What do you get when you take the foundation of a country and you systematically destroy it through certain measures and politically motivated actions? Well, the obvious outcome would be the downfall of that nation, and its democracy. But aside from that you run the risk of further disenfranchisement of the people. Well that's exactly what's taking place from Washington and now I simply keep track of the number of violations this Congress and new president have committed since taking office in January.

The latest violation of the constitution is the measure to grant the District of Columbia voting rights in the House of Representatives. Now, before you hail the advancement of democracy I must inform you of this breach. The constitution clearly states, again, the constitution clearly states that the Congress be made up of "several states", or the now 50 actual states(There weren't fifty states when the constitution was written of course) and that the District of Columbia be excluded from voting rights because it is not a state, its the nation's capital. Now, before we reject this latest violation we must go back and fix another. The people of Washington DC shouldn't have to pay taxes. Why? Because DC is not a state, regardless of its residents.

One might say this latest act of violation is one more step toward a more perfect union (I hate when people use that to justify their anti-American, unconstitutional actions) But this is something for more political and sinister. This move is a ploy by the Democrats to increase power. Tell me something, is it a coincidence that the DC area is 75% democratic? or am I just floating into the realm of conspiracy theorist again? I'd say neither. I would say that the Democrats want this one party rule come hell or high taxes. But for you GOP members who rail against this, oh I've got some news for ya. You know Orin Hatch much obliged this move because Utah will get an extra Republican vote in return. You know, I guess American democracy is up for sale. No it's up for grabs because no one has a steady hand on the tiller, but instead a they've got their foot on the gas toward a broken republic. And you know what happens when a republic cracks and crumbles don't you? You get increased disenfranchisement, dissent, and you can kiss peaceful protest goodbye because you'll have one violent revolution on your hands. And the end result? Cuba baby, Cuba. Now, where is our Che?

I suggest the Democrats and the few Republicans who wear short leashes and perform tricks for those same Democrats to straighten up for simply put get your butts tossed out like weekly trash pick up. We're not going to sit around and watch you pick our pockets, raise our taxes, release radical Muslim terrorists in our communities, violate our constitution, and expect to get away with it. By George, which ever George that may be, preferably the first and only George in my opinion unless it's also George C. Scott, we will stage the second revolution and this time, we will use ideas and integrity instead of guns and bombs. We are a peaceful people who wish to be left alone with our respect and dignity. But when our elected officials stone wall us with every legislation they can think of, we won;t take it much longer. But until then the saying goes: "When the parents are away, the children will play" Well, I have some news for ya, mom and dad are home, and we ain't happy. Now, clean up this mess or we're gonna put baby in the darn corner.

Last night the president spoke in front of a joint session of congress and, in front of the nation. Among other things Barack Obama talked about America inventing the automobile...only, we didn't invent the automobile, the Germans did. The speech was hyped as "Reaganesque" determined to paint him as a liberal version of the big Gipper the media drones were out in force last night to cover history. What? this makes it how many historic moments now? And I suppose the first time he went to the bathroom in the White House was historic, and the first time he wiped his nose in the oval office was historic; you get the picture right? I thought so troop. My problem with the speech, other than it being excessively long and drab, was that it lacked everything "REAGAN" and all things substance. Simply put the speech was an over hyped snore fest. I found myself playing a game of television channel catch up. It's where you have two of the same shows on two different channels and you switch back and forth so that whoever is on will literally finish his or her own sentence on a different channel. I know it sounds childish but I was that bored and tuned out. This was not a speech to win over the Libertarian crowd, I know because I am one. And judging by Frank Luntz's focus group analysis on Fox News well, it didn't win any of those folks over either. One guy who was unemployed said he simply doesn't believe Obama will get him a job and that expects to be unemployed for quite some time.

More important than the lack of new solutions was the barrage of old tired regressive solutions. "Using the full force of government" Yeah like we haven't heard that one before. Jimmy Carter said it hundreds of times in his speeches. What is this guy trying to pull? He's nothing new, in fact he's as old as time itself. His ideas, and his solutions to problems are older than the republic. These ideas come from European progressives and they don't work. If that were the case then why are workers rioting in France? Bobby Jindal had it dead on in his response. Though, Bobby could stand to learn the tricks of the TV trade, he looked nervous and robotic but that didn't chip away the truth of his words. He talked about the American spirit as an individual looking to his or herself for creative development and the answers, Obama proclaimed that the American people will realize their worth and then relinquish that worth to government in the name of a larger collective agenda. Again, Obama speaks in terms of a collective society; not a self reliant, individual one. In Obama's perfect Utopia there are no more individuals with the hassle of rights and the burden of personal responsibility, no, in Obama's world the government rallies us to do thy bidding.

Remember what his wife said during the campaign. She said "Barack will make you work. He will not allow you to sit on the sidelines." Well, we're seeing the coach rally his players now aren't we? I for one do not desire Barack to make me work. I'll work when and where I damn well please. But for the rest of you soft headed monkey children go ahead and follow the leader. Take in that malaise redux speech, digest the talking points, and when your rights are gone, when you're slaves to the state, and when this country is not longer recognizable then maybe you'll wake up. But by that time it would have already been too late. Words matter folks, and those words last night in that speech were prophetic. They sealed our big government, collectivist society fate.


Ah well, time to build that bomb shelter.

Well, politically he's a big coward. The Florida governor was just on Meet the Press talking about his open embrace of the Obama administration's 789 billion dollar government expansion plan. When asked by David Gregory if he was an Obama Republican(One would guess the excitement going up the legs of Gregory and others at NBC from the fact that a Republican governor might be on board with Obama, you know, swept by his charm) Crist of course said he wasn't. He said he was a Florida Republican, whatever the hell that's suppose to mean. What really made me sick of the guy was when David Gregory asked him who the leader of the party was and wow, he said no one, President Obama is the leader because he's president. Well, there you have it folks another soft headed RINO on the rampage trying to play politics over principles and he will not go far in this party. I believe Crist sealed his fate when he openly announced that he would accept this money and went on to glorify Obama's economic plans. Crist claims that he just looking out for Floridians and yeah that's fine, we expect that. But when you follow along, without any resistance to this monster expansion of federal powers over the state and local governments, why you need to be brought out to pasture as the Great One Mark Levin often says.

Crist doesn't realize or he just doesn't care that he basically signed away the rights and power of his state to the Obama administration and the federal government. That's what this slimeulus plan does Charlie old buddy. This plan is like selling your soul to the devil himself, or at least signing a bad record deal and giving your rights to a shady and greedy record executive. But does Charlie care? No he doesn't. if he was so concerned about the people of Florida then as Governor, or CEO of the state as he put it, why not I don't know act like a Governor and pull your state out of its financial circumstances. And don't tell me "Oh, this is beyond what state and local governments can do." No it's not. If that were the case then we should abolish governorships and the office of mayor because apparently now they have no power. They no longer run their states or cities; the government does. Happy now?

How about you just leave me alone? I'm a young man, I'm currently unemployed, and I'm about to start a term in college. I don't pay taxes right now, because my job hasn't started backup yet. So why would I expect a tax cut? That would be welfare and I don't want welfare; I want to left alone. The problem I see with this so called tax plan is that President Obama is basically giving away money we can't afford to give away. 30% of the 95% of Americans don't pay taxes, none, zilch. So why are we giving them a check? By the way I fall in that 30% and I don't want their money, I mean your money if your part of the top percentile in America. The way I see it, I can make my own cash at my job, which is a pretty good one I might add. No I don't work for some investment firm, or some big business. I work construction and make 15 bucks an hour, which is 130 dollars a day, and 695 bucks a week, every week. That's pretty good for a young lad like myself, feeling my way through life as a college student who didn't vote for Obama and doesn't subscribe to the idea that I'm owed something, because truth is I'm not. And you know what? You aren't either, so wise up and don't take the money. If you do then you're feeding a monster whose hunger will never be satisfied. Thomas Jefferson knew this to be true, that's why he said what I feel is the most important and relevant idea in human history: "That government is best which governs the least, because the people can govern themselves." I don't care how uncool I may be, that quote is the only form of legislation that we need right now. So why not turn those words into law? Oh right, we did transform those words into a document, it's called the Constitution. Remember that? President Obama.

Barack Obama is different. He's change, but change with a dire price perhaps. You see President Obama's new "vision" for America in the world is a far cry from George Bush's strident war on terror and his vision to spread democracy throughout a region in the world that has historically rejected all forms of civilized society and the rule of law. And if you compare Obama to the late Ronald Reagan then you're left with a lifetime of grasping for straws; because the similarities just aren't there. Reagan, despite what you thought of the guy understood the difference between an evil entity(Soviet Union), and a noble one(United States of America) and in that struggle for peace and freedom throughout the 20th century Reagan knew that one could not remain; the Soviet Union had to go, period. It was that strident and concrete conviction that made many conservative friends of mine idolize President Reagan, and many on the left despise him even now; five years after his death.


When you look at the fast track olive branches thrown at the feet of Europe, the Middle East, and the left in America Obama has all but thrown in the towel on American leadership in the world. His idea of American leadership is America as what the Russian Prime Minister calls a "first among equals" America cannot last as a first among equal superpowers because those other superpowers would be a communist state(China) and an authoritarian state(Russia). You can't stand beside nor work with governments and leaders who deep down envy your very existence. Not that China or Russia want to obliterate the US but they would rather see America as a marginalized power forced to play on their unbalanced field. Obama is doing exactly that when he seeks these overzealous measures to "mend" broken relationships with Russia. Look, we don't need to act first when it comes to the Russians and their aggressive Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. When you invade a former soviet territory unprovoked, use energy to manipulate an entire continent, and implement anti-human rights measures upon your media and people, all the while trying to provoke a country that is ten times stronger militarily than you are by placing broken down soviet era nuclear warships in that country's backyard then no, America shouldn't be the one to make the first move toward a relationship where we are the first among equals. I say Obama should realize that a moral superior and militarily superior US is in a much better position to negotiate than an America that is going out of its way to appease, I uh er uh I mean please adversarial nations like Russia.


When the the world sees Obama trying to cut nuclear arms down from 5,000 to 1,000, giving orders to the Pentagon to seek out budget cuts by 10% in the overall defense spending, while Russia tries to resurrect what they had in their days as a communist superpower, closing Guantanamo Bay, dropping charges against one of the men behind the USS Cole bombing, all of this may seem like a great step toward change to the untrained and wide liberal eye, but to those in the world and here in America who operate on a platform of reason and realism it looks like Obama is sending the message that Jimmy Carter sent. The message is that America can no longer stand first as the last foremost defender of freedom and justice. That America as Ronald Reagan and my hero Dwight Eisenhower saw it, as my other hero George Washington saw America, as a force for good in a world filled with evil men who do not respond to flowery rhetoric or pathetic gestures of appeasement and weakness. Yes, whomever said Obama was Jimmy Carter part two, well give that person a standing ovation because Obama is Jimmy Carter in a Gary Hart Halloween costume. By the way with that tan Gary had back in the eighties it's a wonder he wasn't mistaken as the first black presidential candidate with a serious shot at the White House. "Follow me" he used to say. Well twenty some odd years later the country decided to follow the first prize winner of a Gary Hart lookalike contest.

This time instead of finding a docked boat and Donna Rice we're going to follow Obama and find terrorists living in our communities because the "He who walks behind the rows" declared that America all of the sudden provides due process and constitutional rights to non-citizen terrorists. What an oxymoron from the mouth of a plain old liberal moron. Yes I said it, I can't give naive governance a chance because I'm smart enough to know that it will fail us all in the end. If someone from this so called "cabinet of powerhouses and superstars" doesn't stand up and be Ronald Reagan to Obama's Jimmy Carter then America will shrink not only in Gross Domestic Product but also military might and deterrent influence in the world. It's no coincidence that the Iranian leadership is openly mocking Obama's call for direct talks as a sign of America's declining ability to project firm principles when it came to our enemies. I suspect the Russians are saying the same when they hear Obama trying to "extend a hand" to shake a fist that will remain clinched for a long while.