by Smitty
As we approach the endgame on this administration, the clear winners: the Founding Fathers, who recognized the frailties of human nature and poured so much wisdom into the Constitution.
The two-year turnover of the House of Representatives has done a marvelous job of checking the power of a President whose international credentials clearly mean he hasn’t had clue #1 about what really makes America tick. And tick off.
Jimmie Bise, amongst the mellowest fellows I’ve ever met, is Volcanically Pissed Off at the President’s antics in California:
I don’t like to use the word “lie” much when I write about politics, because the word has been so poorly-used by the left over the past eight years. In this case, however, I believe it is entirely warranted. Barack Obama said something he knew was not true. He did it intentionally and for his own personal political gain. What’s worse is that his lies were clumsy and delivered with all the political skill of a six-year old child explaining to his Mom that an invisible monster broke into the kitchen and stole the cookies from the jar.
Then again, consider the audience, and read the whole thing. Also take a glance at the Conservative Commune, who links Bise but offers a great deal more background on the President’s anti-American campaign.
Via WyBlog, Larry Jackson offers more background.
As of today, he is making a three-day campaign/fund raising swing on the West Coast, ending in Denver. He is going on the attack during this trip, pulling no punches.
Again, read the whole thing.
Now, the Founding Fathers gave us a Constitution that at least affords us the chance for something better. They knew, having just crawled out from under an authoritarian thumb, that a similar leader could arise in these United States.
Couple of points:
- Don’t make it personal, no matter how personal the Bad Man gets. BHO is symptomatic, but he is not the disease. Merely voting him out does less good than you’d think.
- Keep in mind: the problems are economic.US energy policy sucks, the monetary policy sucks even more, and the entitlement mentality has sapped the American zest for liberty to an alarming degree. You’ve had a Presidential candidate tell the truth about Social Security in a very big way, and now he’s being thrown under the bus. Can Americans handle the truth?
I think the country is still half-awake. The growing awareness of what is wrong is there. What is lacking is the leadership and guts to take the pain of correcting the mess.
You cannot take a moderate approach to cancer; hence the disquiet with the smooth-talking blue-state RINO possibilities for President. They either give good concession speech to BHO’s second term, or continue to expand the federal government, to the detriment of liberty.
We must restrain this federal government, as the Founders would have it.
