Come November, We Must Restore Representative Government If Nothing Else |
By CFIF Staff
Thursday, March 25 2010 |
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who currently commands a stunning 11 percent approval rating, said this week, “...I haven’t any intention of losing the Democratic majority. It’s too important to the country...” She went on to more or less declare herself the saleslady-in-chief for that majority. Having just sold political suicide to a sizable number of her Democratic members and been told that she’s the most powerful woman who ever lived, she undoubtedly believes her own stuff. (That’s not the terminology used by political consultants, but we’re trying to avoid Joe Biden moments here.) To the American people, that is going to be one tough sell. When taxes, deficits, bailouts, government takeover of health care, corruption and other abuses by our current government are the product, the pitch is lie stacked upon statist fantasy and the spokeswoman is as popular as plague, then her power should be fleeting, particularly when its only evidence is the ability to herd several hundred confused sheep directly against the prevailing political character of this country. The American people are smarter than Nancy Pelosi. Far more important, they value their freedom and their country’s future more than Pelosi’s majority that seems dead set on taking the former and destroying the latter. The November 2010 Midterm Elections are a scant seven months away. Mistakes must be corrected; accidents fixed; balance restored. Principle and policy and values guide most voters. But in the 2010 elections, particularly for the House, the core issue of representative government itself looms large as perhaps the most critical consideration. Poll after poll after poll have shown the unpopularity of legislative initiatives this year, from the bailouts of Wall Street and Detroit, through the stimulus and raising the country’s debt ceiling to almost incomprehensible amounts to the debacle that is ObamaCare. Yet vote after vote after vote have forced all of those down our throats, and others, equally unpopular, stand in the queue, waiting their turn before Mistress Nancy’s whip. We oppose litmus tests and seeking absolute purity from politicians is doomed to periodic disappointment. It is, however, absolutely right and proper – and for this election necessary – to demand that those we elect to the House of Representatives have a comprehensive, direct and unequivocal understanding of what we mean by represent. We mean represent the voters of a district, not represent the policies of Nancy Pelosi. Reread her statement above: “I haven’t any intention of losing the Democratic majority.” She means that, exactly as stated, “I” emphasized, because as of right now it is her majority. It’s her power or yours, but it’s still your choice to make and the November elections present the best, perhaps the last, chance you will get to exercise that choice before it’s too late. |
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