Newsmax tepidly disavows Obama-coup column
TPM has posted Newsmax's response to that Obama-coup column. Rachel Slajda does a nice job highlighting the hollowness of spokesperson Paula Pradine's claim that John L. Perry has "no official relationship" with Newsmax. But another Pradine claim--namely, that Perry's column was descriptive rather than proscriptive--is allowed to go unchallenged.
That's a shame, because it's patently untrue. Look at the last five paragraphs of Perry's piece:
Will the day come when patriotic general and flag officers sit down
with the president, or with those who control him, and work out the
national equivalent of a "family intervention," with some form of
limited, shared responsibility?
Imagine a bloodless coup to restore and defend the Constitution
through an interim administration that would do the serious business of
governing and defending the nation. Skilled, military-trained,
nation-builders would replace accountability-challenged, radical-left
commissars. Having bonded with his twin teleprompters, the president
would be detailed for ceremonial speech-making.
Military intervention is what Obama's exponentially accelerating
agenda for "fundamental change" toward a Marxist state is inviting upon
America. A coup is not an ideal option, but Obama's radical ideal is
not acceptable or reversible.
Unthinkable? Then think up an alternative, non-violent solution to
the Obama problem. Just don't shrug and say, "We can always worry about
that later."
In the 2008 election, that was the wistful, self-indulgent,
indifferent reliance on abnegation of personal responsibility that has
sunk the nation into this morass.
In other words: dramatic action to solve the "Obama problem" is necessary now. Some people might find the prospect of a coup unpalatable, but it wouldn't have to be all that ugly. And it sure as hell beats doing nothing.