Anarchist or Patriot?

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid recently referred to the Tea Party as “anarchists” and “obstructionists.”  I find it humorous that Reid would refer to anyone as obstructionist, since he has prevented the Senate from passing a budget since April, 2009.  In 2011, Senator Reid declared it would be "foolish for us to do a budget." (Wall Street Journal, October 30, 2012)

The current government shutdown and debt crisis will likely be blamed on the Republicans because they have voted for legislation that would delay or defund the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare), but I don’t think they are the real culprits.  After the US House of Representatives passed continuing resolution legislation, Harry Reid announced that “We are not going to negotiate” on this legislation and stressed that the Democrats and President Obama “are not going to be bullied.” (CNSnews.com, September 30, 2013).

Harry is an obstructionist, but that’s only part of the story.  Harry also stated in his speech in the Senate that “Today, the Republican Party has been infected by a small but destructive faction that would rather tear down the House our Founders built than govern from it.”   I find it interesting that Harry would invoke the memory of the Founding Fathers, when Harry and his party act more like those that the Founding Fathers rebelled against.

The Democrats forced Obamacare through both the House and Senate. Then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi stated, “But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.”  Once it was passed, Obama proceeded to waive compliance with the ACA law for certain groups.  In other words, Obama decided who must comply with the law and who is exempt from the law.

Additionally, when the state of Arizona passed legislation to curtail illegal immigration, Obama’s Department of Justice sued the state in federal court.  Furthermore, Obama issued a directive to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials not to enforce immigration laws in cases where an illegal alien is the primary provider for any minor child—regardless of the child’s immigration status—or the parent or guardian of a child who is a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident. (WashingtonExaminer.com, September 16, 2013).  Failing to uphold or enforce the laws of the United States is a violation of the Presidential Oath of Office as mandated by Article two, Section one, Clause eight of the US Constitution.

When our Founding Fathers broke ties with Great Britain, they wrote the Declaration of Independence to enumerate their grievances against the Crown and legitimize their rebellion in the eyes of the world. Many of their grievances against King George hold true today against Obama and his Democratic party.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

Our Founding Fathers wrote, “But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

I checked my dictionary and the definition of anarchist is “a person who seeks to overturn by violence all constituted forms and institutions of society and government, with no purpose of establishing any other system of order in the place of that destroyed.”  Those of us who want a smaller government, fewer taxes, less debt, and a more responsive government that abides by the US Constitution aren’t advocating an overthrow of the government.  We aren’t anarchists, we are patriots.  All we want is what our Founding Fathers fought for 237 years ago, a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

Through Harry Reid, some members of the Democratic Party and our President, we are enduring “a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism”.  It is time to throw off such government by voting Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Obama and their cronies out of office.  It’s time to make it a government of the people, by the people, and for the people again.