We Had Presidents

During the one term of the first President George Bush, many conservatives were nostalgic for Ronald Wilson Reagan and justifiably so. Americans yearned for a return to the simple years of Eisenhower during the turbulent sixties under the guns and butter bane of Lyndon Johnson. Americans were wistful for the great days of Jefferson when Madison was managing to suffer consistent battlefield defeats to the British during the War of 1812. During the malaise days of Jimmy Carter, even Chester Arthur beckoned with the distant recollection of better times. Now we have Barack Hussein Obama, a dictator in the making, possessed of peacock arrogance and a Marxist's mentality who makes all previous Presidents look good by comparison.  Happy Presidents Day

Pulling the Strings

Theories abound that some dark force majeure is the guiding hand behind the Obama administration. Some speculate the puppet master pulling Obama's strings may be George Soros. Others claim Soros may be one of several "wise" men who make the decisions along with the wizard of Omaha Warren Buffet. Soros is a valid candidate as to who has Obama's ear. Obama no longer seems to seek Buffet's counsel after using the super-capitalist to present a veneer of moderation in order to manipulate some in the public to vote for him in the primaries, caucuses, and general election. This patina fooled the gullible as Republican Obama supporters, Christopher Buckley, Peggy Noonan and their ilk fooled themselves into thinking Obama was something other than an arch-leftist that his radical voting record in the US Senate (and the Illinois legislature before that) indicated. Obama may not be under the direction or control of anyone, but it is manifestly clear that Obama is controlling the socialist agenda in Congress. Harry Reid is carrying the water in the Senate where Obama has managed to pull off three (now two, since Arlen Specter showed his turncoat colors) Republicans-the Maine delegation of Snowe and Collins, to advance his agenda and give cover to Democrats. In the House, the true radical Nancy Pelosi has shepherded Obama's leftist program through, meeting a little resistance from first term Democrats who are less securely entrenched in incumbency than their more senior colleagues who have years of patronage pork doled out and favors rendered to ensure voter loyalty. Make no mistake though, the odds strongly favor enough Democrat support being generated to pass "cap and trade" in the Senate and the national health scheme in both houses of Congress. Rahm Emanuel will twist enough arms and enough legal bribes will be disbursed through campaign contributions and more importantly, money appropriated and projects started in districts where Representatives and Senators swing toward and vote for Obama care and energy measures rather than listening to angry constituents and shying away from Obama. In Germany, the German merchant class, the burgher and the bourgeois, thought Hitler would be confined in his actions by the centrist, steady, experienced hand of World War I hero and President Paul Hindenburg who may have been a restraining influence on Adolf had he not done the Nazi Party the great favor of dying, opening the door to the leader (fuhrer) state. Maybe no one is pulling our Leader's string but he will certainly strangle the life and liberty out of the country if enough voters don't raise enough of a stink to stop him.