170 – “Messianic?”

IN DEFENSE OF COMMON SENSE
By Hetty Gray

November 21, 2013

# 170

“Messianic?”

When we witnessed the federal elections of 2008, the “buzz word” seemed to be Messiah. An African-American candidate for the highest office in the land not only stood as history making, but also proved that American society was colorblind. For all the rancor and angst that peppered our past, most of our judge people on their actions and character, not their color or ethnicity.

Countless Americans stepped forward to cast a vote for the first black president, despite the fact that the vetting process was nearly absent from his background. Words bear meaning. The phrase “fundamentally transform America” uttered in campaign speeches meant something.

Today, we see the meaning clearly. A runaway bureaucracy that peers into our most private information…. An administration bent on taking over one-sixth of an economy envied by countries across the planet…. The IRS targeting groups asking questions like “What is the content of your prayer?”
Four murdered Americans and the top of the U.S. State Department mouthing, “What difference does it make?” to a question of how these men died….

America was fundamentally sound when this president took office. He is bound to adhere to it. It reads:

Section. 2.
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.
The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.
Section. 3.
He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.
Section. 4.
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

Note the bold text. The president does not have the power to change a law. He is bound to execute that law. Hmmmm….. Now that he finds that “his” health care law is seen for what it truly is — a power grab in the finest tradition of central planning — he takes it upon himself to adjust the law, delaying very painful portions of it until after the next mid-term elections.
The public will awaken, but not as fast as many of us would like. To have delayed the “employer mandate” only propels the disaster to a later time slot. Critics who have read the behemoth legislation tell us that it was designed so that private insurance would be found “defective” and “insufficient” in an insatiable push for “one payer.” That’s the ball game, folks.
They will control everyone’s health care. When the government controls our health care, it controls us. Someone other than our family members and our physicians will make the decisions on what care we receive or whether we receive it at all. Nice, huh?
If you want to control a people, you grab the most important aspect of their lives — their health. Is this becoming clear now? A federal government in charge of your life is not a fundamental America. It is so far from it that it should make any thinking person shudder.
What is most frightening is the percentage of our populace totally unprepared to be responsible civically.
This is central planning on steroids. Central planning has never worked —not anywhere on this planet.
A bigger United States government is destined to be both inefficient and nonresponsive. Spare me the supposed apology over the health care debacle in which our current chief executive laid the blame on the public that didn’t understand and the opposition party fighting tooth and nail to expose the Affordable Care Act for what it is — a fiasco. The president said we didn’t understand. Oh, please…. We understood. That’s the problem. In essence, it is his problem.
Messianic? That’s not what I would call his posture. To me, it’s “Messy Antics.” Think about it.

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