Wall Street Journal:
President Obama has officially kicked off his 2012 re-election campaign, and don't Republicans know it. The president is expected any day now to sign an executive order that routs 70 years of efforts to get politics out of official federal business.
Under the order, all companies (and their officers) would be required to list their political donations as a condition to bidding for government contracts. Companies can bid and lose out for the sin of donating to Republicans. Or they can protect their livelihoods by halting donations to the GOP altogether—which is the White House's real aim. Think of it as "not-pay to play."
Whatever you call it, the order amounts to the White House brazenly directing the power of government against its political opponents...
Some call it Chicago politics or banana republic stuff a la Chavez or Evo Morales. But it's simply the way those who deign to rule rather than govern always operate. The left can't win on an open and level playing field, so they silence and punish the opposition. This type of behavior differs from a Castro or Stalin only by degree and it's not to hard to imagine what Obama and the left would do without what's left of our Constitution.
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