It's What I Think Too

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
- Thomas Jefferson

Amen.

I was thinking just this morning that I call myself a Republican because I want small government, people to be strong and independent, government to serve and protect the rights of the people but to stay out of their way, out of their lives.

But.

I do not currently like the Republican Party. The party politics, the debt, the movement of many in the party towards the left, the "go along" mentality. And I understand the birth and growth of the Tea Party.

Of course, I don't currently like the Democrats either. I mean, what they espouse, what they see as the place of government. Like, it can and should fix EVERYTHING.

But again.

Some of my very best friends are Democrats.

And.

I appreciated President Obama's speech Wednesday night in Tucson. I felt he was sincere. Okay, I know, it didn't hurt him politically. But I thought it was what he needed to do, needed to say.

Still.

I do not and will not believe in what he believes in about government. I will always resist that.

Get it?

Hmmm

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
- Margaret Mead

And women? What are they working to become?

Well said

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
- John Kenneth Galbraith

Still, I'll opt for capitalism.

Two days after Thanksgiving

We write the light stuff, the silly stuff, or we write not at all when things seem heaviest and hardest. This whole world seems in chaos just now, including close to home. Bomb attempts at the lighting of Portland's Christmas tree, murder of a young college girl in upstate New York, suicide bombings "in diverse places," North Korea starting up against South Korea with nuclear power to back it up, the US government printing money as we speak with nothing behind it, folks working the system, others just down and out.

So what's to say?

Maybe just that I count my blessings. Which are many. Anything else I might say seems not to matter much.

Yesterday's Election

Results should send a "stop what you're doing" message to Obama, but I'm waiting for his first wriggle out of it speech. Actually, I may have missed it already.

I've Had It Up to Here

I think BO is running scared, although he does not look scared. But he is everywhere these days. Talking up his whatever-you-want-to-call-them plans and performances. Telling folks it all really is working. That's behavior of a scared guy, isn't it?

And he pops in here and there unannounced (so they'd have us believe), surprising school children. Yeah, sure. They're safe. They won't ask the hard questions. They'll just cheer and smile.

I get worried sometimes. I'm afraid too many people are thinking, "Yes, we elected a black president. Aren't we wonderful!" And that is enough for them.

Not for me.

Keep running scared, BO. And by all means, keep talking off the cuff in those platitudinal (my spell checker says it should be platitudinous, but I like platitudinal better) phrases we've all memorized by now.

We have two years to do something about him. Excuse him from further service. Vote him out.

Yes, indeed

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
- John Adams