The same men/women who don’t read the bills that they pass? The same ones that can’t articulate that the Dems have not passed a budget in 4 yrs; despite it being LAW? The same GOP that have already laid out a defense plan B of ‘3 more months if the Senate THINGS about passing said budget’?
I hope you were being sarcastic....But I was supposed to vote GOP, ‘cuz otherwise I was voting O? What is the definition of insanity again???
The current Congress couldn’t recite any damn passage of the Constitution, aside from them affirming their oaths of office to the same....
There are days I hope that the Dems win in ‘14, so a new party can arise when in ‘16 they f*ck up the country enough that people start to wake up. The GOP isn’t doing shit to stop the liberal/fascist path we’re currently on.
Sarcastic??
Yes, that, and also with a degree of hope that some bold freedom lover out there might read my post and say, "I will be that 'one man' who, like the 33-year-old Thomas Jefferson in 1776, will declare the 'truth' to current generations in such a powerful way that the threatening lies of "progressive" controllers and redistributors will be apparent."
For that to happen, bold leaders must become engaged and articulate the difference between two significant and conflicting ideas--individual liberty versus coercive 'government" control.
America's Founders identified the conflicting ideas as "liberty versus tyranny."
By Lincoln's time, he had a clear understanding of it and said this:
'The world has never had a good definition of the word 'liberty.' And the American people just now are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not mean the same thing . . . . The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act . . . . Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.'
But Lincoln could distinguish between real liberty and a "counterfeit" idea. Of the authentic American idea, Lincoln declared:
'Most governments have been based practically, on the denial of the rights of men. Ours began by affirming those rights . . . . [These opposing ideas] are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and will ever continue to struggle . . . . It [denial of individual Creator-endowed rights] is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. . . it is the same tyrannical principle.'
Of the Founding principle, Lincoln said: '. . . it is no child's play to save the principles of Jefferson from total overthrow in this nation. . . .The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society . . . And yet, they are denied, and evaded, with no small show of success. . . All honor to Jefferson - to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce in a . . . revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that today, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers [initiators of threatening change] of reappearing tyranny and oppression.'
The battle of ideas is re-engaged in America today, in a manner not seen for decades, but it needs articulate leaders.
American citizens can utilize new technologies that make possible close examination of the Founders' ideas in many collections online such as those at Liberty USA Foundation, WallBuilders, and in recent books, such as Mark Levin's 'Liberty and Tyranny.' They are returning to the Founders' own explanation of their Constitution in THE FEDERALIST and to 1987's Bicentennial Year volumes such as 'Our Ageless Constitution.'
Just as in Lincoln's day, those who try to fool the people into believing their definition of America's Constitution is authentic are being exposed for the charlatans they are--mere men who wish to gain power over the lives of millions.
They can be exposed by the 'self-evident truths' 'embalmed' in that revolutionary document described by Jefferson and Lincoln.
They can read the Founders' intent that ours is not a government's Constitution to limit people. Rather, it is 'We, the People's' Constitution to be used, according to Jefferson, to 'bind them (government) down by the chains of the Constitution.'
What we are seeing now is a battle between so-called "progressive" forces who have one charismatic, but mere mortal (Krauthammer), man out there carrying the water for changing that concept in the minds of citizens who, they thought, had been dumbed down by decades of neglect and censorship of the ideas of liberty.
Providence may have outwitted them by allowing the development of technologies that make the Founders' ideas a powerful tool in the new battle for today's patriots."
Thank you for your response to my initial post. Perhaps the 'sarcasm' may have been triggered by the rather milk toast remarks coming from Williamsburg--a place significant in the life of America's great articulator and defender of Creator-endowed life, liberty and rights, Thomas Jefferson. Were he, Adams, Washington, Madison and others here today, what would they have said in the face of such threats to their Constitution's principles?