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The Current Crisis
Claptrap Legislation
Liberalism’s undemocratic streak has become its dominant feature.
WASHINGTON — I do not know what the learned political scientists of the Republic say about it, but it seems to me that the laws of the land are now so poorly written that almost no one knows what they mean. That is a government bureaucrat’s delight!
The healthcare bill, commonly known disparagingly as Obamacare, is typical. No member of Congress could have read it before voting on it, and even now I doubt any congressperson has read it through. I know someone who did read it through but he is an insomniac and does not count. Then there is Betsy McCaughey, former Lieutenant Governor of New York. She read it through, but only because she thought it an atrocity and wanted to protect Americans from it.
Finally, someone over at Health and Human Services at least read what it said about long-term health care and the authorities there made a surprising admission: It is unworkable and possibly illegal. HHS said Friday that it would not be implemented. It would have been nice if they had admitted that the whole bill was unworkable before all the Democrats clapped their hands and voted it into law back in March of last year. The law does not control health costs. It will ration healthcare. And it ruins the vast majority of Americans’ health insurance policies, while lumping us all into that characteristic product of the Obama Administration, chaos.
Then over the weekend we are told President Barack Obama broke from campaigning and took an interest in what his government is doing. Now he is for the section of his healthcare bill that his HHS Department told us Friday was defunct, the long-care health provision. He is waiting for the Republicans to vote it down, and he will veto their work. So we are now told. As I said, the resulting product of Obama is chaos!
It seems to me that this tendency to pass laws that are inscrutable is a growing problem for the Republic, but it is not unintended. The progressives and Liberals favor these abstruse laws. It is their intention to confuse the public. They intend that the laws are so convoluted, complicated, and, in the end, soporific, that the electorate will eventually go away with a headache.
Herbert Croly, one of the founding fathers of the progressive movement — read Liberal movement — wrote in 1909 in his groundbreaking book The Promise of American Life, “To be sure, any increase in centralized power and responsibility, expedient or inexpedient, is injurious to certain aspects of traditional American democracy. But the fault in that case lies with the democratic tradition; and the erroneous and misleading tradition must yield before the march of constructive national democracy. The national advance will always be impeded by these misleading and erroneous ideas, and, what is more, it always should be impeded by them, because at bottom ideas of this kind are merely an expression of the fact that the average American individual is morally and intellectually inadequate to a serious and consistent conception of his responsibilities as a democrat” (emphasis added).
The origins of Liberalism were always undemocratic. Now the Liberals are ever bolder in their pronouncements. Peter Orszag, formerly with the Obama administration before the chaos became too much for him, just penned an article in the New Republic titled, “Too Much of a Good Thing: Why We Need less Democracy” — and by the way the New Republic was founded by Herbert Croly. Beverly Perdue, the governor of North Carolina, said publicly, “I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections and just tell them we won’t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover.” The “they” here are our representatives in Congress.
Those are the sentiments of people with little faith in democracy. They want laws written that are inscrutable and they will leave it to the bureaucrats to interpret them in ways that favor the state and the zeitgeist. Thankfully we have the Constitution and the Tea Party.
About the Author
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. is the founder and editor in chief of The American Spectator. He is the author of The Death of Liberalism, published by Thomas Nelson Inc. His previous books include the New York Times bestseller Boy Clinton: the Political Biography; The Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton; The Liberal Crack-Up; The Conservative Crack-Up; Public Nuisances; The Future that Doesn’t Work: Social Democracy’s Failure in Britain; Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House; The Clinton Crack-Up; and After the Hangover: The Conservatives’ Road to Recovery.
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Pecos Pete| 10.20.11 @ 6:36AM
Mr. Tyrrell: We have a Constitution until such time as the Supreme Court membership has a majority of liberals.
Timothy L. Pennell| 10.20.11 @ 8:47AM
Do we, Pete? Really?
I know that we have a PIECE OF PAPER with a lot of nice sounding words about Freedom and Liberty, the Rule of Law and Limited Government, under Glass, at the Library of Congress. But, that's just for show.
Nobody really abides by it. It's written in Script. Who writes in Script? They don't even Teach that, anymore. Can anyone still READ it?
If we still had a Constitution, this POS wouldn't be running all over the place, talking about the Federal Government paying for Teachers and Police and Firemen, because these are functions of the States. That's why we pay STATE Taxes.
If the Constitution was still "RELEVENT", this Muslim Loving/Jew Hating MARXIST piece of Garbage, wouldn't OWN the Car Companies, or any Insurance Companies. He wouldn't have been able to FORCE Banks, and Lending Institutions to take TARP MONEY. He wouldn't be able to IMPOSE Government health Care, or prevent BOEING from opening a Plant wherever they Damn well feel like it, or show up at GIBSON GUITAR, AGAIN, with ATF Agents, Guns Drawn, and Confiscate their Materials, on the "premise" of "Enforcing INDIAN LAW".
No, Mr. Pete. I'm afraid that I'm gonna have to disagree with you, on this one.
We DON'T have a Working Constitution.
We have a Faded, Discoloured Document from days gone by,that nobody reads, anymore. That's written in a way that nobody writes, anymore. And contains the Laws of the Land, and the Limits of it's Rulers, that nobody reads, anymore.
You don't have to wait for the Supreme Court.
It's already DEAD.
Pecos Pete| 10.20.11 @ 9:04AM
TLP: Your points are valid. I concur.
Timothy L. Pennell| 10.20.11 @ 9:36AM
You know I 'm a Pecos Pete fan.
You're definately, one of the Good Guys.
PaulyD| 10.20.11 @ 10:11AM
"Thankfully we have the Constitution and the Tea Party."
And over a 100 million privately owned firearms - just in case...
Skippy| 10.21.11 @ 3:11PM
Without them, we are lost.
We may be lost anyway, but our demise will be accompanied by the true sound of freedom.
Gunfire!
Peter McGrath| 10.20.11 @ 10:29AM
It's not dead - it's largely ignored ... but it's the creeping pessimism the I find odious. The Left is on its heels, totally discredited, but my friends on the Right are crying in their soup because Ronald Reagan has not been resurrected.
We don't need Ronald Reagan to be resurrected. We need people who believe in this country, its people, and its amazing founding document - and who are WILLING TO FIGHT to preserve them.
I, for one, will not give up the fight, not while I yet still draw breath. I love this country and I refuse to slink away, head hung low. This is what the cretins want: good men to believe that all is lost. It's a lie. Don't buy it. The Constitution is NOT DEAD, not so long as there are Americans willing TO FIGHT for it.
Warrior | 10.20.11 @ 12:36PM
There are no Americans fighting for it. Everyone is screaming to let the Republicans get control next year and they will fix it. Will they? Last time they had control we had such glorious and unconstitutional things occur such as running large budget deficits, Medicare D, No Child Left Behind, failed to secure the border and not only did they not attempt to deal with the illegals in this country, they were going to try and get an amnesty bill through until the American people cried in protest. These same Republicans while not declaring war, allowed two wars to be started which is bad enough, but failed to budget them which was their responsibility to do. The list is longer if you want me to continue.
Our current congress has made no attempt to defund anything nor have they made any attempt to reduce spending at all. Boehner has had more headlines golfing with the liberals than he has with any legislative accomplishments. Now I realize the apologists are going to cue up the usual excuses, but please, can we keep contintuing to be this stupid. Look at the current candidates. The only person calling for cuts to spending (which doesn't even touch the entitlement problem) and an end to our empirical machinations is considered to be bat shit crazy. The only non-career politician wants to implement a new national sales tax. Two democrats turned Republican are considered to be front runners, yet neither one have any plan to reduce the size of government nor change our unsustainable foreign stance and what's worse pretty much have a track record of liberal accomplishments.
Sorry for the rant, this all is making me crazy.
DTOM| 10.20.11 @ 3:28PM
Warrior,
Did you notice the Tea Party thing? Did you also notice that the Establishment Republicans alternately woo and pitch the Tea Party depending on whether they are looking for votes or advice.
Check it out. It is the hope we have for a return to a government that can be somehow reconciled to the rule of law.
Also don't listen to the talking heads so much. They are not reporting, they are attempting to influence. They are not our friends...
Including Fox News! Didja see that Phat Phrank Luntz on Hannity last night asking successive Hobson's choice questions to prove that Romney is still the front runner? And he's supposed to be a "fair" pollster? What an embarrassment!
Peter McGrath| 10.20.11 @ 5:02PM
It's gonna take a Cain, or a Gingrich, or (- geez -) a Perry - getting into the Oval Office along with a gaggle of new Republican Patriots. The establishment types - who are reponsible for the abominations aptly described by Warrior, above - will either be defeated in the primaries or will need to step the (expletive) out of the way.
Warrior | 10.20.11 @ 5:03PM
DOTM:
Respectfully, I have been a supporter of many Tea Party candidates and participated locally. I don't know what part of my post would indicate I'm listening to any of the talking heads. Hopefully, reasonable people will be able to truly discuss the current candidates and the most conservative gets our support and wins.
Jeff Lewis | 12.17.11 @ 3:21PM
Benjamin Franklin warned us with a brilliant food analogy. (The man loved to eat.) Wise 'ole Ben said:
"A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges."
Marxists, socialists, and useful idiots have been nibbling away at our Constitution and Bill of Rights almost since their inception. Most people can't even tell you how many Articles are in the Constitution, let alone what is in them. Simple answer: Seven, one for every day of the week. When an ignorant and ill-informed populous rely on political operatives to tell them what their rights are, they become privileges, and if you don't KNOW what your God-given inalienable Rights are, how will you know when someone (or the government) is abusing them?
I would encourage every to get their hands on a pocket Constitution. Carry it with you. Read it. Re-read it. Read the Federalist Papers. Read your state constitutions as well. Put down the T.V. guide and the T.V. brick, and get involved with your federal, state, and local elected officials. Educate and/or replace them as needed.
In the words of North Carolina's favorite son, (not to be mistaken for our current traitorous governor) Governor Zebulon Baird Vance, in 1876 said the following:
"When you find you have scoundrels and scalawags in office, you need to turn them out, and you need to keep turning them out until you send honorable men to Washington."
Oldefarte| 10.20.11 @ 3:10PM
Pure GOLD PROSE, as usual, TLP; and the reason we don't have a working Constitution is because we have mostly been governed throughout history by DEMOCRATS!!!!!!
Winnie| 10.20.11 @ 4:29PM
I agree.
In the words of D. Rockefeller in 1991- "But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."
I think we're almost there and but don't it.
ENOUGH ROPE| 10.20.11 @ 4:50PM
There are more of us who favor freedom and the rule of law than there are progressives. Which of the Republican candidates will inspire us to realize that we the people, who love freedom and America, outnumber the media, academia, Hollywood, climate liars, the progressives, and the ruling elites of BOTH parties?
Look what John Paul II did to enlighten the Polish people that they were many and their tyrants few in number. That awareness and INSPIRATION stimulated the peaceful overthrow of their Polish communist tyrants. That led to the peaceful end of the Soviet Empire.
BE NOT AFRAID!
play nice| 10.22.11 @ 2:59PM
"There are more of us who favor freedom..."
I don't know . Bet given the choice between "freedom and responsibility" or the heavy hand of "sit down, shut up and we'll take care of you", the choice might surprise you. Look, mega corps, aka, the smart set, even pay for protection.
Mac| 10.20.11 @ 5:15PM
Mr. Pennell, Well said, very good. You should be writing articles for the A.S. or do you already.
Mac
Timothy L. Pennell| 10.21.11 @ 8:54AM
No, but feel free to ecourage them to seek me out.
I could use the gig.
whizzer| 10.20.11 @ 8:38PM
You're a very angry man, Mr. Pennell. It bothers me that I agree with every word you said. Rage on; we need more like you. And think how pleased we're going to be 54 weeks from now.
Timothy L. Pennell| 10.21.11 @ 8:51AM
I hope I can "Bother you" every day.
play nice| 10.22.11 @ 2:51PM
"It's written in Script. Who writes in Script?"
translate the Constitution into "tweetish" or "textisms" - problem solved...
race_to_the_bottom| 10.23.11 @ 9:31PM
Oh, Tim, such a rant!
Most of what you object to is legal under the interstate commerce clause. Has been for decades. But what about the Patriot Act? I didn't see you say anything about the gutting of the Bill of Rights.
But it seems you have no understanding of Marxism, since you think Obomber is a Marxist. Every Marxist in the universe knows he is not. Also, most Moslems know he is not pro Moslem, either. Does he hate Jews. I don't know, but I know he kowtows to the Zionists, which is all that really counts. After all, the antisemites of the Christian right all love Israel, and so they get a pass.
old white guy| 10.20.11 @ 2:37PM
you all have a republic and you will not keep it without the use of firearms. i would love to be proved wrong but observation has shown me that this will not be possible.
race_to_the_bottom| 10.23.11 @ 10:01PM
Old white nonsense, if you ask me. Guns don't bring down governments in most cases. The governments of a half a dozen countries in Eastern Europe fell to people in the streets without guns. Egypt. Tunisia. Philippines. Iran. The army eventually loses its nerve against unarmed people That's why the militia types who fantasize about fighting the new world order in the streets of the US are delusional at best. An army has no problem wiping out people who are shooting at it, but put a few million women marching with their children against them, and they are defeated.
Bob K.| 10.20.11 @ 3:02PM
Pete,
What "undemocratic streak" does liberalism have? The people who voted for this "claptrap legislation" were sent to congress in democratic elections. The liberal judges on the Supreme Court were appointed by President's elected in democratic elections as were the Senators who gave "advise and consent" to their appointments
to the Supreme Court.
Our democracy has sent people to congress to represent them who are more interested in keeping themselves in power and who have grossly inflated our bureaucracies to enable themselves to stay in power.
The first order of business is to fire most of the government workers, then something might be accomplished.
DTOM| 10.20.11 @ 3:38PM
Remember that the entire SCOTUS advise and consent thing has been assymetrical warfare since the Democrats character assassinated Robert Bork and tried to repeat on Clarence Thomas. The Republicans have not yet figured that they keep losing that battle; and they were AWOL with the appointment of the self-styled "Wise Latina."
See we gotta get the White House back, and Rino Romney will lose to Obama. Because over the years Romney has actually been closer to the Democrats than anybody else on that stage, except the 1%er Huntsman.
And I don't care how many times Rino Romney swears he'll repeal ORomneyCare. After the repeal clears the House and Senate and lands on a President Romney's desk, the media will go absolutely APESH*T, and Romney will have his "did I say read my lips?" moment and do a pocket veto. I don't trust him...not a inch!
Warrior | 10.20.11 @ 5:08PM
The "progressives" figured it out years ago that they could advance their cause easier with educating the children, appointment of justices, legislating by fiat through agencies and media obfuscation.
race_to_the_bottom| 10.23.11 @ 10:05PM
Hey Bobby K, are you suggesting that we have democratic elections? And that we have liberal Supreme Court justices? I wonder what a conservative court would look like. Let's see, how about Roland Freisler for Chief Justice. That should do it.
POST American| 10.20.11 @ 7:03AM
'Lipper--ALL--ism' --ike 'SO--SHALL--ALLism'
'CALM--YOU-nism' 'Marks-ism' and, of course,
'CAP--IT--ALL--ism' are, one and all, invented,
engineered, funded, instigated and relentlessly,
aggressively promoted by Masonic London
USURY with the long term strategy of
co-opting dissent, cultural subversion, destruction
of ALLLLL that was (religion
/ family/ sovereignty etc.)
---and, utimately, tyranny, EUGENICS
and GENOCIDE.
----FREE enterprise is what it's about.
Time to go after poison, pull the TAX FREE
monsters from power, dismantle their
TAX FREE apparatus ----and prosecute
with warmth and unflinching care.
----------HUAC meets NUREMBERG 2012----------
Frisbee| 10.20.11 @ 2:35PM
Public schools indoctrinate the new generations.
The Supreme court rules this generation.
Pray hard, and homeschool your kids.
Tim the Enchanter| 10.20.11 @ 7:23AM
Looking at that picture of the two tyrant queens, what can one say, but to quote a line from a famous movie: "We have found a witch; may we burn her?"
Theo Prinse| 10.20.11 @ 7:26AM
Dear mr. Tyrrell. Tnx for the article !. It is sad but it is unenialble that US liberalism is utopian communism. Much can be said but it must be destroyed. In Africa the US liberal elite of the Clintons favors South African ANC-ANCYL-PAC-SACP communism to turn this once rich country under white Christians into an economic and horrific humanitarian abyss. Here one of so many letters of my 1.000 Afrikaner Christian friends on the creeping genocide as well as the construed denial of the genocide in the media. (Pls note the applicable evil ANC policies for the US as well.)
Dear Sirs,
(the members of the Dutch select committee and Minister Uri Rosenthal for Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands)
I am a white South African, my genealogy going back to the 1600’s in this country.
I do not belong to a political nor religious organization, and speak as an individual citizen.
My views are my own, formed from personal experience by living in South Africa since I was born in 1959.
Hereby I ask you to intervene in the situation presently existent in South Africa, whereby the blatant extermination of people living in South Africa, which are not affiliated with the ruling political party, namely the ANC, and are not of black skin colour, is taking place at an alarming rate.
The ANC has formed a Tripartite Alliance with the SACP (South African Comunist Party) and the PAC (Pan Africanist Congress) to form the National Democratic Revolution.
Of significance is the ANC YL Political Educational handbook, on which the emblem
of the National Democratic Revolution is prominent, and to which I will refer as part
of the basis of this letter, and of which a copy is included as Attachment 1.
Of interest is that they make it very clear that their aim is to create a socialist country to create the bridge between nationalism and communism.
Also, that they do not envision any differences in the nation, and only their own type would be tolerated as a single, collective South Africanness—‘dispelling of narrow ethnic, tribal and racial nations’.
Therefore, such extermination of ‘tribes’ is viewed necessary for them to achieve their mission, and the ideal of a ‘rainbow nation’ as pictured by the ANC is an illusion, as can be seen by the total disregard to the lives of the citizens of South Africa, as well as their property, by the existing powers of government have proven.
In their strategies they mention ‘The third dimension’ is revolutionary nationalism. Their definition of a revolution is:
• A change in social, political and economic relations;
• A change of the ruling class through elections or violent insurrection, and of great importance, that their own followers dont realise, is that
• individual ownership of property will be abolished. Ownership of personal effects such as clothes, a tv or ipod will be allowed, but certainly not a piece of land, house, building nor business.
The National Democratic Revolution is a member of an International Movement by the PAC in which they claim to work together to end corruption and set a new agenda to restore the stolen pride and peace of Nigeria and Africa. This movement is also supported by Gaddafi, who has placed $97 billion on the table to “free Africa from Imperialism”. They are calling on all Africans worldwide to take part in their “struggle for freedom” and more information on their mission can be viewed on their website called ‘Everybody HasTo Be Involved In Project Africa.’
The month of October is chosen in which to show alliance to this movement, commonly dubbed “Red October”. The ANC Youth League have planned non-peaceful mass action on the date of the anniversary of the establishment of their party, namely the 27th of October. The purpose for this action is to demand ownership of the mining and financial institutions of South Africa. Thereafter they intend to demand ownership of all property in South Africa without paying the owners thereof any monies for it. The attitude is that all land in Africa belong to the black man, and that the Europeans had stolen the land from the Africans. Europeans are thus dubbed as thieves, and it is not considered incorrect to steal from them.
My personal study of such action is stored on the website http://sasmarts.weebly.com for reference. However, the information contained here is not, by far, complete on the whole situation.
What does stand out in studies of the political situation is the recurrence of the word “Uhuru”, also known as “the night of the long knives”. Although dubbed by some as urban legend, it appears to be very much alive in the minds of many, as can be seen in a letter addressed “To The White Man” by a Black South African, and which is enclosed as Attachment 2.
The event of Uhuru is said to take place 7 days after the death of Mr Mandela, accepted as the father of the ANC. What is disturbing, are the rumours of his death, and also the fact that Mr Mandela was transported a few weeks ago to his place of birth for burial, should he pass away. No one has seen any signs of him being alive since this transportation has taken place.
Further signs of Uhuru being very much alive was recently seen by motorists as they passed the De Brug military base near Bloemfontein, where 600 ‘Narysec’ recruits received military training. Its commander instructed his soldiers to paint the word “Uhuru’ on boulders overlooking the highway to Bloemfontein. An article covering this is enclosed as Attachment 3.
Of interest also are the 8000 soldiers which the leader of the ANCYL employed recently. It appears that the example of Somalia was followed, and brings to mind the following fact:
SOMALIA: The African Union peace keeping mission, whose 8,000 soldiers are crucial to the battle against Islamic radicals in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, could be severely weakened if the AU lost the financial support of Gaddafi. In 2008 Libya decided to grant an investment fund to Somalia through the Sahel-Saharan Investment and Trade Bank to fund infrastructures such as roads and bridges within Somalia.
To supplement the numbers of ‘freedom fighters’ in South Africa, its borders have been opened to militants trained in terror operations from other African states. These militants arrive in South Africa, hungry and homeless. They have nothing to loose, and the only way they know to survive, is by pilfering. Most of them were taken as children, and were brain-washed in the art of torture and murder. Many attacks on South Africans are masterminded by these illegal immigrants. Furthermore, they infiltrate squatter camps designed for poor South Africans, spreading fear and discontent through their aggression and thieving.
Their numbers have grown and are estimated to be in the region of 29 million.
Please read an article which was in the news pertaining to this as follows:
Foreigners: We'll kill you
18/07/2008
Johannesburg - "You South Africans will now know how it feels to be injured. "We're going to kill you."
This is what a group of, presumably Congolese men, allegedly shouted at six security guards that were held hostage at the Glenanda camp for victims of xenophobia in Johannesburg. Theuns de Lange, 38, of the Interactive Protection security company that was looking after all the safety camps in Johannesburg, on Thursday talked about how he and five other guards were held up and threatened with death. "They meant what they said. "They said they were going to kill us all if the police came. It wasn't nice because you didn't know what to expect," De Lange said. The gang apparently tried to take the pistol of one of his colleagues. De Lange and this colleague were detained at about 06:10 on Thursday morning by seven Congolese men in the camps. The men, who are apparently part of a gang, took four of De Lange's security guards hostage on Wednesday evening. The men were armed with knives. The police later released the hostages and no-one was injured.
There are still about 2 000 foreigners in the camp, most of whom are Congolese.
The managing director of Interactive Protection, Nantes Rykaart, said the Congolese gang was a big problem in the camp. He described the Glenanda camp as the most problematic. "The gang members prevent the elderly from queuing for food and want them to pay for food later on. They don't want the security guards at the camp so that they can take over," Rykaart said. Police spokesperson Lungelo Dlamini said ten people were arrested after they apparently threw rocks at police as they tried to free the security guards. The police fired rubber bullets at the people. Dlamini said the possibility that they would also be charged with kidnapping was still being investigated. A Malawian, who was hit by rubber bullets three times, said the police opened fire on the people without reason. "I went to help the guards when the police started shooting at us," the man said. He was wounded in his right arm, left side and left buttock. The police were still at the camp late on Thursday afternoon to make sure the situation remained under control.
The movement by the National Democratic Revolution in implementing their plans towards attaining complete control of the assets and the South African nation as a whole, concentrates on the support of the unemployed masses. Most of this unemployment was brought about by the workers union, CUSATO, which also forms part of the National Democratic Revolution.
Unrealistic stipulations forced upon employers has resulted in the closing of many businesses and mines since 1994. Implimenting BEE (Black Economic Empowerment) as a pre-requisite to any new and existing business means that at least 51% of the business must be owned by a black partner.
Uncontrolled murder of farmers has made farming the most dangerous job in the world. The loss of white farmers in the South African economy has left thousands of
farm labourers unemployed and homeless.
Financial institutions, that offer monetary security for the citizens in South Africa, are now being targeted. Ownership of the stock exchange market is also being claimed by the National Democratic Revolution, led by the leader of the ANCYL, Mr Julius Malema. Mr Malema is calling upon all black youths to take part in the planned take-over scheduled for the 27th and 28th of October, 2011, and his invitation can be read under the title ‘The Madness of Malema’ in the Attachment 4
Indeed, such a take-over would be complete economic suicide for South Africa.
Corruption and mismanagement of funds by government officials have rendered all municipalities of the country bankrupt. Import duties and taxation on all commodities create a vast gap between the working class, and the government departments which collect these monies. These monies are not utilized to maintain, nor expand, the infrastructure of the country.
The once proud, economically strong and thriving South Africa, known as ‘The Basket of Africa’, is being mismanaged to the extent that all its citizens are in danger of starvation, or being murdered.
It is clear that the situation in South Africa is out of control, and despite sanctions on information relating to the information provided to and by the media, the population are becoming aware of the dangers to which each person in South Africa is very real, and life threatening. A feeling of unease, fear and anger is re-asserting bonds in tribes and a rift based on colour is developing between many groups, banding together for safety.
From my own personal experience of living in South Africa, I have taken the liberty of
enclosing a letter as Attachment 5.
An immediate disbanding of the National Democratic Revolution should be
demanded by the international society, as this onslaught is far greater than the
citizens of South Africa can ever hope to overcome.
Yours Sincerely
(anonymous for protection)
Pzkfw| 10.20.11 @ 3:04PM
"An immediate disbanding of the National Democratic Revolution should be
demanded by the international society"
Right...good luck with that
play nice| 10.22.11 @ 3:12PM
Geewhiz! What part of "IN-COMING" don't you understand?
Michael Tomlinson| 10.20.11 @ 7:48AM
Another great article unmasking the Democrat oligarchy and their disdain for our republican form of government.
JimH| 10.20.11 @ 8:19AM
This country was not founded as a democracy. Our founders knew the wisdom of the past that democracies do not last long after the proles learn that they can vote for themselves what they are unwilling to work for. Progressives are not particular about the form of government so long as they, the self selected elite control the levers of power. If their cause is popular they call for the will of the people to be done. If not, they deride the great unwashed as not being capable of judgment and their betters must decide for them.
Louis Jenkins| 10.20.11 @ 8:43AM
We're in for it. We're not going to recover after this election. While I believe that Cain has a chance at winning, I also dread the election. If Romney or Perry acquire the nomination we're down the tubes, I certain don't believe we stand the best of chances with Cain. And that's with a Republican winning. Yes, go ahead and call me a Frenchman, but I didn't say how I would expire. We cannot continue down the path that America is on. If the Senators/Representatives don't read the legislation then we're toast.
oldfart| 10.20.11 @ 9:55AM
This is going to be one nasty election cycle. The Pretender in Chief will do ANYTHING to stay in office. He is doing EXACTLY what he said he was going to do. Remake American in the Marxist/Alinsky image.
oldfart| 10.20.11 @ 9:52AM
“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.”
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.”
“If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.”
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny”
“A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither”
“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”
Perhaps these quotes are why Thomas Jefferson is no longer taught in our schools?
old white guy| 10.20.11 @ 2:41PM
tj is no longer taught in schools because kids can't read.
race_to_the_bottom| 10.23.11 @ 10:17PM
"In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty."
Michelle Weinberger | 10.20.11 @ 9:54AM
Yeah, like Pelosi and Sebelius aren't bigger whores than Julia Roberts in "Pretty Woman," which I never get tired of making fun of!
Mike Hawk| 10.20.11 @ 12:01PM
One of the dumbest movies of all time. A whore makes good by finding a dummass rich guy with no scruples. All three of these women are 'hos of one sort or another.
Redstateboy| 10.20.11 @ 10:20AM
buy guns, stock up on ammo.
A. C. Santore| 10.20.11 @ 10:31AM
Sometimes I regret having read History.
Everything this administration does has a precedent in History with a single goal, and all in the same ways that tyrants gain control.
Propaganda, demagoguery, class warfare, fear-mongering, exacerbating racial/ethnic/religious tensions, economic distress, centralization of power, destruction of political freedoms, cult of personality, outright lying about motives – about everything - , and more. What have I missed?
Violence in the streets, perhaps? No, that’s coming! With the inevitable crackdown resulting in what they’ve wanted all along – total control.
Except that the Brown Shirts are wearing Red this time.
Not one thing that this administration has done is intended for any other purpose than bringing down our economy, our government, our Constitution, and our society, so they can replace them all.
Valdimir, Leon, Adolph, and the rest must be spinnin’ and grinnin’ with admiration and delight.
Anthony| 10.20.11 @ 11:11AM
Don't forget Saul Alinsky. His prize student is making Lucifer a happy camper.
However, history also shows us that at times, good people, with good intentions, will do what is required in order to confront evil.
I believe we conservative Americans are those people.
Now let's kick some lefty ass, it's long past due, and boy, some of us have been itching to teach these bastards the lesson of their lives!!!
old white guy| 10.20.11 @ 2:43PM
a bullet between the eyes of stalin, lennin, hiter et al would have cut short all the evil they did.
old white guy| 10.20.11 @ 2:43PM
hitler.
Bill| 10.20.11 @ 4:11PM
Hiter too. Let God sort 'em out.
race_to_the_bottom| 10.24.11 @ 12:06AM
So, OWG, you believe in the discredited Great Man theory of history?
Hitler was simply the designated hit man. If it had not been him, it would have been someone else.
Mac| 10.20.11 @ 5:53PM
History and Tyrants don't hold precedence over the Constitution. The Bible and what's been prophesied holds precedence. I know... I know ... I know.....you don't care to mix Politics with Religion.
But... The Constitution is real and the Bible is real. There is no denying that all that was prophesied to happen has, and there is a little more to come. Many of you are stating just what is prophesied to happen in this time frame in the Bible, without even knowing it. It doesn't look good and it's going to be very bad for not only America but for every other Country in the World.
You are seeing things happen that have been foretold to happen right before your eyes. Some of you know this, some are just realizing it and some say they'd rather just read news articles like this and complain about them. Some say it's time to fight. But..... sadly enough to say, you will simply be kicking against a big rock.
I'm not saying to just give up. But I am saying it's wise to know exactly where we are in history and time, and it's wise to know what can be changed and what can't.
Reading news articles only lets you know what happened yesterday, today and what "could" happen tomorrow and gives you an avenue to vent your frustration. Reading and understanding the Bible lets you know what happened over 2,000 years ago and what is happening now and what will happen a few years from now.
Now the wise man will put this "all" together and learn from worldwide current events AND from Biblical Prophesy and Eschatology and from this, he will know what can be done and what can't. He'll know how t0 fight and what to fight for.
Mac
race_to_the_bottom| 10.24.11 @ 12:41AM
Amen to all that, Mac.
I get really inspired by the Bible. Here are some of my favorite verses.
Numbers 31:7-18.
"They attacked Midian just as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed all the men. All five of the Midianite kings – Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba – died in the battle. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword. Then the Israelite army captured the Midianite women and children and seized their cattle and flocks and all their wealth as plunder. They burned all the towns and villages where the Midianites had lived. After they had gathered the plunder and captives, both people and animals, they brought them all to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and to the whole community of Israel, which was camped on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan River, across from Jericho.
Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the people went to meet them outside the camp. But Moses was furious with all the military commanders who had returned from the battle. "Why have you let all the women live?" he demanded. "These are the very ones who followed Balaam's advice and caused the people of Israel to rebel against the LORD at Mount Peor. They are the ones who caused the plague to strike the LORD's people. Now kill all the boys and all the women who have slept with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves."
I also like Ezekiel 9:5-7
"Then I heard the LORD say to the other men, "Follow him through the city and kill everyone whose forehead is not marked. Show no mercy; have no pity! Kill them all – old and young, girls and women and little children. But do not touch anyone with the mark. Begin your task right here at the Temple." So they began by killing the seventy leaders. "Defile the Temple!" the LORD commanded. "Fill its courtyards with the bodies of those you kill! Go!" So they went throughout the city and did as they were told." Ezekiel 9:5-7
And who could forget good ol' Jeremiah 51:20-26
"You are my battle-ax and sword," says the LORD. "With you I will shatter nations and destroy many kingdoms. With you I will shatter armies, destroying the horse and rider, the chariot and charioteer. With you I will shatter men and women, old people and children, young men and maidens. With you I will shatter shepherds and flocks, farmers and oxen, captains and rulers. "As you watch, I will repay Babylon and the people of Babylonia for all the wrong they have done to my people in Jerusalem," says the LORD. "Look, O mighty mountain, destroyer of the earth! I am your enemy," says the LORD. "I will raise my fist against you, to roll you down from the heights. When I am finished, you will be nothing but a heap of rubble. You will be desolate forever. Even your stones will never again be used for building. You will be completely wiped out," says the LORD.
Its easy to see how modern Israel inspired by the heroic feats of the ancient Israelite and their wonderful god. The civilization they have created after defeating the Philistines (funny way to spell Palestinians) is a shining example for all of humanity!
Bill| 10.20.11 @ 10:33AM
In considering the claims about the work of Herbert Croly, I am intrigued by first, the idea that the notions of our Founding Fathers about democracy as expressed in our founding documents, must yield to the pressures of developing notions of good sense, and secondly by the concept of "national democracy." What is the meaning of such a term? Can there even be such a thing as "national democracy?" Doesn't the term contain an inherent contradiction or paradox?
I'm probably wrong. After all, Croly is a smarty; he wrote a whole book.
Anthony| 10.20.11 @ 10:34AM
The left have always embraced portions of totalitarianism, if not embraced it completely, because totalitarianism fits into their world perspective that only a handful of elites have the answers to govern.
Obozo recently made the pronouncement that "all of his decisons have been the right ones". The MSM circle the wagons around each other and slap themselves on the back for a job well done. Enough said.
Fortunately, the left always overstep. The OWS crowd now wants revolution. Hell yes, it's about time America had a good taking out of the trash. We need to start in Washington and remove the toxic elements of leftism that are destroying America.
Be careful what you lefty fools wish for!!
old white guy| 10.20.11 @ 2:45PM
anthony, remember you will have to fight the cop who lives down the street and your neighbour who is a liberal. are you ready to do that???
oldfart| 10.20.11 @ 4:15PM
Your point?
Drunken Sailor| 10.20.11 @ 4:29PM
If they threaten me and mine? Damn straight! Fight now, cry about it later.
Skippy| 10.21.11 @ 3:21PM
Your question presumes the cop will attempt to arrest/detain his own lawful neighbor. There is good reason to doubt that.
Ditto with soldiers. Their parents live on those same streets.
That said, loaded weapons will be THE fashion accessory of 2012...and beyond!
race_to_the_bottom| 10.24.11 @ 12:44AM
Read my post above about guns. Guns are worse than useless except for hunting bear and target shooting.
tadcf| 10.20.11 @ 11:30AM
On the other hand we have plenty of non-democratic thinking on the part of the Right--here's one example:
Tea Founder: Limit Vote to Property Owners
Pointing out that the founders put "certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote," Tea Party Nation founder and president Judson Phillips said, "One of those was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, because if you're a property owner you actually have a vested stake in the community. If you're not a property owner, you know, I'm sorry but property owners have a little bit more of a vested interest in the community than non-property owners."
http://www.drudge.com/archive/.....rty-owners
Sorry Republican renters, but were rolling the clock back to a time when you don't have a vote.
Nunya| 10.20.11 @ 12:02PM
There is a reason the Progressive movement wanted everyone and their brother the right to vote.... (just sayin')
Mrs. du Toit| 10.20.11 @ 2:42PM
It depends on what elections you're discussing. It WOULD make sense, for example, that only property owners should vote on matters that raise or lower property taxes wouldn't it? As far as WHO gets elected, then it would make sense to include everyone. How to do that would be a bit complicated, but it wouldn't be impossible, especially given that we have computers to figure these things out now. At the Founders time, it would have been an almost impossible task. They were limited by the technology (or lack thereof) they had available.
It seems a bit unjust for people who do not pay property taxes to be able to shift burdens to property owners, or to raise these taxes, knowing full well that it will not be a tax they will have to pay. It becomes even more unfair when these same voters then pass laws that make it impossible for property owners to raise rent more than X percent per year, sometimes not even allowing for increases in property taxes. And then these jackasses wonder why a landlord will allow a rental property to become a slum. Maybe because his rents are less than his costs?
race_to_the_bottom| 10.24.11 @ 12:58AM
Truly an attitude worthy of the Ancien Régime. It is societies ruled by such ideas which get the tumbrils rolling!
A house in Beverly Hills and a house in the middle of Siberia can be identical, but one is worth orders of magnitude more because of the society with its infrastructure in which it exists. Property is not a thing; it is a social construct. In reality, there is no such thing as "property rights" if society decides they don't exist.
Bill| 10.20.11 @ 4:08PM
It's true that limiting the vote to property is not democratic. It's republican in nature.
Our Founding Fathers (rightfully) rejected democracy. The French Revolution only a few years after the American Revolution demonstrated the wisdom of that principle.
Bill| 10.20.11 @ 4:08PM
Property OWNERS, that is.
race_to_the_bottom| 10.24.11 @ 1:02AM
A few years back, someone remarked that reactionaries would eventually want to reverse the results of the French Revolution. A truly dangerous idea. It would mean that eventually the French Revolution would have to be fought all over again. Excuse me, I have to call my broker to buy a thousand shares of Tumbrils R Us.
James Solbakken | 10.20.11 @ 5:29PM
I'd rather have lived in Hong Kong without the right to vote than in Red China with a phony balony right to vote. At least in Hong Kong the Queen, God save her, respected basic human rights e.g. to keep the fruit of their labor; with such rights who needs an effing vote if voting only serves to empower the rabble who vote to steal everything everyone else was working for.
race_to_the_bottom| 10.24.11 @ 1:07AM
"empower the rabble who vote to steal everything everyone else was working for."
I really don't think you should talk about the bankers on Wall Street this way. It is very rude!
idalily| 10.20.11 @ 9:19PM
Psst, tadcf, we're not a democracy. We are a Republic. But thanks for playing.
RDM| 10.21.11 @ 10:58AM
Alright then: Restrict the vote to net taxpayers; if more government money doesn't go OUT of your pocket than goes INTO your pocket, no vote.
If you don't contribute to the pot, you don't get to decide how its divvied up.
cicero| 10.20.11 @ 12:25PM
The reason the founders only gave the right to vote to property owners was that they were the only ones paying taxes. What is meant is that only taxpayers should have the right to vote. No representation without taxation.
While you may agree or not, at least let's keep the discussion honest.
The most dangerous institution we have is the court system. Our judiciary has gone from ruling on facts based on the law, to sitting as Solomons, and ruling according to their feelings. They decide what they want the outcome to be, then bend the law to make it fit.
bartk| 10.20.11 @ 2:00PM
Government plundering and interfering with the hardworking, diligent, taxpayers and small businesses continues unabated, under pirate Obama and his henchmen.
The talking heads, and political charlatans of all stripes and colors continue to hawk all kinds of prophecies of good and bad, using titles and positions to underscore their infallibility to a growing illiterate population in America.
Restore America soon - fire pirate Obama, repeal all failed policies, reform the current government model to a business model that reflects the 21st century global economy.
race_to_the_bottom| 10.24.11 @ 1:08AM
What are you talking about? Obombya is BushIII.
David T| 10.20.11 @ 2:40PM
Is the Constitution still viable, given that, by the lights of our Founders, probably 90% of what the federal government does these days is unconstitutional?
Fran| 10.20.11 @ 2:52PM
Out country is NOT a democracy. Our country is a Republic which is Rule by law.
Boar Hunter| 10.20.11 @ 4:38PM
LOL, what law? What are the consequences for breaking it? Obama and his outlaw regime have repeatedly broken the law, so what?
If the law is not enforced, what difference does it make what we call ourselves.
Obama and his felonious crowd of Marxists do whatever they want. The law says what? Oh I'm sure your mistaken. What the law really means is I can do it cause I won! The Black Panthers Obama posed with at a prior political rally did what at a polling place? What? both Erick Holder and Obama knew and spoke about Operation Gun Runner how ling before it came to light and Holder started openly lying about it? Obama gave how much money to Solendra after they knew it was a failed business? Acorn? Hell, they have done so much crooked shit I can't even remember half of it.
And I'm supposed to get excited about Mitt Romney? Mitt F'n Romney? Are you F'n kidding me?
Hey! I have an idea, since we tried appeasing the flea and locust class by electing a black (hearted), metrosexual, communist, liar and dope smoking criminal to the highest office in the country, how about we find and support a man for President next time. You know someone who speaks like Sara Palin with a deeper voice.
Both political parties in America are so corrupt right now the founding fathers would have tried and executed most of them for the crap they have done. The laws written by the founding fathers were designed to protect us from the exact behavior these people engage in daily. I want the law to be enforced, not perverted by a bunch of lawless, immoral bastards just because they are intelligent enough to circumvent the law.
Oh, but lets be nice. Calling these people who defecate on the constitution and use attorneys to form clever phrases to undermine every rule they need to in order to loot the country and enrich themselves at the expense of "we the people" would be ill mannered.
Boar Hunter| 10.20.11 @ 5:37PM
Oh and by the way, while I'm on the subject, screw that Anti-American, diminutive nut job, Ron Paul and each and every last one of the annoying, demented, confrontational (because I can call you names from the safety of my computer), pro-dope, anti-semite, hysterical, pseudo-intellectual drones that constitute the "Ron Paul" following.
Susan Mays| 10.21.11 @ 1:27AM
Amen, Brother, Amen! I am sick of the regime and every thing about it.
Oldefarte| 10.20.11 @ 3:13PM
If this country corrects the huge mistake [that it made on 11/4/08] on 11/4/12, then this piece of wealth-redistribution governmental health insurance welfare can thereafter be eliminated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
pat goudey obrien| 10.20.11 @ 3:23PM
nothing you say is backed up by ANYTHING substantive, and most of what you say consists of accusations of intentional incompetence (like ANYbody would be intentionally incompetent about anything for any length of time, really). you make no sens.
Abu Nudnik| 10.20.11 @ 3:36PM
Agreed with all points except the definition of the word "liberal." These people are socialists, not liberals. Liberalism believes men of good will can and do disagree as to the nature of problems and their solutions therefore it behooves us to put our heads together and come up with a solution better than either can come up with on his own. This is the bedrock of democracy.
A socialist, by contrast (which many who call themselves liberals are) believes in shaping the society and penalizing all who do not participate in a consensus. It does not allow the free flow of ideas or anything else. It tends to two styles of totalitarianism: national and international, otherwise known as fascism and communism.
The problem with allowing socialists the free use of the word "liberal" is that it perverts it within the nation and puts us in a contradictory position when defending liberal democracies abroad against, for example, Islamofascists, kleptocratic autocracies and juridical oligarchies such as Iran's. Some distinctions of governmental form are necessary and in allowing socialists the use of the word "liberal" we put ourselves on a bad footing. We should challenge their so-called liberalism at every turn. What is liberal about stealing the taxpayer's dollar and giving it to some dictator in the Third World in the name of humanitarianism? And how is it "humanitarian?" The perversion of terminology is their bedrock and your whole article proves this.
Leon in Redding CA| 10.20.11 @ 3:52PM
James Madison blogs on Obamacare legislation.
“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws (Obamacare) . . . be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess what it will be tomorrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be the rule, which is little known and less fixed?” (Federalist Papers, No. 62, p. 381
oldfart| 10.20.11 @ 4:18PM
1+1=2 in the early 2000's as it was in the early 1800's.
Unless it is Obama math - then the answer depends on the time of the day.
Neo| 10.20.11 @ 5:13PM
I think anyone who actually read the draft bills from the last major attempt in the 108th Congress would have a good laugh.
A close review of HR 163 (Rangel D-NY) and S 89 (Hollings D-SC) reveals the "twin" documents are not twins at all. But don't take my word for it, go to thomas.loc.gov and lookup HR.163 and S.89 from the 108th session and compare.
S.89 talks about "active duty and reserve" components while HR 163 talks about "active duty and reverse" components, in 5 different places. Yes, it says reverse (i.e. backward). The version of HR.163 that came to the floor of the House and was actually voted on, talks of "active duty and reverse" components. I don't know about you, but I assume that a reverse component would be in charge of retreats and surrenders (has a definite John Kerry flair to it).
emo| 10.20.11 @ 5:18PM
Democracy and the individual always interfere in the "planners" plans for utopia.
Anti-Neocon| 10.20.11 @ 5:45PM
"The origins of Liberalism were always undemocratic."
Really, Mr. Author Know It All? Tell that to our Founding Fathers, in particular Mr. Thomas Jefferson.
Margie| 10.20.11 @ 6:16PM
It depends on your definition of Liberalism.
Boy that Bill Clinton phrasing thing sure works well sometimes.
LOL.
Pat| 10.20.11 @ 7:13PM
Whatever you call the current kleptocracy running our Washington D. C. Hedge Fund, that’s what Liberals believe in. But if you insist it’s all about ideology, misguided notions by decent folks who just haven’t seen the light yet, then drive on Rangers, it’s a semi-free country after all. Maxine Waters, California’s elected answer to Alice in Wonderland’s Red Queen, managed to wrangle a massive tax dollar infusion for a deserving bank where her husband just happens to sit on the board – what a strange coincidence since Maxine is officially about helping only those “less fortunate”. Nancy Pelosi has a brother-in-law whose firm was accidentally blessed with a $700 million government loan – another amazing coincidence related to someone who wants to “tax the rich”.
Barney Frank’s boy toy got a government job and Barney himself received special consideration on his loan interest rates from a lender who did a lot of business with Barney’s Fannie M twins. The Soylandra bad debt write-off made someone a lot wealthier but the DOE won’t tell us specifically who – and those Cayman Island bankers take their bank secrecy laws very seriously, so they aren’t telling either. Coincidences abound in Washington – relatives, lovers, friends of the Party, former elected employees, campaign donors, friends of campaign donors all seem to coincidentally receive that taxpayer gift which just keeps on giving.
But if you truly believe it’s really about governing principles, “visions of where this nation is going”, economic philosophy or selfless altruism then the Occupy Wall Street crowd has gained another potential convert. Liberals believe in one thing only and it’s spelled, coincidentally enough: $democracy$.
carnot| 10.20.11 @ 9:21PM
how can Liberalism survive if no one is left to work for it?
SittingMooseShaman| 10.20.11 @ 11:02PM
...I, SittingMoose, Shaman, Freeman, Armed Patriot of THE CONSTITUTION, and enemy to ALL these 'PostWWII'NAZIs, Eurasian Socialist, US Communist & et. merta: Murderers who attempt to whittle even even ONE "jot or tiddle" from OUR CONSTITUTION and OUR FATHER CREATORS' GIVEN, RIGHTEOUS FREEDOMS, THE, "BILL OF RIGHTS" & ALL -than "they" illegally -already have; SHALL fight "them" to-the-death -for the sake of my childrens' FREEDOM as FREE AMERICANS: Able to make choices as free citizens of and in the American Constitutional Democratic Republic of these United States...
I state this in sound and FREE mind!
To HELL with what is occurring over in those other lands...HERE is where I live!
re: To those, "Who Serve": Honor Your Oaths!
POST American| 10.21.11 @ 12:16AM
"My land is where my people are buried."
-CRAZY HORSE
-----------------ANY QUESTIONS?--------------------
2 ROT-child instigated World Wars
--multiple economic depressions
and unprecedented halocausts,
CON-flicts ---unfolding TREASON
and EUGENICS and the foisting of the awesomely,
unrepentantly GENOCIDAL
RED Chinese regime to 'world
model and enforcer ' status ---ALL as we deal
with the now activating 'sleeper' cancer and
leukemia viruses of the POLIO shots of
arch Rockefeller EUGENIST---Dr Jonas Salk
----------HUAC meets NUREMBERG 2012----------
HUAC meets NUREMBERG ------is coming.
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William L. Gen sert| 10.21.11 @ 10:47AM
America as a nation, used to enact simple, easy to understand, legislation with specific purposes and codified sets of rules. Now, we pass unintelligible laws with general goals, creating entities empowered to appoint unelected bureaucrats to write the rules.
Rockerbabe| 10.21.11 @ 3:43PM
We already have rationed healthcare; it goes by a goodly number of names, such as;
Pre-existing conditions
Lifetime coverage limits
Drug formulary exclusions
Co-pays that rise every year
Deductibles that rise every year
Exclusions for transplant, dialysis and anything that the private insurance company deeems "experimental", even when the medical care or meds are use frequently.
Pre-authorizations for a limited time, even for chronic medical conditions.
Denial letters for services once covered
Exclusion for OB/GYN care for women
Using domestic violence and rape as a pre-existing condition!
Delay in payment for services already rendered.
In-network and out-of-network coverage ratges
Age limitation on policies for children.
Increasing policy premiums-going on long before ObamaCare came into existence.
All of the above and so much more is the reason we have 40+ million Americans without healthcare coverage. If the republicans wanted to do something about this shameful problem, they could have anytime over the course of the last 50 years! ObamaCare, which is essentially private health insurance, is a good idea for all Americans, not just those with private health insurance.
SD Conservative| 10.21.11 @ 4:40PM
Are you kidding me???
Rockerbabe| 10.21.11 @ 11:45PM
I'm not sure exactly what you are saying or are you just being "cute"? I have spent 35 years of my professional life in healthcare and I have quite a bit of knowledge and direct experience in this matter. If you don't think rationing [limiting access to a resource] is occurring in the healthcare field, you are as blind as blind can be. Afterall, private medical insurance is a 3rd party reimburser and often a for-profit company; it enhances their bottom-line to limit access to care as that enhances the almight profit!
Timely Renewed | 10.21.11 @ 6:20PM
As always, Mr. Tyrrell is very insightful. The problem goes much deeper than just the incompetent ideologue who is our current POTUS, and the solution must go much deeper than just replacing him. We have to restore the original constitutional limits on the federal government which leftists have been dismantling since the days of Herbert Croly. Given how entrenched are the Supreme Court precedents since the New Deal which have authorized this unconstitutional expansion of the federal government, and the vested interests which protect it today, only constitutional amendments restating the original constitutional framework can restore the original limits on our national government. See http://www.timelyrenewed.com
john dubose| 10.23.11 @ 9:20AM
There is wisdom in this article. But the presumption of moral superiority is a vice that anybody ( especially any politically active person ) is vulnerable to. A long term project for constitutional conservatives needs to be a cleanup and simplification of law especially federal law. Conservatives and even libertarians are capable of abuse of power if the path is easy enough.
Jeff Lewis | 12.17.11 @ 3:03PM
It's not just "clap trap" legislation that's the problem. A key component of the problem are those political animals who see "face-time" and personal political capital as more important than sharing the 'truths' that they know. For example, you mention Betsy McCaughey. The former Lt. Gov. of New York has a PhD in constitutional history. If anyone should know what it means, it's Betsy. I spoke with her at a conference back in March at which she was both a speaker and panelist. My concerns, then and now, as it related to Obama Care, were more focused on the root problem the court challenges posed, not simply the legislation itself. I spoke to Mrs. McCaughey about the constitutionality of the lawsuits against Obama Care, as well as the cases against Arizona's SB-1070. In private, she agreed with our analysis and research that under the "original jurisdiction" mandate of Article III, Section 2, Clause 2, that NONE of the judges who had heard the cases at the federal district and appellate levels had any Constitutional authority to hear the cases brought before them, yet publicly, at the conference, she praised the district judge who struck down as un-constitutional, parts of Obama Care. I was disappointed. Other supposed champions of the Constitution have also made the "strategic" decision to violate their oaths of office, squandered tens of thousands if not millions of taxpayer dollars in the process, and further weakened States' Rights and the Constitution in the process. The Supreme Court, from day one, should have heard these cases. Governor Brewer, for example, should have told U.S. A.G. Holder to go away, that if he had a problem with Arizona law, to file his complaint in a court that has Constitutional authority to hear it. She did not. The same is true of VA. A.G. Cuccinelli, who filed his suit in federal district court. http://rejoinordie.com/docs/REJOINORDIE.pdf
Statute and precedent do not trump the Constitution. Until governors and states' attorneys general start keeping their oaths, the feds will continue eroding State sovereignty, States' Rights, and the Rights of the People.
Jeff Lewis | 12.17.11 @ 3:08PM
I agree Mr. Dubose. The legislative process and the sheer volume of the convoluted legislation introduced in Congress must be repaired. James Madison said it best:
“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be
tomorrow.” – James Madison (Author of the U.S. Constitution, & 4th President)