Reflections From a Murky Pond

During President George W. Bush’s tenure as POTUS there were many Liberals who liked to deride him by calling him, “King George,” and were often found whining and gnashing their teeth over his “Imperial Presidency.” Those were doing so claimed that their issue was that President Bush was expanding the powers of the Presidency, largely through the profligate use of Executive Orders to bypass the will of Congress.

One is forced to wonder if any of these myrmidons of the Left will have enough courage of their convictions to complain about “King Barack” in the same or at least similar manner?

Now, even after paying for what we spent on my watch, we’ll still face the massive deficit we had when I took office.  More importantly, the cost of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security will continue to skyrocket.  That’s why I’ve called for a bipartisan fiscal commission, modeled on a proposal by Republican Judd Gregg and Democrat Kent Conrad.  This can’t be one of those Washington gimmicks that lets us pretend we solved a problem.  The commission will have to provide a specific set of solutions by a certain deadline.

Now, yesterday, the Senate blocked a bill that would have created this commission.  So I’ll issue an executive order that will allow us to go forward, because I refuse to pass this problem on to another generation of Americans.

– King Barack Hussein Obama
2010 State Of The Union Address

On Tuesday, January 26, 2010, the US Senate declined to approve and pass a bill that President Obama wanted passed into law. His response was, on Wednesday, January 27, 2010 – the next day – to boldly and very publicly declare that he would defy and bypass the entirety of the Legislative branch of the US government and create his desired fiscal commission by Executive Order.

King Barack indeed! I guess he’s been listen the filth, Valerie Jarrett, too much and has decided to take power and rule.

If the Left actually had any principles, there would be outrage over this. There won’t be though since the Left has very few, if any, principles.

If one has been keeping up with Congress’ “work” on President Obama’s Health Insurance Reconstruction, ObamaCare, then one knows that most of the “work” has been done behind closed doors by Democrat-ruled committees with neither Republicans nor we, the People able to view or effect the proceedings. Thus did the abomination of Obama pass the House and thus did it pass the Senate.

If one has been recently paying attention one knows that C-SPAN challenged President Obama and his Liberals in Congress to allow C-SPAN to televise the final reconciliation of the House and Senate bills.

Of course C-SPAN’s challenge was already moot when they made it. The night before President Obama held a private meeting with Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid and House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi in which he made sure that the final reconciliation of the House and Senate Versions of ObamaCare would be – once again -  be made by select Democrat committee members behind closed doors.

It was agreed by Obama, Pelosi, and Reid to have Congrress bypass the normal a formal “conference committee” and instead negotiate “informally” on their respective health care bills, confirm Congressional aides and sources outside of government.

Of course this is 2010, not 2008, so different rules and expectations are in effect – especially involving the White House.

I’m going to have all the negotiations around a big table. We’ll have doctors and nurses and hospital administrators. Insurance companies, drug companies — they’ll get a seat at the table, they just won’t be able to buy every chair. But what we will do is, we’ll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies. And so, that approach, I think is what is going to allow people to stay involved in this process.

– Sen. Barack H. Obama
Aug. 21, 2008 Town Hall meeting, Chester, VA

Of course the above words that drooled from Obama’s mouth were just one of his lies involving ObamaCare and transparency. Here’s a few more of them, though they’re all just variations on a theme:

8 Clips of Obama Promising Televised Healthcare Negotiations

President Obama is a well-educated, articulate, and oft-times affable liar and fraud. No words that ever issue from his mouth can be believed by any American and worse, no oath he has ever sworn can be trusted. He is a creature possessed of great cunning but little or no integrity – a dangerous combination of traits that bodes ill for America’s future if he’s allowed to remain in office.

It is, according to the Gregorian calendar, the year 2010 AD and, in America, there’s a more than decent chance that it will be a year of revolution. It looks to be a year when the Liberals’, led by President Obama and his cultists along with Senator Harry Reid and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, quasi-Socialist revolution ends in defeat. It looks to be a year when an American revolution takes place once again.

America Rising: An Open Letter to Democrat Politicians

The video letter to the Democrats (on YouTube and Dailymotion) included this succinct and eloquent explanation for the video:

We elected you on a promise of hope and change. You’ve disappointed us. In 2010, we are taking the country back. Blue collar democrats, independents, and conservatives. We love our country. We are proud of our founders. And we will fight to protect our traditions. We don’t want your revolution.

– Buckrush

Is the above an example of careful reasoning? No, not by a long shot. It’s gut-felt anger, bitterness, and the feeling of being betrayed. It’s “street politics” and it’s how regimes and societies are lastingly changed.

The elections in 2010 – and later, in 2012 – are going to be truly revolutionary if things continue as they are going. A growing – as of January 5, 2009 – number of people who voted for Obama’s “Change” are not pleased with what he has done with the power they granted him, and they certainly are horrified at how the Liberals in Congress, led by Pelosi and Reid have twisted the supposed “mandate” they had been given.

America is rising and, by that, I mean the average American, long ignored as safely domesticated, is rising. There’s a revolution coming and I, for one, I’m glad to see it happen no matter how it turns out in the end because it’s far past time for Americans to take their government, their society, and their country back.

H/T to PA – Pundits, where I found this video letter.