Now, we know that statement isn’t a true fact - truth doesn’t change -
but this strategy is definitely effective in convincing a lot of people to go
along with a particular agenda. Obama seems to be doing a darn good job of
perfecting this strategy. Our nation is changing; people are buying the lie.
Right now, Democrats are blaming the Republicans and
Republicans blame the Democrats for the recent government shut down. No surprise there; disagreement between the
parties is the way it has always been, though the rhetoric sure seems to be
much more inflammatory and vicious than I ever remember seeing.
The thing is - there is a solid truth with no shades of gray
regarding who is responsible for this government shutdown. But I am not going to try to make that
argument – at least in this post.
Democrats will always believe what they believe and Republicans will
believe what they believe. The divide between the two parties is huge; we would be wise to realize that.
What I want to address in this post is the constant
bickering we are seeing among Republicans. My goodness, they are all acting like
children, and they can’t seem to see the harm they are doing to the party. One would think after loosing a Presidential
election twice to the Democrats due
to what was mostly lack of unity in the Republican Party, we would learn.
Recently, I saw a Tea Party leader on a Fox television
program say that “Sarah Palin hates the Tea Party.” What????
And truthfully, though I love Governor Palin, she won’t quit bashing
Karl Rove. So what if he said something about her in his book that she didn’t
like. Get over it, already! She is usually pretty good at letting things like
that slide off her back. I’m not sure why she can’t do it in this case. But it simply
does no good to continue this battle! The name calling going on - such as “RINO’s”
and “Tea Baggers”, and who knows what other names flying around between the
factions - is entirely out of control. And it all, only plays into the
Democrats’ hand!
Passion is wonderful. Believing in something and standing
strong for it is admirable. We must have
convictions. But to attack those of your own party borders on…dare I say,
insanity!
Just before the shut down, I saw some tea party groups and
supporters of that recent movement running down the government, and crying for
their members “To vote them all out!” meaning all members of Congress. So many were focusing on ineffective tangents
bashing the government, when what they should have been doing is instructing
their members to get on the phone and call their Senators, call their
Congressmen; write letters. Now granted,
many good organizations are trying to encourage others to do just that, and some
of these groups are even doing the leg work for citizens; as example, Patriot
Voices, or Secure America Now. I have posted many such efforts on this blog. But there are also groups that are nothing
more than clanging symbols ringing a wrong and ineffective message. “Vote ‘em all out!” they
cry. Or, “They’re all the same!” Now where is the effectiveness in that! We can’t just throw the baby out with the
bath water, to use the old cliché.
Sorry, but it fits.
My dad taught me a long time ago, when I was a kid growing up in the sixties, that to
run down one’s government is to invite defeat. I mean think about it; it’s
common sense really. If no one has trust in the government, how can it possibly
be effective? What better way to keep people from being active in their
government than to convince them it doesn’t do any good? Well that is exactly what we see happening,
today. It began during the 1960’s with protests
from the likes of Timothy Leary, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dorhn and we are
seeing the results of their intentional mission, today.
To continue to bash the government is insanity. We should be using our government; we should be working within its principals. That’s
how one changes things! We have the best system in the world. The only thing
that happens by bashing our system is to aid those that seek to destroy
it. Why can’t people get that??
We are scared of the police; we are scared of being watched;
scared of this and that and the other thing.
Now, I am not saying we shouldn’t be aware of all that can take place in
a nation with a potential of becoming a police state. But
one shouldn't work out of fear. We shouldn’t
get so focused on the things we fear, that we ignore that which we still have
the means to change. People have time to
pack a “bug-out bag”, but they don’t have time to call a Congressman. They hide,
instead of vote. They only complain, rather
than sign a petition. They would rather see an enemy in our government, while
they ignore the enemy that is infiltrating our land….and it ain’t first and
foremost, our government! Radical Islam is sneaking its way into our lives,
while we focus on who called who what name this week!
We should absolutely criticize and work to change the
mistakes, or intentional wrong-doing in a particular administration, but we should never criticize our
government, rendering it ineffective because people soon believe anything they may attempt does no
good. Bashing our government, the system our Founders fought and died for which was, in fact, given to us by God, does
no good! It only aids those that hate
us. We need to utilize what our Founders orchestrated for us when they put in place our Constitution.
Mike Huckabee had an excellent monologue on his show this
week. It isn’t going to be popular by
any means, and I may not agree with it in its entirety. But there is a whole lot of
truth in it, if we get off our "high horse" long enough to pay attention and understand it.
I have wanted to write about this for sometime, but I failed
to find the right words. The Governor has done that with his televison show monologue this week. The passion and action is
admirable with the “new recruits” in Washington
When the two factions learn to work together, taking the
best thoughts and tactics from both, we will finally get somewhere because of
the unity working together ensures. As he tells us, it isn’t going to happen
overnight due to the overwhelming digression we have seen. The young bucks with
such exuberant passion would do well to understand solutions don't come overnight; they aren't going to get perfection all at once. Further, maybe they should stop to think that quite possibly there is something worth holding on to in regards to what some of the old timers might have to offer. Those "old-timers" that have been there awhile would be wise to grab hold of some of that passion we are seeing in the new recruits, and not allow themselves to become stale or give-in where there is no room to give. Above all, the in-party attacks has got to stop!
We would do well to remember the words of President, George Washington, when he said: "We are not to expect perfection in this world." It just isn't going to happen this side of Heaven. But it is certainly something for which we should strive. As our Founders worked together to bring about a system of government, they certainly didn't all agree, all the time. But a wonderful, exceptional document came through diligence to the task, persistance and strife. Those men tried there best to reach perfection, but it was James Madison that finally said in regard to the "Constitution" as opposed to the original "Articles of Confederation": "It is not necessary that the former should be perfect; it is sufficient that the latter is more imperfect."
Let’s take this one step at a time. We didn’t lose it all overnight
and we are not going to get it back overnight.We would do well to remember the words of President, George Washington, when he said: "We are not to expect perfection in this world." It just isn't going to happen this side of Heaven. But it is certainly something for which we should strive. As our Founders worked together to bring about a system of government, they certainly didn't all agree, all the time. But a wonderful, exceptional document came through diligence to the task, persistance and strife. Those men tried there best to reach perfection, but it was James Madison that finally said in regard to the "Constitution" as opposed to the original "Articles of Confederation": "It is not necessary that the former should be perfect; it is sufficient that the latter is more imperfect."
Below is Governor Huckabee’s monologue:
Oct 20 2013
My Show Opening Monologue
Mike Huckabee
Did
the Republicans make a heroic stand as in the Alamo ,
or a poorly planned and executed assault like Little Big Horn, which was led by
a general who failed to calculate the risks, who ignored the scouting reports
of the strength of the opposition, and who made assumptions of the battle that
proved to not be true. In the Alamo , men
fought to the death to protect what was theirs. In Little Big Horn, and last
week in Washington
"But liberalism among Republicans isn’t destroying the Republican party. Compared to the most conservative Democrats, there are no Republican Congressional liberals."
~Gov. Mike Huckabee
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