Franklin Delano Roosevelt (“FDR”) once said: “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Actually, people should have feared FDR’s economic policies because they turned a recession into the great depression, but that topic is for another day. Today we are paying a terrible price for fear itself. Obama is afraid to stand up to anyone, other than Republicans in congress and our strongest allies overseas. Republicans in congress remain the only people in the known universe who still fear Obama.
The fruits of Obama’s fear are playing out on our television screens. The fruit of Republican’s fear is Obama.
I think we are near the tipping point. Opinion polls are so bad now that only the 40% of Americans born with the genetic defect that makes them vote straight Democratic pretend to support Obama. No one, in either party, thinks that Obama is up to the job of being Commander in Chief. Congress has an approval rating even lower than Obama. Polls showing zero trust in the main stream media. There is a real danger here that people will stop believing in the system itself. If people lose total faith in the system, anything is possible. That is what we really need to fear.
Republicans need to stand up to this President if for no other reason than to preserve faith in the system. It is also time for responsible Democrats, if there are any, to put aside partisan politics and to join with Republicans in a search for the cold, hard truth. We need leaders in both parties who can overcome their fear and do the right thing.
Patrick Henry said it best:
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”
“For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it.
“The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.”
“The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.”
TDM
For years I’ve said openly our Republican representation is gutless and cowards and I’ve never figured out WHY. I don’t want to believe they lay down just to get re-elected. They certainly don’t represent most of us on the right.
Apparently very member of congress fears Obama and his hidden power structure. Congress has the tools in the constitution to reign him in but none have the guts to do so! I wait to see if he thinks he can get himself elected for yet a third term as he is not quite finished ruining the country.