To Hades in a Hand basket - No Vetting – Al Queda in US by Invitation – U.S. Citizens subject to Random Government DNA Sampling

It goes without saying that the competence level of government agencies can be called into question, along with the blatant non-enforcement of laws in place at the Federal level, specifically those that refer to the borders and controlling those borders, as well as individual vetting upon entrance into the U.S.A.

From ABC News comes the blazing article with FBI video – click herefor full article:

The 2010 video, obtained exclusively by ABC News, was part of a broader ABC News investigation into the flawed refugee vetting program, which officials said may have let “dozens” of terrorists into the country.

No need to say more on that subject.

Additionally, the Constitution has not been trampled upon as much since Abraham Lincoln literally stopped negative presses by jailing newspaper editors - - from a local NBC Dallas affiliate, Texas drivers were stopped by a Federal program, pulled over and given options as to which type of test they were going to take, either alcohol level, dna swabs…..

One might note that it is fine to let terrorists into the country, it is also fine to force (by intimidation) citizens who are minding their own business to submit to DNA testing under the current administration. Is there no end to the massive intrusion into privacy and is there no end to the lack of attention to critical details that may end up in the slaughter of innocent citizens?

Obama Demands Hike in Debt Ceiling – yet – No Budget and Attack on Second Amendment - Following Lincoln’s playbook.

First, anyone who has not been living under the proverbial “turnip truck” understood, that after the last rise in the debt ceiling, and no end in sight as far as Federal Spending was concerned, that one would eventually see another request to for a rise in the debt ceiling! At each juncture over the past four years, there has been a call from the public to put a half to the prolific spending, yet, few members of the elected body are paying attention. After the “Fiscal Cliff” kicked the can down the road for a month, the tax on “millionaires and billionaires”, to those who pay zero attention to details not always present in the late night news addition, did nothing to avert a lower paycheck, with the promise of additional taxes down the road for those earning peanuts compared. That was a shock to some, who could not grasp the fact that the reduction came from a temporary cut in the Social Security Tax, and that expired. In addition, some are also shocked to find that those working, or their employers, will be paying “taxes” to supplement “Obamacare”. Those individuals are somewhat surprised as they thought the “government was going to pay for everything”. The fact that most people don’t understand that the government has no income except to “tax”, is a testament to the educational system that neglects to teach students civics, or basically how the government works in the U.S.

Now the President, who is being maligned on the right, for doing exactly what those on the right and the 10 percent knew he would do – is ”Demanding that the debt limit be raised, again. He also suggests that a rise in the debt ceiling does not make us a “deadbeat nation.” (Washington Post). One might wonder why the President had to insert that phrase “deadbeat nation”, into his press conference, if not for the fact that – in reality – we, the U.S. is headed in that direction. The problem lays in the fact that if one cannot pay their bills, and overspends, and the money runs out and they cannot pay their bills, then one is a deadbeat. (Recognized by the 10 percent.)

Further, in his demands to raise the debt ceiling, while using partisan rhetoric and threats to do so (see: President Obama demand that Congressional Republicans’ take quick action to raise debt limit or those receiving Social Security Checks and Veteran’s Benefits will go without. The Desert News.

The message from the press is that the Republican’s are obviously the problem,, we can just borrow a few hundred trillion more, spend until the cows come home, and continue to send out Social Security Checks and Veterans’ benefits, back businesses that the Government prefers, give out free phones, extend unemployment benefits, provide, provide, provide – and by the way – we’re going to bypass Congress and take away your guns! (CNN) (The President really did not say that, but he did mention (through his mouthpiece , Vice President Joe Biden, that there were nineteen executive orders ready to go to “fix” the gun problem (Politico)

To those who have been breathing the past four or five years, the message is simple: The President wants the Congress to give him another blank check, and the President wants to, by executive order, going around Congress, circumvent the Constitution specifically the 2nd Amendment clause on the rights of the people to have weapons (guns) in order to protect themselves from – the government. (The preceding from )The U.S. Constitution.)

Therefore, you have a divided nation – those that are rooting for the President to raise the debt ceiling and continue to allow the government to take care of everything, and remove those nasty guns so that no madmen can murder innocents, and those that are deeply afraid that the government and country they once loved, is gone. These are legal gun owners, and those that work for a living and balance their checkbooks.

The question on whether or not the President can run circles around the Constitution or even suspend the Constitution is found in history. Specifically the history of one President, Abraham Lincoln, who suspended the Constitution via executive order(The Presidency Project). When Lincoln did not care for what he was hearing (anti-war, etc.) – he merely placed newspaper editors in prison, and due process under the law was suspended. Lincoln was also a shrewd attorney and a habitual politician, something one might want to keep in mind.

Other things to keep in mind, under U.S. Law, the Congress (both bodies) are to present to the President a budget, each year, and that budget must be passed. As of now, the Congress has done due diligence in presenting a slew of budgets, but the Senate and the Executive Branch (the White House) have not.

If one were adhering to the U.S. Constitution, and following events taking place, one might consider that the President intends to suspend the Constitution (or portions thereof), and that the President and the Senate are breaking the law. (And therefore are subject to removal by impeachment (also in that same Document.)

Some suggest we are at a precipice, one the one hand, the President is demanding that we fund programs with no cuts to the excesses. On the other hand, there are those “fiscal conservatives” who understand that the more debt we assume, with less ability to pay, the dollar and the value thereof suffers.

The President is intent on issuing Executive Orders, which every President since inception of the office began has been prone to do – the most prolific – FDR. Some of these executive orders may override Congress (which is illegal under the Constitution), but some Presidents can get away with it in certain circumstances (See Lincoln). Those on the other side see this as a power grab in order to further divide the nation.

There you have it, as reported by the press and the “other side”.

The 10 percent

Several weeks ago, during a conversation with a friend regarding the divide and the problems that are rampant in this nation, this friends suggested the following: Only ten percent of the population “get’s it”, people don’t really pay attention and watch the news, they make uninformed decisions when it comes to voting, and it’s as if they just don’t get “it”. The “it” is the premise of the power centered in Washington by both political parties, the fact that there are possibility that the Constitution could be trampled, and or, historically, that should the Republican’s decide not to raise the debt ceiling and shut down the government, it would not be the end of the world – it has happened before, when people actually paid attention to history and what happened yesterday. In fact, what did happen were a balanced budget, and some reforms that were necessary. The 10 percent are educated before the great dummying down of America, or have educated themselves since (by reading – books, by looking at both sides, not one side, and by understanding how our Government really works and how it was intended to work.)

It was so long ago, however, so many people cannot remember those horrid Republican’s under the leadership of Speaker Newt Gingrich and the most admired Democrat to come out of the 20th century –one William Jefferson Clinton.

We experienced prosperity, and Gingrich took one for the “team” – as is often the case with said political party.

What we now have is bordering on panic, prompted by both sides of the political spectrum, and the ten percent understand that this is all for show. It is a game of political chess that is being played – rather than a precipice that the nation sits upon.

What should occur:

The Congress should tell the President, we’re shutting this down until you come up with a meaningful budget, and that’s the way it is. Previously, when a shut down occurred, unlike what the President suggests, checks were still delivered to those in need, it should be no different this time.

The Congress should, if the President moves to usurp the Constitution, issue articles of impeachment – that would keep him busy defending himself, and make the Republican’s widely unpopular (so would the shutdown), but, and here is the but, the outcome would ensure the following: The President would be more careful as to how he chose to use his powers, and the government would be living within its means.

This is what should happen.

It is most unlikely today as the powers in Washington, on both sides, are more interested in their own political fortunes, than in the fortunes, small and middling, of those whom they serve.

The ten percent get this. Those that are waking up to the fact that promises are made to be broken are also “getting it”, but they are “getting it” in a mixed message of “hysteria” prompted by political speak. They are the 25 and under and those on Social Security and those still working. Life in this nation, should not be lived in suspicion of the government, nor in fear of a loss of rights, nor in fear of a loss of “government programs”. There’s so much be done.

The Reading of the U.S. Constitution: 10:30 AM January 6, 2011, From the U.S. House Floor – The Law of the Land in it’s Entirety.

Much has been made of the reading of the U.S. Constitution from the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives as the Republican Party has now taken a majority in that body and has pledged to the American People a leaner, Constitutionally correct government. From the opening words to the last of the amendments, the reading (C-SPAN coverage) might be viewed as symbolic, and by some even highly partisan in nature, the blog politicsdaily.com calling the Constitution a “weapon” of the GOP. There are those journalist who just don’t understand the document calling it either arcane due to its age and the language used, or a “sacred secular text”, which underscores how deeply the lack of civics classes taught from an early age in the U.S. has given a large majority of the nations citizens, no understanding of the document.

The Constitution, simply put, is the foundation of our government, the document on which all laws of the United States of America are to be based, how our government is to be apportioned and how it operates, and it includes instructions for the three separate bodies (Executive, Judicial and Legislative) on how to conduct their duties. Guidelines, certainly, the law of the land, absolutely, which, the reading from the floor of the House where all laws of the land are generated, makes this reading more necessary than symbolic. The necessity arises from very lack of understanding on the part of the populace, which extends to lawmakers themselves, and certainly to those who hold position in the media who are viewing the reading as a “stunt” of sorts.

In the 1950’s and before, by the time a student was in the 4th grade, they were able to cite the Bill of Rights, and indeed had, in most instances, read the U.S. Constitution as part of the curriculum. Those who are of that generation as well as those who have, out of either curiosity, or alignment with the Tea Party Movement, taken to reading and discussing the intrinsic value of the document as it relates to our daily lives are the millions who have driven the nation to take a long second look at what it is that defines each of us.

The founding fathers, although hardly clairvoyant, were far-seeing in their establishment of a government that would be by and for the people, limiting the powers of the Federal government and deferring to the States more frequently than has been the case in recent years. The Constitution, simply put, is not always convenient in instances where political party aspirations are trumped by a 300 year old document. Historically, the one President who is lauded at once as a hero was also one who “played fast and loose” with that same document: one Abraham Lincoln, and who also, incidentally, was the first Republican President.

For one, the nation should be proud of the Congress, regardless of party affiliation, as they take up the task of reminding both the U.S. citizens, and the world, the reason why our nation has stood for centuries, and will continue to stand by a set of laws that was haggled over by the founding fathers for over a decade before it was finally signed and put into practice. Therefore, today is historical in once sense whereby newly elected Speaker of the House John Boehner, will go where so many before him have failed to go, back to the basics of what made our nation a magnet for those who were seeking relief from oppression. It is perhaps why, those who are desperate for an opportunity to grow within the boundaries of a land that guarantees its citizens rights beyond those found in any other word government, will take any measure, and face any hardship to gain citizenship within the boundaries of the United States.

Therefore, this first generation American extends gratitude and thinks to the members of the 112th Congress for reading the Document and further, for the promise (rather rule) that insists all future Bills before the Congress of the Unites States must cite the proposed laws Constitutional Authority. It is, perhaps, one of the greatest moments in the history of the modern Congress, and for those who don’t’ understand, or politically feel constitutionally challenged (how’s that?), perhaps it is an opportunity to embrace this unique set of laws, and to learn more about this document that holds us, all American’s, regardless of where we come from, or where we stand in society or politically, to a higher standard of protection from the very body (as well as the other two that complete the systems of checks and balances incorporated within) that will read the document.

Suggested reading: The Constitution of the United States
and to understand the making of this document
The Federalist Papers

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Russia's Pravda – Criticism of Obama and his Disregard for the Constitution.

Rachael Maddow - H/T to Canada Free Press

Rachel Maddow, host of a 9PM MSNBC news program, had an epiphany on the 21st of May – the President that is most adored by this specific network, had stepped over the legal liberal line, in announcing his plan to permanently detain certain prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, and develop, in concert with the Congress and Senate, new laws pertaining to indefinite detention. Maddow had praise for the first part of Obama’s speech, after all he was criticizing the Bush administration, (a rallying cry for the MSNBC crew), however, Maddow was shocked when Obama, faced with the reality of those held at Guantanamo, decided that, just perhaps, some of those held, should remain so indefinitely. This so rattled the usually pro-Obama host that she delivered, what is to date, the most stunning criticism of the President found on that network. (Video below) The Maddow Show ranks 3rd in the timeslot, with the network 3rd overall, behind the dominant Fox and second CNN news networks with an absolute liberal bias present.

Therein lies the rub – Obama is stuck between the proverbial “rock and a hard place” – if the President takes a stand that is deemed slightly moderate, or even conservative (hawkish), he is seen by those on the extreme left as having “betrayed” campaign promises. Those on the right, who were well aware of his somewhat slim legislative record, understood that the President leaned sharply left, however, hoped that once in office, he would, as in many cases in the past, with one exception (see Jimmy Carter), move to the middle of the political spectrum on all issues. The problem Ms. Maddow has with the President is based upon her own political ideology regarding detention of those at Guantanamo, that said, she brings up a point regarding Obama’s assertion that the Congress and Senate have the ability to write rules of law that circumvent the constitution – and it chills her to the bone – as it should.

When the President, while celebrating his election victory in Chicago, claimed Abraham Lincoln as his inspiration – that was a clear warning to those who understood how Lincoln operated, what might take place as regards the Constitution. To most American’s Lincoln is attributed with ending slavery and preserving the Union of these United States of America - that, and the fact that everyone gets a day off in February, and somehow Lincoln is involved. However, Lincoln, brilliant as he was, also suspended that Document, in order to achieve his goals – which were to maintain the Southern States standing within the Union, based upon economics and, at any cost. In a nutshell, Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus and Freedom of the Press was not an option (editors who disagreed with Lincoln found themselves jailed, courtesy of a separate civilian security force.) and he found a way in which to do legally justify his actions.

As not one of the pundits, from either the right or the left, have a crystal ball and can accurately predict what President Obama will or will not do in the course of the next two to four years, one thing is certain, he will disappoint those on the extreme left, and he will rile those on the extreme right – in order to maintain his place in history, he must govern from the middle – which will be his greatest challenge. The Russian's weigh in:

According to a recent editorial in the Russian Newspaper Pravda, Barack Obama is steering the United States towards a total Marxists state, with lightening speed no less. The author offers a few valid points to make his case; the intentional dummying down of the American populace through the Education System (one which is run by Progressives), leading to a populace that knows more about who won “American Idol” than who leads the nation. He goes on to point out that there has developed a ruling class of elites, who believe they are entitled to guide the “masses”, and further degrades the citizens of this great nation for not fighting the good fight against the elite Marxists. That is where he veers off the historical track – not taking into account the ability of the American people to vote, change their minds like the wind, and elect an entirely different political party within a very short period of time.

The fact that certain practices put into place (GM Bailout with the UAW holding stock, for instance), by this administration, like any other practices put in place by previous administrations, can be undone in the future has not been taken into consideration by this author. As blindly partisan as American’s can be when it comes to one party or the other, it is the performance of a given President, and by virtue of association, every Congressman and Senator of the same party, that will either be granted a pass or fail by those “masses”. If the President is canny enough, and there is no reason to believe Obama is not, he will take a moderate tone, allowing those in the Senate and Congress to push for policy – should the decisions made be unpopular with the American public, will then be blamed on those legislators – resulting in a scenario similar to that which occurred post Carter (similar in that, Carter never moved to the center). The 2010 general election will be the first “grade” given to the Democrat Party and its control of the government, should certain high-profile Senators or Congressmen, or even those not so high profile, lose to the opposition party, it will be the harbinger of change – one thing that is constant in American politics. Therefore, within two to four years, Ms. Maddow may be found decrying the events of elections that will place those “Republicans” back in power – blaming those “non-elite” American “sheep”.