Mr. & Mrs. Irrelevant...

Just when you thought congress couldn't make themselves more irrelevant, half of them cheered when President Obama said several times he was going over their heads with executive orders.  Wow. 

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selfie...

There is a time and a place for selfies.  A memorial service for a deceased person is not one of them.  But if you consider that progressives want to erode traditional values and codes of conduct, then it makes perfect sense for President Obama to do a selfie in South Africa. It's just another way to erode ethics and morals to appeal to the youth of our country and the world. If the leader of the free world believes it is ok to take selfies at a memorial, then what should stop others?  This lack of decorum and respect goes right along with the lack of respect more and more people show each other.  I hope President Obama didn't do this intentionally but even if he didn't it is another unintended consequence of not thinking things through. If it was intentional then it is all getting clearer.

walk the walk....

It was reported that as FEMA began rolling in (later than many private charities) to offer help for tornado victims in the midwest, some already on the ground help turned FEMA away as they already had things under control. What an encouraging thing to see.  Hopefully they recogonized that along with FEMA help comes FEMA/gov't control.  As smaller government proponents we need to remember that with less government help comes a greater responsibility to help ourselves. What a chance to show how charitable we can be.  Be sure that we, as small government proponents, do our part to look after each other. Let's be sure we back up our talk with action. 

miscalculation?

Follow me on this.  As it sits now, the President has to backtrack and "apologize" for a health care law and website that don't seem to work and that he seemingly knew wouldn't work as planned.  Ted Cruz and Mike Lee and any other constitutionalists were ripped apart for holding up Obamacare.  Would it have been better for the President to delay everything at that point rather than start it up without being ready and now lose credibility and have to "apologize?"  That way he may have been able to better save face with his base and fellow democrats. It may have been easier to explain away delaying it than to explain away the problems.  I think Cruz and Lee were doing him a favor. But if you understand how progressives think and how they don't really care how bad things as long as they push through their agenda.

extreme?..really?

The tea party and constitutionalists are deemed extreme by the left. Let's put a little perspective on this idea.  Following the principles of the costitution are extreme yet our presidents wants to "fundamentally change' this country.  If Bo Ryan wanted to fundamentally change basketball he would tell his players to dribble with their heads down, stand straight up while on defense and never use the backboard. How many games would they win? Probably none. That's extreme!  Changing the fundamentals is extreme. Just like Obama is trying to change the fundamentals of our country and constitution.  Who's the extremist?  Get ready for a long losing streak...

need I say more...

...Fast and Furious, Benghazi, IRS, 2nd Amendment, criminalizing reporting...need I say more.

"Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war. . .testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated. . . can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.

We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate. . .we cannot consecrate. . . we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us. . .that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. . . that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. . . that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom. . . and that government of the people. . .by the people. . .for the people. . . shall not perish from the earth. "

Abraham Lincoln

Gettysburg, PA 

November 1863

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