We Have Been Here Before!

Year end presents the opportunity to engage in our most serious reflection of the past and strengthen our resolutions of amendment for the future.  It has been a year to be remembered and a year of warning, in that, we hope the country will reflect upon and realize the consequences of their actions (i.e., the election of B. Hussein Obama).  We must resolve that this type of travesty never be allowed to threaten our country again. We must also resolve to make every effort roll back the most egregious actions of the last Congress and to mitigate the adverse effects of those we cannot.

This past year has produced, under the most inept and corrupt Congress and Administration in history, unimaginable national debt, recession, unconstitutional power grabs and political infighting.  A palpable fear permeates ‘America the Great’ that it will soon be replaced by more vigorous rivals abroad.  This, understandably, is cause for most Americans to feel depressed, anxious, and just plain angry.  Yet, as prominent as these feelings are now, this fear and anxiety is as old as it is unlikely.

The Great Depression of the 1930’s was widely believed to portend the death of entrepreneurial American capitalism; the 1950’s, was portrayed as a morose period of mindless American conformity, McCarthyism and the much maligned corporate group-think.

The assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK, along with the Vietnam War of the 1960’s spawned the ‘hippie counterculture’ that was supposedly going to replace the ‘evil’ American establishment. (The current administration is rife with the burn-outs from this movement.) Oil shocks, gas lines, Watergate and rust belts were said to mark the post-industrial decline of America of the 1970’s.

We were told, at the same time, that other nations (communist and socialist) were doing far better.

 Mao Zedong took the throne in China and instigated and/or inspired communist revolutions from North Korea to Cuba. Liberal elitists, worldwide and in the US, crowed that Statist central planning was going to replace the perceived unfairness and inefficiency of Western-style capitalism and reign supreme for millennia. Yet, a mere half-century later, most communist dominated countries have (or are about to) implode and now adorn the ash-heap of history.

By the 1980’s, Japan, Inc., with its focus upon the group rather than the individual and its state capitalism was heralded as the perfect balance between the public and private sectors. The bubble burst in the ‘90s with a real estate crisis and a lack of fiscal transparency leading to a collapse of property prices followed by a general recession.  Since then, an aging and shrinking Japanese population, led by a secretive government, continues to struggle in recovery mode.  (These are lessons we should study carefully.)

The beginning of the 21^st century saw the European Union hailed as the enlightened paradigm of Western Civilization’s future.  Now Europe lurches from major crisis to major crisis, dysfunctional with its socialist entitlements. The European system is ossifying as evinced by a shrinking population, a growing atheism, and an inability to integrate immigrants (Muslims) or field a credible military.

Today, the ‘Big C’, China, we are told, will be the global colossus replacing the United States in influence and power. However, these doomsayers fail to account for the mounting social tensions, mercantilism, environmental degradation and state bosses with more a 19^th century mindset than a 21^st century nation.

All this doom and gloom we perceive today has been present in various degress over the decades and begs a couple of observations:

First, America goes through periodic bouts of anxiety and self-doubt only to wake up and snap out of it, more confident than ever.

Second, ‘decline’ is as subjective as it is relative. As the economic and scientific values of the United States ripple out to the undeveloped world, it is inevitable that countries like China, India and Brazil will be thrust into the 21^st century experiencing initial rapid growth.

All this being said, a nation’s strength and future is demonstrated by its demography, culture and institutions rather than temporary lapses of sanity, as demonstrated by the 2008 US presidential election.  America  absorbs and assimilates immigrants of multiple races and ethnicities in a way that Russia, China, Japan and the Islamic world are simply not culturally equipped to do.

The American Constitution, tested for over 223 years, has proved resilient in surviving a bloody civil war, two World Wars, police actions, ‘authorizations of force’, depressions and bouts of self-pity and doubt.  It shall, as shall we, survive our current state of affairs and be the stronger for it.  Our time-honored political, economic, military and social foundations remain strong and able to withstand the assaults, current and future, as they always have.

Be heartened, therefore, America and turn your eyes, at the dawn of a new year, upon the opening scenes of a grand future, secure in the confidence that victory will be ours over all threats … foreign and domestic.

Semper Vigilans (Always Vigilant)!

The Pogo Rule

Barack Hussein Obama and his Democrat sycophants are experiencing the painful axiomatic truth of that timeless philosopher, Pogo:  “We have met the enemy, and he is us.”

With a disingenuousness that can only be described as pathological, Democrats and the Obama administration ceaselessly attribute every shortcoming and mistake they themselves have made on the Great Scape-Goat of Talking Points, ‘the last eight years.’  This, of course, is code for George W. Bush.

They also, in full denial mode, blame their own lack of leadership in being able to produce anything of merit on an “obstructionist”  (code for Republican) opposition party.  They refuse to admit that they, the Democrat Congress, had the super-majority necessary to pass any and all half-baked, lame brained legislation they cared to propose without regard to any Republican opposition.  The Republicans were in no position to obstruct anything!  The Democrats were obstructing themselves.

America is witnessing the spectacular implosion of a once proud and dynamic political party right before their eyes.  Flailing about wildly, lashing out at anyone and everyone, including themselves, in a disparate attempt for survival, this cataclysmic event is being fueled by an even more spectacular disintegration of a President. 
An inexperienced administration led by an inexperienced president is on the path to complete and utter failure and will go down in history as such.

Obama may have been able to organize a community, but he is completely out of his league now … much to the detriment of the country.

The Bloom Is Off - and none too soon!

It has taken right at a year for the opiate of the Obama ascension to dissipate from the life blood of America. The voting public, going through the withdrawal process and none too happy with the date-rape drug it was slipped in 2008, is retaliating with a vengence.

The heady speeches, grand promises, the sweeping 'hope and change' have proved fleeting and empty. Obama, the temporary occupant of the White House, has been revealed the empty suit he always was but cleverly hidden. Proving that marketing and packaging can sell anything.

Everyone, except the delusional Democrat/Liberal ruling class, saw this coming last spring with the explosion of the Tea Party movement and manifesting itself with the Massachusetts Miracle this Tuesday past with the election of a Conservative Republican to fill the chair of the most liberal lion of the past fifty years in the United States Senate!

The outrage, anger, disgust, mis-trust and outright revulsion that our current Congress and President engender, was channeled and focused through the person of Scott Brown of small town Wrentham, MA.

The message sent is clear and unmistakable. "We the people" of the United States are fed up with lies, pork-pies, back-room deals, and just about all else that Washington has become. Of course, the Delusional Ruling Class are in deep, deep denial that they have been found out and rejected.

"How dare the little people", they say to each other. "Don't they know they are dependent upon we, who know all, see all? Do they really think they have the ability to know what is best for them? No, they really did not mean what they did in MA; a childish tantrum that will pass. There, there little man. Just take a deep breath and send us your money. We know how to spend it for you better than you...don't worry about a thing."

Democrats are consoling and convincing themselves that the 'Brown episode' is just an anomaly. MA votes just suffered some form of mass insanity and will quickly come back around. This attitude was verbalized in the recent interview given by Obama on ABC. The Denier-In-Chief said that the "same anger that swept Scott Brown into office is the same that swept me into office." This anger, thinks he, is at the "past eight years" (ie. Bush)! A psychotic fixation if there ever were one. Mental health specialists all over the country lept to their feet in joy. The President is pathological. What a boon for their trade! The diagnosis de jour; the botique treatment of the year. "Bush Derangement Syndrome" is offically a disability!

No, Obama. It was not lingering anger at George W. Bush....it was current anger at YOU and your ilk in Washington! The sooner you come to grips with this, the better for the country.

MA, the little state that roared, has sent a message, loud and clear: smaller government; Constitutional adherence; a military second to none; and across the board tax cuts to right our sinking ecomony.

Republicans, better listen! This was not an endorsement of you either. This message had best be adopted by the new Republicans seeking office in November. A Conservative Republican Party had better emerge...dare I say a Tea-Party Republican Party.

Just another little message about your agenda, Obama ... "No We Won't!"

Obama Heckeled in MA....Left Speechless!

Here is a clip of today's (1/17/10) rally in MA for Coakley.  First of all, he could not even fill the hall.  Second..., he was heckled during one of his 'perfect' speeches.  he did not know how to handle it.  The experience left him speechless.  A beautiful thing to see!