Mr. President
While expressing your amusement at the good citizens of this country , who protested a government that smothers their freedom with new laws and crushes their future with cataclysmic debt, you said that what you would rather hear from the protestors was a simple thank you. After all, your benevolence has bestowed on us enough money for a Wendy’s combo meal and a large frosty once a week. Truly, the words “thank you,” do not do justice to the debt I feel. Indeed, it is a debt that my grandson’s offspring will labor, unsuccessfully, to pay. But since you require some sort of thanks, I offer the following:
When General McCrystal requested some 45,000 reinforcements in Afghanistan, he emphasized the fact that time was not on our side. You responded by spending five months in an indecisive fog that made Hamlet look like he suffered from a compulsive disorder, before sending fewer reinforcements than had been requested. As a retired veteran, I was appalled. But I suppose I should somehow thank you for deigning to finally take action. My heart overflows with gratitude. Likewise, when the people of Iran protested for the very freedoms our own Constitution was predicated on, you again sat on your hands and declared that we shouldn’t be meddling in other another country’s affairs. The gratitude of the Iranian people flowed like blood in the streets. What a heart-warming affirmation of America’s dedication to first principles, no?
But I note that you felt no such hesitation in lashing out at Israel for having the effrontery to construct housing in their own capital. Your discretion in showing decisive disdain to a friend while showing indifference to the slaughter of people who merely want to be free is the stuff legends are made of. Call it, the audacity of assinity. A hearty thanks would be difficult for me to resist.
Speaking of Iran, you may not have noticed, but while you’ve been busy dazzling the Eastern Europeans with reductions in missile defense, and intoning the wonders of a world without nuclear weapons (which previously bequeathed us two world wars and upwards of 100 million casualties), Iran has been equally busy developing just such weapons. Your response thus far has been anemic in the extreme, and people are beginning to perceive a shift toward containment. I should thank you for showing a level of timidity on Iran that makes Neville Chamberlain look like Conan the Barbarian.
As weak as you’ve been in defense of liberty abroad, bowing to authoritarians to the point that you risk carpal tunnel syndrome, you’ve been an absolute wrecking ball to our freedoms at home. As a professor, you commented on your perception that our Constitution simply wasn’t up to your standards. Lamenting that it was only a document of negative rights, you went on to discuss the things, “…the government must do for its citizens.” You’re not ignorant of the 10th Amendment, which forbids federal action beyond enumerated powers, and yet you ignore it. You promised you would not sign a bill with earmarks, and yet the bills you’ve signed have so much extraneous junk in them that they are the legislative equivalent of stuffing Pavoratti in a spandex.
Ignoring the will of the people, you jammed an unconstitutional medical bill down our throat. Your stimulus bills have thus far stimulated the unemployment rate into double digit territory. Now you are entertaining a cap and trade scheme that would, according to you, cause our utility bills to “skyrocket.” You have jettisoned the principles of Madison, Adams, Jefferson and Washington in favor of the principles of Alinsky, Marx, and Mao. You have taken over vast swaths of the private sector, from auto companies to banks and, coming to a hospital near us, health care, in direct contravention of constitutional restraints and the will of the people who put you in office. You criticize private profits while living the life of royalty on the taxpayers dime. And for this you want thanks? Call it the Audacity of Narcissism. I can’t take your rhetoric seriously, because to do so would insult your intelligence. But I do know that you are moving with deliberate speed to get as much destruction accomplished before the voters can act. And on some level, I’m sure you wonder if your attacks on liberty will be reversed. I can answer your question in three familiar words. “Yes we can.” Now, how’s that for a thank you?
