Posted on 01/14/2013 5:10:08 PM PST by Sub-Driver
I felt America die the night of his first election. As a political junkie since I was about 12, I followed every election and memorized electoral results. In 2008, I couldn’t watch and do not even know the final electoral results. I was at the indoor gun range trying out a new 9mm. I could not watch this year.
Even after the first four years, the purists could not see the danger. If their candidate did not win the nomination, they would show the GOP elite. So here we are.
Romney was very flawed. But I cannot envision a scenario where he would create 19 points for gun control and try to tell us he would use executive orders to implement them. We would be in the streets, and the opposition from his own party would be overwhelming. Even the press, who would be for the 19 points, would fight Romney just because he was a Republican. They would call him a dictator.
Since the founders, of course, we have never before had a president who did not grow up as an American, who hated whitey, who was a black racist, who will not even try to disguise his support of Islamists, whose resume was community organizer, and who had zero respect for the Constitution, which he considers a flawed document.
In many election cycles, I would have supported a protest vote or vote out of principle. But this time it was different. He told us what he was going to do. The future of the republic is in jeopardy. If nothing else, Romney would have done something to generate economic activity in the private sector. Obama is not just incompetent; he actually wants to destroy this country and bring it to its knees for its sins of the past. He is going to collapse our economy and the world economy.
545 vs. 300,000,000 People
-By Charlie Reese
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The President does.
You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don’t write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don’t set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don’t control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a President to do one cotton-picking thing. I don’t care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator’s responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits.. ( The President can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.)
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House?( John Boehner. He is the leader of the majority party. He and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. ) If the President vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to. [The House has passed a budget but the Senate has not approved a budget in over three years. The President’s proposed budgets have gotten almost unanimous rejections in the Senate in that time. ]
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted — by present facts — of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can’t think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it’s because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it’s because they want it in the red.
If the Army & Marines are in Iraq and Afghanistan it’s because they want them in Iraq and Afghanistan ..
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it’s because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power.
Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like “the economy,” “inflation,” or “politics” that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible. They, and they alone, have the power.
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses. Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees... We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.
Careful. The Center for American Progress was founded in 2003.
Like you said, it shouldn’t matter whether you own a gun or not. The president cannot alter the constitution by EO & should not go anywhere near there. That being said, I can’t believe that someone doesn’t own a firearm for personal protection in this day and age, unless you can afford to live somewhere with 24 hr. armed security.
Point is Biden had not a damn thing to do with it.
Originally introduced and passed in Montana, the FFA declares that any firearms made and retained in-state are beyond the authority of Congress under its constitutional power to regulate commerce among the states.
Following initial Montana enactment, clones of the Firearms Freedom Act have subsequently been enacted in Tennessee, Utah, Wyoming and South Dakota, and other clones have been introduced in the legislatures of twenty-some other states.
The FFA is primarily a Tenth Amendment challenge to the powers of Congress under the “commerce clause,” with firearms as the object – it is a state’s rights exercise.
We are past that point. It ain’t gonna happen. Bo has massive party control of the senate, and, he also has the old media to support his dictatorship.
And your rhetoric of "He had no problem ordering people at gunpoint to do business with his campaign contributors or have their assets seized and put in jail." sounds like leftist bullshit to me.
That said, Romney was by no means my first choice or even my second choice in the GOP nomination process, but I realized....like most 'thinking adults'....that even he was better for America than the POS currently residing in the WH for yet another four years (or more). Too bad others (like you, perhaps) did not come to that realization as well.....since we wouldn't be having this conversation and the country wouldn't be faced with its' very first dictator.
Legislation: During the Romney Administration, no anti-Second Amendment or anti-sportsmen legislation made its way to the Governor’s desk.
Governor Romney did sign five pro-Second Amendment/pro-sportsmen bills into law. His administration also worked with Gun Owners’ Action League and the Democratic leadership of the Massachusetts House and Senate to remove any anti-Second Amendment language from the Gang Violence bill passed in 2006. A summary of this legislation follows.
http://goal.org/newspages/romney.html
Serious question.
Does it physically cause you pain to put this much effort in ignoring the fact congress could at any moment of the day shut Obama down cold, yet does not?
Did aliens abduct you and put some form of cognitive block in your neural pathways to divert anything that might allow you to acknowledge it?
Does it hurt to just repeat the same tired crap when the reality on the ground, the very experience we live day by day explodes with the evidence of your folly?
Does the FACT that by following your cunning plan, we now have a house filled with people likely to agree to trash the 2A and that continuing it will put MORE like them on the job, not even make a dent in your wall of self inflicted ignorance?
I really want to know. Because if being that willfully ignorant of reality and that determined to make excuses for your failure does not hurt, it should.
In all these threads and all the posts on this one, not a single one of you to date has done anything but point and blather. You always come up with excuses and ‘that’s in the past’ mewlings. It’s not in the oast and we can do something about it bacause you and others like you are doggedly determined to do the very same thing AGAIN and in any potential elections we may have.
Not a single one of you has any grand plan other than ‘well if we lose in the primaries, we’ll elect the same idiots and hold their feet to the fire!’
Brilliant.
But you never do. And then you bitch at people like me for not falling in adoration of your wisdom.
Good luck with that. But stop complaining about living in the reality your votes created.
huh? that oven temp must be getting up there because you just aren’t making sense
Why don’t you try reading the thread again in context. Read your posts.Read the posts of people agreeing with you. Then read my replies.
This will either clear up your confusion, or not. But your reply did make my point quite well. Even if you don’t understand it.
No need to do that. You aren’t making sense.
Principles matter and so do elections. You think its appropriate to boycott an election if you don’t approve a candidate.
I think you’re a fool. We had one of two choices for the President. Not voting or voting for a third party only helped Obama who is FAR worse then Romney ever dreamed of being.
So Obama is president and handing out his decrees and your principles have accomplished nothing positive and never will because they will never again be in a position of power to do so.
Candidates pay attention to people who vote. In the case of Obama it helps to hand over a few million dollars.
Please show me where I said boycott an election. Ever. In my life. Here or elsewhere Once.
I said support and vote for people you believe in. Conservatives.
If you think I’m a fool for that. It ain’t me with a problem.
My statements stand and not one of you has refuted them. When you do, ping me.
http://gunowners.org/op09292011tm.htm
That little gem from 2004 permanently banned many semi autos. I know you want to pretend he didn't sign that, or tack on that signing statement saying how much he supported banning ownership of those guns, but he did. And I don't care about the will of a few liberals. A lot of liberals are supporting obamas proposed gun ban. So that makes it okay with you, right?
The fine for romneycare was payable to the state's taxing authority. What happens when you don't pay a taxing authority money they say you owe...? Come on, this is an easy one. That's right...they seize your accounts and arrest you. Don't believe me..? Try it and let us know how it worked for you. Calling it "bullshit" doesn't change the truth. But go ahead and keep carrying that liberal's water for him. The gop establishment thanks you.
“Please show me where I said boycott an election. Ever. In my life. Here or elsewhere Once.”
Well lets see, there are two viable candidates in the election. You say you’re not voting for obama but you’re also not supporting Romney due to your “principles”.
If you don’t vote for Romney then its helping Obama. How is that effectively different than a boycott?
yes I think you’re a fool. You’ve been refuted numerous times but are so prideful that you refuse to open your eyes.
You are putting yourself above your nation and for that I will turn the ovens up extra hot for you.
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