{"id":484268,"date":"2010-03-29T09:26:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T13:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f86\/republic-but-we-couldn-t-keep-41493\/"},"modified":"2010-03-29T09:26:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T13:26:11","slug":"it-was-a-republic-but-we-couldn%c2%92t-keepit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/484268","title":{"rendered":"It Was A Republic, But We Couldn\u0092t Keep*It"},"content":{"rendered":"
03.28.10 07:01 PM<\/p>\n

Will it never end?<\/p>\n

Will the daily, relentless assault on our freedoms by the current socialist-in-chief, President Barack Obama, and the socialist Democrat-controlled Congress never end?<\/p>\n

Will the constant pounding and pounding on the Constitution by Obama and Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and the rest of the socialist elite elected class\u0097as they work to not just chip away at our nation\u0092s foundation as progressives before them, but to obliterate it completely\u0097never end?<\/p>\n

Will the takeover of business and industry never end?<\/p>\n

Will the calls for a cap-and-trade system that will raise taxes and energy costs and further erode out economic well-being never end?<\/p>\n

Will the push for amnesty for illegal aliens never end?<\/p>\n

Will the spending and the money printing and currency debasement never end?<\/p>\n

Will the hubris of the elected class never end?<\/p>\n

Apparently not.<\/p>\n

Day by day; week by week; month by month the socialist Democrats pounded away at so-called healthcare reform. In office for 14 months, the Obama-Pelosi-Reid triumvirate worked to enact a socialist, European-style big government healthcare system on America.<\/p>\n

The American people didn\u0092t want what Obama, Reid and Pelosi were peddling. By 59 percent to 39 percent, according to the latest CNN\/Opinion Research poll, Americans opposed Obamacare.<\/p>\n

And they said so over and over. They said \u0093no\u0094 to the secrecy of the bills, which were crafted in smoke-filled rooms, behind closed doors and foisted upon the public at the moment of the vote. They said \u0093no\u0094 to the cost which kept growing and growing with each incarnation. They said \u0093no\u0094 to the Louisiana Purchase (to get Mary Landrieu\u0092s vote), the Cornhusker Kickback (to garner Ben Nelson\u0092s support) and to the Gator Aid (to secure the support of senior citizens).<\/p>\n

They said \u0093no\u0094 by marching on Washington D.C., by the tens of thousands. They said \u0093no\u0094 through the Tea Parties. They said so through calls and letters. They said \u0093no\u0094 at town hall meetings. They said \u0093no,\u0094 \u0093no,\u0094 \u0093No,\u0094 \u0093NO!\u0094<\/p>\n

They said \u0093no\u0094 at the voting booth in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts. Yet the socialist Democrats passed it anyway.<\/p>\n

So the people ask, \u0093What part of no don\u0092t you understand?\u0094<\/p>\n

Know this: Pelosi, Reid and Obama\u0097they understand. They just don\u0092t care. It\u0092s the progressive way.<\/p>\n

Responding to questions about the special favors garnered by recalcitrant Senators in order to enlist their support, Reid replied with something to the effect of: That\u0092s the legislative process. If a Senator didn\u0092t get something he wasn\u0092t doing his job.<\/p>\n

Hey. It\u0092s only money, and printing it is cheap.<\/p>\n

As Pelosi responded when asked where Congress gets the authority to mandate United States citizens purchase health insurance: \u0093Are you serious?\u0094<\/p>\n

Well, yes Madame Speaker, Constitutional issues are serious business to us. They should be to you. But they\u0092re not. That\u0092s because the Constitution limits their power over the citizenry and power is what the socialist elected elites seek.<\/p>\n

If the Constitution was important to the socialist elite there would have been an open process in putting together a bill that reformed the health insurance system by letting the free market system work rather than further empowering government. And certainly there would have been no talk of using parliamentary trickery\u0097the Slaughter Rule, also known as Deem and Pass\u0097to pass it.<\/p>\n

If the Constitution was important to the socialists there would be no provisions mandating that people buy something simply for being American and no need for 14 states to file suit against the Federal government for violating the 10th Amendment.<\/p>\n

If the Constitution was important to the socialists Americans wouldn\u0092t be sitting back asking themselves, \u0093What\u0092s next on their agenda: Another stab at amnesty for illegals, another run at cap-and-trade, a gun grab, a value added tax?\u0094<\/p>\n

If the Constitution was important the government wouldn\u0092t own General Motors, Chrysler, the financial industry and now, insurance companies.<\/p>\n

If the Constitution was important the government wouldn\u0092t be in the business of setting the salaries of everyone from the lowest level employee to the CEOs of large companies.<\/p>\n

To be fair, all of this can be laid at the feet of the socialist Republicans who blindly followed George W. Bush\u0092s big government socialism over the economic cliff. They\u0097the socialist Republicans\u0097are claiming an epiphany now and appear to be standing up to the Democrat tyranny. But like all socialist elected elites, when they controlled Congress the socialist Republicans grew government, expanded its power to monitor its citizenry and supported Bush\u0092s nation-building, empire-expanding war policies and his original $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).<\/p>\n

Though they\u0097the socialist Republicans\u0097claim to be strict constructionists when it comes to the Constitution now, they helped Bush enact his ridiculous \u0093compassionate conservatism\u0094 that increased government entitlement spending and therefore increased the roles of non-producers eager to sponge off the hard work of the producers.<\/p>\n

But that\u0092s what you get from the socialist elected elites. They ignore the Constitution because to them the \u0093be all and end all\u0094 is government. They like big government and they like bigger government even better.<\/p>\n

You can be sure that the Obama-Pelosi-Reid triumvirate isn\u0092t going to rest on its laurels. More big government programs are on the way.<\/p>\n

And Pelosi is not afraid to kick in a few doors to accomplish it. As she told a group of Leftwing bloggers leading up the passage of Obamacare, \u0093\u0085once we kick through this door there will be more legislation to follow.\u0094<\/p>\n

So this is only the beginning of the socialist takeover of America. It\u0092s evidence that sovereignty is in the hands of but a few, just as the writer Brutus warned in Anti-Federalist No. 1: \u0093If the people are to give their assent to the laws, by persons chosen and appointed by them, the manner of the choice and the number chosen, must be such, as to possess, be disposed, and consequently qualified to declare the sentiments of the people; for if they do not know, or are not disposed to speak the sentiments of the people, the people do not govern, but the sovereignty is in a few.\u0094<\/p>\n

At the close of the Constitutional Convention a woman asked Benjamin Franklin what type of government had been created. Franklin\u0092s reply: \u0093A republic, if you can keep it.\u0094<\/p>\n

We couldn\u0092t.<\/p>\n

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