Lehigh Valley Conservative Voice

You gotta love Congress and of course you gotta love “The One”, President Barack Obama. As we shovel snow on a Sunday morning in December, the Sunday talking heads are all abuzz over Senate Democrats finally finding that precious 60th vote for “cloture”, permitting a full Senate vote on “health care reform”. God bless ‘em, because what they will reform is not healthcare, but the ideological leanings of candidates elected to Congress in the upcoming 2010 elections.

They’re acting as if it’s 2005, and America is chanting “throw out the bums”, pointing fingers and spewing venom at the Republican controlled Congress that started our country’s descent to its present lows. That’s not the case however, and folks like Reid, Pelosi, and SNL’s Al Franken fail to grasp that now that the Democratic controlled Congress has kicked the demise of American “exceptionalism” into overdrive, “we the people” are kindling an Election Day wrath set to dwarf New Gingrich’s Republican Revolution of 1994.

Yes, the US Senate finally has the 6 out of 10 senators needed for “cloture” on healthcare “reform”. Meanwhile, however, at the same time, nearly 6 out of 10 Americans (56% of voters polled) are opposed to the legislation (with 5 out of 10 “strongly opposed”). In fact, 6 out 10 of voters polled (57%) believe that America would be better off if this Congress passed nothing at all, rather than whatever “Obama Care” ends up to be. Add to that the realclearpolitics.com Congressional job approval average of 27% and Rassmussen polling indicating that only 30% of voters believe that America is “on the right track”, and you’ve got to wonder why the Democrats in Congress are continue to “follow the leaders”. It’s like a cult-like act of mass political suicide, when polling indicates that nearly 7 in 10 voters (66%) want a smaller government, that provides fewer services, and of course inflicts less taxation on the purses of its constituents.

But, maybe the Democrats are reading the polls. And maybe they actually do realize they’re sailing on the Titanic, headed for the iceberg of 2010. Maybe they see honor in sacrificing the outcome of the 2010 elections for the sake of achieving the biggest advancement of “Statist” government control of Americans’ “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness” since Roosevelt’s “New Deal”. Maybe that could explain why they press forward against the people’s will, even when NBC/Wall Street Journal polling reveals that both the Democratic and the Republican Parties have fallen behind the “Tea Party” movement in terms of who’d best represent them in Congress. Maybe they see a “revolution” against the hapless failures of both the Democratic and Republican Parties on the horizon, and they’re making an “Alamo” commitment to do all they can do for the cause of “big government” before their inevitable demise. The NBC/Wall Street Journal numbers are ominous: 41% of voters now favor the Tea Party movement, while 35% stand with the Democrats, and a mere 28% still find faith in the waning Republican brand.

As he campaigned, Barack Obama and his supporters did all they could to suggest that “The One” represented the “Lincoln” of our day. One year in office, America sees nothing of substance supporting the hype. Yet, Obama’s presidency might provide a catalyst for significantly influencing America’s unfolding history. Thanks to Obama and his Democratic controlled Congress, paralleled by the lack of leadership and principle evident in the GOP, the conservative “Tea Party” movement threatens to displace the political power of the Democrat and Republican Party elite the same way the Party of Lincoln replaced the failed Whigs in that historic revolt against the disingenuous status quo of his day.

Obama garners the lowest first year approval rating of any president since the invention of television, replacing Jimmy Carter as the most disappointing president in the “baby boomer” era. He and the Congress of Pelosi and Reid can be credited with ramming their vision of paternalistic “Statism” down the throats of America’s citizens, granted license by the previous Republican controlled Congress whose failings aligned the stars to hand Obama and the Democrats “absolute power”. God bless them all for doing what they have done. For they’re also forcing the hand of that re-emerging patriotic spirit in America through which citizens like Jake Towne and Mathew Benol are answering the call to challenge the failed status quo, and where average “Tea Party” patriots are reviving the spirit of American “exceptionalism”, tied inseparably to the ideals of our nation’s founding roots.