Posted by
Buster Foghorn on Friday, December 11, 2009 8:14:42 AM
Today, our political class is in a frenzied, forced march to remake America, seemingly indifferent to the unprecedented tea party gatherings of protesters concerned about reckless spending and staggering debt; indifferent to the record breaking crowds attending town hall meetings in their districts--crowds fearful and frantic about the economy and jobs; and indifferent to national polls reflecting record low levels of approval for both the President and Congress. A Gallup poll reports the President’s approval rating at the lowest level ever for any President at a similar 10-month stage of his term. And Gallup’s “Annual Honesty and Ethics of Professions” poll discloses for the first time that a majority—in fact 55% of Americans—say the ethical ratings for Congress are low or very low. And as a further sign of the public’s ringing disapproval the “Right Track/Wrong Track” results revealed in a Real Clear Politics average of four polls find only 34.5% feel we are on the right track and a whopping 59.5% worry that the country is on the wrong track.
The political class in Washington is not only indifferent; they are out of touch with their constituents. You see, they are busy jumping from one complex and unfinished legislative bill to another 1,000-plus page, unintelligible bill; rushing from trillion dollar spending bills to burdensome cap and trade proposals; pushing us towards a Leviathan government-run health care. And all the while, like maggots feasting on rotten pork, they are creating new ways to spend and tax, seeking new ways to curry favor with political interest groups, new ways to expand government, new ways to extend control in a broad and comprehensive way over what were previously individual choices.
Thomas Jefferson said: “When governments fear people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.” Today, Jefferson would likely say we have things backwards—our political class does not fear the people. Today our politicians march onward despite constituent concerns and fears. They seem driven, perhaps compelled in search of a fantasy ideology, and the spending rolls on, without regard to constituents concerns, without concern about the pain and the fear they are causing, fear of government action resulting in waves of debt facing the U.S. Government, and a failure of the economy or a collapse of the dollar leading to a coming deficit disaster.