My goal has always been for this blog to be more
than just a collection of silly, cliché-filled rants. A fair amount of research is done in order
that these posts will be intelligible, and, I hope, cause people to at
least think harder about the various subjects addressed. I know that the several
people who regularly visit here are deep thinkers, who care enough about our
country, that they're deeply troubled at the disastrous direction in which we're
headed. We have always shared
frustration over our inability to get through to most of our co-workers and
acquaintances on the subject of the ongoing national crisis. Some of you are probably celebrating the
sweeping nationwide Republican victories after Tuesday night's election. There are some things to celebrate for sure: here
on Long Island, six-term liberal Democrat Congressman Timothy Bishop, the Island's political version of the Ebola virus,
suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of the young Lee Zeldin. Lee has now rid
Long Island of two political cancers; several years ago having defeated the
benumbed Brian Foley (sponsor of NY's
dreaded MTA Tax) in a race for the state's
2nd senate district (thank you Lee, we owe you a great debt!). The malicious and deranged Senate majority
leader Harry Reid has been deposed, and the Democrats are now relegated to
minority status in both houses of Congress.
OK, the election is over now, so let's put the party hats and hooters
away and come back down to earth, shall we?
On election night, a good friend texted me a note
saying that it was looking good for the GOP, but that he wasn't sure how it all
translated for constitutional conservatives like us. His implication hit the nail on the head;
here's what I wrote back:
Allow
me to translate: RINOs, who possess neither the will nor the courage to stand
up to Obama, will now control Congress. He'll
now use his executive authority and the power of his executive regulatory
departments (all unconstitutionally) to continue to dismantle the
republic. Efforts by the few in Congress
who have the will to stop him, will be marginalized by the RINOs, stymied by
the bureaucracy and the leftist courts, and eviscerated by Obama's media-driven
spin machine.
Even prior to
the election, the befuddled Mitch
McConnell announced that, if Republicans were victorious, he would agree to
the passage of a massive Omnibus bill that would consolidate multiple bills sought
after by Obama and Reid. These Omnibus
packages are stuffed with pork on a grand scale that represent billions in
wasteful spending. McConnell's warped
rationale is that he wants to quickly conclude business in the lame duck
session so that the new Republican majority can start with a clean slate in
January. He's already sold us out and he
hasn't even assumed his role as majority leader yet. The Obama administration was very quiet about
their plans for a post-election, unilateral executive branch regulatory
blitz. The White House Mafia has
mobilized the federal immigration authorities, the EPA, HUD, and other federal
departments to unleash imperial rules and regulations, in an end-run around Congress,
to grant amnesty for millions of illegals, enshrine new restrictions on power
plants, institute new unnecessary federal minority housing laws, and more. All of this in violation of the constitution's
separation of powers, steamrolling over state and local authorities with a
massive, liberty curtailing federal/executive branch power grab. The lame duck senate will be complicit in all
of this; not to mention that body's likely rubber stamping of the capo-in-chief
's midnight judges and other nominees, before the Republicans take over in the
new year.
And how will the new senate RINO majority react to
all of this? C'mon everyone, you know
they'll do absolutely nothing about it! Sure,
McConnell will mumble a little whimpering, feckless protest, there'll be the
usual few brave voices who will speak up, sponsor legislation, and deliver a
few scathing floor speeches. But those
few will not have the backing of the leadership of their own party, their
efforts will die, we'll lose another modicum of our liberty, and it will be
back to business as usual. There have
been Republican majorities before, and what have they gotten us? The federal government is spending more,
taxing more, regulating more, and in more debt than it has ever been in our
history; this proceeds apace no matter who's in charge. Phony tofu conservatives like Mitch
McConnell, John Boehner, and their
big-government liberal lap dogs are not the answer, and we all know it.
So now that I took a
crap on your parade, what's the solution to this huge and ever-growing
mess? Well, to be perfectly honest,
there are no easy solutions. We must
continue to educate the public, continue to encourage voters to select
constitutional conservatives in Republican primaries, continue to write checks
to conservative advocacy organizations, continue to write letters of protest
when our elected officials blow their noses in the constitution, and yes, vote
for the slightly less evil Republicans over the more evil Democrats, until such
time that conservatives gain a real foothold in the GOP party machine. But make no mistake, these steps, while
necessary, will not succeed in saving this country. For years, the great Mark Levin has been educating the public through his nationally syndicated
radio show and his outstanding books.
He's provided the roadmap for national salvation; now we need to follow
it. Ultimately, the only chance we have
of turning the ship around, is to continue to encourage state legislators all
over the country to sign on to an Article
V convention of the states, to consider amendments to our federal
Constitution. This will be one of the
most important national dialogs in our history, and it must take place if
liberty is to survive in this country.
Only amendments to the Constitution, designed to reinforce the Founders'
intent, that we have so callously and foolishly abandoned, are obligatory. We need amendments to establish balanced budgets,
term limits for all elected officials and the federal judiciary, to abolish the
17th amendment, and to generally reinforce the separation of powers and states'
rights; necessary constitutional principles which have been intentionally
flouted on the way to a counterfeit socialist "utopia." Pretending that last night's Republican
election victory is the answer to America's institutional problems, is just
simply delusional.
