Posted on 02/19/2009 9:37:06 AM PST by indi_girl447
This is a difficult column to write, but the reality is, the American Experiment ended last night, certainly as the Founders understood it. “When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” - Ben Franklin
The ole’ prophet Ben Franklin called this one and we’re living it now.
Barak H. Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid just ushered in the nightmare Franklin feared all under the guise of stimulus. And as a little aside, Obama also just about delivered a knockout blow to conservatives.
Naively and blindly, we silly conservatives put our hope and confidence in this little quaint document called the Constitution. We really believed that the principles and tenants described in it would hold the government in check and maintain maximum freedoms. How silly of us. If only we were as enlightened as the liberals who instead see the Constitution as an evolving document, changing with the winds of time, molded into popular cultural trends.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefroginthekettle.com ...
It was DeToqueville that said it. Franklin said we have given you a representative republic. Try to keep it.
“The Marxism Conversion Act of 2009”
Let the Tea Party begin...
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