THE FECKLESS GOP!
by Leon Howard
The
headline reads: “Congressman Flays Obama for ‘Abandoning’ Border” and relates
how Rep. Tom McClintock berates the “pretender to the White House” over the
border fiasco … Then there’s this headline: “Ted Cruz Accuses Obama of
Staging ‘Economic Boycott on Israel’ With Flight Ban” … How about this one: “Sarah Palin Counts Down Obama’s
Exit on Website” … Virtually every Republican with principles in
berating Obama but what gets done to correct the error in the White House? Nothing!
That,
then, begs the question: “Why?” Why hasn’t this man
been impeached and put in prison or executed as a traitor? It doesn’t happen
and will not happen because of
Republican fear! “Why would
they fear doing the right thing?” you ask. Fear has a numbing and freezing
effect and the party “leadership” (I use that term very loosely) has become
numb to all the violations of the Constitution this man and his cohorts have
perpetrated on the United States, partially
because they are guilty of violating our founding documents also. So, in
part, they don’t want to “rock the boat” and have the Democrats calling them to
task for violations.
We
have become what our founding fathers warned us against: “Party Politics”! The
majority of Americans feel they must belong to one party or the other and this
all started because of the 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
in 1804, which gave the Electoral College the duty of electing the President
and Vice President. The excuse given? The Electoral College couldn’t come up
with the required simple majority and the Congress had to elect the president
that year and Thomas Jefferson became our third President … This, in history,
was the chink in the armor many wanted to create political parties with
power, where before, the political parties had no power. Before the 12th
Amendment, the Electoral College elected the President and the “runner-up” was
the Vice President by default, giving another check in the “checks &
balances” built into the Constitution. Under the original system, you couldn’t
have a dictatorial president with the entire Executive Branch a “cheering
section”, as we have today; the Vice President would be exposing a power-hungry
president as soon as he reared his ugly head! Today, the VP is a toady to the
president!
Every
amendment since the 12th has placed more power in the hands of the
federal government and both parties have been involved up to their ‘eye-teeth’
in destroying our founding documents; all the while, paying lip-service to
them! As far as the Republican and Democrat Parties are concerned, they’ve
built their perfect ‘playpen’ and although they whine, cry, and rail against
each other, the party “bosses” make sure they vote to keep all their toys so
the American people become their “cash-cow” toys!
Every amendment since the Bill of Rights was unnecessary
or strengthened the federal government over State government in direct conflict with original intent!
I defy anyone to show me an amendment, since the original ten, that was
“necessary” or didn’t weakened the 9th and 10th
Amendments, protecting States’ rights or individual liberty with the possible
exception of the 25th, which clarifies the succession to the
presidency if a president cannot fulfill his duties but even that one I
question as being “necessary”!
Who’s
to blame? We, the people,
are to blame and, short of another revolution, I do not see the people
correcting the problems! As I see it, the only correction, after trying the current administration for
treason, would be the repeal of every amendment to
the Constitution after the Bill of Rights, starting with the 11th
through the 27th and the
outlawing of the Democrat and Republican Parties!
