I did get a chance, on my voyage yesterday, to listen to this part of Rush’s show (emphasis mine):

RUSH: I’m gonna take a stab at answering my question. Obama is literally pushing people to snap, attacking the very sanity of the country. To what end? Aside from wanting everybody’s name on a list of some kind, why is Obama doing all of this? I mean, all of this is so in our face. Everything that people hold dear is under assault, deliberately making people upset. This is not what presidents do. Deliberately making people upset.

Maybe this is about revenge. You know, Obama used that word when he was on the campaign trail prior to the election. He told his supporters in Ohio to go vote and get their revenge. Revenge against who? Well, obviously, the people that disagree with Obama. But who are those people? He clearly knows who they are, and I think the root of this, I think the answer to my question can be found in the comment that Obama made when he thought he was off the record at a fundraiser in San Francisco, when he talked about the bitter clingers. These are people that the liberals all know….

None of this should come as a surprise (audio here):

Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.

It’s his model. Push. Complain about you. Push. Complain about you. Push. Complain about you.

He who values the right to privacy as a basis for aborting fetuses does not value your privacy, your right to be left alone.

“The right to be left alone—the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by a free people.”— Louis Brandeis, dissenting, OLMSTEAD v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438 (1928).

http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/01/bar...ec%C2%B7tion%29

One of his goals is establishing his legacy. He does this in two ways. He advances Statism to such an extent that his policies become so entrenched in our functioning that we'll never be rid of them. The second is in either becoming the Statists' model of how to govern or to conversely become the embodiment of tyranny that rational people oppose.

In the same way that older Americans who were not Democrats and could see the evil that FDR and Lyndon Johnson had wrought during their presidencies, Conservatives will forever mutter Obama's name, curse and spit into the dirt with disgust.