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MR. AMERICA!! (By Powdered Zombies)

“Bob Dole Award” for Misguided Conservatives

 

I know quite a few supposed Conservatives that this award should go to.

So I’ve decided to create a new award. But unlike my other awards, which are exercises in narcissism (Mitchell’s Law, Mitchell’s Golden Rule), I’m naming this award after former Senator Bob Dole.

The message is very simple. Whenever people complain about red ink, even if they are genuine advocates of small government, they give leftists an opportunity to say that higher taxes are a solution.

That’s bad politics and bad policy. And since Bob Dole excelled in both those ways, you can understand why his name is linked to the award.

We do not need no stinking Constitution

Most Americans view the Constitution with reverence and believe that it is one of the best documents ever written.  The Constitution is not long or is it very in depth in what it says.   It is the foundation of what our government was derived, and points out what the Government can and cannot do.  The phrase “Shall not” occurs more than any other phrase and for good reason.   The Founding Fathers created a document that puts constraints on the government and gave more power to the citizens of the United States than any other form of government before.

But slowly the Federal Government has been chipping away at the Constitution  and gaining more and more power for itself.  This goes for both or the political parties we have now.  Both Democrats and Republicans have lost their way and government has gained more and more power for itself.   They both have looked to the Federal Government to be the nanny of the country.   This is what we call Big Government.  FDR and the New Deal all the way to George W Bush and his No Child Left Behind.

The Federal Government has gotten too big and too intrusive in every day life.   From telling us what kind of foods we can eat , to what kind of light bulbs we can use.   This is not the way our Government was formed.   The Federal Government’s main job was to ensure we have the ability to “Pursue Life , Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness” and to protect us from enemies.  Not to tell us how much salt, soda, snacks, or what kind of light bulb we can use.

President Obama is not the first to trample all over the Constitution, but he has gone farther down the road to tyranny than a majority of earlier Presidents.  The latest travesty to come from the Obama White House is his HHS Mandate that is part of his obese Obamacare Bill.   While many organizations and even states get to opt out of this monstrosity, the Catholic Church and many of its institutions are not.  In the HHS Mandate, the employees must buy insurance that has policies that go against the teachings of the Catholic Church.   The insurance plans must have contraceptive coverage and also the day after pills.   The day after pills are for all intensive purposes abortion.  Both contraceptives and abortions go against the Church Teachings.

But this goes even further than just the Catholic Church and the Obamacare Bill.  Obama comes from a long history of radicals that think the Constitution is out of date and also not to be looked at with reverence.  They think the Constitution is antiquated and makes it too hard for the Government to do what it wants.   Amendments take too long, the Executive Branch cannot do what it wants, and there are those that think they can legislate from the bench.

This is not a Partisan attack by any means.  There are those on both sides of the aisle that have crossed over the line.  The Tea Party was not formed just because Obama won the election.  He was just the last straw.   Big Government and the intrusiveness of a all powerful Federal Government has waken people up.  We have slowly drifted to this point over the past 100 years or so, and it will not be stopped and reversed in  1 or 2, or even 4 or 5 elections.

But we must never give up hope and relax.  We must elect people into local , state and Federal Government that will bring us back to a more limited government.  We must stay involved in politics and never give up to those that want to take away what the Founding Fathers so eloquently wrote many years ago.   They made the Constitution flexible enough to change if it needs to be, but hard to change just because of the whim of a President.

And we must remember we are not a pure Democracy, we are a Democratic Republic.  Pure Democracy is mob rules and will trample the minority.  And I know many of my friends want to have term limits for CONgress critters.  We  must remember that we already have that, and that is called elections.

 

“Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?”

“A Republic, if you can keep it.”

~~Benjamin Franklin

 

Alcatraz

 

Last night I was wanting to go to sleep at a reasonable time, What is that anymore?  But I was playing around on HULU and found the new series on FOX Alcatraz.    Well I wanted to see what this show was all about and well, I watched all 5 episodes that are out now.  I

I love the show  and could not stop watching it.

Words to the Wise from some who are Wise of Words

* I think it’s about time we voted for senators
with breasts. After all, we’ve been voting for boobs long enough.
~Clarie Sargent, Arizona senatorial candidate

 

* The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
~Henry Cate, VII

 

* We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
~Aesop

 

* If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us
in these acceptance speeches there wouldn’t be any inducement to go to
heaven. ~Will Rogers

 

* Those who are too smart to engage in politics
are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
~

 

* Politicians are the same all over. They
promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
~Nikita Khrushchev

 

* When I was a boy I was told that anybody could
become President; I’m beginning to believe it.
~Clarence Darrow

 

* Why pay money to have your family tree traced;
go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.
~Author Unknown

 

* If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
~Jay Leno

 

* Politicians are people who, when they see
light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.
~John Quinton

 

* Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds
from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.
~Oscar Ameringer

 

* The Democrats are the party that says
government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the
crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says
government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.
~P.J. O’Rourke

 

* I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will
stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.
~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952

 

* A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
~Texas Guinan

 

* Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically,
by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
~Gore Vidal

 

* I have come to the conclusion that politics is
too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
~Charles de Gaulle

 

* Instead of giving a politician the keys to the
city, it might be better to change the locks.
~Doug Larson

 

* Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
~Author Unknown

 

* There ought to be one day – just one – when
there is open season on senators.
~Will Rogers

Life Cycle

Husband Day Care

Gremlins

Ineptocracy

Could not find it in my old Webster’s. Googled it and discovered it is a recently “coined” new word found on a T shirt on eBay. Getting really close to the bone! Read this one over slowly and absorb the facts that totally are within this sentence! I love this word and believe that it will become a recognized English word. Finally, a word to describe our current political situation.

Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc’-Ra-cy) – a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.

 

 

 

Feature pic By Pete Souza, The Obama-Biden Transition Project , via Wikimedia Commons

A “What If” Golf Story

What if you were playing in the club championship tournament finals and the match was halved at the end of 17 holes. You had the honor and hit your ball a modest two hundred fifty yards to the middle of the fairway, leaving a simple six iron to the pin. Your opponent then hits his ball, lofting it deep into the woods to the right of the fairway. Being the golfing gentleman that you are, you help your opponent look for his ball. Just before the permitted five minute search period ends, your opponent says: “Go ahead and hit your second shot and if I don’t find it in time, I’ll concede the match.” You hit your ball, landing it on the green, stopping about ten feet from the pin. About the time your ball comes to rest, you hear your opponent exclaim from deep in the woods: “I found it!”. The second sound you hear is a click, the sound of a club striking a ball and the ball comes sailing out of the woods and lands on the green, stopping no more than six inches from the hole.
Now the real “what if” in this story……
What if you had your opponent’s ball in your pocket?