Fundamental Change

In the afterglow of the Massachusetts election and while the democratic machine searches desperately for a way to make the election not look like an absolute repudiation of the Obama Agenda by liberal Massachusetts, we should pause and give thought to what we witnessed over the last seven months. Swept into office with a historic vote, the Obama Administration set upon the American economic system like a giant swarm of ravenous locusts. Provisioned with enormous sums of money by way of the 'stimulas' packages, the Administration quickly converted 'stimulus' money into 'bribe' money and began buying Senators and Representatives on a scale never before seen. State after state witnessed it's elected representatives being openly bought by an administration making good on it's promise to fundamentally change America.

While it is true that our government never before has owned a car manufacturer, and it is true that for the first time,the government now owns 90% of the mortgage industry, and it can not be denied that the government controls the banking industry, these are not the fundamental changes that I find so abhorrent. These things can easily be undone.

The fundamental change made to America by this administration is in the level of corruption that the American people will accept. As a free people, we know that free men sometimes go bad. Our system of justice seeks to identify these people, and bring them to a court of law for judgement. However, under this administration, bribery has become an accepted means of persuading Congress to enact the Presidential Agenda. Far from the give and take that is a normal part of the American legislative process, this Administration has seized upon the stimulus money as it's own slush fund and used it in the open purchase of votes, and no one is enraged. Not ABC. Not NBC. Not CBS. Not FOX. Not The New York Times. No one.

As an American voter, I am. I don't expect my congressional representation to be saints, but I do expect them to be fundamentally honest people. We vote these people into office, and they are in their congressional seats by virtue of us, the people, charging them with representing our interests in the Federal Government. When it becomes acceptable to accept bribes in exchange for votes, a fundamental change has occurred in the American political process.

It's been a long time coming. Obama didn't do this alone, but he did take it to the next level. The utter corruption of the Federal Government, predicted long ago by Jefferson, is complete. The question now, is this: Will we accept this corruption?, or, next November, will we fundamentally change America?