Joel's Rant

Why do Democrat controlled legislatures throughout the nation consistently do the wrong thing virtually every time when it’s so easy to just do the right thing instead? 

Why do Democrats virtually always vote to raise spending when common sense and good fiscal stewardship say cutting spending is the right policy?  Why do they raise taxes when taxes should be cut?  Why do they always promote policies which take money away from producers instead of keeping money in the private economy, which has time after time proven to be the best policy for everyone?  I could go on and on, but you get the point.

So why do Democrats almost always choose the wrong path instead of always choosing the right path? 

There’s something at play here that actually explains why we can count on Democrats to do the wrong thing, something that’s sort of the missing piece to the puzzle.  And here it is; the government is the Democrat Party and the Democrat Party is the government.  They are, in fact, one in the same.  That’s not an exaggeration or hyperbole; that’s for real. 

Take a moment to think about it instead of rejecting that notion out of hand.

That explains why Democrats always want to make the government bigger, more powerful, more intrusive, and more encompassing; it’s in their best interest to do that because they are the government.  Like an entrepreneur wants to grow his/her business because that’s in their best interest, Democrats want to grow government because it’s in their best interest. 

Entrepreneurs grow their businesses because they own them; Democrats grow government because they own it.  The Democrats ARE the government.

In effect, there are Republicans; and then there is the government.  For the convenience of voters, the government calls itself the Democrat Party; but when you vote for a Democrat, you’re voting for the government.

That’s the case whether people are voting for Democrats in a local election, a state election or in a national election.  It makes no difference. The word “Democrat” now means “government.”  They’re synonymous.

Now it all makes sense, right?

Once you have that perspective, you can understand why Democrats would force a potential government shutdown over what amounts to literally mere pennies, or why there will be a death struggle by Democrats to raise the debt ceiling to over $15 trillion or more, or why there will be a savage fight, with Democrats hurling disgusting incriminations before they are forced to accept any of Paul Ryan’s 2012 budget proposal that cuts into the very fabric, the entitlements, of big government. 

Democrats can’t give in to even the most minor of these cuts because to do so, in some fashion, reduces the government, which really reduces the Democrat Party.  The Democrats will never stand for such an onslaught on big government because an attack on big government is an attack on the Democrat Party.

Just look at the logic of Democrats in the showdown just ended Friday night in which even the most ridiculous federal funding could not, would not, be cut.  Where in the Constitution does it say that I must fund Planned Parenthood or the National Endowment for the Arts, or National Public Radio?  Where does it say that?  But to listen to Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer you’d think there was an enumerated power in the Constitution forcing me to do exactly that (http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/schumer-cuts-planned-parenthood-never-ne ). 

Harry Reid says that funding Planned Parenthood is more important than funding the military.  Can you believe that?  Comparing Planned Parenthood to military warriors taking gunfire?  How contemptible is that?  To Democrats, the military and national defense are relatively inconsequential matters of little importance.  They’re little more than welfare recipients.  In fact, Democrats would sooner fund abortion doctors than our military warriors in the field and in harm’s way.  If there had been a shutdown, the Democrats plan was to make sure people on welfare got their checks, but not the warriors keeping our country safe. (http://biggovernment.com/mikeflynn/2011/04/07/obama-ill-shut-down-the-government-and-suspend-military-pay/ ).  Screwing the families who have sacrificed the most, by sending warriors to defend our liberty, freedom and national interest, is less important than sending money to NPR, the partisan propaganda arm of the government, aka Democrat Party.  It’s just contemptible.

Look at the horrific language Democrats are using at this exact moment to characterize Republicans who are looking to make mostly modest and symbolic cuts.  Reminds you of Wisconsin, no?  Immediately, Democrats pull out “human shields” to try to keep Republicans from landing any punches or doing any damage, in pretty much the same fashion as the barbarians in the Middle East might use human shields when they are put under attack.

The “human shields” the Democrats favor are statements like Nancy Pelosi stating Republican budget cuts will force seniors literally into starvation (http://nation.foxnews.com/nancy-pelosi/2011/04/05/pelosi-republican-budget-will-force-seniors-starvation ).

Or Harry Reid saying Republicans don’t want women to get breast cancer screenings (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/08/usa-budget-health-idUSWEN079220110408.

Or Congresswoman Louise Slaughter saying Republicans want to kill women (http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/house-freshmen-came-washington-intent-ki ).  

Or Congressional delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton saying Republican budget cuts are the equivalent of bombing civilians (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20051805-503544.html ), and on and on. 

The Democrat strategy is to claim Republicans hate children, want old people to just die, don’t want anyone to get an education, favor polluting the air and water, hate poor people, hate blacks, hate Hispanics, hate gays, and on and on, pulling out human shield in front of human shield in an effort to obfuscate, disguise, confuse, conceal, and divert any criticism so as not to land a blow against the need to spend more money by the government.

This Democrat strategy is so evil it’s actually pathological.  Here’s the Democrat president, Barack Obama, just about 4 weeks ago proposing his 2012 budget.  In spite of our nation’s near fiscal collapse, yearly trillion dollar deficits every year of this entire new decade, the potential to actually triple our national debt from its present $14 trillion, the unsustainably of the Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security entitlements, he adds another $1.5 trillion of new spending and a host of new taxes that will only limit the ability of the private sector to grow the economy.  His 2012 budget plan is a total budgetary disaster. 

Now, he’s supposed to be a smart guy.  So why does he want to do this?

He does it, and the Democrats approve of it, because forcing the debt to run even higher will force, absolutely force, taxes to be raised.  And if taxes are raised to a high enough level, businesses will almost certainly have to fail or move out of the country.  That leaves the American citizens without jobs and no means of support.  And that puts them on the government dole; thereby growing the government to its ultimate size, the size where it takes control of everything, your health, your wealth, simply everything. 

And that’s really the purpose of the modern Democrat Party; that’s the purpose of big government; to control everyone and everything.

It’s all laid out in detail in “Rules for Radicals” by Saul Alinski, Barack Obama’s mentor.

The Democrat Party and the government are one in the same.  We’ve seen this pathology before, albeit on different continents.

Am I wrong?

And that’s all there is to it.

Under the radar screen of most of us, the battle between the forces of good vs. evil continues unabated, and those with truly dark intentions seem always to be winning.  We are in a war for our country, and yet things are seemingly so quiet.

Take the news from Wisconsin.  Here’s the quintessential model of what tyranny looks like. 

A new Republican governor is elected with 52% of the popular vote in November 2010, taking control from the Democrats who had held that position for the 8 previous years.  In addition, both the Wisconsin House and Senate also flipped control to the Republicans.  Clearly, a majority of the electorate decided a change in state government was needed and put in place those who had promised to make those exact changes, which included a well debated and discussed effort to restrict the power of public employee unions.  Republicans won in a blue state; Democrats could not believe they had actually lost.  Hell hath no fury like a Democrat scorned!

Losing an honest election does not deter Democrats (e.g., see Al Franken election in Minnesota in 2008, Christine Gregoire in Washington in 2004, Robert Torricelli in New Jersey in 2002 to name just a few), and this is where the tyranny plot thickens.  As soon as the “budget repair bill” was introduced in the Wisconsin legislature, the Democrats left the state in order to prevent Republicans from having the quorum they needed to pass the bill.  Only Democrats could think of something as underhanded and un-American as that.

Public employee unions called upon their members to protest in Madison, to literally take control of the capitol building, and while doing so making sure they could do the most physical damage as possible.  Hateful banners, of the kind that just weeks before were castigated as encouraging assault in Tucson by these very people, appeared including shouts and chants tinged with violence.  And don’t forget the death threats aimed at Republican legislators.  All of this was done by public employees in an effort to intimidate and coerce Republican legislators from their mission.

Thousands of additional protestors, aka SEIU thugs, were bused in from other states, all with funding and support provided by the Democratic National Committee and Barack Obama’s own campaign organization, “Organizing for America”. 

Think about the enormity of that for just one moment.  The President of the United States, the presumptive leader of ALL the American people, has a bonafide organization that he can call upon to support one side, and against the other side, in a state political procedure.  That is completely anathema to the history and tradition of the office of the president.  But in Barack Obama’s mind, history and tradition begins with him.  Nothing, to him, ever happened before he became president.  He honestly believes that.

But we’re not done.  On two separate occasions, Republican legislators met with Democrats, hiding in Illinois, to negotiate a compromise to this stalemate.  Both times Democrats agreed to come back to Wisconsin, and both times reneged at the last moment, and both times the media accounts purposely make it seem the Republicans were the one’s not negotiating in good faith. 

By this time the collusion of public employee unions, Democrat political leaders including the President of the United States, and the state-run liberal media is having a detrimental influence.  Governor Scott Walker’s poll numbers begin to fall. 

In an effort to break the stalemate, the Legislative Council (LC) and the Legislative Reference Bureau (LRB), both legal agencies and employees of Wisconsin, determined that aspects of the budget repair bill could be separated out, allowing the Republicans to pass their bill without any Democrat involvement.  It’s important to understand that these agencies, the LC and the LRB, are the same people who just weeks before advised and counseled the Democrats when they were in charge.  These are not political appointees, nor are they affiliated with a political party.  They are, essentially, nonpartisan.

Armed with that information, the Governor and Republicans voted to pass the bill stripping the public employee unions of their collective bargaining rights (but not including bargaining for wages).  And there you have it; the duly elected authority of a sovereign state taking action to pass a law that affects only their own state.  It’s just what the Founders had in mind.  Case closed!

Actually, no, the case is not closed. 

Once the Democrats realized the bill had been passed they filed a lawsuit claiming the Republicans had not afforded them time to respond to the call for a vote.  The fact that the state parliamentarian, literally the state’s official expert on procedural expediencies like this and an employee of the state rather than a political party, indicated that the correct process had been followed had in no way tempered the wrath of the Democrats.  As usual, history, experience, tradition and facts mean nothing to Democrats.  Only power, and who’s wielding that power, means something to the Democrat mind. That’s a very dangerous way of thinking, but it is what it is.

In fact the Democrats, through their allies in the state run liberal media, went on a binge, accusing Republicans of “violating state law”, “making a mockery of democracy” and “operating like a banana republic” and in performing a “coup d’état”.  The irony of Democrats hiding out in another state, in a deceitful and shameful effort to prevent a newly inaugurated senate from holding a vote on vital state business, seems to have no impact or effect on this group of devious, deceitful and hostile Americans.

Instead, Democrats went the route of all good Marxists and found safety and comfort through the court, in the personage of Judge Maryann Sumi of Dane County, who issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) preventing the new law from going into effect.

This is where malicious collusion and contemptible behavior crosses over the line into soft tyranny.

Enter Maryann Sumi, the same judge who astoundingly refused to order the striking teachers back to work in February (http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/local_schools/article_1a2a34ce-3baf-11e0-983c-001cc4c03286.html ). 

This is the same Maryann Sumi whose son is a political operative, who also happens to be a former lead field manager with the AFL-CIO and data manager for the SEIU State Council.  In fact, Jacob Sinderbrand, Sumi’s son, runs a company called Left Field Strategies. 

It seems that both Judge Maryann Sumi and her son are hack political activists and her obvious conflict should cause her to recues herself.  Ah, but no, that’s not how Democrats work, not when tyranny is afoot.  Don’t forget, Democrats believe the ends justify the means, which means in this case, twist or spin or break any law or process necessary to get this budget repair law overturned. 

In fact, it seems Judge Maryann Sumi cavalierly chose to ignore the budget repair bill law and, since she knew there were no merits to the case, instead decided to argue procedure.  In effect, she completely disregarded the guidelines regarding TRO’s, overruling each of the four elements a plaintiff, in this case the Democrats, must prove:  (1) likelihood of success on the merits; (2) irreparable harm, absent the order; (3) that less harm will result to the defendant if the TRO issues than to the plaintiffs if the TRO does not issue; and (4) that the public interest, if any, weighs in favor of plaintiff. If the balance of hardships tips in favor of plaintiff, then the plaintiff must only raise “questions going to the merits so serious, substantial, difficult and doubtful, as to make them fair ground for litigation and thus for more deliberative investigation.”

All four of these elements must be proven, not just one or two.  All four.  And yet, none of them rises to level the law requires.  This means that Judge Maryann Sumi is a liar and a political hack.  She’s using her position to provide cover for the Democrats and their union overseers.  Maryann Sumi is like having the Manchurian Candidate on the bench; and the Democrats are worse.

So now the process moves forward to a court hearing which will now waste time and block the effectuation of a law properly passed by those Republicans empowered by the people of the state. http://www.620wtmj.com/shows/charliesykes/118298099.html?blog=y

Does this represent tyranny?  Here’s a case in which the court takes a political position to act on behalf of a Democrat group looking for a political favor.  It doesn’t get more tyrannical than that.  Would you want to be in front of this court battling, say, for your life or liberty?  What are the chances you would get a fair shake from Judge Maryann Sumi?  What are the chances this judge will look only to the merits of the case and not to some other agenda?  You can draw your own conclusions.

And now it seems, while this TRO is winding its way to some end, the miscreants and thugs who make up the public employee unions in Wisconsin have taken their war to the streets.  In fact, they are literally shaking down private businesses in Madison by “asking” owners to place signs in their windows saying they support the unions……or face a boycott.  http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/118963234.html

Can you believe this?  Can you believe these unions?  Can you believe these Democrats?

What happens in Wisconsin will affect every American because tyranny has no borders.

And that’s all there is to it.