With this healthcare bill, cap and trade and amnesty as #1 priorities for Obama, Pelosi and Reed, the flashing red light of emergency for each is once again called upon to frighten us into submission. Squandering Stimulus and TARP funds (pork-pork-pork) has made us wary of anything and everything democrats assert to be pushing us over the edge.
In light of our nation's economic plight, millions of Americans jobless and companies (large and small) are more and more fearful each coming day of what this administration plans to inflict upon them.
There is a chasm miles deep between what this administration wants to shove down our throats and what Americans see as absolutely the wrong priorities and, at that, priorities that have no business being on the agenda whatsoever.
Your vision is crystal clear on this. That is a statement that sums up the current political climate in a nutshell.
People have been screaming that "Washington is tone-deaf", nearly since the inauguration, and polls have consistently shown that Congress and the Precedent are totally out of step with what we really need and want from them.
Worse still, is that they are pursuing a broad and radical agenda that bears little resemblance to anything that mainstream America agrees with, or that is in alignment with our traditions, our Constitution, our economic best interests, foreign policy norms, or even common horse sense.
Readers of FR, and others who are well-informed, have had their senses nearly destroyed by the constant barrage of outrages coming out of Washington for the last ten months. It's almost more than any reasonably well-balanced person can handle. Is it any wonder that the tea parties erupted, and that they've resulted in a patriotic movement the like of which hasn't been seen since revolutionary times?
Just today, we read that the "Tea Party" now polls more favorably than either the Democrat or the Republican parties.
This is astonishing, and shows just how far the current administration and congress have pushed us to the brink.
Something has to give, and I hope like hell that our reps in Washington realize this before it's too late. They will stop this onslaught against the clear will of The People, or there will be revolution. There's no way to sugar coat the reality of that.