. That kind of thinking destroyed Nixon's presidency, and it will destroy Obama's, too.

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