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Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on October 21, 2009

Socialism demands silence from dissenters...

It’s getting hotter in Washington, DC about the White House’s attacks and attempts to silence dissension… “most transparent administration ever” falls short, more like Richard Nixon’s administration or a banana republic dictatorship. No hope, no change, but a REALLLLLLY long enemies list.

From Politico: Lamar Alexander to Barack Obama: No ‘enemies list’:

Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) accused the White House on Wednesday of “street-brawling” with opponents, and said the West Wing’s strategy of freezing out opponents amounts to a latter-day “enemies list,” a reference to an infamous practice of President Richard Nixon.

“An ‘enemies list’ only denigrates the Presidency and the Republic itself,” Alexander said on the Senate floor. “These are unusually difficult times, with plenty of forces encouraging us to disagree. Let’s not start calling people out and compiling an enemies list. Let’s push the street-brawling out of the White House and work together on the truly presidential issues: creating jobs, reducing health care costs, reducing the debt, creating clean energy.”

Alexander quoted from a POLITICO article headlined “White House plan: Neuter the Chamber.”

“According to Politico,” Alexander said, “the White House plans to ‘neuter the United States Chamber of Commerce,” an organization with members in almost every major community in America. The Chamber had supported the president’s stimulus package and some of his early appointments, but has problems with his health care and climate change proposals.”

Sen. Lamar Alexander to the White House: “Don’t Create an Enemies List” | October 21, 2009

From NewsBusters: Former Nixon Staffer Warns Obama Not To Create ‘Enemies List’:

A top Republican Senator who used to work for President Richard Nixon has warned the Obama administration to not create an “enemies list” like that of his former employer.

Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn) in his speech on the Senate floor Wednesday listed a number of recent events that uncomfortably remind him of how the Nixon White House treated everyone in America that didn’t agree with it:

If the President and his top aides treat people with different views as enemies instead of listening to what they have to say, they’re likely to end up with a narrow view and a feeling that the whole world is out to get them. And as those of us who served in the Nixon administration know, that can get you into a lot of trouble.

Additional reading:
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: Obama’s Fox News Diversion
RBO: White House Uses Your $$$ to Launch Fox News Offensive
Breitbart.tv: Hume Defends Fox: Asks How CNN, Others ‘Like Being Patted on the Head’ by White House
Ace of Spades HQ: WH Fox-Hating Flack Anita Dunn Discovered Telling HS Audience Her Favorite Philosophers are Mother Theresa… and Chairman Mao
The Weekly Standard, Losing: Helen Thomas, NYT, and The Nation Object to White House Fight With Fox News
David Limbaugh, Townhall.com: Barack’s Enemies List
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Stunning Admission: Glenn Beck Reveals That One of Anita Dunn’s Favorite Philosophers Is Murderous Mao Tse-Tung (video) and Anita Dunn… Glenn Beck Has Red “Hotline” Phone Installed for You to Call Him (video) and Who Is White House Crybaby Anita Dunn? Plus, Bill O’Reilly’s Take on WH Attacks on FOX (video) and The Dying Mainstream Media = “Fringe Media” (political cartoons, video) and Terrified Left-wing ‘Kamikaze Media’: Why ACORN Child Prostitution Scandal, Radical Czar Van Jones Scandal Have Been Ignored (video)
Scared Monkeys: Helen Thomas Tells Obama White House to Back Off FOX News … Pigs Just Flew and Obama White House Whines & Tells CNN They Are Punishing FOX NEWS for Dissent
The Other McCain: WH Communication Director Anita Dunn admires history’s greatest mass murderer
Chicago Sun-Times: Excuses wearing thin for Obama, media pals
Gateway Pundit: Mao-Praising White House Official Dunn to Glenn Beck: “I Praised Mother Teresa, Too”
VotingFemale Speaks!: Anita Dunn: I turn to Communist Killer Mao Tse-Tung as my Political Philosopher (video); Update: Media Matters Defends Maoist Anita Dunn
Michelle Malkin: MoveOn demands that Democrats stay off Fox News and Anita Dunn: A corruptocrat flack and a Mao cheerleader

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