Posted by
Patrick Henry on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 10:40:54 PM
It's done! Barack Hussein Obama has been sworn in as the 44th president of the
United States of America. He has reveled in his $150M self-congratulatory party
and mingled with his celebrity pals. But this morning reality sets in.
The country faces the worst recession in 50 years and is engaged in two wars. It's
time to go to work. We will all have to sacrifice, the president tells us. Times ahead
will be hard, he promises. And most amazing of all is the host of conservative
commentary urging us to get behind this president and assuring us that there is much
good that can come out of the landslide Democratic electoral victories. On inauguration
day, the media sycophants must have repeated Obama's name 100,000 times. Barack
Obama, Barack Obama, Barack Obama, droned on every major network channel as
though it were some kind of magic incantation that would wipe away the dangers
and pitfalls facing us all.
Most striking of all, was Obama's own repeated claim that "we are one." That
sounds really good, and coupled with the few bones he threw conservatives among
his cabinet appointments almost leads one to believe that he WILL, in fact, govern
from the center. Don't get too excited about the prospect, though.
He has alreay announced the closing of Guantanamo Bay (without saying what
will become of the murderous scum jailed there). He and his congressional cronies
have already promised to repeal portions of the Patriot Act. He has promised to do
away with "don't ask, don't tell" thereby allowing open gays to serve in the military
(against the advice of most senior officers). He has promised to suspend the prohibition
against the use of federal funds for abortion, endorse the card check bill that will allow
unions to strongarm their way into businesses without a secret ballot, pass a sweeping
amnesty for illegal aliens and dole out hundreds of billions of dollars in "stimulus"
funding. PRECIOUS FEW OF THESE ITEMS WOULD PASS A NATIONAL
REFERENDUM, suggesting that he will use his status as "the anointed one" to
enact laws contrary to the wishes of a majority of the people.
Worse, he has appointed Carol Browner, recently a commissioner in the
Interbational Socialist Party as his climate/energy advisor. You may remember
her. She left after Bill Clinton's presidency under a cloud for destroying e-mails
that she had expressly been prohibited from deleting by a court order. Browner
is an open champion of Marxist ideology and her favortie hobby horse is decoupling.
Decoupling is what happens when the government guarantees the electric company's
profits without regard to how much electricity they sell. Therefore they produce
less and the rate payer/taxpayer foots the bill, paying more for less energy. Get ready
for it, because it IS coming.
According to a recent poll, a majority of Americans no ,longer believe that climate
change is primarily linked to human actvitiy, but rather is a product of planetary
factors such as the oceans. In fact, many scientists have noted that for the past nine
years the earth has actually been cooling. Yet every speech Obama gives and every
policy he formulates seems to be based on a premise that American do not believe
or support. So tell me, in view of all these contradictions, how are we one?
The media has already made their choice to be sheep, a choice that will become
more and more bitter as the realities begin to separate from the myth. But the rest
of us have a choice. We don't have to be sheep! And we had best begin now reminding
Obama and his gang, as well as our elected legislative representatives, that in America
the only long-term governance is "by the consent of the governed."