Obama’s Arrogant Advisers Could Tip the Power Balance

Van Jones is one of the new kids on the block for the most contentious, unprofessional, presidential administration in our country’s history. Just the overall demeanor of these people and their attitudes towards American citizens who are accustomed to civil discourse from their elected servants shows a definite lack of class.

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I can’t believe that a government employee, which Van Jones currently is, getting paid with tax dollars that all of us except those in the Administration that think paying taxes is beneath them, saying in a public setting that Republicans are assholes. He not only used vulgarity in describing people who are concerned with the profligate spending and waste of his party and its leader, but he proceeded to show his abject ignorance of the English language also stating that what he said was a “technical, political science term” which brought gales of laughter from the like-minded, slow-witted audience. If this is a sampling of the quality of the advisers that surround Obama, it will be a correct assumption that the level of so-called bipartisanship with the “other” party will be in the percentage levels of the popularity of the liberal Congressional population, meaning just slightly above zero. The American public, of both parties may I remind those in Washington, DC, are really fed up with the lies and dodges and misrepresentations that the liberal legislators have been feeding as answers to justified questions on their competency and desire to make the United States the largest debtor nation in the world. These facts can not be blamed on the Bush Administration as the current president’s, smart-alecky and wise-mouthed Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is quick to say about every mistake and error that this Administration commits. These liberal servants living on the taxpayers’ dollars are constantly berating honest and caring American citizens who are concerned with the moral and fiscal direction that this country is taking. Huge deficits which the liberal president, in collusion with the liberal Congress, has foisted on the taxpayers along with the mountainous debt structure that they are growing by the minute that will burden our children and their children for decades, if not forever are concerns that should not be put off by liberals with what they think are clever remarks, but are, in fact, bitter pills to swallow. One Congresswoman, who has a pre-elected legislator reputation of being just as concerned when the Republicans were in power making many criticisms of that party and its members, now is trying to defend her defense of the deficits and debt by calling those who try to question her as “tea baggers” with that insulting title being directed mainly to those who support the current citizens’ “tea parties” to protest the out-of-control spending. Many of these “tea parties” have proven to be bi-partisan; but the liberals don’t want to hear things like that. Another Congressman, from the same state as the woman mentioned in the preceding paragraph, is completely in tune with her. His, oh so clever, reference for those who would actually be so impertinent as to disagree with his performance as a Congressman is that they are people from “the flat earth society.” Mind you now, he is talking about the people who pay his salary and I will add again, they’re talking bipartisanly. The two legislators might just be back to being on the outside looking in after 2010. The elections to be held in 2010 will certainly be shocking to many of these self-righteous major office holders who thumb their noses at the hoi-polloi as if they were entitled to keep that office for as long as they so choose. They conveniently forget that they are in those offices at OUR pleasure, not theirs. Those that consider themselves to be above the average man or woman citizen need to be brought back down to earth with a forced vacation at the end of their current term. Even though they have had plenty of those vacations at our expense while they are serving. And, I do believe that it is time to resurrect the battle for term limits; the dreaded two words that shake elected officials from their $200 hairdo’s to their painted toenails. Of course, as Professor Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia found out when he made a case for limits, that Congress, with its inbred fear of giving up a lifetime of luxury and perks, is unlikely to get on board any movement to remove those goodies and would never agree to be a part of it. The easiest method would be to try to elect a large majority of new legislators who had campaigned to support such term limits. The people could be chosen in the primaries preceding the election; if they were for Term Limits, vote them in; if not, don’t vote for them. That, however, still has a degree of uncertainty, and depends on trust that the candidate will keep his or her promise to cooperate after elected. But we should consider this option, definitely in the 2010 elections as the need to stop the lifetime entrenchment of do-nothing legislators who have the necessary charm to win reelection interminably which begets greed and lust for power and makes fairness and honesty a thing of the past. Another option, a Constitutional Convention, could be considered if enough candidates for term limits can’t be found. But that’s a subject for another day.

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