(Updated 7/22/14)
America’s mainstream media is Obama’s Zamboni. Let us explain why.
Unless our President has an unlikely epiphany, The Constitution is well on its way to becoming irrelevant, a tattered historic relic.
Mr. Obama, we are told, was a “Professor of Constitutional Law” which, if true, is what makes his administration doubly dangerous to America’s Founding Documents. A “legal scholar” knows which loopholes to exploit, in this case to concentrate more and more power into the presidency while diminishing the influence of the other two branches. It’s fairly obvious these days how the Executive Branch dominates, while the lawmakers of Congress, and its ultimate interpreters, the Supreme Court (despite a few recent decisions rebuking Executive fiat) have been reduced to endless, ineffectual committees and very expensive rubber stamps.
Is this not the very thing our Founders crafted The Constitution to avoid? Is this not what they pledged fortune and life to avoid? Is this not what our nation’s dearest blood was shed to avoid? Was not our Founders primary goal to keep us free of kings, emperors, dictators and tyrants?
It appears, according to some outspoken Senators as well as many members of the House, that, unable to get the Republican House to go along with his agenda of “change,” the President has chosen to operate far out in the borderlands of Constitutional interpretation: circumventing law by fiat; using his “pen and phone” in an almost casual way; persuading the heads of our bureaucracies to go along, not by direct order, but by making his will obvious to the sycophants in the Federal bureaucracy, who then carry out his wishes seemingly without conscience. When caught, they simply lie to Congress, and that, it seems, is that. And why wouldn’t they? If anything, they are promoted to continue their mischief in another tentacle of the bureaucracy. And shockingly, because the President apparently detests it, this includes the mightiest military the world has ever seen!
It shocks me because until now, I never would have believed so many in our nation would be so quick, so willing, to go along with a president on an aggressive, shady campaign against plain ordinary American tradition. From the IRS to the NSA, HHS, DHS and the US Armed Forces, just to mention a few initials, Big Brother increasingly aims its unblinking eyes and digital ears on its own patrons – the taxpayers of America! Those military leaders of General rank who may stand in opposition to the President’s agenda, on the grounds that they took and oath to obey and protect The Constitution, seem to, to quote one such famous General “...Just fade away.”
The Senate seems cowed into going along, or at least pretends to be. The House, unable to muster enough courage to stop the trampling of Constitutional law, buries its head in the sands of endless committee investigations, and turns to the numb American public for support.
The Fourth Estate, granted special rights by the Constitution, seems to have willingly transformed itself into a Stalinist-style propaganda arm of the Administration, feeding the unwashed a daily dose of attention diverting malarky. The President and his advisors know that the news cycle will force the media to overshadow today’s Presidential blunder with tomorrow’s bad news. Thus Fast & Furious is obscured by Benghazi which is obscured by a missing Malaysian Airliner which is obscured by The Crimea which is obscured by an invasion of kids at our southern border which is obscured by the Middle Eastern mess which is obscured by a Maylasian Airlines/Ukrainian/Russia mess. And tomorrow it will be something else, won’t it? The White House counts on it. It’s the smooth, transparent ice they skate on. The mainstream media is their Zamboni. Sycophants, all. Traitors to truth.
So, with uneducated and uninvolved voters mesmerized by electronic devices, games, sports, social media and all the rest, becoming a kind of permanently zombified majority, kept in thrall by government handouts, how exactly are those who oppose the destruction of our precious Constitutional rights supposed to help?
The very people paid to protect and educate us have turned against us.
Well, we are told, when We the People have lost faith in the Keepers of the Constitution, the options it grants us are clear; the most obvious being the vote. If conservatives and traditionalists can win back the Senate, and increase Republican House numbers so that presidential vetoes can be overturned, they may be able to reign in the chaos. Reign in the unheard-of levels of wasteful spending and borrowing.
But that very same voting system, itself the beating heart of a republic, in the hands of the “machine,” has been corrupted along with the rest of our Constitutional safeguards. Leftists, uber liberal groups in this country have been emboldened by the tepid resistance they’ve met virtually every step of the way, and will now do whatever it takes to keep their Democrat servants in power. And I mean anything it takes! They giggle now, mocking any attempt to paint them as what they are; insidious agents of a philosophy which has never improved anything anywhere. They have no fear of silly-hat-wearing Tea Party activists. Nor do we internet bloggers and patriots-in-the-aether have a tangible organization – an antibiotic strong enough to slow the steadily increasing infection.
There are other Constitutional suggestions for dealing with despots. No, not suggestions, sacred duties! When a majority of the citizens living in any territory have feel their government is not working to their benefit, it is their prerogative to dissolve that government and form a new one.
The only issue on which the nation seems to be united is its visceral dislike for and distrust of ObamaCare. While the President’s poll numbers continue to drop, he remains intransigent. This is not just his “signature legislation,” it’s one of the gold rings in the Socialist Merry-Go-Round. Once you are ensconced in government dictated healthcare insurance data banks, you might as well tattoo a number on your forehead. You are now officially reduced to a few bytes in the bottomless datapits of our arachnid-like bureaucracy. In 2014, Orwell’s “1980” is nothing more than a quaint idea. Each of the ABC agencies is becoming interlaced in a sticky spyweb aimed, not so much at our adversaries in other nations, but at you, the American Middle Class and the Wealthy. Because it is you, not foreign enemies, which the bureaucracy mistrusts most.
But this is America! Will we allow ourselves to be chained to this arcane “progressive” agenda? Have we ever measured our personal success in little units of government “permissions” or in degrading government handouts? Our (and especially our children’s) opportunities should be as boundless as America’s geography, limited only by our ethics, individual drive and whatever God-given talents we have been blessed with in this life. To paraphrase Lincoln, we should be left alone to enjoy our talents!
Conservatives, liberals, men, women, young and old, people of every belief ethnicity and color, ask yourselves; do we not all want the same thing? Freedom to live our lives unshackled by legions of bureaucrats! Do we need Big Brother and Sister to tell us how to live? Who we are? What we are “allowed” to have? Did we ever have “Them” standing right behind our doctors or teachers or bankers, dictating what medical treatment we are allowed to have, or what propaganda we are allowed to learn, or how much of our own earnings we are allowed to keep for ourselves? In the name of Righteousness, demand that your Congressmen take action to stop this rape of The Constitution. Demand it! Do not fear leaders who attempt to limit your freedom... right is on your side. And might resides in the great numbers of decent and common-sensical people in our nation.
If the big government juggernaut continues unchecked, this nation and its Constitution will be nothing more than part of the lackluster One World Socialist paradigm, with nothing more to distinguish it than a footnote in future history books: “Before becoming a Third World Nation, the United States was a Constitutional Republic, a nation of free men, a powerhouse of innovation, a world leader, trusted and looked up to by its allies, and respected and feared by its adversaries around the globe.”
A puppet of global socialists, a grinning Pinocchio, carved in Chicago, sleeps for twenty-five years in pews, marinating in the America-bashing Reverand Wright preaches. The President doesn’t seem to realize how his actions suggest he and the Mrs. feel no sense of gratitude toward the nation which provided them with so much. Or do they think they owe it nothing? He willingly humiliates it, spends it into insolvency, does his damndest to end its unparalleled historic success. All this he does, in his own spiteful words: to “Bring it down a notch.”
