Edmund Burke

It's funny how Edmund Burke anticipated the Occupy movement, and its support by the Democrat party, by over 200 years:

The plunder of the few would indeed give but a share inconceivably small in the distribution to the many. But the many are not capable of making this calculation ; and those who lead them to rapine never intend this distribution.

Reflections on the Revolution in France, page 55.

(There have been several earlier passages in this book that have been evocative of current events, but none more so than this.)

Pray To End Abortion

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

I said in an earlier post that, “[r]ather than discard it, we should seek to strive for the ideal.” Thus,  Republicans, after first having sought to end slavery, seek now to end abortion. Meanwhile, the Democrats, after first having been the party of slavery, are now the party of abortion.

And yet the Democrats, in their guilt, must over-compensate—in the case of slavery, with the doctrine of Affirmative Action, which does nothing but to perpetuate what President Bush has called “the soft bigotry of low expectations,” and in the case of abortion, with the push to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child, requiring countries to “act in the best interest of the child” (an irony considering that they see no rights for the unborn).

The right to life enshrined in the Declaration of Independence should extend to the unborn; adults have a responsibility to defend the defenseless.

A Primary-Season Poem

With all that Barack & the Democrats have done,
A Republican campaign should be smooth sailin';
But if Rom-i-ney is the nominee,
I'm writing in Sarah Palin.

Do nothing.

I would much rather have a “do nothing” Congress than a repeat of the Pelosi-Obama-Reid Congress of 2008–2010.

Miscalculation

The Democrats are like Wile E. Coyote in the old Road Runner cartoon where Wile, after accidentally shrinking himself, finally catches the Road Runner and then asks what he’s supposed to do with such a (relatively) large bird.

The Democrats engineered anti-war sentiment to turn the country against the Republican party, starting in 2003; while George W. Bush still won the 2004 presidential election, the Democrat party was the winner both in 2006 and in 2008.

Now that they’ve won, though, they have no idea what they’re supposed to do with the two wars they inherited—and, for some reason, the anti-war sentiment has all but dried up.

Do you think that maybe it was all a political calculation?

Fine. They’re your wars now, Democrats.

Just Asking II

So what happens once the Democrats in Congress realize that they've already blown their chances for reelection, no matter what they do over the next eight months? What kinds of mischief could they cause? Talk about the nuclear option….

Unintended Consequences(?)

Why are all the Democrats’ programs anti-family? Why do the Democrats insist on programs like child care tax credits? Why don’t the Democrats ever stump for programs that support the traditional family, where the mom wants to stay home and take care of the children herself rather than send them to daycare? Why is the Democrat vision of a family one in which both parents work outside the home? Why is the Democrat vision of a family one in which there is only one parent?

Two Minutes Hate

George W. Bush is the Democrat party’s Emmanuel Goldstein. Barack Obama ran against George W. Bush in the 2008 presidential election. Martha Coakley is running against George W. Bush in the 2010 Massachusetts special election. The Democrat party plans to run against George W. Bush in the 2010 off-year House and Senate elections.

Independence Day

I read an article lately describing how some Blacks in America do not feel any particular affinity for the Independence Day holiday, the celebration of a document asserting the rights of all men to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness that was written by Thomas Jefferson, a slave owner and the first President from what would become the modern Democratic Party.

I suppose that, for Blacks, another choice for Independence Day could be Juneteeth, the commemoration of the date when slaves in Texas learned that, as a result of a second internecine conflict, they had been freed by Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president.

LBJ may have signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but it took a Republican-controlled Congress to pass it.

How is it, then, that the Democratic Party can claim to be the party of Blacks in America?