Where You Gonna Run?
Separation of powers was meant to divide the authority so that a process of checks and balances was created to protect the people from abuses of power. This simple reality makes two things the democrats want you to believe impossible.
All the spending they blamed on George Bush after January of 2007 is spending they had the ability to stop given their complete control of the House—which is part of one of those three branches in the whole “checks and balances” scheme of things, and just happens to be where all the spending lives or dies. But the only check or balance on spending after January 2007 was to override a veto of a 250 plus billion dollars ethanol and green energy handout—twice. (It had two parts).
So the 400 Billion dollar deficit was as much their fault as that of George Bush—where on one of the few occasions Bush actually tried to stop the spending he was overridden by the democrat congress.
The second problem is their running away from the entire Obama agenda, the 1.4 trillion dollar budget, and the addition of 4 trillion in new debt with trillions more already spent on an uncertain future that has crippled growth and stalled hiring. Once again, separation of powers and checks and balances offered the democrats in the House and Senate a chance to object to the course of events, but at no time did they even pretend to be a check on executive power or on each other, except perhaps over who could spend more—and who would take the credit. Only when it occurred to them that they needed to lie about it to get reelected to congress did they suddenly discover that next term—they would act like a check or a balance.
Sorry. That’s not going to work. You deserve full credit.
The current state of affairs is entirely the democrats responsibility. When they were hired to stand guard starting in 2007, instead of acting in the best interests of the nation they plotted a course of destruction to guarantee them the presidency. When they got it they simple embarked on an historical abuse of spending, and a unprecedented misuse of parliamentary advantage to perpetuate debt and deficits solely to expand an overwhelmingly unpopular ideological agenda.
Democrats in congress punted under Bush, blamed him so they could hold power, and punted again under Obama. They became little more than the marketing department for the chief executive. Obama, for his part was simply there to sign the checks. But congress cannot run away from what they have done. They have ignored their obligation to act in the interests of the people before themselves under two separate presidents. Sending them back to Washington, would be (to borrow a quote) return to the same failed policies of the past. Policies that have tripled the debt, ballooned the deficit, and left us stranded at the beginning of a new decade long slide into stagnation and mediocrity.
While there is no guarantee a republican congress will do more than stop the bleeding, we know for certain a democrat one will continue to bleed us dry.
Cross Posted: http://granitegrok.com/blog/2010/09/where_you_gonna_run.html
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