Dear Friends,
It seems to me that a goalie in any Soccer game, would not be considered to have done a good job, even having scored 2 points in a game, if he was never at the net, instead, doing the job of a forward. Or the case of a forward who never crossed the center line always protecting the net. In these cases you could say that even though the men may have expertise in playing, their not being in position makes their skill superfluous. If a forward never moves forward goals will not be scored and if a goalie never guards the net even passing shots will get points. Because they have been given an extremely important task.
Now take the case of the US Congress, they have one thing that is an imperative, pass a budget every year. That is the most important reason they convene. To pass a budget, it need not be balanced, it need not be sane, but it must be passed. Passing a budget is kind of like guarding a net. It keeps the US government’s spending, ahem, under control. Yet in 2010 the Congress didn’t pass a budget for 2011.
Why didn’t they get this most important job done? Even with both houses of Congress controlled by one party? Because they had too much to do that was more important. What is more important to a goalie than guarding the net you may ask? Getting goals of course! They scored at least two against the American people. The one, health care, and the other, banking regulation, the latter of which will come back to bite the US economy in due time.
But they are called the most productive Congress in recent memory. Largely because of the two points they scored on you and I. They seized control of a third of the US economy, put it under direct control of the US government, making one third of the US economy, a planned economy. Remember the planned economy? It was going to bury us. Under toxic waste I suppose, that is the biggest legacy, of the Eastern Bloc and USSR’s economic programs.
Now take the case of a right guard who acts the goalie / forward. Always sliding in knocking the goalie away from the net, or running ahead, always out of position. He wouldn’t be able to do his job well if he was never at the right place. This is much like the US Judicial system. It thinks it is the goalie, the left and right guards, the center and every other player on the field. The US judicial system believes itself, all knowing and all seeing, the omnipotent benevolent power behind the curtain. (And they are… minus the all knowing and benevolent parts).
Why not? Lawyers write all law, lawyers have a plurality of seats in the US Congress, the President is a lawyer and the Judicial branch is barred to all non lawyers. So I ask you, what faction of the American people, have the most power to shape society? Now, people being people, do you suppose they have no hand in the litigious society that we live in? It is definitely in the best interests of lawyers to keep people at each others throats, to move all decisions into the courts, where lawyers get financially rewarded for litigating the solutions.
So we have a judiciary that thinks itself capable of running the entire, of our government, our society and make our personal decisions too. That seems like a right guard that wants to play every position to me… So with the Judicial Branch of the government doing everything, it cannot do a good job at what it is supposed to do, protect the Constitution. Not milk it for all the wealth and power they can.
The Executive Branch is more like the center. It controls the offense. Pushing the political hot potatoes into the opponent’s side, maintaining his position until the puck shoots back to him, so he can regain the initiative. Our President was more concerned with shackling the American people, with manacles forged of health care; than passing a budget, fighting the war or getting and holding the International initiative. Did Obama get, or give up the initiative, when he reneged on the deal with Poland for a missile shield?
With a team like this playing “for” us, how can we…
