“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America ‘s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America ‘s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, ‘the buck stops here.‘ Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.“
~ Senator Barack Hussein Obama, March 2006.
h/t Laura
DCG
Friends, the Obamamama’s role is to create the first fascist nanny state, period. How this is done is irrelevant, so long as it’s accomplished. As Dr Erich Fromm pointed out fifty years ago, 90% of politicos are people incapable of genuine love, and thus unable to trust or relate to others as equals in an authentic relationship. Instead of feeling love, s/he can only feel power and control –or a lack of it– over all the others s/he knows, just as s/he experienced when they were younger. If s/he can’t get others to love them or be loved by others, then the next best is to have others fear them, and be able to control others as much as possible.
Machiavelli wrote essentially the same five hundred years ago when he stated that “A ruler should not seek love from the masses. It is far better to be feared, and thus respected, than to be loved.” I paraphrase from memory, but this is close enough for you to understand my point.
Thank you, as I know you’ve thought deeply on this subject and much more! Sometimes I imagine what the Founding Fathers and Women would say and do were they alive today. Surely there’d be another Colonial Rebellion, but this time FROM the feral gubbmint. Then we could create a new republic, w/awareness of how evil gets in over time. Tough times, for sure, but I know that together we are up to any challenge, except terminal stupidity.
He is not a “Guy” he is a “Problem”.
Okay okay. Let’s cut to the chase…………….he needs to be relieved of his duties right away. There is no more time to ponder over how? There are two perfectly reasonable ways of achieving this, by impeachment or by invoking Section 4 of the 25th Amendment. The stumbling block is that there isn’t a courageous patriot in Congress or the Cabinet who is willing to take the plunge.
We, the people, have the responsibility to let our Congressmen and Women know that we are one hundred percent behind them in this respect. Not only will they be able to save us from the outbreak of more war which could be lethal to all of us this time, they have the wonderful prospect of ushering in a Renassance of science, art, prosperity on a global scale, all it takes is sticking to the Constituion and the Principles therein.