Ben Carson: Time to kick people out of office

“We cannot be free if we are not brave.”

That’s how Ben Carson summed up the predicament every American faces in the era of President Obama, while speaking at CPAC, the annual gathering of conservatives just outside Washington, D.C.

The world-famous neurosurgeon said if Americans use the example of the greatest generation they can save the nation and, “We can get our country back, but we have to be brave.”

Carson invited the audience to remember the incredible dangers and hardships Americans faced during World War II. With all of civilization on the verge of collapse and chaos everywhere, only one thing saved the day: The one country with enough strength and determination to fight, and win, wars on two fronts on the opposite sides of the world.

He poignantly recalled how Americans had made tremendous sacrifices so that people all across the world could have freedom and justice.

“You want to tell me were not an exceptional country? You go jump in a lake!” exclaimed Carson and the crowd responded with a huge ovation, standing and cheering.

Carson used another stark analogy to describe the economic peril America faces.

“The ship is about to sail off Niagara Falls and were all about to be killed,” he gravely warned about the nation’s more than $17-trillion in debt.

The doctor implored voters, that even if their preferred candidate does not win in the primary elections, they still must vote for Republicans in the fall.

He said whether the candidates are tea partiers, RINOs (Republicans In Name Only), or “whatever you want to call them – we need them!”

However, he was careful to add, voters must “kick out of office those who keep voting to raise the debt ceiling,” which included some key GOP leaders.

Carson jumped into the national spotlight after giving the keynote address at the National Prayer Breakfast in February 2013. With President Obama sitting just a few feet away, Carson delivered a 27-minute stinging rebuke of the administration’s policies and “moral decay and fiscal irresponsibility.”

After that speech, the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial that practically begged Carson to run for president. That wish may come true.

The world-renowned neurosurgeon was greeted with a hero’s welcome at CPAC as the crowd delivered a boisterous standing ovation, with many holding Carson for president in 2016 signs.

Carson did not mention his humble origins, born and raised in a single parent home to a mother who was one of 24 children, and who married at age 13. He rose from poverty in inner-city Detroit to become director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins.

He said he was able to achieve his dream of becoming a physician because he had a mother who tolerated no excuses and “because I believed in God.”

Strongly hinting his destiny may next lead him in the direction of the White House, Carson said after he retired last year he had expected to play golf but, “I think the good Lord had a different plan.”

The doctor said he is not sure what the culmination of that plan will be, but he and his wife love traveling the country and meeting Americans.

He said people are relieved to find someone speaking common sense because the political correctness police have made them think they were alone, and beaten so many Americans into submission.

Carson described the technique pushed by radial leftist Saul Alinksy that is used by today’s liberal, to “make the majority think their way of thinking is outdated” and to get the media to buy into that.

The cure?

“It’s time for people to stand up for what they believe.”

Carson said the reason leftists “repeat these lies over and over again is because they cannot talk about the actual facts. We have to understand, this is what these people do.”

He said they are following Alinsky’s guidance to not have an intelligent conversation with their opponents because that would humanize them, and what the left seeks to do is demonize its enemies.

The physician also insisted “the most important thing people have is there is their health care” and that’s why the most important thing is “we must fight to make sure it stays in their hands and not the hands of the government.”

Carson called Obamacare “the most massive shift in power that has ever occurred. We need to redo it and put the power back in the hands of the American people!”

He noted how, in the medical world, people debate ideas. But the political world is populated by ideologues, and the only people who can stop them are the American people.

“I hate political correctness. I will continue to defy the PC police who have tried, in many cases, to shut me up.

“I still believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.

“Of course gay people should have the same rights as everyone else,” he said to loud applause.

“But they don’t [get] extra rights,” he said to even louder applause.

[H/T WND.com: Garth Kant]

Where Is the Red Line of Impeachment?

In the business world, a diligent board of directors would have long ago fired CEO Obama.

Sometimes it takes only a year of less than expected earnings to result in the termination of a corporate CEO.  A couple of underperforming years and a few reasons more, and a CEO would have his bags packed and stowed underneath his buck-stopping desk.  A long list of problems — especially one suggesting even a hint of fraud — that fails to generate a satisfactory board response would stir shareholders and lenders to demand the resignation of not only the CEO and other key employees, but also its directors.  For without remediation, the company’s stock prices would tumble as shareholders divest and banks pull the plug.

Our government’s CEO is Barack Obama, its board of directors is Congress, its workforce consists of a growing multitude of Big Government bureaucracies, and its bank is the unaccountable monopoly of the Federal Reserve.  Anymore, hardly anyone with any power in that vast organization seems to represent the interests of We the People (the shareholders).

The Democrat-media complex can ridicule political opposition as “fringe” or “extremist,” but the ominous ticking of the 17-trillion-dollar debt clock is becoming harder to ignore.  The growing debt transforms our shares from an asset into a liability that gravely impacts our national security. Our future generations will no longer expect the reward of dividends in their pursuit of happiness.  Instead, and not by choice, they inherit more than their fair share of risk — the labor of digging out of this financial mess, the difficult task of restoring real freedom and liberty, and the rebuilding of our national status and defenses abroad.

Not only has the financial value of our shares turned upside-down, but the attached voting value has become diluted.  A significant proportion of voters contribute no financial stake with payment of taxes, and furthermore, they (and other “privileged” citizens) vote for politicians who promise generous dividend redistribution schemes.  The specter of fraudulent elections, questionable campaign methods, foreign donations, IRS involvement in limiting political speech, and potential citizenship for millions of illegals who “overwhelmingly support big government” — all serve to further erode the possibility of a voting majority that values a return to the Constitution.

Back in early December, liberal law professor Jonathan Turley admitted before Congress that Obama has “become the very danger the Constitution was designed to avoid.”  Several more ObamaCare delays and hundreds of new regulations later, and columnist Charles Krauthammer describes it all as “the stuff that you do in a banana republic.”

We fret, we complain, we comment at conservative blogs, we watch Fox News — but nothing seems to change.  Nothing — except more strokes of Obama’s pen and the “coincidences” of the frequency of IRS (and other federal agencies) harassment of people — such as Ben Carson and Catherine Engelbrecht — who dare to speak out.

We’re becoming numb to the overwhelming “magnitude of the misdeeds.”  And so we twiddle our thumbs while Big Government meddles and Obama bullies and his congressional orchestra fiddles — and our nation burns.  Maybe it’s already “over and we just don’t know it.”

Law professor Elizabeth Price Foley explained that “the ability of courts and Congress to stop [Obama] is shockingly limited.”  She concluded that even if “the House passed articles of impeachment, would two-thirds of Harry Reid’s Senate convict the first African-American president? The question seems to answer itself.”

Such a conclusion raises more questions in our analogy with the business world: why have a board if it has no power?  Why rely on remedies in courts in which no one has standing?  What if the media — or a CEO’s race — shielded him from the consequences of his performance?

Conservative columnists, such as Powerline‘s John Hinderaker, are beginning to acknowledge the growing list of grounds for impeachment.

The I-word was also recently uttered by Krauthammer, when he admitted that if a Republican had done what Obama has, “people would be up in arms and would be impeaching.”

But prominent Republicans such as Paul Ryan, even after blasting Obama’s lawlessness, laugh at the suggestion.  Others warn that impeachment talk puts the midterm elections at risk.  The political fallout of the Clinton affair is often cited as another reason to avoid the I-word — as if lying under oath about an affair with an intern is somehow comparable to the destruction of our Constitution.  Even after his admission that Obama’s offenses are legitimate grounds for impeachment, Hinderaker concluded that “[f]or political reasons, impeachment is not an option, and I don’t mean to suggest that Republicans should start talking about it.”

Such attitudes led Andrew McCarthy to conclude that although impeachment is the proper remedy for the long and provable list of Obama’s offenses, “it’s not guilt that matters; it’s political will.”

Indeed — there seems to be plenty of guilt to go around, but scant “political will.”

After Sen. Ted Cruz’s filibuster and the government shutdown, I suggested another analogy based on the story of Tilly Smith.  Tilly was the brave little girl who recognized the signs of the impending tsunami on a Thailand beach in 2004, warning people in time to save a hundred lives.  She didn’t stop to evaluate the “will” of her fellow beachgoers as they lounged in their chairs.

Cruz chose to issue a loud warning rather than participate in a strategy that relies on an after-the-fact “I told you so” message.  Cruz, like many of us, recognizes that this is not merely a political game — the tsunami of President Obama’s lawlessness harms citizens and may ultimately destroy, beyond repair, the beach that represents our form of government.

A few days ago, and before the latest ObamaCare delay, columnist David Limbaugh asked, “At what point do Americans scream ‘enough’?”  Perhaps the question should be: At what point will Americans decide that it does make a difference, and scream the warning “impeach”?

It’s wishful thinking to imagine that this administration is setting the precedent of a “new superpower” that a future Republican president can use to restore what Obama has transformed.  The Democrat-media complex — even though “getting sick” of defending, for example, ObamaCare — still sets the “red line” in political discourse — no matter where that line exists under the rule of law.

And until a majority of Americans realize that the office of the presidency is much more special than any person who occupies it, the red line of impeachment for this president will never be crossed.

[H/T American Thinker]

Dr. Ben Carson: We Are More Divided as Nation, ‘What would one expect, what do community organizers do?’

Judge Jeanine Pirro – Dr Ben Carson Weighs In On How Divided The Country Has Become.

Ben Carson: ‘above course (we are more divided since Obama has been president) more divided (since Obama took office), but what would one expect? You know what do community organizers do? It’s you against you, it’s us against them? Of course that’s what they do.’

‘Dr. Carson they say they’re drafting you for president, what’s say you? I say that I’m very hopeful that someone will come along who really grasp the importance of the things that are going on in this country and gets a lot attraction in which case I would get strongly behind him.’

[H/T YouTube]

Dr. Ben Carson: ObamaCare Was Imposed on Americans Just like the Soviet Union

Dr. Ben Carson: ‘ if we set by quietly and don’t challenge the expansionist their philosophy this government then pretty soon we will have something very similar to the soviet union where the government is an every aspect of our lives controlling everything that we do.’

Dr. Ben Carson vs Donna Edwards: Barack Obama’s Remarks and Black Crime in America

July 21, 2013 – Is Zimmerman verdict a diversion to the real issue facing the African American Community today? Asks Fox News Sunday Host, Chris Wallace as he is joined by Dr. Benjamin Carson, and Congresswoman Donna Edwards (D-MD), member of the Congressional Black Caucus, to share their opinions on the President’s recent comments about racism in this country.