Reflections From a Murky Pond

In the wake of the abject failure of Obama’s signature and singular “achievement,” ObamaCare there have been many calls for the termination of the person most responsible for this abomination, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. After all, she was the one that was given authority over- and responsibility for the roll-out of ObamaCare’s insurance exchange web application’s deployment and it was on her watch that it utterly failed, leaving American legally bound to purchase health insurance but unable to do so through the federally mandated mechanism that was put in place to allow for that.

Sebelius’ response to these calls for her termination are, in concept, just what any American would expect from a key member of the Obama Regime. They are, however, far more arrogant and honest than is the rule for those people.

The majority of people calling for me to resign I would say are people who I don’t work for and who do not want this program to work in the first place.

— HHS Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius

That’s right! According to Sebelius she doesn’t work for the American people if they’re Republicans and, despite the plethora of anecdotal evidence to the contrary, it’s mostly, if not solely, the Republicans who are calling for her removal.

To all you various Liberals who’ve called for the removal of Sebelius over her failure to manage the implementation of Obama’s signature piece of legislation – welcome to the GOP! 😆

Of course this is coming from the worthless, irresponsible, arrogant, and autocratic bitch that told Congress that she’d testify before them about her failure only when and if she could fit them into her schedule, so allowances have to be apparently be made for her attitude and behavior.

Personally, I think that creatures like Sebelius are beyond salvaging and can’t learn proper behavior. You just can’t convince them that being a public servant means serving we, the People. Hence, her termination is the only proper course of action. In the case of Sebelius, however, it may become right and necessary to terminate her with extreme prejudice.

Tags: America | Democracy | Healthcare | HHS | Politics | Sebelius | Tyranny

This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 29th, 2013 at 4:58 am and is filed under Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

We’re halfway home. Specifically we’re 50.4% through the process to abolish the Electoral College and elect our Presidents directly through the popular vote of we, the People. This is because Gov. Lincoln Chafee (D-RI) signed a bill into law that committed Rhode Island to the National Popular Vote interstate compact.

This is a very important milestone.

So far 10 states – VT, MD, WA, IL, NJ, DC, MA, CA, HI, and RI – have joined the compact. They control between them 136 electoral votes. We still need a combination of states controlling 134 electoral to join the compact before we can remove the Electoral College from existence and place the electorate in charge of choosing a President.

We’re halfway home but the half remaining and the expected lawfare from Congress is going to make it long and bloody slog. It’s worth it though, no matter what it costs in blood, sweat, and tears, because it will force presidential candidates to concern themselves with all the People, not just a select few.

Tags: America | Democracy | Electoral College | POTUS | Voting

This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 7th, 2013 at 1:07 am and is filed under Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Ineptocracy
(in-ep-toc’-ra-cy)

Ineptocracy is a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.

More concisely and poetically, it’s government of the eaters and takers, by eaters and takers, for the eaters and takers.

If you, due to your personal abilities and resulting circumstances, favor such a form of government, by all means vote for your boy, Obama on Tuesday. Ineptocracy and Obama are what best suits your life. If, on the other hand, you prefer a democratic republic based upon the principle of meritocracy, you’d be better off, as will your children and your children’s children, voting against Obama by casting your vote for Mitt Romney.

Of course, if you do choose to vote against the most ineptocratic POTUS in American history, you are essentially saying that you want Romney to “Take us back” since wise men have long held that ineptocracy was the progressive result of democracy.

Tags: 2012 Elections | America | Democracy | Humor | Ineptocracy | Meritocracy | Mitt Romney | Obama | Politics | Progressives | Republic | Tytler

This entry was posted on Saturday, November 3rd, 2012 at 5:44 pm and is filed under 2012 Election, Humor. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Freedom is always transitory for any People; it follows a historically well established cycle of rise and fall. It moves from bondage, to freedom and affluence, and back to bondage again.

The Fatal Sequence Known As The Tytler Cycle

Progression through the Fatal Sequence that leads to the death of all democracies a smooth and measured march towards entropy. It seems, if history is any judge, to happen in fits and starts with societies staying at one point then lurching forward again.

Interestingly, the Tytler Cycle was no part of Lord Woodhouselee, Alexander Fraser Tytler’s written works though it does perfectly fit them, especially his Universal History.

Where America is within the Tytler Cycle is open to some debate. This is, in no small part, because of a trend started in the latter half of the twentieth century to divide and fragment America for the dubious sake of cultural diversity. America being now more than one People is at multiple points in the cycle – but all are further along the path back to Bondage than Liberty –> Abundance.

Can we move backward along the path of the Tytler Cycle? I think it’s possible. Will we as a people do so? I doubt it; it doesn’t seem to be in human nature to do so.

Tags: America | Civilization | Democracy | Entitlement Society | Freedom | History | Political Theory | Politics | Slavery | Society | Tyranny | Tytler

This entry was posted on Saturday, April 2nd, 2011 at 11:45 am and is filed under Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

There are those times when America’s, and probably the whole of Mankind’s, highest, noblest, and most singularly important document, the Constitution, is a suicide letter for America’s democracy. The US Supreme Court’s decision in the case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission is one of those times.

Sometimes maintaining liberty carries with it a great weight of inconvenience to the sensibilities of the individual members of the populace who cannot see the benefit to upholding the guiding principles of our great nation when doing so places, or seems to place, our way of life in jeopardy.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

— Thomas Jefferson
Letter to Archibald Stuart, Dec 23, 1791

The SCOTUS’ decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission overruled and struck down most of the federal laws limiting corporations and labor unions from using their own wealth to fund or create and disseminate political messages and/or ads during elections as being unconstitutional and in contravention of the 1st Amendment thereof.  The effects of this decision, given human nature, are very likely to be an “inconvenience” brought on the common man by too much liberty.

I, for one, certainly do not relish the thought of the media being inundated by political ads by corporations during each and every election cycle. Nor am I in any way sanguine about how that could effect the outcomes of those elections. Even more so, I  do not relish experiencing the same thing from the labor unions and believe such electioneering ads would be far more likely to come from them than from corporations.

Yet, after reading the Courts decision and opinion, those of the previous cases they cited, and the body of law in question (US Code Title 2, Chapter 14, Subchapter I , § 441b), I am forced to agree with them. Removing the ban on both corporations and labor unions was the only constitutionally correct decision that the SCOTUS could render. The issues that may arise from maintaining Freedom of Speech are far less detrimental than those that would certainly arise from hampering or chilling it.

Tags: 1st Amendment | 2010 Elections | America | Democracy | Freedom | Law | Liberty | Politics | The Constitution | US Supreme Court

This entry was posted on Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 at 6:10 pm and is filed under Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.