Posted on 08/25/2015 7:04:42 PM PDT by xzins
I am a proud American who believes that America has held – and still holds – a very sensitive and special place in the affairs of mankind on Planet Earth. I believe that America has been divinely blessed and protected in our two centuries plus of existence.
I believe that America has been a counter balance that has cancelled out a lot of tyranny, evil and conquest, and admittedly, we have made a lot of mistakes. But on balance we have exerted a certain Pax Americana in the international affairs of mankind.
It took a lot of old fashioned guts for the Continental Congress to stand up to the world's mightiest military and tell them that we demanded our independence, even at the peril of going up against a far superior force on land and sea, and with only a ragtag army of untrained citizens, many of whom had to supply their own firearms.
It took courage above and beyond for Abraham Lincoln to push the country into a Civil War that he knew beyond a shadow of a doubt would divide this nation for decades.
It took guts to give the order for American troops to storm the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, straight into the face of artillery and machine gunfire, wave after wave being cut to ribbons by German shore emplacements.
The history of this nation is written in the blood and courage of men who stood in the face of overwhelming odds – politicians, soldiers, statesmen and ordinary citizens who sought to do the right thing regardless of the cost or the consequences.
Well, ladies and gentlemen of the United States Congress, it seems that that particular pen has run out of ink. The courageous politicians that once championed this nation have been replaced, for the most part, by a breed of milksop, politically correct, scared of their own shadow, pushover, pathetic excuses for public servants who are supposed to be representing a constituency of citizens who have to live with the circumstances of their timid folly.
You don't even have the courage to face down an out of control president, even when he makes a deal with the devil. Don't you bunch of timid capons even care what kind of world you're leaving to your children and grandchildren, not to even mention the rest of us? Are you really party partisans before your parents and grandparents or even human beings?
Be honest with yourselves a minute. Go into the bathroom and look in the mirror and ask the person you see this question: "Do I really believe that Iran will not use the money we're releasing to them to finance terrorists to kill Americans, and, when, not if, but when, the Iranians develop their nuclear device, will they really use it against America and Israel?"
You can’t hide from the truthful answer to that question forever, an answer will be required of you one day.
You have allowed Obama to tilt the Supreme Court so far to the left that they're little more than a shameful extension of the Executive Branch.
You have talked for decades about the porous southern border but have done absolutely nothing about it.
You have allowed cities in this nation to declare themselves sanctuary cities where they protect the worst of the worst criminal aliens, and American citizens are paying an awful price for your silence.
You watch an impossible National Debt balloon completely out of control, knowing full well that a day of reckoning is coming that will seriously curtail the quality of life for coming generations.
You allow corrupt government agencies like the IRS to run over the very people you are sworn to protect and allow the entitlement society to expand exponentially. All the while, you are actually entertaining the idea of raising taxes on those who still work and shoulder the burden.
You compose a third of the constitutionally mandated ruling system,and you shirk your duty
and allow this nation to move a little closer to the edge every day.
Your ratings are in the single digits; your morals are in the gutter; your minds are on self-preservation; and somewhere along the way, you’ve traded your honor for political expediency.
You've violated your oaths; you've betrayed your country; you've feathered your nests; and you've sat on your hands while an imperial president has rubbed your noses in the dirt time after time.
You're no longer men. You're puppets, caricatures, jokes, a gaggle of fading prostitutes for sale to anybody who can do you a political favor.
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”
What do you think?
Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem.
God Bless America
Charlie Daniels
Charlie Daniels is a legendary American singer, song writer, guitarist, and fiddler famous for his contributions to country and southern rock music. Daniels has been active as a singer since the early 1950s. He was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry on January 24, 2008.
Charlie Daniel, a great American. I’ve read other stuff he has written, they were but infield hits compared to this one, he knocked this one out of the park. Would to God we had a hundred more just like him.
I wonder if Charlie has ever considered Elective Office?
This is absolutely bullseye, dead center of the target, isn’t it?
The Devil went down to Congress
He was lookin’ for a soul to steal
Make me want to hear the man speak. I know he’s a singer, but I want to hear him think out loud.
There is so much unrest among patriots right now, Onyx. They know they’ve been lied to, used, cast aside, ridiculed, and ignored. Trump and Cruz are speaking to it.
But Daniels sums it up here perfectly.
And he found about 500 out of 535.
He wouldn’t want to take a pay cut.
Whenever they come begging for money, I tell them I am not a republican; I’m a conservative!
WOW!! That’s gonna leave a mark! Way to go Charlie!
Yep, my days of giving them money are long gone.
Me thinks/believe that Charlie has the scenario of the US self serving elected representatives.
You tell them Mr. Daniels!
Just consider a government that would saddle future
generations with enormous debt while at the same time
exterminating 54,000,000 tax payers, all to pay for
their own election to office by dispensing largess
to gullible voters.
Damn you “gentlemen”!
Tet68 said that.
Let the truth be told! Thank you, Charlie Daniels.
He is still looking then, because the congressmen/women have no souls.
Charlie, as usual, is dead on.
Three names dominated my thoughts as I read this: Boehner, McConnell and linda.
That man can write.
I’m with Charlie Daniels on every single item he listed.
God Bless Charlie Daniels—a true, God-fearing, American treasure!
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