Do conservatives really believe in the Constitution?

Or is all this yammering about Obama and the progressives stomping all over and wadding up the Constitution just a bunch of lip service?  Right Wing News on Facebook pointed to this article claiming that some retired general who has his panties in a wad about Obama says that the military is turning on Obama and that he should be arrested for treason.  Indeed, the article states, “The general added that only high-ranking military members had the power to hold Obama accountable.”  What?  Under whose reading of the Constitution, pray tell?  Did the general forget the oath he took?  There’s no expiration date on it, or so I’m told.

Sorry, I am conservative as the day is long, and in the depth of my dislike of Obama in particular and his progressives in general I admit no superior, but it is disingenuous and in fact quite dangerous to state flatly that “our military is turning on Obama,” and that “only high-ranking military members [have] the power to hold Obama accountable.”  The retired military may quite possibly be turning on Obama, because they have nothing to lose.  The active military by their very nature are not in a position to state one way or the other, and we’d better hope it stays that way — civilian control of the military prevents military coups d’état (which is what the general seems to be calling for with his extra-Constitutional statement about who has the power to hold the president accountable), and history shows that those are bad no matter which side you’re on.  The reaction to any kind of military grumbling about the Commander in Chief should be, “Lock this down, Gunny.”  “It’s locked down, sir.”*

The Constitution provides a process for removing a president.  If things are as bad as the general says, he should work inside that process and not act like a third world revolutionary.  It’s bad enough that the people in power already are acting outside the law; we don’t need to emulate them to put a stop to that misbehavior.

Two years from now, if the SOB won’t vacate the office — and that’s an extreme scenario that I don’t expect to come up — we’ll talk.  But until then we all need to act like civilized Americans who actually believe in the Constitution we claim to defend.  It’s time to stop expending all this hot air and energy bitching about a man who has less than two years left in office, and time to start deciding who is truly qualified to replace him and start mucking out the mess he’s made of the White House stables.  He is a distraction at this point.  Conceded, a dangerous distraction, but at least the courts are starting to come around to the view that his phone and pen aren’t sufficient to overturn the will of Congress (which, supposedly, is the will of the people).  And that’s progress.

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* Feel free to replace “Gunny” with your favorite senior NCO.  I just like “Gunny”.