Holy Crony Capitalism, Batman!

An addendum to my debate commentary: Did Planned Parenthood play product placement fees for last night? The President mentioned them five times. Five! Have you ever heard another President mention any other company by name that many times?

The other day someone did this incredible smackdown --Brit Hume said he'd never seen its journalistic equal-- of the loose claim that Romney would bring lobbyists to the White House "again." The rebuttal listed by name all the registered lobbyists working in the Obama administration -- but left out the revolving door of employees between Planned Parenthood and this White House. (And PP President Cecile Richards used to work for Gramma Pelosi.)

See also: Wholly Owned Subsidiary 
And Wholly Owned Subsidiary 3

Wholly Owned Subsidary, Part 3

This is linked in the post below, too, but I'd like it noted for the record what a federal judge had to say about AG Eric Holder's prosecution of pro-life protestors in a case he lost.

“The Court is at a loss as to why the Government chose to prosecute this particular case in the first place,” wrote Judge Ryskamp. “The Court can only wonder whether this action was the product of a concerted effort between the Government and PWC, which began well before the date of the incident at issue, to quell Ms. Pine’s activities rather than to vindicate the rights of those allegedly aggrieved by Ms. Pine’s conduct.”

The judge is openly speculating about collusion between the Dept. of Justice and an abortion clinic.

I'm telling you: The U.S. is a Wholly Owned Planned Parenthood Subsidiary. And there is a Revolving Door between PP staff and the White House staff.

Update: The Gov. of Mississippi has noticed.

Federal Power Grabs

When I posted "In Stunning Act of Delayed Retribution, First Black President Enslaves All Americans" back in 2009, I was kidding. A little joke about the massive debt thrown on our backs by the first stimulus bill.

However, after a friend scoffed at me for saying that an America that would stand for compelling a pro-life conscience to pay for an abortion-inducing drug would stand for absolutely anything the government cared to try, I decided to begin to enumerate all the strikes against the Declaration and Constitution we now passively tolerate.

Here's a question. In what way is crony capitalism carried to the extremes listed below distinct from outright fascism?

My scoffing friend would look at this list and say, "Well, Obama didn't start it. He didn't appoint the first czar, etc...."  That's fine. Doesn't change the fact this must be opposed.

Like the Wholly Owned Subsidiary post, I intend to re-run this periodically with updates. 

Bypassing the Constitution

• Illegal use of recess appointments in four instances. (I've been a supporter of crafty use of recess appointments in the face of a recalcitrant Senate. That's not my objection. This is abuse of the rule, as liberal Jonathan Turley explains at the link.)
• 33 "czars" not confirmed by the Senate. (Some "czars" are more offensive than others. Sometimes the term "czar" is a nickname for a duly appointed position, but the "special assistants to the President" given authority over, eg, corporate benefits packages and climate change rules represent executive power grabs.)
• Administration argues that government decides who is a Church minister and what essential teaching is. (Defeated unanimously at SCOTUS, but they seriously argued this! And indeed the HHS mandate discussed below is simply a regulatory declaration of same: gov't decides who is religious, what constitutes a religious act, and what is essential Church teaching.) 
• Upon re-election, "space" to screw Poland.

Obamacare: Killing the Weak, Compelling All Citizens To Be Complicit In Abortion

• Compels citizens to buy a product on government say-so.
• Caps & rations care to medicare patients through unelected IPAB Boards, which the President can stack through recess appointment according to CRS. (More.)
  
• Compels 90% of insurance plans to pay for abortion. , and all Americans in those plans to pay for abortion from their pockets as a direct collaboration in abortion w/ no opt-out.
• Compels the remaining (religious) insurance plans to pay for abortion-inducing drugs, elective sterilizations and contraceptive pills and devices. (In spite of Hosanna v. Tabor, this mandate likewise asserts government control over what constitutes religious activity. "Religious" group defined as one which exists to teach doctrine and employs, serves only co-religionists.)
• Colleges & universities also covered by abortion drug mandate.
• You don't need no stinkin' mammogram!
• You don't need no stinkin' pap smear!
• But making you pay for your own contraception constitutes a war on women

All Your Base Are Belong To Us

• Federal power grab in education: standardized curriculum, national standards though they are forbidden by law.
• It's illegal to help a friend with his taxes.

Now, in an outrageous and unlawful power grab, the Internal Revenue Service seeks to control who you may hire to prepare your tax returns and even to nudge you toward a large tax preparation firm by eliminating many of their independent competitors. It has enacted a sweeping new licensing scheme that affects an estimated 350,000 tax professionals nationwide.

• Every publicly accessible pool, including hotels and spas, must install a wheelchair lift or ramp, even though their aren't enough lifts in the country to install in every pool. 
• EPA sues the Sacketts for building on a wetland their own map shows is not a wetland.
• Federal lunch inspectors. 
• FDA shuts down Amish farm. (Note: FDA! Not a state or local agency. Armed raid of a private citizen's farm.) (Related: Michigan state gov't stages armed raids on pig farms)
• Labor Dept. forbids farmers to assign farm chores to their children (yet has NO problem assigning them trillions of $$ of their parents' debt to work off).
• Armed raids on Gibson guitar company, for no reason other than the company owners donate to the GOP. 
• Marine biologist faces 20 years in prison for whistling at a whale to be able to watch it longer. 
• DoJ prosecutes pro-life protestors [and loses!].
• Government sues Arizona over immigration law.
• Government sues states that pass voter id laws.
• Government refuses to prosecute voter intimidation case against New Black Panthers. 

Update:
EPA "crucifying" oil and gas companies.

US Is A Wholly Owned Planned Parenthood Subsidiary

Publishing this now, but I intend to re-run it periodically with additions to the list. I have come to believe the entirety of what the Democratic party does can be explained by being in the pocket of Planned Parenthood, by which I mean to say the party is not merely pro-abortion, but in a corrupt crony capitalist relationship with a specific organization. This is more than a policy dispute.

• Overturning "Mexico City policy, re-funding international Planned Parenthood and pushing abortion overseas.
• Overturns conscience protections for health care workers.
• Tax-payer funded embryonic stem cell research.
• Successively nominates three pro-abortion ambassadors to the Vatican.
• $50 million for UNFPA, which funds China's forced abortion/one-child policy.
• Eliminates abstinence education.  Funds sex-ed  (which always leads to more abortion, which is why PP likes it).
• Homeland Security terrorism document lists pro-lifers as terrorism suspects.
• In violation of federal law, spends $23 million of taxpayer money on bullying Kenya to legalize abortion in its new constiution.
• Cecile Richards invited to White House Health Care Summit. But pro-life groups excluded.
• Sec. of State Clinton accepts Planned Parenthood's Margaret Sanger award.
• Susan G. Komen, a privately run foundation, quietly decides not to renew Planned Parenthood grants because it decides granting to entities that directly do mammograms, rather than simply making referrals, would be better use of its money. The amount of actual money in question is not that significant. Within 24 hours, 22 Democratic Senators bully Komen to reverse its position (such a letter implies "or else").
• Justice Dept. protects Planned Parenthood clinics from sex-trafficking prosecution in spite of video evidence.
• White House consults head of Planned Parenthood, but not Catholic Bishops, about an HHS mandate that affects all Catholic institutions. President takes her advice over that of his Vice-President, Chief of Staff and Sec. of Defense.
• In budget negotiations, the President would not even discuss defunding Planned Parenthood, in spite of its being proven to be a couch bum.
• White House restores Planned Parenthood funding in New Hampshire after citizens vote to de-fund.
• Administration blocks Indiana's defunding of Planned Parenthood.
• Administration defunds a Medicaid Women's healthcare program in Texas because Texas defunded Planned Parenthood.
• White House aide leaves to lobby for Planned Parenthood.
• Sec. Sebelius obstructing criminal charges against Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics nationwide.
• Sebelius to Congress: not having babies born is critical health benefit and cost cutting move.
• Justice Dept. aggressively pursuing Freedom of Access to Clinic prosecutions against pro-life protestors. 

Update: Obama cuts a video for Planned Parenthood. (Watch it!)

The Revolving Door Between Planned Parenthood & the White House

Last Fall President Obama lost one his Special Assistants for Legislative Affairs. Dana Singiser left to lobby for Planned Parenthood. Friday the White House hired Planned Parenthood's media director as the Deputy Asst Sec. for Public Affairs at HHS.

Isn't that chummy? As established previously, the U.S. is now a wholly owned Planned Parenthood subsidiary, in an unhealthy crony capitalist relationship.