It is as classic story and most every school child has heard it. Whether it is true or not almost doesn't matter. It is the statement and what it indicates that is important. Even if it were nothing more than a fiary tale it would still be valuable for teaching us certain aspects of those who are detached from those they are supposed to serve.
This story has played itself out many times over the past. Consider Marie Antoinette and her ever famous, "Let them eat cake." She probably thought her people were just whining and were never satisfied. They were screaming for even a crust of bread and she probably thought it was very ungrateful of them to not just eat the cake they had. This was how detached she was from what was going on in her country and for this she paid with her head.
We are I hope to civilized to do anything like that, but it is clear that Obama will pay with his position as will his party and the republican party if they don't get their heads out of their butts really soon and start showing some responsibility. They want us to believe they are the ever best this country has to offer yet they can't even behave as responsibly as any 20 year old that has a job with limited income and who has bills to pay.
Either they really are that incompetent or they are doing what they are doing on purpose to bring our country to its knees. In this case it is the American people who have their heads up their butts for the refuse to see that it is even possible we might actually have a vast number of representatives who believe in communism and socialism and want that for this nation.
I believe this latter possibility is the more likely. They are more than happy to have us think they are just innocent and incompetent rather than think they are actually communists with malicious ambitions against our nation. Growing up we hear about MacCarthy and how he went after the communists and they made it sound like the witch trials or witch hunts of Salem. The reality is that communism was deeply rooted in high places in our government and MacCarthy recognized that fact and recognized the danger of it. Now we are too fearful to actualy even say these things out loud.
Everyone keeps thinking Obama is incompetent or they make every excuse they can think of for all the destructive things coming out of his administration. No one wants to admit that this is intentional and part of his political world view. The man is Marxist/communist/socialist, depending on how extreme you think he is. He has already given every indication that they is against capitalism. He has ignored judges rulings in far too many cases. As president he has acted often unilaterally without the involvement of congress at all as is evidenced by his most recent move to enter into a war with Libya. Any one of these these things ought to be an impeachable offense yet he continues to get away with them with little more than a few words of frustration by the right and not a word from the left whatever.
No one in the media except Glenn Beck and even with him it is hardly at all, is willing to call Obama what he is. Glenn Beck is more than willing to criticize his policies, but still will not come right out and say that he is trying to destroy this country. He says that of the people who surround Obama, but not about Obama. He never seem s to ask how it can be that a man could be surrounded by so many communists and socialists without his knowledge. It is not like other people have picked these people for him. He picked these people himself.
When Obama acted as though he didn't know the extreme views of his pastor, Rev. Wright everyone was afraid to say it was a lie. Obama is supremely aware that in our politically correct world you never say anything about a person if it will make that person to be despised because it's not nice to hurt other people.
He manipulates even Fox News by getting them distracted with such things as his basketball picks or his issue with bullying all the while they are ignoring, missing or purposely not reporting on how he is making unilateral decisions to attack another country, or having the EPA outlaw the use of something with no congressional oversight.
Obama has largely made the congress unimportant and impotent. A congressman or group of congressmen approach him or tell him that they want an answer about something, he ignores them and they let it go. They recognize just how powerless they are in the halls of government. Oh they can impose their power over us and because they are made to feel weak among their peers they take it out on the rest of us passing as many thousands of pages of new laws as they can dream up, often without even reading them.
Why is there such fear to face things squarely and call things what they are. When you see so many people pushing this communist agenda, even openly there is not much room for dispute. We are have entered a time when communism has become almost fashionable. we need to confront these things and call them what they are.
Eventually we will have to face the reality of these political world views and recognize that they do have consequences. The communists mean this country no better than do the Muslims. There is no such thing as a moderate communist just as a moderate Muslim is the exception rather than the rule. Our nation will fall in its slumber. It is not likely many will even see it coming until it is too late. Our nation is crumbling and yet our president continues to offer off shore deep water drilling permits to other countries in our own waters where he will not do the same for American companies. What is wrong with this picture? This goes beyond reason unless there is another agenda at work. I believe such an alternate agenda is at work and is the only thing that explains what's happening right now in our nation. The problem is that no one will consider this alternate agend seriously.
Ignoring the wolves or calling them sheep does not in any way change the danger a person may be in. It is no different than putting your head in the sand and pretending nothing is really going on at all. this is just plain silly.
Many seem unable to understand why Obama would not allow drilling by the U.S. offshore but will allow it for the Brazilians. Again this comes from Obama wanting to see the ultimate demise of this nation and if the only way to do that is to stop us from producing and ultimately make us dependent on everyone else then this is his best solution.
Some are starting to question this but then Obama does not feel he needs to answer to any other person in the United States and he does not answer to them. He simply ignores them and stonewalls till they finally give up and go away. At the same time those who become disheartened by one thing just wait knowing something else will come up and are hoping with the new thing to get them on that, but then the same process starts again with the same result. With this pattern will anything really ever get done? I cannot see how anything will actually get done till someone actually starts to take some serious action againt Obama. Only then will they really start to be taken seriously and then we will see the sparks start to fly.
If silently ignoring someone is going to work as well as going to war against them then why bother to go to war against them. This is straight out of Sun Tzu.
Obama has been trying to pretend that he is really concerned about a government shutdown but he has done nothing to prevent it. He has not called the congress to any really emergency meetings which he most certainly could. He hasn't don't anything to come toward the republicans and he never has. Whenever he talks about compromise or how the two sides should come together what he invariably means is how republicans should move toward his position. There is never a hint of him moving toward the right in anything. He sounded very grave and very serious about the changes and how he wanted a deal of some kind for the budget yesterday, but then today as it seems none is forthcoming his attitude seems very humdrum as though it's what he expected. I believe it is probahbly what he did expect.
The democrats have not proposed a single thing and have simply stood in the way of anything sent to them. They say the republicans won't compromise, but they have not come back with a single counter offer nor have they come up with any serious budget. When there were a lot of problems over the healthcare the democrats were saying how the republicans had nothing to offer even though they offered many things and again anything offered by them was rejected out of hand because the democrats felt no need at all to compromise since they could pass what they wanted. Now even though they don't have any such power they still see that they have power to veto anything that comes to the senate and as usually the republicans start giving in and offering compromises even though no counter offers are coming back in their direction. Is this the way that neotiations should be done? This is not negotiating, this is extortion.
Between the leftist media and the democrats I have little doubt this will be spun in such a way that it makes it look like the republicans are completely to blame. It is still more about blame than about getting the problem resolved. The fact that republicans are talking about 38 billion (less than 1% of the total debt) is laughable. The only thing that makes it worse is that the democrats are opposing it as too extreme. Though I have to admit that the democrats then backing off from what they asked for seems to imply that even they may think it's too extreme. It is the theatre of the absurd.
They are talking about a spending "cut" of 38 billion which takes us to Sept. At first this sounds like it might be good till you consider this will nto even eat into the interest on the debt much less touch the debt itself. and so the players of the Theatre of the Absurd continues. Is this never going to stop. Will we ever see these people get serious about the debt. Both sides want us to believe their are serious, but even a cursory look at what either side is doing will show they are only different degrees of yet more spending and borrowing.
Shutting down the government isn't going to help at all, except insofar as it might actually signal to the rest of the people that we really don't need most of them all that much after all. I suppose this is the reason they decided to leave the military unfunded. It will send the message to them that we need them. The military however is their responsibility and all it's showing is just how irresponsible they are with the job they've been given.
Through all of this Obama remains incredibly uninvolved. With each step he doesn't take it is yet another indicator that Obama really doesn't know how to lead. He has hardly shown an ounce of leadership through this whole thing. Much like his short stint in the senate he seems only able to vote present. He will not take a side and will not lead the rest of the congress in what they should be doing, at least not directly. He is more than willing to sit on the sidelines and then try to grab credit or place blame, or both once the dust settles. Is this really a presidential way to act? Does this in any way hint that he is the man to lead the freeworld. His utter lack of leadership seriously points to the fact that he is no better than Nero fiddling while Rome is burning. The nation is caving in financially after much help from his socialist policies and all he has to offer is silence.
He must know how unpopular his ideas for economics are. He can't bring himself to support anything that even has the slightest sent of capitalism and is all too aware that the nation is tired of all the socialist agendas he's put forward and that he doesn't dare propose anymore at least till after he gets re-elected. It seems his chief strategy at this point is to simply keep his head down and hope to capitalize on that. This is not leadership it is cowardice and at its root in many respects shows that he realizes that his ideas cannot stand on their own merit, they must be forced on us which he no longer has the power to do. He further realizes that the republicans for the most part stand behind him to some degree, but to a lesser degree than the extreme democrats. He understands that he needs to give them some room to look like they're doing the will of the people so they can help continue the progressive agenda they've been helping with all these years.
I do think he's a little afraid at this point that the Tea Party may drive the republican party back to the point of redeeming America. It may well be that this is the reason he's dragging his feet and doesn't want to see anything done. He is doubtless trying to find some way to turn this against the republicans, but most especially against the Tea Party.
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