Two great pieces at AT today address the continuing reckless and unconstitutional power grab of the Obama administration.
Citing other columnists and great patriots in American history, Lee DeCovnick writes:
Thomas Jefferson reaches out over the centuries to counsel us that, "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes." The requirement for such forceful change will results from a cascade of bitter failures within our social and governmental institutions. We are not at that fork of history. However, thoughtful conservatives must look toward some uncomfortable duties, a start of redress, to stem our current slide into tyranny.
That initial redress starts today when each one of us begins to reach out, one on one, to our liberal neighbors, co-workers, friends and family. We must patiently discuss today's headlines within the context of the Declaration of Independence. By educating and reminding them of America's self-evident truths, unalienable rights, and that our government derives its powers from the consent of the governed, we open minds and give substance to the looming icebergs of tyranny, dead ahead.
Redress also means that Congress must start doing its job. Congress should follow the Constitution by actually writing the laws in public view, rather than fob them off on the Executive agencies. And Congress must de-fund and forever decertify the existence of the czars. Or else we must vote these damn Congressional monarchists out of power. These ideas are less radical then those written in the Declaration. To believe otherwise renders us all silent passengers on that "long train of abuses and usurpations."
Americans, Lincoln and Jefferson's people, may have but a single Constitutionally mandated opportunity to avoid a further "rupturing of the American conception of sovereignty, in which the president is our servant, not our ruler." November 6th, 2012 will become a crucial day of national reckoning, not unlike that warm July day in Philadelphia, two hundred and thirty-six years ago.
Next, J. Robert Smith blows huge gaping holes in the left's defense of the "contraceptives for Catholics" mandate:
You've got to hand it to liberals. They stick to a script. On the contraception-Catholic Church flap, the script is that most Catholic women favor contraception (and, one guesses, abortion-inducers). Ergo, the Catholic Church should buckle under and accept President Obama's mandate. Conscience and religious liberty (and a little thing called the 1st Amendment) just don't stack up against what a majority of Catholic women want -- or what liberals say they want. You know, vox populi and all that.
So if vox populi is good enough for the Catholic Church, why not for liberals and the Democratic Party -- or more exactly, for policies favored by both? Like ObamaCare. ...
Liberal talking heads, like little wind-up toy soldiers, have been all over the airwaves, yakking about the supremacy of "women's health" and what a majority of Catholic women are supposed to want. (Isn't it nice how liberals always appoint themselves spokesmen for others? Call it the Jesse Jackson syndrome. The Reverend Jackson has an unerring talent for showing up and speaking on behalf of people who never asked him to.)
If liberals are all fired up about majority rule, why shouldn't they apply that principle to ObamaCare? ...
But that's not how majoritarianism works, evidently. See, where liberals can use majority sentiment to justify and advance their statist polices, well, by all means. Hence, efforts to bulldoze the Catholic Church and mangle the 1st Amendment are cloaked in a concern for what a majority of Catholic women desire.
When a liberal policy aim fails to muster a majority, tough luck. ObamaCare is what Americans need, whether they want it or not. Liberals insist on it. And what could average Americans possibly know about what's good for their welfare? If liberals and government can't run other people's lives, what purpose is there for either?
Take another issue: federal spending. According to Gallup, a lopsided majority believes that Washington spends too much. No need for more or higher taxes, either.
November 6, 2012 cannot come soon enough.
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