For all the progress!

Tuesday – September 14, 2010

For all the progress!

The President said last week, at a jobs rally in Milwaukee, “For all the progress we’ve made, were not there yet.” This is a scary proposition! The only way to counteract that is to not vote for anyone with a “D” behind their name. This Midterm election will be a referendum, if people are motivated and if they spread the word.

You might ask what word? Just use the words that the President used in Milwaukee. Use his radical thoughts to draw a picture of just how far off base he is from the main stream and from the Founding Fathers.

Use the words of his cabinet members and or others members of his administration. Cathleen Sebelius, the nations 21st Health and Human Services Director, said,“Those who talk negatively about the President s Healthcare bill will be held to account when the law takes affect.” In other words, you will lose out on the bidding process and you will be put out of business. Since when does a government employee wield such power? What has happened to freedom of speech?

Just about every critic of the president on this issue has said contradictory things about what has been put into the bill. Pelosi said we must pass the bill so we can find out what is in it. The President said last week, “We never said it was going to be free.”

Cathleen Sebelius said, “The essence of good government is trust.” When our politicians ask for our trust and then turn around and rob from our posterity and threaten us for discussing the issues in a public format, then we cannot trust their intentions, no matter what they say.

The matter of healthcare will be an issue the Democrat cannot run away from. Today the courts will hear arguments as 20 states sue the Federal Government over the Healthcare bill. We, as a people, should not let the Democrats run from it, because it will cost us in untold ways if we do. The bill was passed dishonestly and with the intent to deceive.

Howard Fineman wrote today, Obama misread his mandate. “Obama’s 2008 victory was a personal one,” says Bill Galston, an adviser to President Clinton. “It wasn’t a vote for a more expansive view of the role and reach of government.” The stimulus, on its own, wasn’t the problem. It was the thousands of easy-to-caricature pages of new legislation that came on top of it, all of which revived the Republicans’ “big government” narrative. Obama—an overachiever, the guy who fills up a second blue book on the extra-credit question—tried to do it all. His chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, eager to please the new boss, declared before Inauguration Day, “Never allow a crisis to go to waste. There are opportunities to do big things.” But in doing big things, they failed to fully attend to (and be seen attending to) the immediate economic needs of the middle class. “There hasn’t been the laserlike focus on the economy there could have, and should have, been,” says a top Democratic strategist who declined to be named criticizing the White House. Take health-care reform. Ten years hence, perhaps, it will be seen as the signal achievement of the Obama years. But for now, it’s an unpopular law that took a divisive year to enact, that liberals and conservatives loathe, that is full of bureaucratic and fiscal IEDs, and that drained attention from dealing with the economy. If you disagree, look at Obama’s speech last week in Cleveland. In 47 minutes, he mentioned health care for about 25 seconds.”

While the President and his minions such as Cathleen Sebelius talk of threats and are working to dismantle the cornerstone of our country remember what Obama said: “For all the progress we’ve made, were not there yet.” This is a good thing because they should not be there making these changes in the first place.

The Progressive will move to a secularist society, this is there goal. Many Americans have a Christian faith. Our founding, as a country, was based, not on secularism, but on a Judeo-Christian belief system and structure. The men and woman who settled in Jamestown and who saw Plymouth Rock for the first time did not believe in secularism. They were people of faith and they wanted that faith to grow as the country grew.

The government we have today and the leaders of this government now prefer secularism to that of faith. This is why our Constitution is not being followed and this is why government is growing and expanding. Depend on your faith and make sure your representatives know that. There is no difference between a Democratic liberal and a Republican that wants to be seen as moderate. It will take time to turn the tide from Progressive liberalism to that of Conservatism. It can be done. Just look at the model our forefathers left for us and don’t let the government do anything but.

Gregory C. Dildilian
Founder and Executive Director
Pinecone Conservatives

A footnote: In 49 days we must have faith in our fellow citizen to know that secularism is the model of the progressive. I have faith in you to know that conservatism was the model of our Forefathers. Our reward for all our progress will be a government that listens and a government that does not threaten.