[ilovesarah2012]

Do politicians have to say something about everything???

The Oscars have nothing to do with running for president.

[FreedBird]

Affirmative Action needed in Hollywood.

[Dick Bachert]

Of course they do. This entire quadrennial presidential “Beauty Contest” is all about who’s the best actor!

Although even a cynic like yours truly can occasionally get swept up by the positive, feel good rhetoric of a favored candidate, what I find fascinating AND TROUBLING is the near hysterical worship by some citizens of THEIR favorite guy. Remember the 2008 election and the widespread hysteria around a certain unvetted, unqualified community organizer from Chicago? How has THAT turned out?

We fought a bloody revolution to overthrow a monarch who DEMANDED our worshipful obedience. We don’t need to VOLUNTARILY go down THAT road again. As you listen to these folks, remember that THEY – Hillary included – put THEIR pants on just as we do: One leg at a time! The Roman emperors often had one of their slaves follow them around to frequently whisper in their ear “You’re just a man”. Remember that YOUR guy is also just a man when you feel the frenzy start to rise!

The most important thing we can remember about all of this is that the Founders constructed the system to put – AND KEEP — the KEYS TO THE FEDERAL CASH REGISTER IN CONGRESS! It is why they the CONGRESS is in Article ONE of the Constitution and the Executive in number TWO. The current Gang of 535 could bring this out-of-control government spending and the steady usurpation of our freedoms to a screeching halt tomorrow at noon — IF THEY WANTED TO!

But they DON’T — for a number of reasons:

1. They understand the need to vacuum the excess FRAUDS (Federal Reserve Accounting Unit Denominators) — there are no “dollars” circulating now! — out of circulation BEFORE the bulk of the dumb masses (say it really fast for maximum effect) catch on to the resultant inflation. If you question that statement, ask yourself why else would a criminal enterprise (the federal government) having the power to “create” “money” with the stroke of a pen NEED YOURS every April 15th?

2. The current Gang of 535 understands the need for the massive tax code (so-called because it is written in code by gnomes chained to posts in the cellars of K Street lobbying firms and understood only by their keepers) to reward their friends, punish their enemies and keep the rest of us under their thumbs with threats of draconian punishments should we run afoul of it. It is impossible to NOT run afoul of it. (Think LOIS LERNER here!)

3. While the dumb masses rant about the abusive practices of this top criminal enterprise’s subsidiary criminal enterprise (the IRS), members of the Capitol Cartel can pose and posture for the cameras from time to time and declare that “something MUST be done to reign in the abuses of the IRS,” NOTHING WILL BE DONE until we clean house on Capitol Hill and get back to the HONEST, CONSTITUTIONAL MONEY called for at Art.1, Sect. 10. They’ve been playing a rigged game of 3 card-Monte with us for so long – and getting away with it – that, as Herman Cain’s book title declares – “They Think You’re STUPID.” And, hell, for MOST of the dumb masses, they’re right. (If you desire to know more about the vital topic of “money”, let me know.)

And that house cleaning starts in YOUR STATE and CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT by finding and supporting decent candidates — at ALL levels — who will go to YOUR state capitol and Malfunction Junction and do it. Not marching on Washington...not sending “money” to the RNC (LOL!)...not writing poison pen letters to these current jerks...but THROWING OUT THE CURRENT JERKS and doing it as many times as necessary to “git ‘er done”.

And for you who, like a sad number of the dumb masses who THINK YOUR GUY IS OK, go to www.http://gradegov.com/ for your guy’s voting record on some of the more important issues. You will almost certainly be in for a shock!

I often get the strong sense that the American people have some sick and sophomoric yearning for a new ROYAL FAMILY or BENEVOLENT KING (think JEB BUSH here!) to make their lives what they themselves feel incapable of making them without some nanny-state sovereign. Throughout history, with few exceptions conspicuous by their rarity, those systems nearly always become malignant and freedom founders and eventually fails. With the exception of America – the IDEA, not the place – most men who have walked the earth have lived as slaves.

As opportunities afford themselves (and this is one), I simply attempt to remind my fellow citizens of that sad litany and what lies ahead if they continue in their ignorance of that history.

A personal anecdote to stress the point:
 
Around 6 am one dark morning in the early 80s, 4 of us piled into a car in Atlanta with a few hundred TRIM bulletins and other fact-packed fliers detailing how then Georgia Representative Ed Jenkins and Senator Sam Nunn were voting on issues important to all citizens. Our destination was Hartwell, Georgia and an “Eggs and Issues Breakfast” hosted by a large Hartwell church.
 
We arrived at the church about an hour early and deployed. As folks arrived for the buffet line, each was handed some of this highly informative literature. As they waited in line, they read and chatted as they digested this new information. Just before the invited dignitaries were to make their 20 minute speeches (aka, pitches for re-election), we made certain a supply of these fliers made it to the head table. Ed and Sam ate precious little of the fine southern breakfast cuisine before them as they periodically glanced menacingly at the table we occupied. In unison, the 4 of us smiled sweetly and waved.
 
When Ed and Sam each rose to speak, they devoted 16 or 17 minutes of the allotted 20 minutes TRYING TO DEFEND their DOCUMENTED VOTING RECORDS to an increasingly hostile gathering as we returned Ed and Sam’s constant withering glares with more sweet smiles and waves. It was truly one of the highlights of my early years as a political bomb-thrower. YOU should try it!
 
After a bit more bomb-throwing in other parts of his district, Ed Jenkins was defeated in the next election. Because he ran state-wide and we lacked the resources and manpower to cover the entire state (and he did begin to clean up his act), Sam hung on for another term or two. (And those 2 year House terms — where the power to tax and spend repose — is where the effort must be concentrated. 

Ask yourself what would have been the impact of these sorts of activities going on in all 435 congressional districts? And, because the leftist MSM has less influence on these district races, with enough folks employing the sort of guerilla
tactics described above, THEY CAN BE MORE EASILY WON than the big national beauty contests for president.

To avoid the dirty, hard and dangerous (to their reelection to the best job most of them have ever had) work of actually GOVERNING by the Constitution, recent congresses have shipped so much of their power down to the White House that we are in very real danger of moving even deeper into another of those tyrannies that litter the historical landscape and for which creatures like Obama lust!

As you reflect on what YOU have done to preserve America – the idea – for your kids and grand kids, remember that the most dangerous phrase in any language is “Why THAT could NEVER happen HERE.”

Look around. It already has!

Dick Bachert
8/9/2015
(Revised 10 12 2015)