1. The threat of prosecution made to attorneys in the Bush White House for writing a legal opinion. No matter where you stand on the torture debate, you have to admit, no incoming administration has ever gone down this path, let alone one voted into office promising unity and bipartisanship. It boils down to "We won, we don't like your policies, so get ready to spend your life's savings on lawyers because we're coming for you."
2. Threats made to Chrysler's creditors. Here's an exerpt from an article on www.businessinsider.com:
The sources, who represent creditors to Chrysler, say they were taken aback by the hardball tactics that the Obama administration employed to cajole them into acquiescing to plans to restructure Chrysler. One person described the administration as the most shocking "end justifies the means" group they have ever encountered. Another characterized Obama was "the most dangerous smooth talker on the planet- and I knew Kissinger." Both were voters for Obama in the last election.
One participant in negotiations said that the administration's tactic was to present what one described as a "madman theory of the presidency" in which the President is someone to be feared because he was willing to do anything to get his way. The person said this threat was taken very seriously by his firm.
The White House has denied the allegation that it threatened Perella Weinberg.
3. The promise from the White House to California, a state facing a $42 billion dollar deficit, that it would be denied $6.8 billion in stimulus money unless it recinded $74 million in cuts it made in a health care program about which the Los Angeles Times reports that "loose oversight and bureaucratic inertia have allowed fraud to fester." The assumed reason for this pressure? Union jobs.
These are becoming dangerous times, and for all the vitriol spent on G.W. Bush and his andministration, I'm surprised there is not a greater outcry on the part of the media regarding this. I wonder why no one at CNN or MSNBC seems to care? Huh.
If you haven't sen this yet, please give this a watch, The American Trinity from Prager University.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn4IH3yng4k
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