The Voice of the People is the Voice of God” is an old axiom about democracy; specifically referencing the Roman and Greek forms.  So my use of it as the name of my blog is purely Homage to the Roman Senate.  I believe that it is also a statement about the temporal nature of democracy if it is not nurtured in the correct ways – or rather, if its core foundation isn’t remembered.  In the case of the Romans, their Democracy was given up to one man when the city was in danger.  So that one man could organize the defense of the city, etc.  The only problem with that is eventually one man did take over, and then refused to give up control.  His name was Caesar. 

As a conservative, I believe that we need fewer Caesars and more “Voices of the People.”  Self governance, self reliance, and individual rather than group rights should be the keystones to our nation.  No government can weave a blanket big enough and without too many holes in it to cover the shivering masses of its people.  Only on a small level (i.e. State and Local) can this be done – the smaller the needle, the smaller the holes.  As far as what the key stones should be - well, I believe that those I have mentioned were the building blocks out of which our country was built.  I think that they have simply been pushed to the side by the liberal ideology that is circulating within the media today.  No one seems to question the premises of liberalism - perhaps because of the "good feelings" that they engender - and therefore the basic principles of our nation are forgotten as they slide to the back of the room in lue of a much more loudly vocal liberal mentality. 

With the economic Bailout Bill (i.e. BOB) that is in the works in Washington today, this can be see very clearly.  Why the federal government thinks that it can pull anyone out of the muck and mire, when it can't even manage its own affairs properly, is beyond me... or to borrow from a presidential candidate espousing this big-government mentality, "Beyond my pay scale."  The federal government has an utterly abysmal track record when it comes to running anything bigger than a committee meeting (although I am pretty cynical about their chances there too).  We’ve seen the Great Society, the War on Poverty, Welfare, and now the largest golden parachute of all, 700 Billion dollars of bailout to the financial market.  It is important to realize that this BOB wouldn't be necessary if the government (i.e. Congress) hadn't already had its paws in the honey jar, so to speak, and had insisted under President Clinton that it needed to have regulatory oversight over the financial market - specifically the mortgage market. Then, for them to blame all of this on the current administration is utterly pathetic.  I am fairly certain that the legislative branch can be classified as the 'federal government' too.  They need to take responsibility for this too.  Especially the dems.

Now as I write this, I find that the BOB  has failed in the House.  All I can say is, "Hooray!"  Now I'm not just saying this because of the fact that I disagree with the bill in principle, but also because of all of the implications of the BOB's defeat.  Think about it.  We were told all last week that the Dems in congress had enough votes to pass this on their own.  And all the while we kept wondering why they hadn't even tried to pass it.  The Republicans didn't - and still don't - have enough votes to stop it on their own.  So that leads us to only one conclusion:  The Dems in the house are scared.  They haven't united behind anything or anyone, and they are worried about being reelected. 

So now we have Speaker Pelosi suspending the vote.  Why would she do this?  So she can try and twist the arms of as many Dems who voted against the bill as she can and try and force them to vote the other way.  Of course, we will all know who they are, and I think I can prophesy that they will have the hardest time getting reelected.  They probably won’t, in fact, and it will be the end of their political careers. 

This failure to unify of the Dems won't, I think, be good for Obama's campaign.  His 'pie in the sky', 'good feelings', economic strategy can't work. The market isn't failing as we are being told right now.  The market hasn't had a chance to correct itself - as it always does.  And I'm glad that the republicans in the house took a stand on principle and shut this thing down before the socialist liberals could get their paws in the honey jar and make a mess all over the place.

We'll see what happens.  Whatever it is, I think that I'll have plenty to comment about.