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Shame and eternal shame, nothing but shame!

February 10, 2009 – 11:36 am

The title is a quote of one of my favorite plays, Henry V by William Shakespeare. It summarizes my thoughts after Obama and his extreme left, pork-yielding cronies sold out my son’s future to pay off special interest groups (Mut Note: The stock market is already tanking in response). Shame on Obama for lying to us, saying the new legislation has no earmarks and that Republicans have no genuine alternatives. Shame on the press for ignoring the lies and giving Obama a pass, asking softball questions, and ignoring incidents that would have gone into heavy media rotation if former President Bush had been involved. Finally, shame on the three Republican senators who caved and the Republican National Committee who failed to control them.

I am deeply saddened. According to Rush Limbaugh, calls were made to the US Congress hundreds-to-one against Porkulus — many were mine — to no avail. Specter tried to do damage control on Sean Hannity’s radio show yesterday, but sounded like a complete sellout who merely wanted a seat at Obama’s dinner parties.

Where to go from here? Here are a couple of ideas off the top of my head.

1) Keep contacting the RNC and your congressional representatives, as the bill has not formally come law yet. Make sure you note specifics, such as creation of a new healthcare bureaucracy, which will have an ineffective government entity make life-altering decisions instead of trained medical professionals. (Mut Note: The Democrat-embracing elderly may want to take note, as it is based on Tom Daschles’ belief that older people should learn to live with end-of-life health problems).

2) Promote the work of this Blue Dog Democrat, who should be hailed as one of the few bright spots in this very dark storm.

Rep. Walt Minnick (D-ID) decided to reverse engineer the Obama-Pelosi-Reid Porkulus Bill to see if he could find anything worth rescuing. In doing so, Minnick devised a stimulus plan that limits itself to real stimulus, rather than bloating itself into an omnibus pork package. It costs only $170 billion, and self-terminates when the economy recovers.

Now here is a plan we can surely all get behind!

3) Learn about alternatives and expand your political and news horizons. I am on a forum in which states rights are being heralded, and there is a desire to apply more fully the often neglected the 10th Amendment to the US Constitution. (Mut Note: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.)

In light of virulent infection of federalism impacting the country at present, The Tenth Amendment Center is offering information on how specific states are trying to regain a little of their freedom from Washington DC. A brief description from their site:

You may not have heard much about it, but there’s a quiet movement afoot to reassert state sovereignty and stop the uncontrolled expansion of federal government power. Almost half of the state legislatures are considering or have representatives preparing to introduce resolutions which reassert the principles of the 9th and 10th Amendments to the Constitution and the idea that federal power is strictly limited to specific areas detailed in the Constitution and that all other governmental authority rests with the states.

4. Donate and support specific candidates. Basically, I am done giving money to the RNC, which will then use my donation to support Senators who fail to promote capitalism. I will give money directly to candidates sharing my views. For example, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has a birthday tomorrow, and I will toss a few coins into her kitty. Keep a note of 10th-Amendment supporters on the local level, as these individuals need much encouragement and assistance in keeping the federal government at bay.

Thanks for letting me vent!

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