“Oh, you
scared me out of the crap,” Clara blurted.
Apparently the developing language centers in my
granddaughter’s five-year-old brain mixes her
metaphors and she repeatedly twists that expression.
I should correct her but I chuckle every time she
says it. When you think it through, if you are knee
deep in the crap, getting scared out of it is
actually a good thing. Pondering this, I concluded
there are many things which concern me, but only one
which truly scares me out of the crap. Let me
explain.
During the presidential campaign, then Senator
Barack Obama promised to fundamentally change
America and in spite of warnings from constitutional
conservatives, he was elected. In just 18 months,
the federal government has wrestled control of two
of the big three auto companies, insurance
companies, banks, and healthcare all while adding
$2.3 trillion to our national debt. (That is $127
billion in debt a month charged on the government
MasterCard.) Recently, and equally brilliant from a
collectivist viewpoint, the president began
redistributing $20 billion from British Petroleum to
anyone affected by the oil leak in the gulf. Not
surprisingly, the government is also taxing these
payments because the alligator is always fed first.
Last week, June 28th, the Senate Homeland Security
and Government Affairs Committee passed the
Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act,
S.3480. If S.3480 becomes law, the president will
have the authority to unequivocally shut down the
internet, wholly or partially, for up to four
months; exactly like regulations in place in China.
Kiss the First Amendment good bye. Progressives
controlling the Senate and House have shown no
capability of independent thought, so S.3480 will
rocket through Congress to the president’s desk. The
motto for this Congress is “we must pass and
implement this bill to know what is in it.”
The final three to ram through are carbon
cap-and-trade, amnesty for 11 million illegal
aliens, and the establishment of government funded
journalism. Expect to see all these passed and
implemented before the next congress is sworn into
office in 2011. Regardless your political
affiliation, religious beliefs, education,
occupation, or favorite sports team, you must
recognize the dangerous imbalance of power purposely
being created in Washington D.C. I fear so many
people ignore what is happening because their
loyalty to their party surpasses their loyalty to
the Constitution and that truly “scares me out of
the crap”.
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