Corruption in High Places

It seems it is reaching the point where we are so used to hearing about the corruption in our leaders that we've not only become numb to it, but have even come to expect it. As a result of what is becoming a tradition, it is now becoming a goal of many people to say whatever they need to say to get in politics just so they can get some of that gravy train for themselves. the problem with this is that it makes it more acceptable every time we allow it to happen again without saying a word about it.

Solyndra is just one example that we're coming to know about. Sadly I fear there will be many others that we will hear about in the near future, but with each one we do less and less rather than really dealing with it.

The morality of our nation is rapidly crumbling which is at least as important and from where I stand more important than what is happening to the economy. If something isn't done about the moral erosion of our nation soon we will most certainly pass into history as yet another failed political experiment. The sad thing is that it won't be the fault of the form of government that we've chosen it will be the fault of the people who allowed our leaders to take away from us the liberty our founding fathers fought so hard to give us.

One of the chief means by which this corruption is now happening on a regular basis is through the use of the executive order. Not just this president, but previous presidents have used this tool (nowhere found in the constitution) to make their own laws. The problem is that it has rarely been opposed by those in congress. The congress is supposed to be the ones that make laws not the president. It is the president's job to execute the laws not to make them. The problem is that more and more presidents have been using executive orders to create their own law and thus accomplish things that are supposed to be left up to the congress to do.

Another form of corruption or at least a corrupting influence is the regular nearly univeral use of exempting congress from the laws they pass on the rest of us. In this way they are free to write pretty much anything they want without concern for what it really means to the rest o us. This was never meant to be the case.

What if anything can be done about these things? Well for one congress could make a law that goes retroactive declaring that all previous laws passed by them apply to congress. Of course the likelihood of that is fairly small. Judges could rule those laws unconstitutional under equal protection which would most certainly solve the problem. The same is true of executive orders. The judicial branch should be involved in these things and sadly for the most part they are busy sticking it to the rest of us rather than keeping the lawmakers in line.

It is equally disturbing that some people are bothered that Obama and the left/liberals/communists/socialists have not gone far enough in that direction. Don't any of these people realize that socialism is against the constitution and therefore by its very nature treason. Our founding fathers understood that to support another form of government other than the constitution was paramont to treason.

Consider the following quote by Thomas Jefferson;

"I have spoken of the Federalists as if they were a homogeneous body, but this not the truth. Under that name lurks the heretical sect of monarchists. Afraid to wear their own name, they creep under the mantle of Federalism, and the Federalists, like sheep permit the fox to take shelter among them, when pursued by dogs."


"These men have no right to office. If a monarchist be in office, anywhere, and it be known to the president, the oath he has taken to support the Constitution imperiously requires the instantaneous dismissal of such office; and I hold the President criminal if he permitted such to remain. To appoint a monarchist to conduct the affairs of a republic is like appointing an atheist to the priesthood."

Today it is not monarchists, though I suppose in some ways it is, since socialism and communism invariably lead to dictatorship, but today it is socialists and communists hiding among the democrat and republican parties. They like to call themselves progressives, but this is just another word for socialist or communist.

When you have congresswomen suggesting that we suspend elections, or the president himself stating that he wishes things were the way they are in china so he could get something done, the red flags ought to be shooting up everywhere. Why would we ever allow communists, Marxists, or socialists to hold any prominent position in our government since it is directly opposed to their oath to uphold and defend the constitution? It was for this reason that Jefferson said they should be removed from office.

We are now saddled with a position where we have voted in a president with these leanings who has in turn placed many cabinet members under him to make sure the goals of the communists, Marxists and socialists are carried out to whatever extent they may be.

It is absurd that we should even be considering this many for another term of president. This is a man who has violated almost every principle and ethic our nation has stood for. He has turned on and insulted almost every ally we have, he has stated that he believes in the redistribution of wealth quite openly with almost no fanfare from the media. He has put as many things in place as he can to try to make sure that redistribution happens and yet we are actually not only considering him for another term, but people are actually speaking as though he will be hard to beat.

We need to get him and his cabinet out of their positions as quickly as we might.