I have tried to warn people about the drastic appropriations of power that President Obama has garnered under the Executive Branch with his unprecedented use of the Executive Order. I hope now you will do something!
The second nominee for Secretary of Commerce, Judd Gregg, withdrew his nomination for that office to return to his post as a leading Republican Senator. This happened yesterday. The reasons he left were basic ideological differences with the current administration over the stimulus bill and the national census.
The Census Bureau is under the provenance of the Commerce Department and controls such things as electoral votes (yes, those things that determine Presidents), appropriations, the number of Representatives in the House, and if skewed, even the party make up of those representatives. Under the Commerce Department how these numbers are arrived at must be made public record.
What President Obama is attempting to do, and one of the reasons Sen. Gregg left, is to bring the Census under Rahm Emmanuel, his White House Chief of Staff, where NO TRANSPARENCY is required.
Instead of actual head-counting of every person in the United States, computer "sampling" can be used. But the truth of the matter is the American public will have no way of knowing how their numbers are arrived at, virtually guaranteeing corruption at best, and rigging elections and the other matters determined by the census numbers at worst.
To put it simply, the President is not acting like the President of the United States, who controls the Executive Branch of government, but who does not control the other two branches, the Congress and the Supreme Court. He is wielding the Executive Order as a formidable sword of Royal Decree, and he is doing it to disrupt the balance of power.
If we allow this to continue, King Obama will have effectively changed (oh, yes, he did promise change) our republic into a kingdom of socialism, communism, or an absolute monarchy.
With the Democrats holding the majorities in both the House and Senate, the Republicans and Independents can do only so much without the support of principled and courageous members from the other side of the aisle, who serve the Constitution of the United States and their consciences before their pockets and political aspirations. We NEED MEN AND WOMEN OF PRINCIPLE MORE THAN EVER.
Obama uses stick and carrot equally well: threats that your political career will end if you do not go along with him are paired with promises of political clout and passage of favorite projects if you do, or so it would seem from his speeches and from the remarks of those who have crossed lines to support the insupportable.
As we have seen, many of those in Congress are more interested in their Pary and their pockets to stand up for what is RIGHT, or are too cowardly to vote no, when the bill in question is WRONG. The corruption in Congress has been exposed and openly ignored.
Change is what you make of it. So far, Obama has changed this country for the worse with more coming. The Census is just the first of many--of course, we're not counting the so-called "stimulus" package, which is a travesty of obfuscation, taxation, and debt in the trillions of dollars.
TRANSPARENCY? OBAMA HAS BANISHED IT FROM HIS (yes, HIS) WHITE HOUSE. If we don't stop him now, there will be no chance to in 2010. Why? Because the manipulation of the Census will guarantee that he will win again. Mark my words: this is not a man who intends to lead and cooperate. He intends to Rule!
Call your Congressmen and women; march on whatever government agencies you have; make your voices heard, before they are silenced....
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