The problem with most Americans is we have extremely short attention spans. Before long we forget our past experiences as we seek convenience and instant gratification. The terror attacks of September 11, 2001 is a perfect example of the incredibly short attention spans we have. Some Americans foolishly believe that 9/11 was the first time America was the victim of a terror attack, as if the previous 3 decades had never taken place. Given this reality it should come as no surprise that we keep turn to the same politicians to "save us" from ourselves.

Today the principle problem is we have two groups of people: Liberal Democrats, who rehash the same failed ideas whenever they get into power and Conservative Republicans who do the same thing. This problem is especially acute when one side gains complete control as the Republicans had for the previous 6 years and as the Democrats do now. The old adage is certainly true: Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This power goes straight to their head and they misinterpret the outcome of these elections as a mandate for their unceasing passion to control as many and as much as possible through governance.

Frankly the last two presidents (Obama and Bush) have been great disappointments. It took me a few years to become completely disgusted with Bush, but Obama surpassed that record, accomplishing the same in only 6 months.It is truly amazing how uninformed the average citizen seems to be. Anyone who thinks either of these parties has an answer for anything is blind or perhaps a fool...what a fool believes.

Both sides seek to concentrate as much power in Washington as is humanly possible, not for anyone's benefit but that of the politician. Both sides have come to view themselves as mythic almost God like figures...our presidents live in mansions with thousands of servants and special anthems and formal titles. Our congressmen and women are inaccessible and view themselves as above the law. Do we have a monarchy and a nobility or is this a republic?

You people defending Obama and the Democrats or the Republicans are sad, when everything they have done, everything they have touched for decades has been a colossal failure. It is only because of the ingenuity of everyday Americans working hard to support their families, starting small business and so forth that this country hasn't already collapsed.

For those who don't know her, Cynthia Tucker is a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist with the Atlanta Journal Constitution. The AJC like many other large newspapers leans to the left (as does Ms Tucker) and has suffered declining readership for some time.

In the mind of Cynthia Tucker, recent grumblings of secession by GOP gubernatorial hopefuls, is treason. In fact such treachery is inspired by no other reason than the election of our nation's first Black president. The racial implications not withstanding, the assertion that only a traitor would embrace the dormant notion of secession is ludicrous. Is Ms. Tucker familiar with the once cherished principle of "consent of the governed" or perhaps she has forgotten the notion of
"self-determination" and long ignored is the concept of "freedom of choice."

Granted these GOP politicians speak more of secession in the hopes of gaining political traction in a period where Republican governance in Georgia has left much to be desired, but in their politicking they have touched on a truism that is no less relevant today than in was when the United States was in its infancy and that truth is the inescapable fact that all people are born free and should be free to choose their government and its leaders.

Our loyalty should NOT be to the United States as an entity but to the ideals this nation supposedly upholds and cherishes. If those ideals were to be abandoned by the nation, who would dare question a person's desire to break free of such tyranny. While no one is arguing that the United States has degenerated into dictatorship it has for some ventured far beyond its desired framework. While some might view the direction our country has taken as necessary and perhaps benevolent, is it no less tyrannical to impel someone's participation when it conflicts with their own sense of freedom. Throughout history there have been many nations who have, at the point of the sword (and later the gun) forced people to live under their rule, regardless of their consent, nations like the Soviet Union and Cuba come to mind. And that
is indeed tyranny.

Is it treason to want to choose your own path if you feel the choices of others are not to your liking, is it treason to believe as John Locke did that a government lacks legitimacy without the consent of the governed? Is it treason to resist having someone else's will imposed upon you? if it is, then one must remember the immortal words of Patrick Henry: "...if this be treason, make the most of it."


Links:
http://www.ajc.com/services/content/printedition/2009/05/27/tucked0527.html

Justice David Souter has announced has announced his retirement from the US Supreme Court at the end of the 2008-09 term. For those who cherish freedom and abhor government intrusion, Souter decision must be looked upon with bitter sweet as his replacement is likely to be an even greater enemy of our Constitution. And while our Constitution was supposed to be the foundation upon which our federalist system would rest, it has become nothing more than a sandy plain, ignored whenever it is convenient.

The illustrious Barack Obama is sure to replace Souter with someone who will continue the courts recent trend of citing foreign court decisions and using "contemporary" standards, when weighing court actions, rather than using the Constitution itself as the pillar of our representative government.

Indeed, media reports have heaped praise upon Souter, citing his independence and his being a champion of the rule of law. Such prognostications are inaccurate. Souter has also been equally vilified and cheered for decisions rendered on school prayer and abortion. If these are the issues conservatives find so abhorrent about Souter then it should come as no surprise that the GOP is on the outs. School prayer, for example is the non-issue of this or any other century.

Clearly, public schools should not be a place for religious instruction or prayer, at least insofar as when it is organized by school representatives, who in turn are representatives of the government, a clear violation of the establishment clause in the first amendment. No this is not a decision that Souter should be remembered for or vilified. Souter should be remembered for the outrageous Supreme Court decision in the case of Kelo vs. New London, in that case the court declared Constitutional the act of seizing private property (under eminent domain) and giving that property to other private citizens as a means to boost tax revenue, citing the public use clause found in the fifth amendment. On that day the principal of private property (all ready on shaky ground by the mere existence of eminent domain statutes and property tax schemes) became virtually non-existent.

Under the Obama presidency when can expect the replacements for Ginsburg and Stevens to follow the same anti-constitutional track as they increase the power of an already intrusive federal government at the expense of the states. Indeed, the irony is practically unfathomable, considering that it is often reported that Obama was a professor of Constitutional law, what nonsense, Obama has made a career of ignoring said document, perhaps that was what he taught and now with Souter's announcement we have heard repeatedly that Souter is a scholar of Constitutional history, for what purpose, so he would have a better understanding of what to disregard.

Links
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/SCOTUS/story?id=7483045&page=1

Several years ago, the Phalanx offered up its own strategy for turning around the ailing General Motors, unfortunately for the boys in Detroit, our advice was ignored until now...lets hope GM can learn its lesson before the entire company is no more...

Previous Entry:
GM's turnaround plan Phalanx style
http://www.thephalanx.com/2006/04/gms-turnaround-planphalanx-style.html

The Swine Flu has presented itself as a major test for the administration in Washington. No it's not 1975 and the inept Ford administration, it's 2009 and the grossly inept Obama administration.

Here we have yet another test of President Obama's leadership team and once again the failures are glaring.

This far thousands of cases of Swine Flu have been reported in Mexico and well over 5% of those have died, yet Obama's crisis team has failed to take decisive action. For a man who firmly believes in government intervention in almost every aspect of society it is truly perplexing that Obama has failed to intervene where it is entirely Cobstitutional and appropriate.

One need only ask the president why appropriate precautionary steps aren't being taken. Why are tracelers from Mexico not being screened? Why does the border remain open? If ever there were a time to secure our extremely porous border this is it, but alas the savior of our republic has proven yet again that he is nothing more than the key to our undoing.

Actress and part-time political Janeane Garofalo has weighed on the recent tax day protests that occurred across the United States. According to Garofalo the protests had nothing to do with Obama's tax policies or out of control Congressional spending, nor is it an objective to Obama's state-centric policies, no if you were a participant in the recent tax day "Tea Parties" you are nothing more than a "racist" and a "red-neck." Those participants were only there because a black man was in the White House and for no other reason, presumably we can also conclude that she would assert that anyone voting against Obama is also a racist. One must therefore ask whether the same people who have opposed white leftists (such as the frighteningly left of center, Jhn Kerry) are also racists?

Such intelligent discourse demonstrates the ordeal of modern day leftist. Rather than engage in an actual dialogue on policy, Garofalo like many leftist resorts to dismissive name calling, the likes of which would make hardened fascists like Joesph Goebbels proud.

Perhaps even most ironic is the realization that Garofalo's prognostication on racist protesters was racist in and of itself. Garofalo asserted that any black person attending the recent Tea Parties must be suffering from Stockholm Syndrome, in other words no black person in their right mind could possibly oppose another black person, and therefore must be somehow brainwashed. After-all all blacks surely must think a like, they all watch the same movies and television programs, they all listen to the same music, they all share the same values and beliefs and they all share the same political views. The unbelievable bigotry of Garofalo's statement is beyond the pale, but in no way surprising.

We must bear in mind that the true bigots are the American left and their paternalistic attitude to minorities and other groups, a mind set more akin to the slave masters of yore who asserted that they were acting in he best interests of their slaves, that they and they alone knew best. Garofalo's intellectually dishonest bigoted tirade only further illustrates this mindset.

Links:
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/04/17/janeane-garafalo-says-tea-parties-were-for-rednecks/

Other relevant posts:
http://www.thephalanx.com/2008/10/not-this-time.html
http://www.thephalanx.com/2005/10/democrats-show-their-true-colors-or.html
http://www.thephalanx.com/2005/11/racial-hypocrisy-of-left-in-maryland.html

The S word is on the minds of many politicos today and well it should be. Texas Governor Rick Perry has suggested that Texas could once again become the Republic of Texas and perhaps they should and perhaps any other state that truly cherished the freedom our national government abhors.

Loyalty to country is a wonderful thing but first our first loyalty should be to life, liberty and property, two of which (if not all) are under assault in Obama's America. If our nation is no longer willing to secure the blessings of liberty to which we are all entitled, if our nation no longer embraces the Renaissance concept of consent of the governed then what ate we truly being loyal to? Our country may already be no more, replaced by tyranny disguised as representative government, one where dissent is ridiculed and ignored, one where the interests of elites are cherished and everyday citizens are trampled.

We are living in what may well be the twilight of our union and if it be so then hurrah for secession and disunion our last best hope for liberty.

Links:
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/gen/ap/TX_Perry_Tea_Party.html
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97JO2700&show_article=1

If someone were forced to describe President Barack Obama using ten words or less, an objective person might very well use the following terms to describe Obama and his train wreck of a presidency.

1. vacillating
2. weak
3. indecisive
4. underwhelming
5. arrogant
6. perfunctory
7. self-absorbed
8. ill-prepared
9. adulation-obsessed
10. irresolute

This has been apparent in virtually all of his dealings and now let the world witness the colossal embarrassment that is the open act of piracy on the high seas, the first such attack on America shipping since the Barbary Wars, 200 years earlier. Indeed, presidents Jefferson and Madison were far more decisive in their actions, from a relative position of weakness than Obama has been from a position of strength, thus inviting yet more aggression. There can be no doubt that these pirates can read the writing on the wall, and clearly recognize that they only stand to gain by attack Americans so long as Barack Obama is in the White House.

Over the next four years we can expect such brazen aggression against the United States to continue as our new found weakness is readily apparent to anyone who witnesses the humiliating stature of our new president.

Links:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/04/10/somalia.u.s.ship/index.html

According to Vice President [sic] Joe Biden, the millionaire who gave a few hundred to charity in the past year and who says we should all pay more in taxes as our patriotic duty, has given the eager public yet another pearl of wisdom.

According to Biden, America is safer today than at any point during the past 8 years. Biden was responding to criticism from former VP Dick Cheney, who asserted the truism of the current threat facing the US.

Biden, however, thinks Team Obama has worked to secure American security. Based on what? By what measure is the US safer? Regardless of what you may think of President Bush, and his many obvious short comings, no one in their right mind can utter such drivel as to argue that Obama has made America a safer place.

There is absolutely NOTHING Obama has done to further American security. He has koetowed to tyrants across the globe. He has offered to appease Iran and looked the other way as North Korea has launched yet another missile threatening the Pacific. He has moved to gut various defense systems and yet Joe Biden has the audacity to lie to the face of the American people that we are somehow safer.

History has shown us repeatedly that appeasement to tyrants invited aggression and that is all Obama has given us. Everyone who has played a role in electing this man has placed this country in great danger.

Does anyone in his right mind truly believe that President Obama has the intelligence, the skill and common sense to administer our Republic.

What sense does it make to attack with impunity every single industry that has been an engine of job growth in America. With each passing day the incompetent Obama Administration proposed yet another tax. The president's fascist regime has called for tax policies that discourage charitable giving. They have proposed taxing employer health benefits. They have proposed new taxes on small businesses. They have called for more taxes cellular phones. They have called for new penalitirs on the rapidly fading auto industry. They have pushed for new oil and gas taxes. And with each day the list grows longer.

This president, who promised hope has delivered only dispair. His every utterance causes the nation's stock markets to tumble yet Obama and company respond only with contempt, likening the stock market to some type of tracking poll. His aides declare that Obama's top priority are not the folks on Wall Street, but it's the nations middle class that is being destroyed by market girations.

Everyone who voted for this disgrace of a president should be ashamed.