American Democracy has prospered because of the inherent balance between left and right, Hamilton and Jefferson, Democrat and Republican, liberal and conservative, religious and secular, coastal and flyover and on and on.
Three things on the Democrats’ agenda this year, if passed or unchecked, will significantly upset that balance once and for all.
- Census Tinkering – We need to watch and make sure that the Democrats don’t use the census as a tool to expand the Democrat hold on Congress. As a Californian, I’ve seen firsthand how politicians can use subtle changes in district boundaries and demographics to preserve and bolster the ruling parties ranks. This will be a tough one to monitor, but is very important.
- Blanket Amnesty – If the Democrats succeed in giving 12-20 million illegal immigrants the right to vote, the GOP can kiss its chances goodbye forever. Talk about rigging the game.
- Card Check – The Democrats and Union bosses want to force as many businesses as possible to unionize through the mafioso-style card check process. Of course, the real goal is increased union dues that can be funneled to Democrats via campaign contributions.
The Democrats won handily last year. They have the right to govern as they see fit. Changing what this country is by adding millions of Democrat-leaning voters to the system, rigging the census, or tilting the game toward Democrat-controlled unions is not, and should not allowed to be, part of that mandate.
When Barack Obama said last fall that “we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America,” he meant it. The President and his backers, worked up into a frenzy after eight years of rule by a Texas Republican, intend to get even. The rest of us need to fight to make sure that doesn’t happen.
Obama’s reaction to last week’s Tea Parties is the first real chink in his formerly impenetrable political armor. The simple fact that Team Obama felt the need to hold yet another “important” mid-day press conference is a tell as big as quivering hands in poker. The administration would have been better served issuing a simple statement supporting the rights of Americans to assemble peacefully and protest. Add in the now legendary hysterical CNN reporter (“the protests are anti-CNN”, gold, pure gold) and we have point, set, match GOP. The fact that most of the media and the Obama administration can’t understand why great numbers of the American people are against massive government expansion bodes well for the GOP.
Obama looked good after the SEAL take down of the Somali pirates (rebranded by the media as “Somali teenagers” since the incident took place) and the administration deserves credit for the event’s success. Sure Obama didn’t jump out of the plane himself or fire the shots, but he could have easily Jimmy Carterized the whole thing by not letting the SEALs do their job,instead he just delayed them 36 hours.But,in that moment he was “Obama the American Patriot.” That Obama I can support. The Hugo Chavez-hugging, spend-us-into-oblivion, American- apologist Obama needs to be fought at every turn. April 15th was a great start.
