Fiddling While Rome Burns

by Michael Sall

How long will we sit by while the education of literally millions of children is trashed in the wake of the teachers unions? In schools where, if children are taught at all, they are taught politically correct garbage - a fantasy of some radical liberal having nothing to do with the real world – leaving American kids with third world education levels, preparing them for nothing productive?

How long will we sit by while our State Department engages in imaginary fixes for the threats that face America and her allies? While Obama says the actions of North Korea have consequences, North Korea continues with impunity to arm itself and other rogue nations. While Rahm Emanuel says disarming Iran can be accomplished only if Israel moves forward with the "peace" process, the Palestinians continue to plot to drive the Jews into the sea, and Iran rockets forward with their nuclear program, threatening the entire world, and hiding behind propaganda that ridiculously claims Palestinian grievances as their motive.

How long will we sit by while Obama destroys the rule of law, the latest example being the threats to the senior debt holders in Chrysler who refused to allow the administration to force them to take less money than their contracts call for? Before that, this administration tried to pass a law that would allow judges to abrogate mortgage obligations. It is as if the administration is saying, "We don't care what your contract says, we don't care what the law says, we will do what we want (for the 'greater good' of course)." Activist judges unconstitutionally continue to write law with tortured logic, while Obama applauds. They even have the temerity with convoluted logic to try to undo many purely democratic and Constitutionally-passed ballot initiatives.

How long will we allow the liberals to undermine our security, our lives and our limbs? On the home front they restrict guns, thereby creating the perverse situation where criminals are armed and law abiding citizens are not. They expose secret and successful programs that have made us safer from terror, yet the traitors go unpunished. They treat terrorists sworn to our destruction as if they were shoplifters, inventing "rights" and privileges for them that never existed and don't exist now.

How long will we allow fictions like global warming to go unchallenged? The supposed universal agreement on its very existence is a myth promoted by a group of political extremists, the media, and a few scientists, many of whom were bought and paid for through grants and tenure. This theory is as much proven science as its predecessors - nuclear winter, the population bomb, and the imminent exhaustion of the world’s commodities - all of which were safely discredited and are now resting on the trash heap of history.

How long will we allow the nonsense of universal health care to be taken seriously, even as we move closer and closer to that goal? There are 46 million uninsured. 10 million are illegal aliens. 10 million can afford it but choose not to buy, and 10 million already qualify for government-paid programs but are too dysfunctional to enroll. The health care quality in America is so far superior to what it is anywhere in the world or what it would become that any thinking person should dismiss the idea as an idiot’s rant. Those who doubts this can just look around the world where government health care has been mandated (to a country it is a disaster), rather than listen to the continuing stream of lies from the left.

How long will we sit by and allow the government to take over the economy? In varying degrees the government currently controls Citi Bank, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, GM, Chrysler, AIG, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Obama proposes nationalizing health care (one sixth of the economy), and imposing a cap and trade energy tax that will effectively give the bureaucrats control over the energy sector. This has been tried before and failed. See the old Soviet Union, Cuba and North Korea for details.

When are we going to stop the growth of federal regulations governing everything we do, and thereby snatching the very freedoms guaranteed to us under the Constitution? Don't people understand that laws, by definition, are direct restraints on our freedom and, although we need laws to take us out of "a state of nature" as Hobbs said, extending legal controls as broadly as we are doing today will surely result in a Soviet-style society.

When are we going to give God the same status in the public square that we give the other religion, atheism? Those unfortunate enough not to know God should be given a voice, but those of us who embrace Him are entitled to speak out as well.

Our friends at the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan and others remind us that we must accept some of this garbage on the theory that 51 votes in a Senate comprised of 20 John McCains and Olympia Snows is better than 30 votes made up of all Jim DeMints and John Kyls. I disagree. If we run only genuinely conservative candidates, we will get our chance to govern, and then we have at least a chance of doing it right. Bush senior and junior slowed the pace of the race towards socialism, but allowed it to continue. Reagan was the only President since Eisenhower to even attempt to stop the growth of government. The 30/20 mix of Republicans will only delay our decline, not arrest it.

For those who doubt that an all-conservative coalition will get a chance to govern, I would suggest that governments are almost always voted out, not voted in. During the Depression every ruling party in every democracy, liberal and conservative alike, was voted out. Obama didn't win nearly so much as Republicans lost. I predict that this fantastic surge towards Socialism, this vast overreaching, will usher in a new government in a very few years. The question is: will it be the party of Reagan, or of Obama lite?

History demonstrates to us that, when either party moves more to the right, they win.