It's Time We Found Out

It is becoming increasingly apparent that a significant number of our representatives in Washington are working for someone other than their constituents back home. I don’t know who is buying members of Congress, or how much they cost, but someone has outbid us. Someone, it would seem, is willing to pay a great deal more for their services than we are.

Now I know we could call the behavior of these “public servants” shocking, reprehensible and treacherous, for it most certainly is, but perhaps we just need to suck it up and face reality. Perhaps we’re just going to have to try to buy these slippery, double-crossing charlatans back.

Without question a venture of this kind will be costly--both in time and money. No one is disputing that. But in the long run it may turn out to be a whole lot cheaper to purchase back these turncoats, and put them to work for us again, than to have things remain as they are now.

So here is my proposal. Maybe some of you will have a better idea, but this is mine: In order to acquire the necessary funds, we could initiate state-wide fund raisers in every city--large and small. Well, why not? There are any number of ways to pick up a loose quarter here and a spare dime there. For example, we could put people out on busy street corners, like the Salvation Army does at Christmastime, with signs that read: “Please help us buy back Senator Harry Reid!” Additionally, families could forego a vacation and donate the money they saved, or women could take in laundry. And kids--even small ones--could get after-school jobs. We could then take the funds generated from these various endeavors, pool them, and use the proceeds to buy back our representatives in Washington.

Okay, I know what you’re thinking. Taking on a task of this nature and magnitude will involve making painful sacrifices and bearing countless hardships. But again, I ask you. Will these sacrifices and hardships be any greater than the ones we now are enduring, and will go on enduring, if our government officials continue to work against us instead of for us?

I say let’s stop grumbling and get this disagreeable but necessary project underway. We’ve got work to do, friends. So don’t delay! Don’t hesitate! Break the news to your family that Disneyland is out of the question this year, stock up on more laundry detergent, and find the kids’ social security cards.

It’s time we found out once and for all what U.S. Senators are selling for in today’s market.

“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.” --Theodore Roosevelt, April 19, 1906

To Save A Great Nation

In the past I have written about Harry Reid. (Please refer to Feb. 2, 2009 post). I don’t like writing about Harry Reid because writing about Harry Reid inevitably requires the mentioning of offensive matter processed by the bowels. Nevertheless, I believe it is time we return to the unpleasant subject of Harry Reid.

Harry Reid is coming up for reelection on November 2, 2010, and although I understand, as we all do, that excrement happens, I don’t believe it should occupy a seat in the U.S. Senate. So here is an opportunity for us to flush Harry Reid down the toilet and put him in the septic tank with other raw sewage where he belongs.

Okay, now that we have the really repugnant part of this out of the way, let us get on with the milder, though no less important, aspects of our case against Harry Reid.

We Americans seem temporarily to have lost our sense of priorities and proportions. We are more concerned about the qualifications of airline pilots, train engineers and bus drivers than we are with the qualifications of those we entrust with the important job of guiding our great nation. For instance, we didn’t know diddly squat about Barack Obama’s personal and political background, and still don’t, yet we elected him to the highest political post in the land.

This isn’t the way it is supposed to be, dear friends. The people--we the people--are supposed to be thoroughly and meticulously scrutinizing candidates before electing and reelecting them to public office. This entails, for the most part, avoiding the mainstream media’s liberal biases while assiduously gathering and sharing information from more honest and reliable sources.

Come on folks, let’s get real here. We are considering these candidates for service as trustees of a trust--a very sacred and valuable trust. These men and women will be holding the fate of our entire nation in their hands. The future welfare and happiness of our children and grandchildren will depend largely upon the kinds of decisions they make in our behalf.

Think about it. How much weight can you put into a boat before it sinks? And similarly, how much debt load can a nation, even a great nation, bear before it goes under? We have to start getting practical and serious about our future. We’re in grave danger, people!

In times like these, more than ever, we need honest, capable and trustworthy men and women in public office. This is no time to be reelecting misguided and corrupt politicians like Harry Reid who pose as champions of the people while recklessly spending every available dollar in the U.S. Treasury, whether it be a tax dollar or a borrowed one, to fund their twisted and cockeyed vision of America.

Let’s be candid. Harry Reid is ill-equipped both mentally and morally to be a U.S. Senator, regardless of what he may say about himself or what his supporters in the liberal media may say about him. He has clearly demonstrated that he is a staunch opponent of limited government and a very strong supporter of big government. He has clearly demonstrated that he believes in taking power away from the many and consolidating it in the hands of a select few. He has clearly demonstrated that he is in favor of replacing people rule with elitist rule, elitist rule being a government administered by people like Harry Reid who believe hard-working American taxpayers are too stupid to know what’s best for them.

There is, and I know you can all smell it, a putrid stench emanating from our nation’s capital. Please join with me in removing the source of that stench, Harry Reid and other odious officials like him, from public office. It is not this generation’s calling to establish a great nation, but it is this generation’s calling to save a great nation from destruction.

If you are not already one, become a true American patriot!

“Government is a trust, and the officers of government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.” --Henry Clay

A Dark and Tragic Tale of Despair

Sundays are decep-tively quiet in the town where I live. In the morning men cringingly nurse their throbbing hangovers with generous doses of tomato juice and Tabasco sauce, and then hurry off to church with their hastily groomed families in tow, usually arriving a little late. When church has run its course, they return to their homes tired and out of sorts, and take a nap, if circumstances prevented them from catching one during the sermon. Later, if there is a sporting event on, they immerse themselves deeply into that so they may engage vicariously in a contrived and distant thrill while they swill beer and devour anything loaded with empty calories and salt. In the evening, when it starts to settle in that tomorrow is a workday, they grow moody and restive. Another feeding frenzy begins. Frequent trips are made to the refrigerator and cupboards in search of snacks of questionable nutritional value. As the evening wears on, unflattering words are sporadically and off-handedly fired off with no particular victim in mind, and copious quantities of Alka-Seltzer are gulped down. Finally, in a last ditch attempt to stave off the inevitable, a frantic and futile effort is made to find something on TV that is the entertainment counterpart of what they’ve been eating all day. Around 10:30 p.m. defeat is begrudgingly declared. Teeth are brushed, spouses and children are kissed goodnight and the day ends, much as it began, with a creeping and haunting fear that this is as good as it may ever get.

An Opportunity Of A Lifetime

Even a casual study of the writ-ings of those who framed our govern-ment persuades one to believe that the Founders, without question, viewed the people as the ultimate and most reliable restraint upon it. It was their hope that the American people would appreciate and cherish their rare form of government enough to nurture it, watch over it and, most of all, to protect it from the corrosive affects of mischievous and self-serving office holders who for one reason or another might decide to ignore and circumvent the Constitution--the sacred agreement that binds us together as a nation, and which our elected officials are sworn to uphold.

But alas, the Founders’ hopes were not fully realized. It turns out that their confidence in us was largely misplaced. Decades ago, Americans began forsaking their birthright and going off this way and that way in search of the “good life.” We have had neither the time nor the inclination to look after our government. Indeed, many of us don’t even know how it is supposed to work or what is so extraordinary about it. We all have been too deeply engaged in the highly addictive activity of acquiring things, things we thought we needed to have in order to be happy.

But the sad irony of it is, we may soon lose all those things we’ve accumulated through hard work and easy credit, and become downright unhappy. For while our eyes were directed elsewhere, our once limited government expanded itself well beyond its intended boundaries. And now the unwieldy monster wants to control everything and everybody in its sight. We allowed the camel to get its nose under the tent and now it’s trying to do what the Founders feared--push us out.

So is it too late to do anything about it? Perhaps. But personally I don’t think we should go down without a fight. We are, after all, the sons and daughters of patriots. We may have temporarily forgotten that, but we are blood-kin to daring men and women, bold risk takers who came to this country with little or nothing and created the best damn nation in the history of the world. All we have to do is get that noble blood pumping in our veins again.

Let’s face it, most of us know deep in our hearts that what our government is doing in the name of social and economic “reform” is wrong. Dead wrong! The government’s policies, whether calculated to do so or not, are backing all of us into a corner. Our government, let me repeat that, our government is gradually and methodically enslaving us. There’s no other way of putting it.

Daniel Webster once wrote: “It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.”

Dear friends, that is precisely where we’re at. We have in the highest levels of our government men and woman who are promising, in effect, to be good masters. They say they want us to have affordable health care, better schools, cleaner air and safer cities. But there’s just one catch, they want to take away our liberties in exchange for those things, things they won’t even be able to deliver.

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m not going to be able to accept their terms. So, like a prodigal son, I’m going to return to my civic responsibilities. I’m going to begin taking less interest in my stuff and a lot more interest in my government, the government that was created and bequeathed to me at great cost by my forefathers. And I’m going to fight tyranny, just as they did, with every legitimate means and tool at my disposal.

And I invite any who may read this to join with me in what is certain to be an exciting and glorious adventure, an opportunity of a lifetime.

“Our union is now complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved. You are now the guardians of your own liberties. --Samuel Adams