Aug. 4 (Bloomberg) — Senate Democrats may decide to pass a U.S. health-care overhaul without Republican support if some opposition lawmakers don’t agree to a plan by mid-September, Senator Charles Schumer said.

Every day I believe I am as amazed as I can be at the swiftness of America’s destruction, and each new day brings new headlines and stories to further amaze me.

Somewhere, I am sure republican strategists are saying, “Go ahead. Let the democrats do this. It will create backlash and we’ll win votes.” But what good are future votes when there is no Liberty in which to cast them? Once we smash the lid to Pandora’s Box, there is no replacing it. And this notion of gaining votes is a bit like saying, “Once I cut off my nose, then I’ll show the doctor who is better at curing a sinus infection.”

Like moviegoers in the old days expected the good guys to where white and the bad guys to wear black, too many contemporary Americans look at -R and -D as the colors of a politician’s clothing. We need to move beyond this ridiculous line of thinking and start measuring the value of a politician with the answer to a single question: “Does (s)he follow the Constitution?”

There are no other indicators that matter. A representative’s job is to represent the people of his or her district. A senator’s job is to defend the sovereignty of his or her state by ensuring the federal government does not overreach and create unconstitutional laws. Darn few of these people in Congress are living up to their primary duty, which is defending the Constitution and guaranteeing Liberty for future generations.

Instead, these despotic worthless twits are drunk on the wine of their power. Thinking with the same part of them that covers their seats when they are actually sitting down to vote, they believe their election has made them brighter, better than the average American. They are not. Having been an ambulance-chasing lawyer does not make them any more qualified to mete out health care than being an animal-hater qualifies someone to be a vet.

That a majority of Americans polled are opposed to government run health care and that (up)Chuck Schumer and his blood-sucking colleagues in Congress do not care is evidence that none of them deserves the position he or she holds.  Obama promised change. It appears we are changing from a butterfly of Liberty into a despotic, socialist caterpillar. And these men and women sent to DC to preserve our freedoms are aiding the enemies of Liberty. How can they defend the Constitution when they spend all their time trying to find ways to destroy or circumvent it?

If Congress wants change, perhaps they should do like Michael Jackson once suggested and start with the man in the mirror. They can begin by placing term limits upon themselves. No more than six years in office out of every 20 years.

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I know many good Americans, capitalists even, will ask, “What’s the harm in exploiting the system?”

Make no mistake. No one getting one of these wonderful (yes that’s sarcasm) cash-for-clunkers deals is exploiting the system. The system is exploiting their desires for something more–something better. The cash for clunkers program  should be called cash for comrades, because acceptance of this style of wealth redistribution is nothing short of acquiescence to Obama’s brand of socialism. Need a new car? Don’t worry if you can’t afford it. We’ll make your neighbors subsidize you.

With socialized medicine on the table and government control of the financial sector, what comes next? Shall we have cash for oinkers? Perhaps the government can pay every person who buys a hotdog $2 to make sure Oscar Mayer gets its fair share from rich and healthy people. What about cash for bloggers? Every person who reads should be taxed an extra $1,500 with the money being distributed to bloggers who do not have the following Michelle Malkin has and–who naturally–refuse to criticize or examine Obama’s agendas.

There is but one reason why we have a cash for clunkers program. It is not intended to help the small dealers make money. Nor is it in place to jump start the economy. The cash for clunkers program is a petrie dish in which Obama and the neosocialists in Congress can grow new comrades.

Obama knows Americans clinging to freedom and liberty are like frogs. If you toss a frog into a pot of boiling water, the frog will leap out. But, if you put the frog in tepid water and turn up the heat, he will remain until he is boiled alive. So too is socialism in America. Should Obama declare these United States socialist tomorrow, the sound would wake the nation and cause us to leap at revolution. But turn the heat up slowly, migrate us from the gentle waters of freedom into the roiling turbulence of socialist slavery by modest degrees, and many will attempt to adjust their core temperature until they die. Then, no one will be left to revolt.

It is not the place of the president to mend fences between neighbors. As my wife said this morning, ‘[President] Obama must have missed orientation day when they handed out his jobs & responsibilities.”

Instead of acting presidential and saying, “I made a mistake. I mis-spoke and apologize to the police,” he couldn’t resist that photo op where he–being both black and white–could act as a bridge between a black man and a white man. I’m waiting for the left wing mainstream media to start talking about the similarities between this event and that great event roughly two thousand years ago, when Jesus Christ–both man and God–bridged the gap between God and men.

It may have been intended as a publicity stunt or a means of damage control for Obama’s acting “stupidly,” but it did nothing except further diminish the magnanimity of the office he holds. This bridging between a cop and a racist Harvard professor with a chip on his shoulder is a job for a community organizer, perhaps even the president of ACORN, but not the president of the United States. What’s next, a barbecue with the Klan and The Rainbow/PUSH Coalition? Next year, instead of children hunting for Easter eggs on the White House lawn, the Obamas plan to have a scavenger hunt where skinheads will hide and Louis Farrakhan and his men will find them. Afterward, they’ll sit at a large table with a black and white gingham table cloth, drinking that free bubble up and eating that rainbow stew as they laugh about how much fun they had.

He didn’t look a day over 68, but promised me he was 84. He joined the USN in 1943 and served in the Pacific. His brother, eight years his senior, joined the army in ’41 and carried a flame thrower during the Okinawa invasion. Both made it back to the States in ’46.

As this member of the Greatest Generation (Mr. Tucker) and I stood and talked, our conversation changed from the War to today’s youthful generations–the under 40-crowd. The brilliance of his blue eyes dulled and a twinge of sadness dimmed his voice as he said, “This modern generation doesn’t deserve (he looked around so as not to offend) shit. They want everything handed to them.” Then he spoke of the Depression and how as an eight-year-old, he suffered along with his family. “These people today, when they want something, they just go and pick it up. They expect everyone to give them everything. No one wants to work for what they want or need.”

Our conversation shifted to the millions of Americans who do not deserve freedom because they are willing to trade liberty for comfort. And we spoke of America’s decline from Liberty and Patriotism into Socialism and a Globalist-mentality over the past 40 years.

In some respects, the twenty minutes I spent conversing with him, reminded me of those old commercials from the Seventies, where the Indian–with a tear in his eye–looked over the countryside at the pollution and trash. This country today is not the great nation he knew as a child.

We have given up so many of our essential liberties in order to feel secure. But what security can there be when a president can rewrite laws at will the way Obama did for GM & Chrysler? What security do we have when the government can accuse you of owing taxes and you are guilty until proved innocent? And what security does a taxpayer have when tax laws only apply to those who are not part of the elitist government?

We traded our only cow for some beans. These beans will not grow to some giant’s palace in the sky. Worse, they appear to be Mexican jumping beans, complete with lively worms inside.

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Ben Bernanke, the boss of the US central bank, has defended the US bail-out plan citing his fears of a second Great Depression, during a public talk.

“I was not going to be the Federal Reserve chairman who presided over the second Great Depression”, he said at an event in Kansas.

Helping finance firms as part of the $700bn (£424bn) stimulus plan had benefitted the wider economy, he said.

He added that more regulation was needed so no firm was too big to fail.

You can read the full article above at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8170577.stm

Here’s the problem I have. No company is every too big to fail. This ridiculous term is anathema to capitalism and liberty. Think about it this way. In the 1850′s, there were companies making buggies. They are no longer around. And what of the largest manufacturer of horse whips, gas lamps, kerosene lamps, etc.

Move ahead to the Alena Steam Car or the Abbott-Detroit autos.

Liberals love to talk about and believe in evolution: eveolution of the species, evolution of society, even an evolutionary Constitution. But when it comes to companies, there is no evolution? Come on. Survival of the fittest says some companies need to die out. They won’t go completely extinct. They will be parceled and sold most likely. This trimming is the best and only way to turn a worthless, unprofitable company like GM–with its greedy union mobsters–into a worthwhile investment.

We can also apply the old maxim, necessity is the mother of invention. Were we to allow these titans to fall beneath the weight of their own lard, someone else would no doubt come along and fill the void. Perhaps 3 or 4 or 12 someone elses. A hundred years ago, there were no televisions or stereos. Now, we have DVDs, wide screen plasma sets, CDs, and satellite radios. Curiously, we are still using the same internal combustion technology for autos.

As long as our pathetic government mollycoddles morons in Detroit (or lsewhere), telling them they are too big to fail, there will be no real invention.

But none of this is about being “too big to fail.” It’s about the government believing the American public is too small and too stupid to stop them from taking away more rights and liberties. Like stare decisis is code for “I support Roe v Wade,” too big to fail is code for “I support socialism and government control of everyone else’s life.”

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The idea of stare decisis means “Maintain the decision.” In other words, it means uphold whatever has already been decided. But let’s take a minute to look at the folly of this.

In 1857, the Supreme Court decided the Constitution did not apply to slaves or ex-slaves.
In 1896, with Plessey v Feruson, the Supreme Court decided segregation was legally protected by the Constitution (Separate but equal was A-OK!).
In 1944, the Supreme Court ruled racial profiling was a good and acceptable  thing in its decision of Korematsu v United States.

Should these things not have been overturned simply because they were “settled law?” Should we go back and overturn all overturnings simply because the law was already decided? Of course not. There is only one litmus test for SCOTUS cases, have they been decided by the light of the Constitution or did the justices use contemporary mores to render a decision? There are countless Supreme Court cases that need to be overturned, including Wickard v Filburn (1942), Marbury v Madison (1803), and Kelo v the City of New London, CT.

As a public, we should stop allowing contestants for the SCOTUS to hide behind the stare decisis boulder. Tell us what you think about the Civil Rights cases of 1883 and the mid-20th Century. Tell us what you think about the application (and possibly abuse) of the Commerce Clause. And yes, tell us what you think about Roe v Wade.