Joel's Rant

Where exactly is someone supposed to begin to tell the story of the history we are presently living through as we speak? 

Should I start with the 14-busses loaded with mob thugs from the SEIU, estimated by police to number about 700 individuals, which essentially attacked the private residence of Greg Baer, deputy general counsel for corporate law at Bank of America (BOA), outside of Washington DC on Sunday, May 16^th?  With only Baer’s 14-year old son home at the time, the mob stomped the residence lawn and ran up the front stairs and through the front yard screaming and yelling with bull horns and waving signs allegedly protesting BOA’s role in the nation’s financial crisis.  The pictures of this event are quite extraordinary; Google it yourself. 

Who were these people and where did they come from, and who exactly called them into action, in the same fashion as when SEIU shows up at Tea Party rally’s and other events, often starting fights and committing violence?  Isn’t it interesting that Andy Stern, SEIU’s president and chief union organizer has been the single most frequent visitor to the White House since January 20, 2009, having visited on average about once every 3 weeks?

In retrospect, is this left wing SEIU attack any different than a mob of Klansmen storming Skokie, Illinois circa 1964?  If they were wearing hoods instead of red T-shirts, wouldn’t it be exactly the same as a Klan mob, except without the lynching of course?  Is it any different than the tactics used by Third World dictators when they call out their henchmen to create fear and intimidate people?  And all of this coincidentally occurs just before the finance bill is scheduled to go before Congress?  Is this how our society now operates?

Or maybe I should discuss how John Morton, assistant secretary of homeland security for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), has decided that because he doesn’t personally agree with the Arizona illegal immigration law that his organization is not going to enforce it.  Oh, I get it, in the Obama regime, when an official with responsibility to uphold and enforce federal laws has a problem with that law, he can merely ignore it.  Is that right?  Is this how our society now operates?

Now here’s an interesting aside.  What if the hordes of illegal Hispanic immigrants crashing over the border were instead actually going to, as a block, vote Republican instead of Democrat; would Obama and his regime be calling the Arizona law illegal?  Would Obama be calling the people of Arizona racists?  Would he be standing alongside the leader of Mexico denouncing Americans as racists?  Would the Democrats in Congress rise from their seats and give the Mexican leader standing ovations?  Would John Morton threaten not to enforce the law he swore to uphold?  Isn’t this all about politics and potential Democrat votes and has not a whit to do with racism and rights?  Is this how our society now operates?

But wait.  What about the North Korean torpedo that sunk the South Korean warship, killing 46 sailors and injuring many others.  Here’s a country run by a minor maniac, which has no resources, no wealth, no industry, with nothing but nuclear weapons and technology to offer the world, a country with a median caloric intake so low that the height of every citizen averages about 2 inches shorter than their relatives in the South.  Yet no action from the United States to respond to what is, with certainty, an act of war will be taken.  None.  Zero. Nada.

We have become totally impotent and fearful and weak.  In the face of outright capital aggression by a country that can barely lift its head off the floor, we stand naked and worried and all we can muster is our Secretary of State uttering for the zillionth time something about sanctions and other silly and embarrassing remarks of absolutely no impact or importance.

And that’s just North Korea.  What will happen in the world when, not if, Iran gets nuclear weapons?  What kind of blackmail will we have to endure?  What kind of threats and terror will go unpunished by us and our allies?  What acts of Iranian aggression will we have to tolerate, and what twisted and intellectually duplicitous rationalizations will we have to invent so as to not provoke a reaction?  What will be the cost of attempting to cooperate with a country that cannot be negotiated with under any and all circumstances?  At what point will nuclear war be necessary, and how many millions of Americans will be killed?  Is this how our country now operates?

How about an ecological disaster that makes Katrina look like a stroll around a lake?  Obviously I’m not blaming Obama for the Gulf accident that has caused this disaster.  And I’m not blaming him for the fact that the well has remained uncapped for these many weeks. 

But what about Obama and his people attempting to blame George W. Bush for this disaster, as if Obama hasn’t been in charge of the federal government for the last year and a half and the Democrats haven’t controlled Congress for the last 4 years?  And what about Obama, upon learning that the well might be capped with this new “Top Kill” process BP is using, coming out and stating that in fact, for about the past year, he and his Interior guy Ken Salazar were planning on overhauling the entire oil industry licensing process and that it was almost going to be implemented and that would have prevented accidents like this, even though absolutely no evidence of that exists.  And Obama stating that the federal government has been calling all the shots and making all the decisions from Day One, while taking no blame, but blaming BP for not making better decisions or taking necessary actions?  Huh, what?

Did he actually make that up on the fly or what? 

And Obama essentially stopping or curtailing every new oil drilling project in America?

Everybody knows gasoline comes from oil, right?  And that less oil means higher gasoline prices, and higher gasoline prices means less driving, and less driving means fewer people buying stuff at the mall, and less business at the mall means more people laid off and on the public dole, and more debt and less productivity and more welfare and more entitlements all that.  Everyone knows that, right?  Just checking.

For Obama it’s all politics all the time and disasters are times to point to others to blame and to take whatever credit is available for himself.  Is this how our society now operates?

But the best was yesterday, Friday, the day before a 3-day Memorial Day weekend when the media would be asleep at the switch, for Obama to drop his “Sestak-job offer” explanation bomb.  Does the phrase “unmitigated incredulity” mean anything?

For the past 12 months Joe Sestak (PA, D) has been claiming he was offered a high profile Administration job by a high profile White House official in return for Sestak’s dropping out of the Senate primary against Arlen Specter.  Sestak never offered any details, but the picture he drew was pretty clear.  Many thought the job offer was that of Secretary of the Navy.  If not that job, then something of equally high value and profile, high enough and valuable enough to cause Sestak to want to drop out of a once in a life time run for the Senate.

Now here’s the amazing part.  After finally getting some media pressure, the Obama regime claims the job offer was to be an unpaid adviser on some presidential commission studying something or other.  And the messenger bringing that offer was the former president, Bill Clinton.  Huh, What?

Except for the most ideologically vacuous, naïve or willfully blind, this story is completely ridiculous and assumes the American public to be made up of dullards, idiots and stupid people.  Everyone should be insulted by this spectacle.  Who believes this crap?

Either Joe Sestak is a complete liar, on a par with the messenger Bill Clinton, or the President and/or his people have committed a real live felony and have now exacerbated that with a cover-up reminiscent of Watergate.  It’s either one or the other, or maybe both.  But it’s definitely not neither, that’s for sure.

And when you start to think about this Sestak thing you realize that there’s related history that needs to be analyzed a bit closer.  What about the case of State Rep. Andrew Romanoff (CO, D) whom the Obama regime may have tried to buy off with a White House job instead of having him run in the primary  against Senator Mike Bennett.  Or what about the allegations surrounding former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich vis a vis his “selling” Obama’s Senate seat.  Did in fact Obama have anything to do with that?  What about Rham Emmanuel or David Axelrod, both along with Obama from Chicago?

I think what we have here are the makings of a full blown Congressional investigation, where people under oath get to state what they knew and when they knew it.  That rings familiar, no?

And so the process of impeachment begins.

And that’s all there is to it.

Now here’s an interesting situation.  Over the past 16 months or so the United States has been essentially under assault from within.  In fact, the Democrat leaders in power, who claim to love this country, also say in the same breath that it needs to be fundamentally changed and have set forth, with accomplices in the so-called mainstream media, to do exactly that. (Just as a quick aside, I don’t see how you can genuinely love something yet want to change it.  That doesn’t make sense, but that’s an issue for another time, so think about it).

Trillions of dollars have been wasted and squandered in failed stimulus plans and bailouts, and takeovers of private corporations have become business as usual.  Industries like insurance, banking and student loans, employing tens of thousands of people in private enterprises, have been regulated to the point of instability and strangulation.  Taxes have been raised on business with new and even higher taxes coming with the first of the New Year.  One-sixth of the economy has already been taken over by those hoping to completely nationalize the health care industry in the failed fashion of Great Britain, while another one-sixth of the economy, the financial industry, is about to be ruled by the bureaucrats in Washington. 

The president talks openly about regulating carbon emissions in power-producing and smoke-stack industries that will not only sap the low-cost energy needed to fuel a 21^st century economy back into life, but will cause huge increases in the cost of absolutely every single good or service in America.  Everything that costs money, or has cash value, will be more expensive.  In fact, the EPA is presently writing new regulations that will include, among a humongous number other of things, that everyone’s house, rental or business property be registered with the federal government to make sure it’s energy efficient, otherwise it cannot be sold or traded without the owner making renovations or repairs beforehand to bring it into “compliance.”

The federal government does nothing to contain or resolve the over $100 Trillion in unfunded liabilities presently on the books, and has in fact increased the national debt from $6 Trillion to $9 Trillion in just the past 2 years, with the nation on a path to $20 Trillion in debt before the end of the decade, and that assumes interest rates stay artificially low.  And that does not even include the debts and unfunded obligations of the states, many of which are on the verge of bankruptcy themselves.

If anything the business environment, the one that employs people, has been made unstable through a series of taxes presently in effect now and planned for next year and beyond.  Those taxes and regulations, added to the spectacles of the new health care legislation and cap and trade plans, is keeping unemployment at the official 10% level with higher rates expected in the future.  The potential for huge numbers of jobless college graduates is real and getting worse with no end in sight.

When the state of Arizona, a state ravaged by uncontrolled illegal immigration costing its citizens over $3 Billion each year and has raised its crime rate to one of the highest in the country, passes a law to enforce the federal immigration laws presently on the books since 1940, the president of the United States stands with the leader of Mexico to denounce those actions as racist.  And not only do the Democrats in Congress literally stand to applaud the Mexican leader denouncing Arizonans as racists, but the president’s own representative in China does the same thing with the leaders of that country, a totalitarian country that routinely kills its citizens and sells their harvested organs on the open market, among their other cruelty and crimes against humanity.

And there’s more, much more. 

Last week Newt Gingrich raised an issue in a speech he gave in which he said that since the Civil War, this is the first time America has to ask itself “who are we as a people?”  I would add to that a question of my own.  Are we about to fail?

Every nation, it seems, at some point fails and is lost to history or becomes merely a shadow of what it once was.  Some nations from the past were thought of as great or grand, like Greece, Rome, Spain, and Great Britain.  At some point their wealth and prestige were gone, their ability to impact or change the world situation for their own national interests, their ability to protect themselves, either negligible or none. 

Can the same be said for the United States?  Is there anything we can do to “right the ship?”

I think it’s illustrative that earlier this week the congressional district in Pennsylvania, the one who’s Representative was Jack Murtha for over 20 years, was won by a Democrat.  It’s true the district is 2 to 1 registered democrats, but all of the facts I quoted above are true too.  On paper, this should have been a slam-dunk win for the Republicans.  But they lost.

Even with the nation under assault by Democrats, Republicans lost.  There are probably many reasons why they lost, but one obvious reason is that Republicans assumed their voters would be more enthusiastic, that they wouldn’t stay home just because it was unseasonably cold and rainy.  We’re arguably about to fail as a nation, and people who could do something about it stay home because the weather’s bad.  It’s enough to make blood shoot from your eyes.

So let me spell this out just in case you’re not getting it.  This election will be the most important of your lifetime no matter how old you are or no matter how many other elections you’ve voted in before.  This is it!  If we can’t stop the Democrat express toward socialism or worse, the country our children inherit will bear little resemblance to the one we grew up in.  This is very serious business, like no other time before and perhaps like no other time to come in the future.

On the national scene, we must protect our Constitution, rein in out of control spending, and protect the conservative ideals that make our country great.  At the very least, we need to slow down the president and Congress from jamming through more legislation that could fundamentally transform America into something different and unwelcome.

While making sure you vote is important, it is not enough.  Even writing a check to a candidate, while admirable, is not enough.  Not this year.  Not in 2010.  This year is different.  Very different.  The stakes could not be higher. 

We need to put ourselves back on the path to greatness.  We need to defend our families and our country.  The unsustainable debt and changes to our capitalist civil society will inexorably change the futures of your children and grandchildren and essentially guarantee for them lives of certain government servitude. 

What we need are boots on the ground.  We need people that will distribute literature, help register Republican voters, make phone calls, wave signs and do the other things necessary to get conservatives elected so they can stop the madness.

Please get in touch with your local Republican Club or Tea Party organization and find out what you can do to halt our progress toward a socialist society.  Everyone needs to be involved, everyone needs to become a Super Citizen who will help get others involved, and support good conservative candidates they believe in. 

It’s not easy, particulary for a “civilian”, to run for political office.  Besides money, these candidates sacrifice plenty by putting themselves out there, making speeches, going door to door and spreading the word.  And supporting them means volunteering your time and effort.  If good candidates are not supported, fewer good candidates will take up the challenge the next time.

If you have children you have a responsibility to the future.  This is not a time to be sitting on the sidelines.  Those days are over.  We need your support, we need your time and your country needs your involvement.

It’s interesting that just over the past few weeks, three different stories of huge importance broke and the mainstream media was initially on the wrong side of every issue, attempting to frame a biased narrative that was different from what was actually the case on the ground.  And in each instance, the focus was to the perceived benefit of the political left. 

By now everyone knows about Arizona’s recently passed illegal immigration law and how, essentially, all the state did was attempt to enforce the federal immigration laws already on the books since 1940.  The difference here was that illegal immigration was also made a state infraction, with state penalties added to the federal law.  Otherwise, one law pretty much mirrors the other.

So why did the media portray the law as a racist attempt to harass hard working poor people just trying to feed their families. The mainstream media would have you believe that the Arizona law gives the police the power to stop people if they look a certain way, even dragging them off to detention while in the act of merely buying their children ice cream cones.  Or maybe that was the president suggesting such an outrageous and false scenario.  No matter, because in either case the one making the false charge was a liar and knew it. 

But that portrayal neatly fits the description of “white racism” and “right wing hatred” and “intolerance” that permeates the political left’s way of thinking.  It’s the narrative, stupid!

That same media bias could be detected in the reporting of the BP oil spill that is likely to become one of the worst industry disasters in the past 40 years or more.  The magnificent geniuses running the federal government spent the first 8 days of the ever growing oil spill crisis out campaigning against, ironically, the Arizona illegal immigration law when they decided to finally make a statement.  And the statement, of course, was that they were engaged in resolving the crisis from “day one.”

What the media didn’t report was that the Obama regime’s idea of being engaged from “day one” amounted to sending lawyers from the Justice Department and the EPA to review the situation and make ready the plans to sue BP for the clean-up, something they are already responsible for doing under federal law.  What they also didn’t report was that the federal government has spill minimizing contingency plans, drawn up and ready since 1994, and that those plans were not effectuated at the outset like they should have been.  Unfortunately, they were purposely delayed in the hope BP could manage containing the spill by themselves.  What was also not reported was that devices called “fire booms”, necessary to burn the oil on the surface at the outset, were not in the federal inventory as assumed and had to be purchased in just the last few days.  What was similarly not reported were other contingencies involving barges, in effect, vacuuming oil off the surface and pumping it into tenders floating alongside and so on. 

Would any of these catastrophe minimizing efforts been successful?  No one knows for sure.  But has anyone in the mainstream media asked any questions of the Obama regime?  Like where were they?  Why didn’t they immediately act?  In addition to lawyers, why didn’t they also send engineers and people with oil spill management experience?  Why didn’t they put into effect the contingency plans already in place for just such a situation?  If they were engaged from “day one”, what was it they did besides bring in lawyers and alert the Coast Guard to fight the initial fire, which is their job in such instances?

Because to question otherwise would interfere with the mainstream media’s efforts to get the public to believe their leader was on the phone, making calls, calling shots, dragging out hoses, wearing SCUBA gear and all the rest that would get him a place on Mount Rushmore.  It’s the narrative, stupid!

And then there was the hapless spectacle of mainstream media reports suggesting the Times Square terrorist bomber had to be a white male, about 40 years old, probably disgruntled about the health care bill, and alienated from the government because Barack Obama is black. 

Is anyone asking how this guy, this terrorist, became an American citizen just last year?  What are screening rules that would allow such a person to become a citizen?  And why was a guy like this even afforded a visa to be in the United States?  Is anyone asking those questions?   

No, nobody’s asking those questions.  Instead, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg pretty much opined that the terrorist must be a home-grown degenerate, in a CBS interview with Katie Couric.  After he was advised the captured terrorist was a radical Muslim, Bloomberg instantly skipped gears and made a statement warning New Yorkers’ not to take action against Muslims and that such bias would not be tolerated, as if there was ever even one single incident of that happening anywhere in America.  What an insult to New Yorkers’ and Americans in general.  Such a fool. 

And let’s not forget MSNBC anchor Contessa Brewer making the comment that she was disappointed that the terrorist was a Muslim instead of a white guy.  As if there have been anything other than Muslim’s ever involved in acts of terrorism in the United States since 1995, and that was one time and not repeated since.  What nerve. 

But isn’t that exactly what the reporters in the mainstream media were all hoping?  I get it that we can’t assume what others are thinking and all that, but in this situation, can’t we?  Haven’t we learned over the past 8 years how the politically biased media operates, that they announce national secrets, how they applaud turning interrogators’ over to the Justice Department, how they hate everything military, that terrorists deserve to be treated as citizens and on and on.  So we, in fact, have some basis for thinking, in general, that they would have liked the terrorist to have been a white guy angry over paying higher taxes.  It’s the narrative, stupid!

And that’s all there is to it!

When I’m faced with difficult questions about what’s in the best interest of my country I usually turn to my moral compass, Al Sharpton.  If Al Sharpton is for something, my rule of thumb is that I’m against it.  That always seems to work out pretty well for me.  In the case of illegal immigration he’s for it, so I know, with all my heart, that being against it is the right thing to be.

So with that in mind, I’m watching the news this week and there are thousands of Mexican illegal’s marching and waving flags, Mexican flags mind you, and demanding their rights.  Did you get that?  DEMANDING THEIR RIGHTS!  Where else on planet earth does a more offensive spectacle like that take place, where people illegally, and even criminally, cross the border into another country and then have the audacity to demand from the citizens of that country “rights?”  This not only doesn’t make sense, this is dangerous.  As the great economist Milton Friedman used to say, you can’t have open borders in a welfare state.  This is a prescription for national suicide and the most amazing thing is that our national federal government, the one operated by both political parties out of Washington since at least 1989, will not only do nothing to stop the death roll, but is deliberately and proactively making it even worse by factoring in a plan to make everyone who crosses the border a citizen of the United States.

And the pathology doesn’t stop there.  Get this.  Anyone who questions the government’s inaction to close the border, and protect the integrity of our once sovereign and wonderful country, is immediately labeled a racist.  Not long ago the “N-word” was pretty much was agreed to be the most horrific use of the English language, but here, in the 21^st century, that torch has been passed to the word “racist.”  Once the “R-word” (once recently thought to be the word “retarded”) has been thrown, all conversation and discussion and debate comes to an end.  And bad things continue unabated.

Bad things, like what’s happening in Arizona, for example, where there’s a crisis going on and the national federal government has no intention of stopping.  Arizona is now a place where criminal behavior is in full command, where drug gang activity has swept across the border, where kidnappings are not only common but are the second highest in the world, where murder and violence have become normal, and where the perpetrators of most of this crime come from Mexico.  There I said it.  The crime and drug gang activity comes from Mexico.  Mexico.  Not Canada, not Belgium, not Lithuania.  It comes directly from Mexico.

So the good citizens of Arizona decide they need to take matters into their own hands and protect their people and their treasury.  And so they decide to enforce the federal laws of the federal government, the national government, the one presently ruled by the Obama regime.  And the regime’s response to Arizona’s legitimate need to resolve this crisis is to deride the state government by likening their actions to those of Nazi Germany.  Why am I not surprised?

It’s simply amazing how many times over the past few days I’ve heard the expression “let me see your papers.”  It’s like we’re living in a World War II movie.

The law does not give police the right to stop anyone they want to ask for papers solely based on race or ethnicity. The president’s charges that this law is driven by racism and that Arizona has become a “police state” are extreme and reckless. The president knows that the Arizona law requires law enforcement to ask for identification only after they have already made a lawful contact on another matter, like a motor vehicle stop or as part of an arrest.  So why does he purposely mischaracterize that pertinent requirement differently?  Why does he lie?  What’s in it for him and his minions?  What is becoming of our country when the President of the United States has more interest in protecting illegal aliens than he has in protecting the citizens of the United States?

Actually, it might be of interest to the president to know that the last time I got a speeding ticket the officer who pulled me over asked me for my driver’s license and registration, and I’m a white guy.   Go figure!

So I have some questions.

When does it occur to the president that the United States is a sovereign country and must protect its borders?  What exactly is a country if it has no borders?  I think that‘s probably the first step in being a country, no?  Having recognizable and defensible borders comes before common language and common customs.  Barack Obama can close and defend the borders any time he wants.  Actually, except for delivering the mail, defending the borders is pretty much his single, number one most important job.  So why doesn’t he do exactly that?  Who’s stopping him?

When does it occur to the president that there are already Federal laws in place that essentially mirror the laws recently passed in Arizona?  Federal law is already quite specific about the criminality of illegal immigration.  Federal law requires noncitizens to carry documents.  Federal law does not give police the right to stop anyone they want to ask for papers solely based on race or ethnicity. These laws and protections are already in place and Arizona has merely decided to enforce the Federal laws already on the books.  So why does the president and the other liberals and Marxists that follow him want Arizona to do otherwise?  Why do the opponents of the Arizona law actively want the Federal laws, upon which this is based, specifically unenforced and ignored?

When does it occur to the president that about 10% of the population of Arizona is illegal aliens and the state infrastructure, services and criminal justice system have been overrun and are in a state of near collapse?

Here’s the obvious answer to all these questions and it can be articulated with one word: votes.  Getting illegal’s in from Mexico, and granting them citizenship, pretty much guarantees Democrats the 20 million or more votes these people represent.  So who in Washington really cares and worries about America?  No one.  And that’s why the good citizens of the United States have such contempt for our government, the government presently ruled by the Obama regime.

So I’m in favor of this Arizona law.  I’m in favor of every state in the union taking it upon themselves to protect and defend their citizens and their treasuries from this unwelcome onslaught.

And just like the illegal’s that come to our country and make demands, I’d even like to make a demand of my own.  I demand that the federal government, the one in Washington, the one presently controlled by the Obama regime, close and secure the border. Period.  Make it air tight first, then we can talk about whatever it is we need to talk about later, after we get our sovereignty back.

Oh, one more thing.  Note to Republicans: you will never, ever, and never, get the Hispanic vote. Never.  No matter what you do and no matter how you prostrate and pander yourselves to these minorities you can forget it.  George W. Bush left the borders open, condoned illegal’s coming across the border, used all his power and political capital to get so-called comprehensive immigration law (aka amnesty) passed, acted as a liberal, spoke fluent Spanish himself, and got nothing.  John McCain followed pretty much the same path and got all of about 30% of the Hispanic vote in November 2008.  Only the blacks and the Jews passed Hispanic’s in voting blindly as a block for Barack Obama.  So try just doing the right thing for the country, instead of attempting to only look out for your own butts because you’ll get nothing out of it anyway.

And that’s all there is to it.

So here’s the deal.  It seems that Bill Clinton had some negative things to say Friday about people in the Tea Party movement.  He says they tend to say dangerous things and belong to militias, and threaten those with whom they don’t agree and, now here’s the best part, seem to be following the same path that the Oklahoma City bombers took to get to a state of violence that could not be contained.  This disgraced former Democrat president, a complete degenerate and pathological personality, has the nerve to disparage those attending Tea Party rally’s as anti-American and prone to violence.  This man, accused several times of rape and sexual assault by a number of women going back decades, believes Tea Party supporters are an enemy of the nation.  Of course, there is not a single shred of evidence or a single incident that would in the least prove any of his lies and falsehoods, but that’s what we’ve come to expect from the Joseph Goebbels inspired political Left.  And, amazingly enough, the people on the political Left agree with him.  Is blood shooting from your eyes like it is from mine?

It just so happens that this past Thursday I was riding on a bus to the Washington DC Tea Party rally and I took some special time to look around and take note of the people traveling with me.  There were about 40 of us, mostly over 50, but some much older than that.  I counted at least 4 hearing aids and 1 lovely, but not particularly young, pregnant woman.  For most of the 1 hour trip there was a line back and forth from the restroom.  Some folks wore American flag shirts and hats with patriotic slogans and everyone just happened to be white.  Of course, anyone would have been welcomed on the bus, but apparently only white people decided to take this specific bus.  No matter.  Some people had signs they planned to hold at the rally, all of which were handmade, some by grandchildren.  And one guy asked permission if he could sell bracelets with the words “Repeal and Replace”.  And everyone was excited about the prospect of making a statement, sort of a “telling truth to power” thing.

So in response to the unholy Bill Clinton I’d say this was a great bus trip because the people on that bus were just like me.  They were conservatives and conservatives believe in one thing above all others.  Conservatives believe in the Constitution of the United States, the way the Framers wrote it.

There’s nothing in the Constitution that gives the central government the authority to tell you what light bulb you can use, or how much water is permitted to run through your toilet, or how far a gallon of gas can take you and what kind of car you must drive, or how much salt or fat you’re allowed to have in your food or any of the other minutiae of our lives that the federal government is presently getting involved in.  And there’s nothing in the Constitution that gives the government the right to tell you can’t spend your own money to see whatever doctor you want or to buy whatever insurance you want or to have whatever medical procedure you want.  Or limit the amount of CO2 you’re allowed to exhale.

I assume the guy on the bus selling bracelets had in mind the health care bill, the one Bill Clinton’s kind of corrupt Congress passed using bribery, threats and extortion and to get it through, with of course the uncompromising assistance of the fifth column mainstream media.  But actually, I think that bracelet would look better on the wrist of the democrats and other Marxists and their drones because “Repeal and Replace” really, for them, means repeal and replace the Constitution.  That’s what they want and that’s where they’re going.  Just ask Barack Obama.

Look at how the words of the Constitution have been changed from their 18^th century meaning to the 20^th and 21^st century meanings of today.

Take the word “welfare”.  During the townhall meetings last summer many congress people were asked where in the Constitution they find the notion that the government can force Americans to buy health insurance.  Many said they found that particular government power in the preamble, which says in part “promote the general welfare.”

The 18^th century use of the word “welfare” meant the central government was to create an environment in which people could go about their lives without harassment or interference from the government.  As long as they broke no laws or committed no fraud and honored their contracts, the government would not, and could not, intercede in their lives.

Today, welfare means entitlements and wealth redistribution.  It means $12 Trillion in national debt on our way to $20 Trillion before the end of this decade alone.  It means unfunded government liabilities already totaling over $100 Trillion with no end in sight.  It means certain servitude for the generations of the future whose money we are spending today.

Does anyone honestly suppose Framers like James Madison wrote the preamble thinking “ah yes, government taking money from those who earn it and giving it to those that have not earned it is a good thing.  Yes, our new national government should do exactly that.”  Who believes that?   Does anyone honestly believe Founders like Washington, Adams, Franklin and Jefferson fought against King George thinking “once we get this king and his taxation tyranny off our backs we’ll set up our own government and we’ll be able to take money from one group and give it to another group.  Yeah, that’s the ticket.”  Is that what happened?

The same kind of bastardization of the 18^th century word “regulation” used in writing the Constitution should be compared with its 20^th and 21^st century counterpart.  The commerce clause is the section (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3) from which almost all government control of free enterprise resides.  The clause states, in part, that the United States Congress shall have power “to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations and among the several States……”.

What the Framers meant by “regulation” was that the government should make “regular” the commerce between the states, to create a business friendly environment from which commerce would be able to grow, flow freely and become normal.  Barack Obama’s use of regulation means roadblocks to commerce, rules and statutes to follow, government involvement in the day to day and on and on.

And now our very capitalistic culture is in jeopardy of being destroyed.  America is systematically being made poorer.  That’s the Barack Obama plan, the plan make everyone a victim, dependent on the government.  What’s happening is no accident.

None of this would be happening if the Constitution were being followed.  None of this would be happening if conservatives and Tea Partyers were in control.

Those against the Constitution believe in all government all the time.  Tea Partyers believe in limited government, liberty, personal property, personal responsibility and the Constitution the way the Framers wrote it.

I would ask Bill Clinton which of us is the enemy of our nation.  His government of looters and takers and government controlling the number of toilet paper rolls you’re allowed to have, or our Tea Party inspired government of opportunity, free markets, capitalism and freedom.

The Constitution is black or white.  You either believe in it, all of it, or you don’t.  There’s no middle ground.  It’s not “living and breathing.”  It means today what it meant before and what it’ll mean tomorrow.  It’s the rock upon which our country is built.  You’re either with it, or you’re against it.  You’re either on the right side, or you’re on the wrong side.  It’s as simple as that.

And that’s all there is to it.