Obama in a Skirt

There is no evidence that the United States is pulling out of this recession. Our nation is hurting. And while the country decays, congress is using the uncertainty to usurp power. The staggering deficit it created serves government well.

The rush of spending is a crushing defeat for private enterprise and personal responsibility. The nationalization of the financial institutions reduced the fluidity of capital that underpins freedom, innovation and prosperity. It empowers the federal government by reducing the economic options of future generations.

Trickle down economics has graduated from being a by-product of capitalism, historically defined as class warfare by liberals, to shared responsibility. Of course, the sharing will be controlled by government to level the income disparities created by the industrious and innovative risk takers.

There is no bright light on the horizon. Housing values continue to fall and the unemployment numbers aren’t hopeful. The stock market is in a dither, inflation is mounting, energy prices are growing and there are tremendous pressures on the fissures in our national and fiscal security.

The US immigration polices are anti-worker and anti-taxpayer, and the solutions being offered to stabilize the escalating cost of healthcare are mired in socialist priorities. The production of energy has been relegated to the realm of environmental doomsayers.

Our right of privacy, self-determination, religious expression, wealth accumulation, and control of the curriculum in our local schools is disappearing. And marriage is being ostracized; labeled as an outmoded artifact of religious intolerance.

Moral authority is treated as the disgraced refuge of old fashion constitutionalists. And the guidelines for freedom of expression are being manipulated by a government obsessed with an unflinching quest for absolute power. The relationship between church and state has evolved into a winner-take-all war for the right to define truth.

The judicial branch of government has adopted all the political trappings of the executive and legislative branches. It is being used to substantiate political objectives and bolster the power and prestige of the federal government’s value system.

There is nothing more self-evident about legislation enacted by judicial activists, which is designed and created to limit or extract our constitutional freedoms, than its dependency on moral equivalency.

Without moral absolutes, the judges are free to replace God given rights with their own subjective, moral interpretations. This is why the US Constitution is being battered like a piñata.

The nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court is not a prelude to change. It’s a confirmation that the liberals in government see the Constitution as a barrier to its power. She represents the forces of moral equivalency, the foundation of socialism.

The left can depend on Sotomayor to chip away at the rights and values engraved in the US Constitution. She doesn’t epitomize justice because her only interest is redefining it. That’s why Obama nominated her. That’s why the liberals will confirm her.

Here's a Plan

There are many otherwise rational citizens in this country who consider terrorism a passing fad. They believe that if the West simply ignores the Islamic Jihadists that they will tire of massacres and there will be peace on earth and goodwill to all.

These are the same brilliant minds that danced in the streets when the Supreme Court ruled that every terrorist captured on the field of battle is entitled to the same court protections granted US citizens. The logical extension of this decision is reading these pre-historic miscreants their Miranda Rights if captured and detained.

Maybe their new approach is worth a try.

To insure the terrorists’ rights are not violated, the US should appoint ACLU attorneys to travel with every terrorist band. They can document any overzealous behavior of our combat troops. Let’s encourage them to report to their buddies in the UN. There they can enjoy the camaraderie of bashing America over US tax funded drinks.

The legal volunteers won’t be endangered if the US combat forces are instructed not to shoot the enemies carrying briefcases on the battle field.

The terrorists are just misunderstood Muslims. Or so we are told. So the military can relax, assured the terrorists won’t carry briefcases, or hide behind these defenders of American justice. Come on! That would be like them running and hiding behind women and children when they get caught in the US crosshairs. They would never do that.

Of course, every good plan includes preparation for unexpected contingencies. The last thing any American, dedicated to truth, justice and the American way, would want to hear is that our troops blew a bunch of crazy jihadists to hell without proper legal protection.

So in the event that the ranks of the ACLU are depleted by an occasional cruise missile, the country should enlist the help of Susan Sarandon and her pro-terrorist friends in Hollywood.

Their numbers could be augmented with the writers and editorial staffs at Newsweek, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle and the crews at CNN, MSNBC and the members of the Ninth Circuit Court.

Certainly these intellectuals will volunteer in great numbers to befriend the terrorists in their homelands. They have a lot in common. They share the belief that America deserved what happened on 9/11. It will be wonderful. They can sit around campfires and sympathize with these butchers and preach Marxism.

Certainly the terrorists will be pleased to learn that many Americans support the destruction of the western world. This will encourage them to lay down their weapons and wait for Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and their favorite presidential candidate, Senator Obama to open the West to conquest.

It’s a good plan. What is the worst that can happen? Maybe a few hundred whack jobs discover too late that the Muslim Jihadists enjoy beheading American civilians. Hey, no pain, no gain. What’s important is that we can test the merit of dialogue without pre-conditions.