They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That’s the Chicago way.
–Jim Malone,
“The Untouchables”
Kim Strassel writes in the Wall Street Journal about the unprecedented lengths to which the Obama administration goes to make anyone who disagrees with it villains. The US Chamber of Commerce, Fox News and insurance companies have followed Rush Limbaugh and other talk radio hosts on to Obama’s enemies list.
When Barack Obama promised to deliver “a new kind of politics” to Washington, most folk didn’t picture Rahm Emanuel with a baseball bat. These days, the capital would make David Mamet, who wrote Malone’s memorable movie dialogue, proud.
A White House set on kneecapping its opponents isn’t, of course, entirely new. (See: Nixon) What is a little novel is the public and bare-knuckle way in which the Obama team is waging these campaigns against the other side.
