Reflections From a Murky Pond

In any society that hopes to maintain its liberty and avoid tyranny it is necessary for its people to instill fear in its political leadership. In best case scenarios this needs only be the fear of the consequences of misbehavior. In other all too common situations it is necessary to fill the politicians with the fear of reprisals by the people.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

– Attributed to Thomas Jefferson

America is at a point where it is dealing with a middle case scenario where politicians need to be instilled with a combination of preventative and punitive fears.

Fortunately, Americans have exercised some of the means at their disposal to instill the needed fear in the political elite. They banded together as the TEA Parties and elected representatives to Congress who were of strong purpose and character.

In the degenerate system that America’s federal government has devolved into, honest and patriotic men an women who have chosen to shoulder the burden of providing correction to that system and who are willing to disregard the personal cost to themselves for doing so are an acute source of fear for all the professional politicians who are heavily invested, often literally, in maintaining the current broken status quo.

Nothing scares professional politicians more than actual statesmen, and nothing scares the Liberals and Progressives more than American statesmen, even though they whine and rant when their own sort don’t behave similarly.

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Considering Obama’s supposed education, he’s been pretty pathetically ignorant to-date about all matters except running for political office. He was certainly ignorant of the basic laws of physics and in how they interact with all parts of life. This is rather odd given Harvard’s longstanding tradition of Natural Philosophy.

Fortunately for America, he has been schooled by the GOP…

Resistible Force Vs. Immovable Object

I’m fairly sure that the lesson was wasted on him though. Creature’s like Obama and his cultists rarely learn the lessons that they’re taught, choosing instead to twist things to fit their ideology and therefor reinforcing their own false teachings.

What was more important during the brouhaha over raising the debt ceiling was that the old guard, establishment, status quo members of the GOP were educated about who they served – and that they were nothing but our servants in the first place.

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President Obama has, despite the efforts of the MSM to keep things quiet, managed to rile up a strong and growing storm of condemnation over his usurpation of power and arguably illegal war in Libya.

Obama’s defense of his violation of US law and even the War Powers Act, which gives the POTUS certain limited leeway in using force without prior congressional approval, seems to center upon the war in Libya being a UN mandated action that is being conducted under the auspices of NATO.

The UN Made Me Do It. I was Only Following Orders

The only other possibility is that Obama is attempting the Whoopi Defense – It’s not war-war, much like it wasn’t rape-rape in the case of Roman Polanski drugging and rutting into an unconscious 13 year-old girl.

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