A passerby asked Benjamin Franklin what kind of government the convention had created. He responded, “A republic, madam, if you can keep it. Two interesting tidbits popped up this week giving evidence to the truth that we have not kept it very well.
I like Mr. Biden because he so often tells the unvarnished truth. At a fundraiser in Chicago he praised the accomplishments of Richard Daley admitting that Biden himself had never been interested in being a mayor “cause that’s a real job. You have to produce….That’s why I was able to be a senator for 36 years.” And then he was able to become vice-president, and he’s managed to live most of his adult life without doing “a real job.”
Then there is Orrin Hatch of Utah lambasting the Tea Party for their disrespect. "These people are not conservatives. They're not Republicans," Hatch angrily responds. "They're radical libertarians and I'm doggone offended by it….I despise these people.” Well, Mr. Hatch, we don’t despise you, but we are much offended by you. For 36 years you have bent your spine into a pretzel allowing the federal government to become a bureaucratic behemoth with an insatiable appetite for money and power.
The founders expected that we would all be career politicians, deeply immersed in public service. They knew they had embarked on a great experiment and to make it work required an informed a vigilant populace. We have not been vigilant.
We have allowed politicians to create a climate that enabled them to make careers out of “public service.” Our founders intended a citizen legislature where representatives would receive little pay, complete their constitutionally designated duties, and then go home and get a “real job.”
Tea Party members simply want to bless their grandchildren with the great nation they were blessed with. They too were “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights” and deserve a government that respects “Laws of Nature and of Nature's God.”
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