In a speech given today on the floor of the Senate, Lamar Alexander, the Republican Senator from Tennesse, accused President Obama of making an “enemies list.”
He compared what is happening in the Obama White House to the operation that Chuck Colson spearheaded while working for Richard Nixon–compiling a name of adversaries.
Alexander said this was “an open declaration of war” and a road “we need not go down.”
He used several examples to explain why he has “an uneasy feeling that symptoms of the same kind of animosity are developing today.”
Here’s a quick list of what has Alexander concerned:
- The White House’s pointless, neverending squabble with Fox News.
- The President’s threat to “call out” opponents
- The President’s promise to “take names” of those who oppose the car bailout
- His assault on the US Chamber of Commerce
Alexander admonished Obama that this sort of behavior is for “street brawlers” and that it “never ends well”.
…the rest of his allotted time is spent contemplating the merits of coining the term “Nix-ifying” and having it added to the dictionary. Seriously.
Here’s what he had to say: