Pasadena Politics

The President gave a nice speech tonight.   It was the normal pattern he used during the campaign and for the inauguration: Sound Conservative without promising to be one; sound Constitutional without meaning it.   Frankly, you take every word he said, package it up and toss it in a drawer because nothing he said means anything until there is an actual Bill to read.
Certainly we will hear and read plenty of clips from tonight’s speech, but it is necessary to pay them any heed other than to compare them to the text of the Bill itself and see with clarity the great expansive desire he and others in power have to gain and retain power beyond the bounds of the Constitution.
He is certainly not the only President and Congress to seek more power beyond the Constitution.   But this act will seal the deal.   Once Government so closely regulates and through that regulation controls your health (come now, if a Government plan is so affordable, why should anyone chose any other insurance?   Oh, wait, we already have government insurance plans as it is: Medicare and Medicaid – see how well they are managed) you will find yourself more and more dependent on Government’s largess.

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A while back I wrote about Obama and wondered if he supports freedom.   Well, given the pressure Washington has been putting on Honduras to take Zelaya back and thus violate it’s own Constitution; given his odd support for a bill which would place government into more direct control of the lives of it’s citizens; given his eagerness to be able to ‘turn off the Net in an “Emergency”‘; given his increasing use of “Czars” who are no where permitted by the Constitution; given the overall makeup of those he chooses to lead with him; it does indeed appear that the President is not a friend of Freedom nor the Constitution.

At least, not a friend of Freedom as the framers of the Constitution viewed it.

He is a friend to totalitarian leaders.

He sees the government’s role in the daily life of Americans as an urgent need.

He does not think Americans as individuals capable of managing their own affairs.

He sees himself among an enlightened elite who know best how you should live.

He likes power but not the responsibility (voting “present” so very often and making grand but very vague demands).

The Citizens need to say clearly and loudly that the Constitution of Negative rights is what they want from Obama.   The Negative rights which limit government and it’s role in society.  The Negative rights of government which mean positive rights for the citizens of this country to go about their daily lives unmolested and free from busy bodies and do-gooders who would intrude thinking that they knew better how the citizen should live than the citizen living their own life.