They set it up; we willingly take the fall
Bookworm on May 07 2009 at 9:29 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
The MSM and the State Department were in an instant froth of American self-abasement when news hit that Americans had committed mass slaughter against Afghani civilians. Except that, as Jules Crittenden points out, reading past both headlines and Hillary’s knee-jerk apologies, it appears that these tragic deaths might have been a Taliban propaganda moment, not an American soldiers air-bombing innocent civilians moment. (And what a disappointment that will be to Obama, who no doubt still clings to his pre-election vision of America’s troops as babykillers.)
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Currently America’s greatest enemies reside not in Afghanistan or Pakistan, but in Washington DC, the very heart of our political center of power.
The terrorists need to do us a favor and wipe out the numerous Senators that will never give up power or be taken out of power.
It is, just like the Roman Senate, the source of much of our corruption and our weakness. They stay there and they gather allies and they manipulate anyone that seeks create real and permanent reforms. They promise, as Specter promises, that this “new Senator” won’t have our superiority and clout, thus he won’t be able to give you your goodies and BLS.
America lives under the delusion that we are a democracy, but in fact we are turning into an oligarchy. One with members such as Ted Kennedy that can murder people and still get to sit in the Senate for god damn decades on and still is. The KKK member Robert Byrd, still in a position of power, regardless of what racist claptrap crap the damn race baiting black pastors of America are screwing and farting out the left side of their face-hole.
I was willingly to tolerate these greedy and corrupt pigs so long as they left the rest of us more or less alone, while they wallowed in their obscene luxuries and minor crimes of attempting to prosecute individuals defending America. Those were just individuals, not worth it to sacrifice an entire system that has worked well for America.
But it is obvious to me that they are pushing it. They will keep on pushing until we end up with a class called “The Senate” class, just as it was in Rome. And just as it was in Rome, once the Senators controlled the reigns of government and locked down any transfer or movement of power from beneath, the Republic was doomed. Some dictator or other will use popular pressure and take the power that the Senators have wasted.
Scipio Afrikanus defended the Roman feckless Senators from Hannibal and Carthage. What did he get in return? He was labeled a traitor and was disowned of his property and status by Senators jealous and fearful of his power. For Scipio Afrikanus had the loyalty of the legions and had he told them to make him King, they would have. But Scipio believed in Rome, in the Roman system, and in the government of the people of Rome. But the example made of Scipio eventually educated a Caesar, Julius Caesar, on what “not” to do.
Ymar,
What is it that allows Congress to sit at a 20% approval rating, yet We The People continue to elect our own Senators and Congresscritters repeatedly?
yet We The People continue to elect our own Senators and Congresscritters repeatedly?
Self-interest combined with the simple fact that regardless of what people say they want, what they actually do is to go with the flow, take the path of least resistance, etc.
Up until they get angry enough and then you have race riots, social upheaval, or revolutions. Depends.
The Senate was never intended to be an office bought by cheap popular votes. The governor of a state and specific representatives do that. But two senators can represent a “state” in the federal government and all the people of that state?
As if. We might as well make the Supreme Justice positions by popular vote too, for certainly our Senate POS have their seats for life. They won’t be getting Byrd and Kennedy out until their corpses come out.
The senate naturally has longer terms because it wasn’t supposed to be based off a populaton contest that revolves every X number of years. That was the balance of powers.
The idiot plutocrats knocked that out on its side, of course. They wanted “democracy’ or “populism”, those Leftist intellectual plutocrats.
Given that there are less Senators, each senator has more power. And given that each state has two senators, that makes the senators all important in competition with each states. It allows them to stock up on power, wealth, connections, and all manner of things on top of the advantage the incumbent already has.
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