Our government is based upon the idea that the centralized federal government will have as little power as possible to infringe on the rights and liberties of the people. With Obama in the White House, and the Dems in the Congress, that system is in serious jeopardy. There will be almost nothing to check the power of either branch of government, and their liberal agenda will almost certainly be passed.  

The conservative movement has to reorganize itself – especially the younger crowd (20-35 year olds) – and realize that it is up to them to get the job done if the country is to be taken care of with conservative values of individual liberty and responsibility once again. I call on all my peers to get involved, and to be the check and balance to the democrat party’s control of government. 

I say this because it had become plain that Obama’s rhetoric is increasingly empty. This was something that I believe that a lot of us knew – I certainly did – but most of the liberal lemmings and so-called ordinary people seemed unable to see through it. All of this, “Change! Change! Change!” malarkey blinded a lot of people who were unhappy (or at least thought they were unhappy) with the Bush administration. Though, if you asked most of them, they wouldn’t be able to tell you what Bush had done to them that was so egregious that they were this dissatisfied. All they knew for sure was that Obama was black, and seemingly articulate, and seemingly charismatic and to them that was just different enough that they wanted to vote for him. Never mind what his policies might be – do we even know that now? Never mind the fact that he has no experience or record to show his ability to accomplish anything. I guess none of that matters as long as he can sound convincingly non-threatening and can make people believe that he will solve all of their problems.

(NOTE: It is worth mentioning that the democrat controlled congress has been a party to the climate of American politics in the last 2 years, and their approval rating was even lower than Bush’s. Why on Earth didn’t Americans seem to want a change from that kind of stagnant cesspool congress?)  

Now post election, I have heard interviews on the news (CNN, MSNBC, FOX) where the reporters have gone to Obama supporters’ neighborhoods and asked why they voted for him. Inevitably the answer is, “Change, and Hope.” Then when asked whether or not they think that Obama can fix the economy, or help them out personally, the answer comes back, “Well, I hope so.” I’m not so sure that that is the kind of hope that they were thinking of when they voted for him. In this case, hope means the ardent wishing for something to happen that is good while not having to really put any effort in yourself or risk any personal responsibility on your success or failure. Real hope involves personal action and responsibility, not waiting for Obama (or any government for that matter) to maybe do something that might possibly help me but might never happen because of the nature of big government bureaucracy. 

And so much for “change!” Is Obama’s idea of change hiring one of the Clinton’s character assassins? Is his idea of change rolling out the same liberal agenda of tax hikes and government programs his party has been touting for the last 50 years? (They still don’t work!!) It looks like his idea of change is more of the same liberal politics. I can’t believe that this many Americans were duped into believing the that Lord Barak the Most Merciful would descend from on high to distribute (or I should say, re-distribute) loaves of bread and fish to the huddled masses of starving middle class Americans who have no other recourse but the rely on a messiah-like figure who they still really don’t even know anything about to save their homes, cars, and lives. What has America come to when our self sufficiency is more reliant on the government than our own ingenuity and drive. That’s the real American dream!       

So, that’s my post election posting. I still call on all young conservatives to unite! Let’s take our country back! Get all your friends to read Locke, and Paine, and Jefferson. Then they will truly understand the nature of our American Democracy, and will want to save it from the European socialist forces at work in our nation.

The only argument I have heard the Obama campaign use to counter any of this is, “It’s not socialist to take money from the rich to give someone a chance.” Or, “We’re trying to build this economy from the bottom up.” So really what’s happening here is that they are disagreeing with the definition of socialism rather than our characterization of what it is that they are actually doing. Ok. Let’s define socialism then.

Webster’s dictionary defines socialism as “a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done.”

That is exactly what Obama is proposing! His campaign says that they have refuted these claims that he is a socialist. Well, they have disagreed with them, but that’s not the same thing as refuting. They have offered up no adequate alternate definition for what it is they are trying to do. They have run away from the hard questions like, “How is your plan not Marxist?” – Even refusing to do future interviews with news organizations who ask those tough questions. So if to ‘disagree’ now means to ‘refute’, McCain has refuted all of Obama’s assertions about him. And the next time someone tells me that Obama will be a good president and offers no evidence to support their claim, I will say respectfully, “I disagree.”     

In the past few weeks and months I have been shocked to discover how many republicans are admitting defeat, and if not that, are bemoaning their state of being. If you listen to a lot of talk radio like I do, I am sure that you have heard the same. This phenomenon displays two things to me. First, that the republican party isn’t doing enough to make its members feel actively engaged in victory, and two, that the conservative movement is not as closely tied with the republican party as it used to be. 

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.