A Liberal Believes the Constitution impedes their progress

Taken from the Media Research Center: Newsweek Despairs 'Checks and Balances' Impede ObamaCare
By: Brent Baker

'Anna Quindlen defended President Obama from liberal complaints he's not enacting liberal policies fast enough as she explained that he's “saddled” by the “incremental” constitutional structure, but she fretted: “Universal health care is the area in which the gap between what's needed and what's likely is most glaring, and the limitations of the president's power most apparent.” Not hesitating to share her opinion, Quindlen despaired:
It is dispiriting to watch the cheerleaders of American exceptionalism pound their chests and insist that our citizens do not need the kind of system that virtually every other developed nation finds workable.... [workable for who? Socialist?] As elected officials posture and temporize, families are bankrupted by health-care costs and forgo treatment they can't afford. Statistical measures of the national health, from life expectancy to infant mortality, continue to be substandard [that my friend is propaganda]. And because we have that system of checks and balances, in which movement usually happens slowly and sporadically, a great need for sweeping reform [she means doing away with a republic democracy] may be met with a jury-rigged bill neither sufficiently deep nor broad, which perhaps someday will give way to a better one, and then eventually a truly good one.Framing her piece in the November 2 edition of the magazine, “Hope Springs Eternal: Assessing a Young Presidency,” Quindlen proposed: This is a country that often has transformational ambitions but is saddled with an incremental [Constitutional] system, a nation built on revolution, then engineered so the revolutionary can rarely take hold. Checks and balances: that's how we learn about it in social-studies class, and in theory it is meant to guard against a despotic executive, a wild-eyed legislature, an overweening judiciary. And it's also meant to safeguard the rights of the individual...But what our system has meant during the poisonous partisan civil war that has paralyzed Washington in recent years is that very little of the big stuff gets done. It simply can't.' [my comments in brackets]


This a liberal. She thinks that the constitution is getting the the way of the President doing his job. Huh? That is what it is suppose to do. It is intented to prevent people like Obama from taking over this country like Hugo Chavez did his country of Venezuela. To me this person and the people like her are enemies of the state. They were born in America (maybe?) but they do not like the America we grew up in. They do not like the way our government was created to operate. This is treason. Ask any of the liberal leaders where do they get the Constitiional authority to cram this healthcare bill down our throats and they can't answer you. There is no authority to do what they are doing. They are trying to take over the country illegally, usurp the Constitution that they swore to defend and establish a different form of government without our consent. It is time to arrest them, try them and put them and everyone who physically supported or openly encouraged them (TV, Newspapers, etc.) behind bars. If Obama signs this bill then they have knowingly and willingly acted in an unconstitutional behavior and should be removed from office and punished.

Nubby

The Real Solution to America's Problems

The early fathers gave us a free Republic and told us to “keep it if we could”. We are not doing so well are we? Another founder stated that our form of government was “for a Christian people and would work for no other”. Five of the early states prior to the Federal Constitution had state constitutions that required their leaders be Christians. This was easy to do at the time with so much of the population being Christian. Term limits were not required for leaders who met these standards. These were men who could pretty much be trusted to put God and country first.

Now Christians (real ones) are in the minority. We got our priorities backwards and now we are paying for it. A godless people require endless rules and laws to dictate how they should live. A Christian people do not need this because they have the law of God written in their hearts. Here we are trying to do what the godless do, makes rules and laws to compensate for our lack of a Godly life and fulfilling God’s will. We are all called to lead people to Christ, to teach them the meaning of being in Christ and eternal life with Christ. Our failure to do this has resulted in the government we have today. Many want to rework the Constitution to fix the problems, clarify the areas that have be abused by the left. Before we rewrite or add to the Constitution we need to first turn back to God, repent and learn to do His will and He will restore our country. Nothing else here is going to work.

The current problem in the USA is not all the socialistic, anti-God stuff going on. That is the symptom of the real problem. The problem starts with Christians who haven't done what God has called them to do. We are to make disciples. We are to teach others who are also willing to teach and pass on the teachings of Jesus. We are to win the world for Christ not hand it over to Satan and his disciples who are willing to do anything to be in control. If we are outnumbered by non-christians then we have failed to do what God called us to do.

If we were winning other to Christ, teaching them what it means to be in Christ then this country would still have solid Christian values. As a majority we would have Christian morals and finally true Christian leaders. There would be no debate about out of wedlock children, abortion, homosexuals or otherwise. By our own failure to do what God has called us to do we are reaping what we have sown and now we are crying about it. It is time to repent and turn from our selfish, comfort loving ways and get into God's program. Then God will deal with this abomination (Obamanation) in response to our repentance and turning from our wicked ways. We need people to be discipled (win them to Christ and teach them) and those willing to disciple (leaders, teachers, men of faith). Most of all we need to understand who we are in Christ and God's purpose for our lives. American Christians apparently don't want to know because it will interfere with their comfortable lifestyle. We need to pray for revival from God (not the annual tent meeting kind created by man). Pray for the power of God to fall from heaven and fill His people with the desire to do anything necessary to make this nation a nation of true Christian people. The Bill of Rights and the Constitution are good documents but they don't replace the people. The people need to change, repent, seek God and then we will have all our freedoms once again.

Prophets of doom think it is the end of the world. Lets repent first and then see what God will do. Maybe it is not the end yet. I would hate to stand before God and find out He wanted us to turn the country back before He returned and we failed because we thought it wasn't worth trying.

Nubby