by Michael Oberndorf
The world’s largest collection of spineless parasites – the U.S. Senate – has been just a beehive of activity lately. Apparently, to celebrate the November Atonement Feast and the Winter Diversity Festival in December (formerly, Thanksgiving and Christmas), they have moved beyond dithering and caving to outright active destruction of the country.
As of late last week, our national debt has risen to $15,046,283,312,778. That is 15 trillion, 46 billion, 283 million, 312 thousand, 778 dollars, and rising at a rate of approximately $ 2.8 million per minute. According to Jim DeMint, one of the half-dozen out of 100 senators who behaves like a real American, federal spending has increased five percent in the last nine months. If you will recall, also in the last nine months the country’s credit rating was downgraded for the first time in her history due to massive, uncontrolled spending. Recall also that it was only last February that Congress saddled us with a $2.4 trillion hike in the debt ceiling, and then in August, jacked it up an additional $2.1 trillion. That’s a $4.5 trillion increase in six months. That is more than the entire national debt was in 1993, less than 20 years ago.
The August increase in the debt ceiling was approved of by 76 senators, which means a significant number of Republicans joined with the Democrats to further undermine our economy, and thus our future as a free, capitalist nation. These are the same Republicans who, as Senator DeMint reminds us, in order to “avoid a government shutdown” last spring, claimed they would deliver a measly $100 billion in spending cuts, dithered and caved down to $38 billion for some time in the mythical “future,” and then ended up allowing this so-called cut to be turned into a $170 billion increase in spending from 2010 to 2011. Brilliant.
Now the Congress has allowed the Democrats, who even though they have controlled the House and the Senate most of the time since 2007, and the presidency since 2008, have refused to pass a federal budget, to force them to accept a bogus, totally unconstitutional “supercommittee” whose budget decisions could not be amended. This was more like a commissariat from the old Soviet Union, but given that the country is now being run by Marxists, this should surprise no one.
To add injury to insult, one of the three Democrat senators on this outrageous committee, tasked with bringing order to our government’s financial house, was tax cheat and liar, John Kerry, D-MA. Many are aware of Kerry’s tax-avoidance scheme of registering his opulent yacht in Rhode Island, rather than Taxachussetts, and his serial lies regarding his time in the military, but most are unaware that multimillionaires Kerry and his heiress wife, Teresa Heinz, made a fortune with miraculously well-timed trades of Big Pharma stock in the run-up to the ObamaCare boondoggle. It’s no wonder no agreement could be found.
But even attempts at making miniscule cuts to worthless programs are objectionable to our spineless parasites. Senator DeMint recently pointed out that when Tom Coburn, R-OK, submitted an amendment to lower spending on the Rural Development Agency by a mere $1 billion, 85 senators rejected it – although TheWashington Post reported about the agency in 2007, “More than three decades after the program was created, USDA officials still don’t know whether it works.” Not only that, senator DeMint informs us that 60 of these senators voted “to raise the maximum size of federally subsidized loans to $729,750,” loans backed by the mismanaged, corrupt, and bail-out dependent Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The notion that the Senate contains our “elder statesmen” is not just a fantasy; it’s an outright lie. They allowed and facilitated the redistribution of over a trillion dollars in tax-money “stimulus” funds to Democrat donors and corporate and Big Union cronies. They refuse to do even the simplest things, like force the removal of Attorney General Eric Holder from office. They also refuse, and have for years, to do anything to solve the soon-to-be-fatal problems suffered by Social Security and Medicare. They refuse to take the actions necessary to stop the monster they created with the “supercommittee” from forcing cuts to the country’s defenses that will leave us vulnerable as never before in our history. The Senate has become a tool of those who are out to destroy our Constitution, and part of what can accurately be described as an out-of-control, treasury-looting kleptocracy.
We need to repeal the 17th Amendment and give the power of the Senate back to the states, where it belongs.
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Obama Usurps Our Freedoms With The Stroke Of A Pen
It’s ironic that Obama-Soetoro should have put so many lumps of coal in American’s Christmas stockings this year, since one of them was EPA regulations designed to kill the coal industry itself. However, that was but one of many really evil, dangerous, and destructive acts performed this year by the would-be Marxist dictator currently squatting in the White House. In collusion with his stooges in the Senate and the House, he took some giant steps that shredded the Constitution and moved us to the very brink of totalitarian rule.
On New Year’s Eve, in private, Obama-Soetoro signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), another massive bill, filled with nasty surprises for the American people. The nastiest of all is the provision that allows American citizens to be detained indefinitely, without charges or trial, a provision that is so jaw-droppingly unconstitutional that anyone who voted for it – or signed it into law – blatantly violated their oath of office, and should be removed as quickly as possible.
This NDAA also elicited a string of new lies from the Great Prevaricator. Obama-Soetoro loudly proclaimed he would veto the bill, and then, a few weeks later, signed it. During the signing, he lied some more, claiming he had “‘serious reservations about provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists.” According to far-left Senator Carl Levin (D-MI), the very provisions the “president” so self-righteously claimed to object to were put into the bill at the insistence of his administration. And in fact, it was not the detention part at all that was a problem for our knee-jerk Marxist, but that the power to do it was not given to the Executive Branch. To top it off, B. Hussein issued a signing statement, something he had raged against when he was running back in 2007 and 2008.
A signing statement is claimed to allow the president to not enforce parts of laws that he doesn’t like. No such permission or authority is to be found in the Constitution, and is therefore, completely and totally illegal. Unfortunately for the American people, those in
charge of enforcing the law, i.e., the Injustice Department, controlled by the usurper Obama-Soetoro and the incredibly corrupt Eric Holder, see themselves as above the law, and not subject to ones that don’t fit their plan for the destruction of free, capitalist, sovereign America.
Other outrageous, unconstitutional abuses include executive orders, such as Executive Order 13575, which established the White House Rural Council, whose job is imposing the UN’s Agenda 21 government control of private property, under the guise of “sustainable development,” on the 16 percent of Americans who live in rural areas, and are, by the way, mostly conservative.
Another executive order not covered by the “mainstream media” was 13547, Stewardship of the Ocean, Our Coasts, and the Great Lakes. Again, this is an outrageous power-grabbing end-run of Congress. And again, it’s purpose is to give government more unconstitutional control and to impose “sustainable development,” the heart of Agenda 21.
As a follow-up to this, Hillary Clinton, speaking for the administration, announced on December 16 that the Senate should ratify the United Nations’ Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). This is just one of a number of odious UN treaties aimed at imposing world government and global socialism that Democrats want the Senate to ratify. Every one of these treaties takes away the rights of people and nations to govern themselves, handing over control to an unelected, elitist body of untouchable fascist bureaucrats.
Other treaties supported by Obama-Soetoro, Clinton, and the Democrats, led by Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) are the UN Small Arms Treaty, the ultimate in gun control; the Rights of the Child, which takes away parents’ rights to choose how to raise their children; the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, which pushes abortion and undermines the structure of traditional families.
We can also expect to see a revival of failed “environmental” treaties and protocols, like the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, a treaty that would turn fully 50 percent of the United States into inaccessible wilderness, and another 20 percent into heavily restricted “buffer zones.”
In previous columns, I have talked about the failure of the Congress, and particularly the Senate, to do anything to stop the open and continuous destruction of the Constitution by the present administration. The simple truth is that if the American people do not rid themselves of the current crop of treasonous office holders, especially in the Senate where ratification of treaties takes place, the certain destruction of America inevitable, and we will have no one to blame but ourselves.