Big Brother is Watching!

When I started writing this piece I was only focused on Congressional Term Limits. But after watching “the messiah’s” press conference tonight….I just had to write about Obama-Care as well.

To quit…or not to quit. That apparently is not only the question, but the reasoning behind a new DNC ad attacking Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin, Florida Governor Charlie Crist, and Attorney General Kelly Ayotte.

To be clear, I would rather more politicians be subject to term limits within American politics. However, every single public servant (with the exception of Sarah Palin) with the plans to run for higher office, holds their initial political title and continues to accept a paycheck.

Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, John Kerry, Joe Biden, among countless others within American politics have “clung” to their former office while attempting a run for a higher office.

This problem does not distinguish between parties or levels of public service. It has infected every aspect of the political spectrum in this country.

In my own home Congressional district I am subject to an essential liar in regards to Congressional term limits.

When Representative Robert “Bob” Inglis was elected to his seat in 1993, he ran on a platform that included term limits of three terms (6 years). He made good on that campaign promise, leaving the seat in 1998 to run for the Senate against Democratic Incumbent Ernest Hollings. After losing that race, Inglis returned to being an attorney practicing commercial real estate and corporate law.

Inglis’ former seat was filled by now-Senator Jim Demint.

When Demint chose to run for Hollings open Senate seat in 2004 instead of running for reelection to the house, Inglis chose to run for the seat again. He won with no promises of term limits this time around. Inglis was even recorded as saying that “asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders”.

Perhaps he would rather collect a paycheck while misrepresenting the people of the 4th Congressional district than to stand on principals he once upheld.

If the greed outweighed principal in this one issue with this one representative…who is to say that all “incumbent” politicians are not driven by greed over principle.

Thomas Jefferson said it best when he wrote:

“The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is
wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts
they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions,
it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. …
And what country can preserve its liberties, if it’s rulers are not
warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as
to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost
in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is its natural manure.”

Speaking of manure, let me move on to Obama-Care.

“If you like your health plan, you can keep it, the only thing that will change is that you’ll pay less.” Remember that? Well, according to the new Lewin study:

• Approximately 103 million people would be covered under the new public plan and as a consequence about 83.4 million people would lose their private insurance. This would represent a 48.4 percent reduction in the number of people with private coverage.
• About 88.1 million workers would see their current private, employer-sponsored health plan go away and would be shifted to the public plan.
• Yearly premiums for the typical American with private coverage could go up by as much as $460 per privately insured person, as a result of increased cost-shifting stemming from a public plan modeled on Medicare.

So, is there truth in the way the President and Congress are advertising their plans?

In his address President Obama asserted that, “If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period. End of Story.” But what the President forgot to tell you is that his assertion is only true if the story were fiction.

I sat and listened to the “Great Communicators” press conference tonight where he attempted to “sell” the manure that is Obama-Care. Perhaps he thinks the American people are too dumb to realize the package that is right in front of them. I hate to tell you President Obama, but when people smell something nasty…they walk away from it.

I do not go against the fact that the medical system is flawed. Yes it is flawed. However, piling onto a government system with more bureaucracy is not the way to “save” America. Let’s fix the embedded social programs we already have before we put the federal government in charge of your medical care. Maybe that idea is just to hard to understand. Why try to push through a bill in two weeks that won’t go into effect until 2013? Obama wants control. He wants to be Big Brother. How can the American people support a plan that the President’s own party does not support?

Perhaps with term limits we can limit the manure being piled on the the steps of the Capital building. Perhaps.

The American people have done this to themselves, much like they did in the 1970′s. I only hope that there is a Reagan in 2012 and that this legislation, along with cap and trade, will epically fail when they come to a vote in Congress.

Til then I support the growth of the American spirit, but not the American government.