[Jacquerie]

As discussed at the Constitutional Convention, governments rule either by force or persuasion. We used to be the latter, where friends and associates represented our interests for a while, then returned home to live under the laws they passed.

As Congress grants more and more law making authority to the tyrannic administrative state, the citizen's circle of freedom is nearly gone. Witness the exponential increase in uniformed, armed officers for nearly every governmental agency.

There are no moral or constitutional reasons to obey the illegal diktats of Baby-Doc.

We the People granted limited legislative authority to Congress and no others.

This will not end well.

[the invisib1e hand]

Yet "church leaders" - embodied in Cardinal Dolan - seem posturing to "make a deal."

He’s very publicly – and seemingly with the sympathy of the media, which is rarely if ever sympathetic to hard truths – saying quotable, churchy things: “This administration is insinuating itself into the very life of the Church”; he’s threatening to sue "all the way to the Supreme Court" but by doing so he’s putting the whole matter to the court of public opinion and seems to be setting the stage for a “compromise” which can only make both he and obama look like heroes.

He's talking terms of earthly power. A guaranteed loser for the Church. He's Obama's pope.