Words I Wish “Feddle Gummint” Officials Lived By

All of ’em have to take this oath, but few, it seems, mean anything by it when they do.

I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

Dumb Idea

The soi-disant “Tea Party Express” has come up with a stupid idea: raise $700,000 to offer to Bart Stupak to resign.

“If Bart Stupak is considering resigning then we want to do what we can to help him along in that decision. Exchanging your votes, principles and decisions for money seems to be the modus operandi for Bart Stupak. So how do we find $700,000 to get this corrupt and failed politician out of office, so that we can get a representative of the people, who respects the Constitution, to take Stupak’s seat?” asked Mark Williams, Chairman of the Tea Party Express.

I understand the thought, but it’s still stupid. Paying Danegeld only makes the “Dane” go away until he wants some more. Although Kipling was speaking of nations paying “protection money” to aggressors, the principle’s the same,

Danegeld

IT IS always a temptation to an armed and agile nation,
To call upon a neighbour and to say:
“We invaded you last night – we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away.”

And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you’ve only to pay ’em the Dane-geld
And then you’ll get rid of the Dane!

It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say:
“Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away.”

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.

It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray,
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say:

“We never pay any one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost,
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!”

Send These to Congress

Do you think if we sent a raft of these to Congress we could keep the “idjit congresscritters” busy enough to get ’em out of our hair for a while?

It’s worth a shot…


Note plans and instructions here showing how you too can make The World’s Most Useless Machine.

Missing the Point

Peggy Noonan is a bright gal, of that there is no doubt, but that she is bright does not stop her from being blinded by her own biases. Case in point: an opinion piece, “The Heat Is On. We May Get Burned,” dated March 27, 2010, published in the Wall Street Journal, in which she says,

The beehive was already angry about a million things a year ago, and most of those things, obviously, were not the fault of the administration. People are angry at their economic vulnerability. They are angry at the deterioration of our culture, angry at our nation’s deteriorating position in the world, at our debts and deficits, our spending and taxing, our threatened security in a world of weapons of mass destruction. Their anger is stoked by cynical politicians and radio ranters and people who come home at night, have a few drinks, and spew out their rage on the comment thread. It’s a world full of people always cocking the gun and ready to say, if things turn bad, “But I didn’t tell anyone to shoot!”

And yes, this mood, this anger, has only been made worse by this yearlong, enervating, exhausting, enraging fight over health care. The administration is full of people who are so bright, and led by one who is very bright, and yet they have a signal failure: They do not know what time it is. They cannot see how high the temperature is. They cannot for the life of them understand that they raise it.

Just to be obvious, let me repeat the signal lapse of the article: “They cannot see how high the temperature is. They cannot for the life of them understand that they raise it.”

Throwing the bullshit flag on that one, Peggy. From the evidence, it is clear that they do “see how high the temperature is” and do “understand that they raise it.” From Rahm Emanuel’s clearly-stated desire to not “waste a good crisis,” to the shady deals, bully tactics and flat out lies perpetrated by The Ø and his minions and cohorts in crime, the only clear message is that they do understand what they are doing and believe that their tactics will win them their goals of expanded power over the lives of common citizens (known, more than likely, among their circle as “the little, unimportant people” and not The People). The fact that if one were to study the background of the people abusing their power to expand control over our lives and apply Occam’s Razor to understanding the strategy underlying their tactics, one would probably discover that the Cloward-Piven Strategy meets all the criteria needed to analyze the reasons for their tactics.

Cloward-Piven? Yes, Peggy, if you’d been paying attention outside the Beltway circle of “real-to-‘your-kind-ofpeople'” echo chamber, you’d have grasped long since the parrallels between The Ø!’s behavior since the day he took office and now and the plan for radicalizing American society that had a great deal of currency during The Ø!’s Columbia years by Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, Columbia professors of sociology. Simply stated, that strategy is,

[T]he strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis…. [T]he “Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.

Every single thing The Ø’s administration and the Dhimmicrappic leadership have done in the last year points to following the precepts outlined in that strategy and hastening its fruition. Indeed, that last part, hastening the fruition of the strategy, has become the chief reason for pushing so hard to implement The Ø!’s Healthscare Bill: the sooner the collapse happens, the sooner The Ø! and his minions can assert draconian control to “restore order”.

The Ø! and his minions must push harder than ever now, they must manufacture more and worse “crises” in order to be able to make the ballot box even more irrelevant than it has already become in these days of blatant Dhimmicrappic cheating and Repugnican’t incompetence (and, not hard to admit, deaf ears of their own to constituents’ right, liberties and calls for representation).

These modern day traitors must poush harder than ever, else their treason will not prosper and they then be called to account for their treason.

“We the Government… “

Government of the politicians, by the politicians and for the politicians…

a Michael Ramirez Cartoon

” …in order to form a more destructive polity, chain Liberty with our hubris, destroy the General Welfare and establish serfdom for all the ‘little people’ and their future generations (but not our own progeny, of course) give you, the inconsequential serfs… Obumacare.”

But we were born free, weren’t we? Weren’t we?

Opposition to Obumascare Still Growing

WaPo reports that “more than three dozen states” have some sort of measures either passed or in the works in opposition to the “feddle gummint” takeover of health care:

States opposing health-care legislation

As President Obama prepares to sign the health-care bill into law, Republican legislators in more than three dozen states are seeking to challenge U.S. government authority. They contend that the bill will infringe on state sovereignty and individual freedoms. Many constitutional scholars are skeptical of the challenges: They say federal law and precedents are clear.

Idaho has said not only “No” but (in effect) “H3ll no!” (I think I’ll let that typo stand :-)) In other cases, states’ attorneys general are mounting legal challenges based on 10th Amendment and Commerce Clause issues.

Let’s see… the House “passed” the bill with about a 50.6% majority. What’s 36 out of 50 (or even 60, if one were to use The Ø!’s campaign math)? Hmmm, that’s 72%–why! that’s almost enough right there to ratify an Amendment to the Constitution! (Using The Ø!’s math, 36/60 it’d still be 60%–considerably more than the House’s lame 50.6%.)

It’s about time for the Third American Revolution to reclaim some of the rights and liberties of the First American Revolution that were lost in the Second American Revolution (also known as The Great Unitarian-Baptist Shootout, Mr. Lincoln’s War, The War of Northern Aggression, and to those who have little interest in historical accuracy or honesty, the American Civil War).

About That “Democracy” Thing

50.6% gave House leaders a “mandate” to pull the trigger on the gun held to the head of the Republic. It remains to be seen if the Republic can dodge the bullet fired at so close a range…

As an article at American Thinker reminds us,

“Democracies, says Aristotle, tend to be pulled in one direction: toward a vilification of everything involving merit, hierarchy, inequality, proportion, and worth.”

Aristotle was, of course, simply echoing (hey! if Loony Left Moonbats, Mass MEdia Podpeople, Academia Nut Fruitcakes and at least 50.6% of the House can defy logic, who am I to avoid that train?) my observation that,

“In a democracy (‘rule by mob’), those who refuse to learn from history are in the majority and dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance.”-third world county’s corollary to Santayana’s Axiom

But do go and read Aristotle’s Warning.


Found via a comment at Chaos Manor

Exit Strategy, Anyone?

From an article by Robert Rector at NRO Online, some reasons to start looking for an exit strategy from the so-called “War on Poverty”–

Today marks the 46th anniversary of the War on Poverty. On March 16, 1964, Pres. Lyndon Johnson announced a new government mobilization that he claimed would yield “total victory” against poverty in the United States. Johnson promised his “war” would be an “investment” that would “return its cost manifold to the entire economy.”

…Since the beginning of the War on Poverty, government has spent $16.7 trillion (in inflation-adjusted 2008 dollars) on means-tested welfare. In comparison, all the military wars in U.S. history have cost a total of $6.4 trillion (also in inflation-adjusted 2008 dollars)…

…The original goal of the War on Poverty — to reduce both poverty and dependence on government — has been abandoned and forgotten. While occasional lip service is sometimes still paid to reducing government dependence, ironically, this concept almost always appears as a justification for new government spending…

It’s be nice if one were allowed to make a principled argument against “feddle gummint” so-called “welfare” spending (really not-so-charitable “charity” giving by the feds of other people’s money to folks who’ve neither earned it nor, often nowadays, care to.)

Next, might I humbly suggest also looking for an exit strategy from the perennial loser “War on Drugs”–so-called in 1969 by R.M. Nixon. (Of course, as anyone with more active brain cells than a head of cabbage might note, if it took a Constitutional Amendment–now repealed–to outlaw the manufacture and distribution of just ONE mind-altering substance by the feds, what Constitutional authority underpins the “War on Drugs”?)