With a ready sword ...

Titus found it "disappointing" that I didn't nail the administration's hide to the wall over Russia ... and I have a ready explanation.

As of late I've been endeavouring to more familiarize myself with the Founding Fathers, their principles, what drove the forging of this nation, as well as more basic Constitutional arguments, preambles versus operational text etc, as within the 2nd Amendment for example. In other words in the midst of this administration I found it necessary to get some bearings on just who we are. What is America? What has separated us as a nation from all others so as to create in just 233 years the lone super power, rising more rapidly in wealth, influence, charity, military prowess and world influence then any other nation that came before us? And even though my studies are not complete (& I hope they never are) there is but one inescapable conclusion - what occurred in the founding of our Republic was so special, so unique, so fantastical that it hardly seems reasonable that we arrived at it by any other means then divine providence. And I would urge any intellectually curious contemporary to do this same thing. To take this same journey from time to time - use the founders to get one's bearings. To do otherwise is to condemn yourself to the inevitability of aimless wandering through the political landscape. In my estimation the lack of this routine action is the cancer within the Grand Ol' Party. See, once you've begun to argue what aspects of the health bill are unreasonable, or whether or not you'll (as a Senator) vote for it based on its' inclusion or exclusion of a "public option", you have already lost ... and more then just the argument.

Let me put it another way. Just the other day my floorman on CR 407 explained to me, "I truly believe he (Obama) is just trying to put more food on the table for Americans." Now as I retrieved my eye balls from the back of my head and rolled them to the forward position I lambasted the various policies the president has proposed, be it economic or health care, and the crushing of the middle class that will surely ensue. And all that's useful, but what I should have simply asked was, "Is that his job?" And allow the conversation to end with those policies, rather then begin with them. And that's what the GOP is missing. If one starts the argument that way, with the ingenious simplicity of our original intent, by the time you get to the specifics of Obama's proposals the illegitimacy of them will be so sufficiently self evident that your argument will be unimpeachable. I intend to introduce into my "adversary 's" mind a new line of reasoning that rather then discouraging a specific law, will cause him to question the entire ideology that ends in that law, and perhaps on Russia I didn't feel it necessary to engage that form with you.

Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoy picking through the minutia of political debate, be it Russia or health care and intend to do that here in the future; however if we don't from time to time do a basic national gut check of exactly who we are, what was intended at our founding, then we end up debating degrees of socialism and you wake up one day listening to the Communications Director for the President of the United States of America unabashedly praising Mao Tse Tong (sp?) in public with little to no consequence. In other words the entire ideology of the current administration is at odds with our original intent. It is illegitimate. And as of late I find it more useful to tie the symptoms of this illegitimacy - hyper specific arguments of public options and Russia policy - back to the disease, which is the ideology of a cradle to grave state. Call it socialism, communism, statism, & I guess now Mao-ism, but what they all add up to is the deprivation of liberty. And once one reaches the conclusion that the spark, the prime ingredient, the profound incident that occurred 233 years ago was the greatest unleashing of the human spirit through personal liberty that the world has ever witnessed, and it was THAT which has propelled us forward, well then you realize we are losing it ... and this administration is doing so at such a high rate of speed that more then the hyper informed are noticing. And while "they" are noticing, while our fellow citizens are paying attention, I intend to make the original intent argument so as to treat and guard against future forms of the disease rather than block a specific symptom, so as to illegitimize all of their legislation, not just one policy or piece.

Our friends and neighbors are looking up. They are paying attention. They are showing up in Town Halls, online and tuning in to news programming in record numbers - they are awake. And it is now that we must make illegitimate the entire ideology of the left with the most basic of traditional American principles. I'm tired of arguing degrees of socialism be it under Bush or Obama. It is possible for the course correction to be made because all are engaged now, Obama has seen to that. All we need do is boldly make the basic arguments and elect those that will do so on our behalf ... no more ideological half measures, it's time to treat the disease of statism (state-ism) not its' symptoms, by making original intent and principles once again mainstream, rather then the sole purview of "rabid right wingers."

Forgive me if I sound as if I'm lecturing you, that is neither my intent nor would I presume to do so. I am just explaining where I am at with all of this.