Nothing Can Come of Nothing

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

The Constitution assigned to Congress responsibility for organizing the executive and judicial branches, raising revenue, declaring war, and making all laws necessary for executing these powers.  The president is permitted to veto specific legislative acts, but Congress has the authority to override presidential vetoes by two-thirds majorities of both houses.  The Constitution also provides that the Senate advise and consent on key executive and judicial appointments and on the ratification of treaties.

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To go a little Shakespearean on you – “Aye. There is the rub.”

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”

The frustrating thing about this election is that it matters little who wins the Presidency.  A Democratic victory is a “Ticket to ride” (here we shift to a Beatles analogy) for Obama and his extreme liberal stance. A McCain victory, I’m afraid, will amount to no more than 4 years of head butting and going nowhere fast.

The power now rests in the Senate and in the House of Representatives. Scared? The power for the next for years will be in the hands of Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank and Harry Reid, et al.  Somewhere, some how things have twisted. There is a pretense of doing the people’s will, but it’s all rhetoric. Even the $80 Bil bailout had more pork attached than a hog farm. They (and I include both Parties in that) give us lip service but at the end of the day they make sure they get their’s and they get it from us.

No longer is it about “America”. It’s about “party”. It’s about special interests.

I shake my head in wonder at the number of people who don’t see it for what it is. Selective blindness? Maybe. I pray for a hero to be raised up. For a Samuel Adams (not the beer),Thomas Jefferson. Abraham Lincoln. FDR. Ronald Reagan. Men who put country ahead of politics and made a difference.

My greatest fear is that the America we’ll see four years from now will be unrecognizable as “the shining city upon a hill”.  The great Nation that made it possible to dream great things, will become a burnt out shell, a land of hopelessness, of despair, of mediocrity. Worse, I fear a loss of God’s blessings on us as a people, as a nation. God has shown how unhappy He gets when a nation turns it’s back on Him. I am fearful of dark days ahead.

Now I’ll take that Samuel Adams. The beer not the President.