Tremors of a figurative kind are being felt in townhall meetings all across America. Congress is on break now, and rather than confronting the criticism directed at them by the voting and working class of America, they are shutting off the phones in their offices and hiding out. Some are taking vacations, and a very few brave ones are hosting townhall events.
The bottom line is this: people are pissed off at this entire administration, and they have every reason to be mad.
1. In February, barely two weeks into his administration, Obama gives Nancy Pelosi the task of writing a stimulus bill that is supposed to get our economy back on track. One thousand plus pages of pet pork projects later, the bill is rammed down Congress's throat with the admonition by Obama to get it passed, and make that yesterday! Without reading it, both houses passed it - while Obama took his family on a weekend outing to Chicago. So much for the rush.
2. Obama sat in his office shortly after being sworn in and smugly overturned one Bush executive order after another. He added leftist wordage to some of them - thumbing his nose at conservatives and the GOP alike.
3. Obama then tasks Waxman and Markey to come up with a "green" piece of legislation that, on the surface sounds like it's going to save the planet, but in reality it will propel this great nation on a backackward slide into pre-industrialization while putting millions out of work AND increasing the cost of energy consumption across the board. The House passed the bill and it now sits in the Senate, awaiting revision and passage.
4. Obama went on a world tour, elevating leftist dictators and denigrating the very country that elected him to the highest post in the world. His "Apology Tour" did nothing to appease our enemies, but did wonders at making our allies question their loyalty to us. Apologizing to the EU was the most vile thing he did on that tour - calling us "arrogant" while literally thousands of our young men died defending those countries, their remains still planted in hundreds of cemetaries throughout many of the EU nations.
5. Obama's next task was to socialize medicine. No one questions the need to find ways to fill the gaps in medical coverage and to contain costs that are unnecessarily over-inflated. But the bill being worked out in the House is now over 1,000 pages (can you say "stimulus?"), and rather than address the most urgest issues facing healthcare, it attempts to re-write the entire system into one of a single payer (the government) whose control and intercession into our very private lives will be intractable once instigated. Again, Obama is urging our representatives to just hurry up: write it and pass it - or else.
Here are some important points to ponder:
- It took Obama over three months to find a dog for his family, yet he wants his bidding done now, if not yesterday, by a Congress that is unable to read the legislation due to time constraints and the unintelligible writing of the bill.
- The most important contract of our nation, the Constitution, was written on two sheets of paper. Perhaps our legislators should attempt a return to the prosaic script of our founders and learn a thing or two about K.I.S.S.: Keep It Simple Stupid.
- Take a very hard and objective look at all of Obama's appointments (those who made the vetting process, that is). There is not one appointment, cabinet, czar or otherwise, who does not have some kind of nefarious political connection to the Chicago crime machine or wall street.
- The press is corrupt and altogether unreliable as dispensers of information. Obama feeds them and they feed us with lies, disinformation, partial information, and creative semantics. The MSM can no longer be trusted to disseminate fact from fiction - it is up to us to do the research and draw our own conclusions without the subtle and subliminal messaging embedded in the major news outlets.
My partner and I are convinced the true power of our government lies with those who stand in the shadows, behind the politicians, pulling strings and engineering most of the economic up and downturns. They manufacture the crisis, then present themselves as the fix for the crisis with one goal and object in mind: to create more wealth for themselves, which in turn will grant them more power over others.
We don't want to sound like right-wing conspiracy theorists. We certainly don't enjoy the angst we feel that is a direct response to unprecendented world events. However, just in case, I think we will find a private island someplace and build a bunker - just in case.
