Given how bad Obama’s decisions have been and the ever clearer disaster he’s leading us to, when can we start calling for him to resign?

I’m going with October 1st.

UPDATE: Roger Kimball asks – is he incompetent, or malevolent?

Via a “we’ll help ya die” “assisted suicide” law passed in Washington state this past November with the assistance of the Orwellian-named “Compassion & Choices”:

An assisted suicide group has announced it will compile a directory of physicians who will assist terminally ill patients seeking lethal medication prescriptions after a Washington state assisted suicide law takes effect on Thursday. The group expects a “cultural shift” in the state will encourage more doctors to assist in suicides.

The move follows the passage of Washington’s Initiative 1000, which won nearly 60 percent of the vote in the November 2008 election.

Under the law, two doctors must certify that the suicidal patient has a terminal condition and has six months or less to live. The patient must be a state resident and must make two oral requests 15 days apart and submit a written request witnessed by two people.

Physicians and pharmacists are not required to write or fill lethal prescriptions if they are opposed to doing so.

Some hospitals are opting out of participation, which prevents doctors from participating in assisted suicides on hospital property, the Associated Press reports.

The group Compassion & Choices, formerly known as the Hemlock Society, backed the ballot measure.

The group’s executive director Rob Miller told the Associated Press the group is now compiling a directory listing physicians who are not opting out of the law and pharmacies willing to fill lethal prescriptions for the suicidal terminally ill.

“Physicians don’t understand yet exactly how the law works,” Miller explained. “Whenever there’s lack of understanding, there tends to be some reluctance.”

Some reluctance, indeed – but the “compassionate” murderers hope to get the ball rolling soon and, after people are desensitized, just start whacking people all the time who have become elderly, ill or otherwise inconvenient. I recall with my late mother-in-law that the doctors told us six months before she died that she’d be dead in a few weeks…if the Hemlock people had been around, someone might have offed her, and we would have missed having her around for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. God calls people home when they he, in his completely superior wisdom, knows they should go – for any one of us tiny, frail beings to try and figure out when we or anyone else should go is the acme of arrogance.

Where do we get these people who think that death is the answer? Don’t want the kid you’ve brought into the world? Kill him. Grandpa getting on in years and becoming a bit of a hassle to care for? Kill him. Having a bad time? Kill yourself.

Right now I’m in the process of caring for my father in what is very likely his last few months on Earth – this involves doing some rather graphic things which, in the normal course of events, one would never want to do…but, he’s my father and I’m glad to have him around for a while longer and he expresses joy that he is still here, even though he needs help even with some of the very basic tasks of daily living. These Hemlock-murderers would have me try to talk Dad into killing himself…or they would try to talk him into it, directly…explaining how his quality of life just isn’t “good enough”. A bunch of anti-human horsesh** is all that is. We’re all terminally ill, and have been since the moment of conception. We’re all gonna die – and, you know what?, you might die tomorrow, while in the pink of health…so why not kill yourself right away?

Last night I took the old man out for a little while – he played a little blackjack (he won $35, while they cleaned me out), had himself a scotch and soda, smoked a couple cigarettes and generally enjoyed himself. I had to use a wheel chair to get him in and out of the place and had to help him dress before going, and undress before he went to bed. I wouldn’t give that up for all the money in the world – and my Dad enjoyed being out; it is now a precious moment in my memory which I will carry with me to my grave. A comfort and a reminder, and a promise that one day we’ll all be back together again.

Kill him, or take him out for a scotch – you tell me, which was the better thing to do.

Of all the monumentally stupid foreign policy mistakes Obama and Co have already made, this may prove the most boneheaded:

My fellow columnist Gordon G. Chang made a piquant point in this space last week in his preview of Hillary Clinton’s trip to East Asia–her first trip abroad as secretary of state. Chiding her for what he regarded as a scheduling misjudgment, he wrote that “she should have reserved time for a stop-over” in India. I agree with him 100%.

Ironically, even as Mrs. Clinton was packing her valise for Beijing, a senior spokesman for the Congress Party, which heads the ruling coalition in New Delhi, made an impassioned freelance appeal for George W. Bush to be awarded the Bharat Ratna (“Jewel of India”), the country’s highest civilian award. The Bharat Ratna is a big, big deal in India and has been awarded only 41 times since its inception in 1954–and only twice to non-Indians, one of whom was the sainted Nelson Mandela. The Congress Party quickly distanced itself from its spokesman’s appeal, no doubt regarding it as a particularly impolitic show of nostalgia for Bush so early in the Age of Obama.

But the truth is that, for all his unpopularity in the U.S. (and Europe, and Latin America, and the Middle East, and practically everywhere else outside Albania and Georgia), Bush is a much-appreciated figure in India–at least in high policy circles. As many have noted, both in Washington and New Delhi, the one indisputable foreign policy success of the eight Bush years was America’s invigorating new alliance with India…

And there goes Hillary to China and Obama finds time to talk to Hamas terrorists…but no one seems to be paying attention to India. The author goes on to generously suggest that Hillary’s failure to visit India isn’t a slight to India – but the plain fact of the matter is that the “special relationship” we’ve had with Britain since World War Two should now be transferred to India. In confronting Chinese ambitions, fighting Islamist terrorism and maintaining democratic solidarity, India and the United States require the assistance of each other. Everything which can be done to keep India on side should be done – and the Obama Administration doesn’t even seem to notice.

Perhaps because India is a democracy it is incapable of being so relentlessly corrupt that Democrats will fall all over themselves to get in on the swag – as regards China, its clear that Hillary has a serious conflict of interest. Or it might just be that India isn’t on the left’s radar – Euro- and Commie-centric, America’s left probably couldn’t spot India on a map.

I hope that someone in the Obama Administration swiftly wakes up on this issue – we need India, India needs us and the world is a safer place when India and the United States work together.

And I defy anyone to say they are surprised about this:

Even as news of the investigation into mega-lobby firm PMA Group grows, Democrats are fighting efforts to check the tarnished group’s influence.

The FBI raided PMA’s offices last November, as well as the stately exurban mcMansion belonging to the firm’s founder, Paul Magliocchetti. The probe appears to center on suspected phony campaign donations tied to the group. (A spokesman for the group declined to comment.)

In what could politely be described as a rearguard action, Democratic lawmakers have defeated an effort to start a congressional ethics investigation into the firm.

Why are Democrats being so brazen?

1. Because Democrats know that their own people are too servile and incurious to hold them to account.

2. Democrats believe they have a lock on power for another 60 years, and thus only have to please their own servile and incurious people.

Its already quite toxic in DC these days – everything is for sale and no one is calling the corrupt to account. Obama’s talk of honesty is long been proven the most laughable of lies; its got so bad in the Administration, with tax cheat after tax cheat being nominated, that its clear Obama never for a minute intended to conduct the nation’s business honestly. As for Pelosi’s long-forgotten pledge for the most ethical Congress, one might as well pine for the Moon as expect that to happen.

We’ll have to see if Democrats are right about their immunity – with their attempts to silence the critics, they might be able to make it happen. Personally, I don’t think they will be able to do so, but anything is possible with people this corrupt.

Just can’t figure out what to write, dear people.

Have at it.

It could come to this:

Obstetrician and gynecologist Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) has said that pro-life medical practitioners will “go to jail” rather than violate their conscience if the Obama administration reverses federal conscience protection rules.

In an interview with CNSNews.com on Friday in Washington, D.C., Sen. Coburn was asked what he thought would happen if the administration reverses the policy.

“I think a lot of us will go to jail,” he said. “Let’s see them prosecute the first one of us for not doing that.”

And they will, too – and millions of us will also line up to go to jail, if it comes to that. If the Culture of Death people think we’re just pro-lifers for kicks, they have quite another thing coming their way if they try to force pro-life people to advance the Culture of Death. We will not betray our beliefs – we are pro-life at the command of God, and we cannot deny Life without denying God.

Think carefully, liberals, what you are doing here – you are opening up a very bad can of worms; you are, indeed, writing the title page to the book to be called “Civil War II”. Unless you change your mind, and realize that while you might think Life to be trivial, we don’t.

Just disgusting:

Alaska State Sen. Kim Elton, one of the leading officials to pursue an investigation of Gov. Sarah Palin during the heat of the presidential campaign, has taken a high-level job in the Interior Department.

Palin reacted in a short statement Monday, the day Elton announced his move to Washington.

“Senator Elton pledged his allegiance to President Obama last summer,” said the governor. “We wish him well as he moves on and hope that he uses this job for Alaska’s benefit.”

Elton did the job – when Obama needed some muck to be thrown at Palin, Elton was found scurrying around under a rock and was set loose on the governor. It profits a man nothing to gain the whole world, and yet lose his soul – but for Interior?

Huh? Well, you see, Obama and Co are banking on a normal business cycle picking up later this year or early next year to provide the funds necessary to cover the bonanza of spending they’ve enacted this year. It works like that, right? I mean, an economy goes up, up, up and then hits a slump and goes down, down, down…and then its back up, right? No necessarily. One might recall that period from 1929 until 1941 when things never really went back up – and had not WWII happened, there is no indication that we would have reached 1928 equivalent prosperity as long as FDR’s New Deal policies were in place. In other words, the Great Depression could have simply become “normal times”.

Here’s a news story to sober up you liberals:

U.S. companies, consumers and communities may grow so addicted to government financial help that cutting them off could trigger another recession soon after the current one ends.

Between the U.S. Federal Reserve’s trillions of dollars in lending programs, the $787 billion stimulus package and $700 billion — and counting — in bank bailout funds, no one can accuse officials of soft-pedaling their crisis response.

But there is increasing concern that when the flow of public money subsides — beginning next year when much of that stimulus package is spent — the economy still won’t be strong enough to stand on its own.

“The stuttering attempts to repair the banking and lending mechanisms so far by the new administration suggests that by late 2010, the specter of a second dip into recession will be looming large,” said Merrill Lynch economist Sheryl King.

My friend Nevada Pundit opines that if you dump that much money on the economy, you’re going to have at least a temporary positive effect. In other words, as we get into late 2009 and early 2010, we might see some signs that things are getting better – and you just watch the MSM praise it as the strongest economic recovery ever. But it won’t continue – it can’t continue. We’re not building wealth – we’re just spending money, and spending money we don’t actually have…and the money we borrow now won’t be able to be used for new business start-ups and the money we print will just devalue all money currently in circulation. The economy will go down, and go down rather hard – and now I’m not so sure that Nevada Pundit is even partially correct…with stock values collapsing we’re losing real wealth faster than Obamunism can temporarily create fake wealth.

What will you Obamaniacs do? Spend more money? Instead of $3,600,000,000,000.00, spend $7,200,000,000,000.00? If spending three trillion is going to work, why don’t we spend seven? Unless we conservatives can gain enough power in 2010 to thwart Obama, we’re heading for a ten year long (at least) economic depression. Stupid, stupid, stupid…and all we have to do to avoid it is start making, mining and growing things and getting government out of the way of such activities. Do that, and you liberals would have more tax money to spend then you ever dreamed of…but, you’re too short sighted, too narrowly bigoted and intellectually incurious.

Like peas and carrots:

Word today that yet another Barack Obama appointee has a little problem with taxes — a $10,000 problem.

Ron Kirk, the former mayor of Dallas who would be the White House chief trade representative if confirmed, didn’t pay taxes on some speaking fees he donated to his alma mater and he tried to write off the full $17,000 costs of his Dallas Mavericks season tickets.

We’ve gone entirely through the Looking Glass here – a completely buffoonish Administration headed by a man who doesn’t know what he’s doing, staffed by people who view government as a means of personal enrichment and taxes as something only Republicans have to pay.

Its going to be a long four years – but we can make it not quite so long in 2010.

Hot Air Blog has the details.

Conservatives who backed Obama – what the @*&^! were you thinking?