An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
“Is This Any Way To Run A Country?” NO!
The Buck Stops Nowhere
The Foundry
According to best estimates, the collapsed Deepwater Horizon oil rig is pumping about 210,000 gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico every day. But don’t worry, President Barack Obama has appointed an “independent” commission to investigate the spill. Our federal government will post an estimated $1.5 trillion budget deficit this year, and our debt is projected to equal 140 percent of gross domestic product within two decades. But don’t worry, President Obama has appointed a debt commission to solve the problem. Our nation’s southern border has degenerated into a violent, lawless and lethal zone. But don’t worry, Congress wants to empower a new commission to control the problem. And millions of Americans don’t know whether or not their health plan will be exempted from Obamacare. But don’t worry, faceless bureaucrats at the Department of Health and Human Services are already hard at work determining whether or not you will be allowed to keep your current health insurance.
Is this any way to run a country? Should the President of the United States be passing off responsibility to “independent” commissions? Should Congress be passing off responsibility for securing our nation’s borders to an unaccountable commission of experts? How is any of this consistent with our nation’s First Principles or the United States Constitution? It’s not. The authors of our Constitution never meant to create a federal government with the power to force you to buy health insurance, let alone one where it would be unelected bureaucrats who determine what type of health insurance you could buy.
Our Founding Fathers specifically created a Constitution dividing the legislative, executive and judicial functions of government into three branches so that the separation of these powers would limit the size and scope of the federal government. Americans would know who to punish for bad policies at the ballot box because it would be clear who was responsible for creating and enforcing them. But that is very obviously not the system we have today. Our federal government has devolved into an incomprehensible mish-mash of alphabet soup government agencies and commissions that no one American could possibly understand. Why is our country in this state? What happened?
The Progressive movement happened. Hillsdale College Associate Professor of Political Science Ronald Pestritto explains:
For the American pioneers of the administrative state–the Progressives of the late 19th and early 20th centuries–this older, limited understanding of government stood in the way of the policy aims they believed the state ought to pursue in a world that had undergone significant evolution since the time of the Founding. They believed that the role of government, contrary to the perceived ahistorical notion of Founding-era liberalism, ought to adjust continually to meet the new demands of new ages. As Woodrow Wilson wrote in The State, “Government does now whatever experience permits or the times demand.”
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It is the Progressives’ desire to free bureaucratic agencies from the confines of politics and the law that allows us to trace the origins of the administrative state to their political thought. The idea of separating politics and administration–of grounding a significant portion of government not on the basis of popular consent but on expertise–was a fundamental aim of American Progressivism and explains the Progressives’ fierce assault on the Founders’ separation-of-powers constitutionalism. It was introduced into the United States by Progressive reformers who had themselves learned the principle from what was then the “cutting edge” theory of history and the state developed in 19th century Germany.
President Barack Obama, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) are the modern heirs of the Progressive campaign to eviscerate the rule-of-law-based limited government envisioned by the U.S. Constitution and replace it with an expert-ruled European welfare state. Everything this regime has done since assuming power (TARP, the Presidential Task Force on Autos, Obamacare, EPA global warming regulations) empowers unaccountable expert committees and commissions. Commenting on Congress’ new immigration commission, Rutgers University political science professor Ross Baker told The Washington Post: “It’s the ultimate expression for the need for political cover.” Enough cover. It’s time Washington is held accountable.
OT but; Tennesee folks,unlike some of the rest of the country, have a sense of honor.
Funeral in Tennessee
In Tennessee we really do pull off the road and stop for funerals… nobody moves until the last car has gone by.
What follows is a message from Vicki Pierce about her nephew James’ funeral, who was killed while serving
his country in Iraq !
However, the most incredible thing was what happened following the service on the way to the cemetery. We
went to our cars and drove to the cemetery escorted by
at least 10 police cars with lights flashing and some other emergency vehicles, with Tennessee police handling traffic.Everyone on the road who was not in the procession, pulled over, got out of their cars, and stood silently and respectfully, some put their hands over their hearts..
When we turned off the highway suddenly there were teenage boys along both sides of the street about every
20 feet or so, all holding large American flags on long
flag poles, and again with their hands on their hearts.
We thought at first it was the Boy Scouts or 4 H club or something, but it continued for two and a half miles. Hundreds of young people, standing silently on the side of the road with flags. At one point we passed an elementary school, and all the children were outside, shoulder to shoulder holding flags kindergartners, handicapped, teachers, staff, everyone. Some held signs of love and support. Then came teenagegirls; and younger boys, all holding flags. Then adults.. Then families. All standing silently on the side of the road. No one spoke, not even the very young children.
The military presence, at least two generals, a fist full of colonels, and representatives from every branch of the service, plus the color guard who attended James, and
some who served with him, was very impressive and respectful, but the love and pride from this community
who had lost one oftheir own was the most amazing thing I’ve ever been privileged to witness!
OT(cont)
There are some very moving pictures; but, I do not know how to post them. :(
November. The Accountability Commission (staffed by Vehemently Vociferous Voters) will be attending a polling place near you. Be there.
-Scott
Yep, Gary, we DO pull over for funerals…all funerals. Amazing, eh? Posting pictures in comments is an interesting process, and impossible for me to explain. Sorry.
Scott….count on it!
I do NOT believe an idol worshiping pedophile is good for my soul.
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Just in case some people did not know.
That Mohammed sexually assaulted young children is no secret.
It is generally accepted fact in Islam that Muhammad married a 6-year-old girl and raped her at 9-years old.
This is something that is described in the Islamic texts about Muhammad – the Muslims’ primary role model.
How this ”prophet” lived is something that Muslims strive to live by, as he is ”the perfect man” according to their beliefs. :<
How anyone, in their right mind, could think that pig was an example of a “perfect man” is totally beyond me.
Sorry about the post above being a duplicate;but,if you will e-mail me at (removed by management
), I will forward to you the e-mail with the pictures of how the “redneck.racist, Tennessee trash” honor those that have given their lives in defense of OUR freedoms.
Oddly enough, these people look like a bunch of ‘Tea Party’ radicals to me!!
Not to worry.