Who’s In Charge….??
Ken Hughes
September 15, 2006
I sometimes wonder who’s calling the shots in Washington there’re so many different agencies, departments, lobbyists, media, unions, etc its hard to know who has the greater power. This country has drifted a long way from the days from Harry Truman who had a sign on his desk in the oval office saying “The Buck Stops Here.” These days it seems the buck never stops it just gets passed around from one to the next in a never ending circle.
The congressional patrician political bickering is getting to the point meaningful legislations isn’t possible, serious issues that need addressing are being pushed to the side in favor of non-issues. I can’t recall a congress so divided as they are this session. It seems their personal animosity is taking president over the nations business.
In 2002 there wasn’t a dry eye in congress weeping over the victims of 9/11 now some five years later it’s hard to find a politician who’ll admit they willingly approved of the war on terror or the invasion of Iraq. The UN is equally complicit in this shell game passing the buck from one to the other while they call for the appeasement of the terrorists. No cause was ever so noble as the concept of a United Nations, somewhere all that good got lost in the politics of its creation.
The United States government has lost its moral courage or so it seems at times. There was a time when this countries elected officials stood for something other than just getting reelected. Men like Harry Truman seem to have been forgotten, and yet we enjoy the fruits of his policies these many years later. Some of the presidents who changed America for the better are the least remembered. Men like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Regan and now George W. Bush. These men made decisions that freed men’s soles, economically, politically and religiously yet they aren’t celebrated among the greats.
As I was reviewing our past presidents for this article I was intrigued by the fact each of these men were maligned by the public at a time they were performing their best works. This says a lot for these men and more for the ingratitude of the public. We seem to be a nation who’s only willing to give up an arm and a leg for freedom after we’ve lost an arm and a leg to despots. As a nation we accuse abuse tolerate and complain only after the genie has escaped from the bottle do we then come together to round up and put the genie back and re-cork the bottle.
Perhaps this is our strength, having so many opinions nothing is able to move rapidly. Having no one and yet every one in charge all at the same time may be what’s kept us free these 200 plus years.
In a very few days we’ll be voting for the leadership of this nation for the next two years. In the past quarter century the candidate has become more important than the party, fewer people vote a straight party ticket than in the past. We’ve gone beyond the smoke filled back room politics of the past now the people have the choice in selecting the candidate. Now if we could just get beyond the party bosses almost dictatorial control of congress we’d be well on the way to a nation of the people by the people and for the people. If each congressman were allowed to vote their conscience without fear of reprisal by the leader’s of congress then we’d know who’s in charge.
The founding father sacrificed their wealth, reputations and their lives to give us a Democratic Republic such as the world had never seen. At the time few believed the average man capable of ruling themselves, even today some 230 years later many still aren’t convinced, while others are willing to risk all to prove people can be in charge of his or her own destiny.
Civilization is engaged in a struggle of ideologies that’s risen to the level of murder and mayhem. Like all the ideologies that have gone before these modern Islamic Crusaders are willing to make any sacrifice, go to any lengths to achieve their stated goals. If we’re to defeat terrorism we must elect politicians who understand the threats of terrorism and are capable of dealing with it if we expect to have any posterity to pass this great nation to.
Let’s pray we vote wisely in November, that we vote for men and women who support the defeat of terrorism not the terrorist apologists who would have us appease a band of murders in the hope of temporary safety. War is neither a crime or immoral in defense of freedom.
We the people must be in charge.
The congressional patrician political bickering is getting to the point meaningful legislations isn’t possible, serious issues that need addressing are being pushed to the side in favor of non-issues. I can’t recall a congress so divided as they are this session. It seems their personal animosity is taking president over the nations business.
In 2002 there wasn’t a dry eye in congress weeping over the victims of 9/11 now some five years later it’s hard to find a politician who’ll admit they willingly approved of the war on terror or the invasion of Iraq. The UN is equally complicit in this shell game passing the buck from one to the other while they call for the appeasement of the terrorists. No cause was ever so noble as the concept of a United Nations, somewhere all that good got lost in the politics of its creation.
The United States government has lost its moral courage or so it seems at times. There was a time when this countries elected officials stood for something other than just getting reelected. Men like Harry Truman seem to have been forgotten, and yet we enjoy the fruits of his policies these many years later. Some of the presidents who changed America for the better are the least remembered. Men like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Regan and now George W. Bush. These men made decisions that freed men’s soles, economically, politically and religiously yet they aren’t celebrated among the greats.
As I was reviewing our past presidents for this article I was intrigued by the fact each of these men were maligned by the public at a time they were performing their best works. This says a lot for these men and more for the ingratitude of the public. We seem to be a nation who’s only willing to give up an arm and a leg for freedom after we’ve lost an arm and a leg to despots. As a nation we accuse abuse tolerate and complain only after the genie has escaped from the bottle do we then come together to round up and put the genie back and re-cork the bottle.
Perhaps this is our strength, having so many opinions nothing is able to move rapidly. Having no one and yet every one in charge all at the same time may be what’s kept us free these 200 plus years.
In a very few days we’ll be voting for the leadership of this nation for the next two years. In the past quarter century the candidate has become more important than the party, fewer people vote a straight party ticket than in the past. We’ve gone beyond the smoke filled back room politics of the past now the people have the choice in selecting the candidate. Now if we could just get beyond the party bosses almost dictatorial control of congress we’d be well on the way to a nation of the people by the people and for the people. If each congressman were allowed to vote their conscience without fear of reprisal by the leader’s of congress then we’d know who’s in charge.
The founding father sacrificed their wealth, reputations and their lives to give us a Democratic Republic such as the world had never seen. At the time few believed the average man capable of ruling themselves, even today some 230 years later many still aren’t convinced, while others are willing to risk all to prove people can be in charge of his or her own destiny.
Civilization is engaged in a struggle of ideologies that’s risen to the level of murder and mayhem. Like all the ideologies that have gone before these modern Islamic Crusaders are willing to make any sacrifice, go to any lengths to achieve their stated goals. If we’re to defeat terrorism we must elect politicians who understand the threats of terrorism and are capable of dealing with it if we expect to have any posterity to pass this great nation to.
Let’s pray we vote wisely in November, that we vote for men and women who support the defeat of terrorism not the terrorist apologists who would have us appease a band of murders in the hope of temporary safety. War is neither a crime or immoral in defense of freedom.
We the people must be in charge.
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