We Need a Great U-Turn!

February 26, 2010 (LPAC)—As Lyndon LaRouche emphasized on Wednesday, there is currently a concatenation of events which must merge to force the impeachment or resignation under threat of impeachment of President Barack Obama within a matter of the next two or three weeks if civilization is to have any chance of surviving. LaRouche's own call for Obama's impeachment is the crucial initiative necessary to bring the growing revolt against Obama's policies to the necessary deliberate conclusion in time.

As LaRouche has said, we need a great U-turn. As long as Obama is still President, nothing will be capable of being done to save this country or civilization.

Yesterday's so-called Health Summit was a case in point. A new CNN poll shows that at most 25 percent of the US population supports the Obama Senate bill. And yet Obama remains completely committed to ramming this fascist bill through using the so-called reconciliation process in the Senate, despite the fact that to do so violates the fundamental Constitutional principle of the mass strike underway in the U.S. today—the principle that all legislation is only legitimate if it receives the consent of the governed.

Nerobama's tyrannical narcissism was completely on display at the televised summit. Despite objections to Obama's T-4 IMAC policy from Rep. Dave Camp (R-Michigan), Obama ended the summit by calling upon the Republicans to embrace the idea of MedPac, "which is basically a panel of doctors and health care experts who would recommend ways to make the delivery system so that we can squeeze out that one-third in Medicare and Medicaid that's wasted." He then threatened to ram through the Senate bill "in a month's time or a few weeks' time or six weeks' time," through reconciliation, if his opponents did not capitulate.

Although before the summit Obama told reporters that he was there to listen, he spoke for 119 minutes, the Democrats for 114 minutes and the Republicans for 110. When asked during the summit why he was not allowing the Republicans to speak, he narcistically said he didn't count his time because he is President.

The Republicans preemptively challenged Obama and the Democratic Congressional leadership at the beginning of the summit to renounce the use of the reconciliation procedure as unconstitutional. Reid defended the option and Obama although attempting to sidestep the issue at first was forced by John McCain to also endorse the procedure. This despite the fact that Lamar Alexander quoted the former Senator Obama as having argued against it as contrary to the intention of the founding fathers. At the time Obama had said: "What we worry about is essentially having two chambers, the House and the Senate, who are simply majoritarian. Absolute power on either side. Thats just not what the founders intended."

In 2005, when the Bush administration attempted to do this exact same thing in order to ram through the confirmation of judicial appointments, Lyndon LaRouche wrote: "The immediate target of this attempted illegal coup d'etat is the institution of the U.S. Senate. The purpose is to overturn the U.S. Constitution, in favor of White House dictatorship, by breaking the Constitutional powers built into the Senate's power to impose checks and balances against an out-of-control Presidency or temporary errant majority of the House of Representatives. This provision to defend our Constitution was centered in the powers of advice and consent which the Constitution assigned specifically to the U.S. Senate." The same can be said of the Obama administration today.

A revolt against Obama's unconstitutional policies is now breaking out on several fronts simultaneously.

* On Obama's fascist deathcare bill, Rep. Stupak said on Monday that 15-20 House Democrats oppose the Senate bill supported by Obama. Rep. Eric Cantor released a memo on Wed. predicting that the Senate bill if passed through reconciliation would fall 14 votes short of passing in the House.

* At a hearing of the full House Science and Technology Committee on the Administration's NASA FY11 budget request there was near unanimous opposition to the Obama policy of shutting down manned space exploration from both sides of the aisle. This comes after many congressmen have accused the administration of breaking the law by shutting down the program without Congressional approval.

* At a meeting in Washington, D.C. of the U.S. Institute of Peace on Haiti: Six weeks later, after an intervention by a LYM member outlining Lyndon LaRouche's call to take action to evacuate Haitians from the earthquake zone and flood plane to higher ground, a proposal rejected by the Obama administration, even a panelist from the AEI afterwards said that he agreed 100% with the proposal.

* The Senate $15 billion jobs bill does not have the votes in the House, according to Rep. Oberstar chairman of the House Transporation and Infrastructure Committee, because the bill gives almost all the extra federal highway funds to four states and 22 states don't get a penny. This continues the pattern of Obama violating the General Welfare clause by providing funds to some states but not others.

* Obama did the same thing when he campaigned for Harry Reid in Nevada last Friday. $1.5 of TARP funds were rerouted to mortgage assistance using criteria which ensure that the funds only went to Nevada and four other states. Rep. Kucinich and Rep. LaTourette are circulating a letter to protest this obvious political payment to Nevada, on behalf of Reid, to the exclusion of those effected by the foreclosure crisis throughout the nation, including Ohio.

On every front in the US, Obama is drawing opposition for his British-controlled policies, which are designed to destroy the U.S. and prevent it from working with the Russians, Chinese, and Indians to defeat the same British empire whose policies are ultimately responsible for the genocide which will occur in Haiti unless urgent action is taken as proposed by Lyndon LaRouche.

The situation is on a very short political fuse. Many will get caught up in the predicates and balk at the necessary action. Our job is to kick against the pricks of pragmatism and provide the necessary leadership. Impeach Obama now!