This is THE single most important reason to vote in conservatives for Congress this November. If Congress is given a Democrat majority, you can be assured that NOTHING will get done (just like they are now with a Dem majority). The only thing preventing a witch hunt right now is the razor thin majority they hold in the Senate. Reps still have enough numbers in the Senate to hold them off.
Joe Biden ripped into the Bush administration, promising to go through the administration with “a fine-toothed comb” and pursue criminal charges.
A fine-toothed comb is the Democrat’s definition of fair and balanced. It’s drumming up any and all “potential” acts they can get a majority to vote on for some crime. It doesn’t matter to them about dragging the name of a president in the mud, after he’s left office. That boat sailed when Jimmy Carter began bad mouthing the current sitting president, a 200 year old honor system that every president until Jimmy boy had observed. So now there is no honor left to the Left in the office of the Presidency. Never mind that Bush, against massive conservative urging, refused to dig further into Bill Clinton’s obvious criminal behavior when he took office. President Bush basically told everyone that he was not going to pursue any charges or investigations into Clinton’s improprieties in order to bring stability and honor back to the White House after 8 years of scandal after scandal.
So the Left in the press promptly began trying to drum up any scandal they could (real or imagined) from the moment Bush took office. From their tired and still constant harping about a judicially proved falsehood of “stealing the 2000 election from Gore”, to the demonstrable lie about how the Bush administration “told everyone that Saddam Hussein was working with the 9-11 attackers” and “made up all of the evidence himself to go to war”.
They couldn’t wait to start in on him and try to de-legitimize his presidency. Don’t let anyone try to tell you that this whole thing is about the War in Iraq (another misnomer by the Left to try and de-legitimize the whole War on Terror). This BDS started long before 2003 when we invaded Iraq. It began in November 2000 when Al Gore lost the Electoral Vote to Bush as per the US Constitution. The Supreme Court didn’t steal the election for him. They sent the judgment back to the Florida Courts with the instructions to follow the Law of the Land as passed by the Florida Legislature and certify the vote count as per the LAW. They had no legal decision in the process other than to say, it’s not a federal or Constitutional issue, Florida has to follow their laws just like everyone else. Deal with it!
So this November remember that this election is not ONLY about who will be President. It also is an election for who will control the power to make laws and regulations which will directly control and impact your daily lives. The President does not make those laws or regulations CONGRESS DOES. Regardless of how stupid the Democrats want to think the voters are in trying to tell you that McCain will take away your rights (Only Congress and the Supreme Court can do that) or will overturn Roe v Wade on abortion (Only Only Congress and the Supreme Court can do that), or raise your taxes (Only Congress and the Supreme Court can do that) or not bring the troops home (before they have completed winning the war in Iraq? – Congress can do that now, by un-funding the war, which they tried to do while soldiers were fighting on the battle field, but they support the troops – just not their mission to win).
Congress has a much more direct and far-reaching impact on your daily life than anything the President will have. By Constitutional mandate (I know I keep bringing up that pesky Constitution thing a lot!) Congress makes they laws that govern taxes on gas, on medical insurance companies, on health care costs, on energy production, on education reform and a whole host of other daily-life issues that the Democrats want voters to believe that are the sole (if any at all) responsibility of the person in the White House. I seem to have learned that is a lie in a junior high government class (do they even teach the three branches of government anymore in public school?).
Congress is the more important vote this November for our economy and taxes. The presidency is a vote for our future as a society and for our security. (I really wish more people who are able to vote had actually been taught the roles of the branches of our government so this would not be so easy for the Dems to dupe the voters into such stupid rhetoric about McCain raising taxes or ruining social security or not spending enough on education)
The Presidency will determine how we protect our national interests and who is placed on the Supreme Court. In an age where judges are often making up laws from the bench or interpreting the Constitution to fit some social agenda, instead of interpreting laws based on what the Constitution says, this is possibly THE single most important role a president has. When the Left sneers at a judge who is described as being a Constitutionalist, you know the Left are not wanting what is best for America, they are “hoping” to “change” the US into something “better”. Better than what the Founding Fathers wrote into the US Constitution? Is the Left telling us that the Constitution is no longer good enough for America? If so, what is the guiding philosophical principles they are wanting to follow as the supreme law of the land?
Obama and most Democrats have said that they think that some people make too much money and that they should be forced to give some of that money back to the government so that it can be given to “those less fortunate” (as if working hard, earning an education and building wealth is a fortunate coincidence like “winning life’s lottery” and therefore isn’t really legitimate somehow). “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs” is what the Democrats are telling us. Someone who makes a lot of money doesn’t really own his wealth as a form of personal property, it’s something the government can arbitrarily take away if it deems the amounts to be “too much”. How much IS too much? Who sets the limit? Who’s to say that later that limit is deemed to be too low as well. Where is the idea of being secure in the right to private property in all of this? Tell me which document the Democrats are following in their governmental philosophy – theUS Constitution or Communism?
This election is truly for the future of this country. Will this country be a Socialist country in which true achievement is punished if you cross some government mandated line of what is “too much”? Or will this country be one of unlimited (by government) opportunity and potential (what the marketplace will allow) to achieve as much as you are willing to work hard for and put in the effort to acquire?
This is the true things that are at stake in this election, not some arbitrary reference to voting in this race or this gender as a historical focal point. No one talks about the religion or the race or the height or hair color of Abraham Lincoln, FDR or John F Kennedy or Ronald Reagan when they talk about their contributions to history. These are of no real historical value. They only matter to those people in that point in history at that time. The choices made and the political philosophy of freedom and free will are what made those leaders historical figures not petty superficial things.
Decisions made in government are additive. They either add to the growth and strengthen freedoms for the people being governed, or they take away and weaken those freedoms. Where does the strength of a nation come from, the individual people who strive for greatness, or the government who sets limits and hinders growth and opportunities in the name of making everyone equal. Is it the government’s job to make everyone’s life equal or to give everyone the equal opportunities to achieve whatever an individual is willing to work hard at to achieve?
Limitations on what you can achieve and forced arbitrary equality in the face of unequally ability breeds apathy and sloth. A country is not made great by a people who are apathetic about going the extra mile to achieve. A country is not made great by people who don’t see the point in working extra hours or studying or training harder to be the best when their extra achievements will be taken away and given to those who did not make the same effort or have the same talents. Even back in the days of the ancient Greeks Aristotle said, “It is unjust to treat unequal things equally.” If you take away the rewards of excellence and effort, you breed resentment and kill the will to excel. You create mediocrity as a world view. This is what happens when the government punishes businesses and people by taxing them more for making more money than their neighbor. Why work harder if it’s only going to be taken away and given to someone who didn’t earn it. Why would a business invest in the future and potentially make more money when doing what they are doing is making them enough money to get by and doesn’t subject them to the government taking more from them? And if that company doesn’t grow and make more money, why would they hire anyone else to work for them? Socialism, that the Democrats are all but quoting these days, denies basic free-market economic principles, and it denies human nature. It promotes utopian ideals that are honorable but unattainable and disastrous and often deadly whenever they have been applied in the last 150 years.
The Left believe that wealth is not earned, it is distributed. Money and wealth are not privately owned rewards traded for work provided (given value to the work based on the value set by the employer), it is something granted to an individual by the government and therefore is subject to the whims of government’s desires to distribute to whomever IT deems worthy. In an electoral society, where power is marginally given by the voting public, which groups would a government deem worthy? Those who will vote for it. And how can a government entice lowly educated, lazy or economically envious people to vote for them? Promise them someone else’s money in return for their vote.
This election is about more than Obama & McCain. It’s about the future of this country being run by a Socialist Congress and potential courts (Supreme and other Federal courts) that see no problem with overstepping their Constitutional authority and making laws that did not exist before or referencing foreign laws that usurp and diminish the US Constitution’s authority.
This election is about more than the next 4 years. Are people going to vote for a party that is promising to stick it to another economic group (wealth envy) and give it to those who didn’t earn it (wealth redistribution). Or are they going to vote for a party that is saying that individuals and companies that create jobs will get to keep their own earned money to spend and invest it as they see fit? The ownership society means you OWN what you earn, not what part of it the government says you own.