or, Following in the Grand Tradition of LBJ and Jimmy Carter

It is instructive reading about Tea Party events held nationally April 15. You get a firm sense of what government officials and members of the ruling class really think about average Americans.

According to estimates people in 1,200 to 2,000 towns and cities participated, numbering anywhere from 400,000 to 800,000. Judging from appearances those in attendance tended to be working and middle class, families, youth, middle aged and seniors, traditionalists and conservative, but including anyone fearful about massive federal spending and debt and taxation and threats to liberty.

Noting developments in the last six months alone, people have cause for grave concern.

By any sober assessment, the Tea Parties represent a genuine grassroots movement of average people protesting the tax and spend habits of a too-powerful central government threatening liberty itself.

However, according to the assorted genius-elites on the Left and in the MSM, those of us participating in these Tea Parties are either dupes of wealthy Republicans, blue collar morons, right-wing nut jobs, white separatists, gun freaks, religious trolls, myopic anti-abortionists, or hate-filled bigoted homophobes and racists. (You folks just keep talkin’. That’s what yer good at.)

Translation: according to the elite in the ruling class, it is a sin to even question the Supreme Leader, and, we commit the unforgiveable sin actively opposing him. Don’t we know he WON! (Yes, by hook and crook.) Who besides Soros drew down massive amounts of cash in September 2008?

Besides Soros, one of the President’s all-time favorites is Janet Napolitano.

Napolitano’s Department of Homeland Security “intelligence” assessors noted potential security threats coming from conservatives and “single-issue activists.” Her recent report was pure speculation but it’s being read as gospel nonetheless. Her staff also lumped in returning American war vets as possible threats to this administration, leftist regimes in various layers of government, and the very security of the nation they fought to defend. Napolitano has rapidly become the Director of Homeland Disunity.

David Axlegrease, correction, Axelrod — the President’s senior advisor and continuous campaign director, says Tea Parties are “unhealthy.” Axelrod said Sunday he is bewildered we don’t appreciate the President has cut taxes for 95% of working families. Don’t we know the President is on our side?

Mr. Axelrod, we are not bewildered. We realize you think we are so stupid we’ll buy this bilge your President is cutting taxes. We know most people he is talking about don’t pay taxes. We know that what he is doing is cutting checks to pay non-taxpayers for votes, thus increasing entitlements, spending and debt, on our backs, asking us to thank him for it.

Mr. Axelrod, that is what we call truly “unhealthy.” We know it’s all political, Mr. Axelrod: it’s all about power and agendas. You are a political animal, Mr. Axelrod. We see your stripes.

The truth is the Supreme Leader has proposed $5 Trillion in new spending during a deep recession when we face $60 Trillion in long-term debt. He is proposing $1.5 Trillion in new taxes.

We can do the math, Mr. Axelrod. This is a prescription for bankruptcy no matter who the President and Congress target for “aggressive revenue enhancement techniques.” There are those who hear HRC and Rahm sing the praises of leveraged crises and conclude this administration is glad to encourage economic crises, providing itself opportunity to centralize power and control. Why else would Obama make it virtually impossible for banks to repay TARP money?

Let’s not forget it was the economic downturn that gave Obama the needed shot in the arm to overcome both HRC and McCain.

Obama’s approval ratings have fallen steadily since the inauguration, while distrust, division and opposition have steadily increased.

Even so, James Carville, democrat strategist/elitist operative, calls the Tea Parties, “harmless.” (Arrogance, James. Remember the proverb: pride cometh before the fall!) The bald eagle of the ruling class actually thinks Tea Parties hurt Republicans. You wish, James.

Speaking of arrogance, our President doesn’t seem to care a whole lot about what average Americans think.

His first two executive orders flew straight in the face of majority sentiment: renewing taxpayer funding of abortion abroad, and closing Gitmo. He soon followed up by releasing terrorists who will kill again, and by releasing memos detailing our secret interrogation and intelligence gathering techniques, thus aiding the enemy, and giving weapons to those who seek to shame America with more slander and propaganda worldwide.

So, people, this President doesn’t give a hoot what you think. He is content to lick the boots of those who hate us.

Notice, however, we do have the President’s attention.

The day before the Tea Parties, he made a point of calling a press conference to assure us he is a fiscal conservative, only interested in a balanced federal budget, low taxes, cutting wasteful spending and deficits, and returning the nation to solvency. “Cutting wasteful spending” is the latest cluck du jour.

People gagged, perceiving the bold-faced lie, knowing he has doubled the debt and the size of the central government in only three months, biting huge chunks out of the private sector, concentrating even more power in DC.

The day of the Tea Parties the President again held a press conference, trotting out supposed average Americans supportive of his “tax cuts.” People gagged again, prepared placards, and hit the streets.

In the days following, we saw the President leave the country, repeating his Euro performance, telling the world from Mexico that once again, America is the problem: Americans are at fault for drug wars and border violence because we use drugs and sell guns. Did you perceive the undertone as well: we are racist for opposing amnesty? Recall he told the Europeans we are to blame for the global recession, asking them to join him in massive government spending, and they, “respectfully” declined, denying also his request for more troops in Afghanistan. And so, the President’s European tour was a substantive failure but a symbolic triumph. Returning from Europe with nothing, the President rapidly went to work assuring Americans we are turning the corner on the recession, when only days before, he sounded the alarm saying we were headed for long dark days of deprivation. Oh, and by the way, according to the President, Americans are also to blame for the ills in Mexico, Central and South America. He returns again in failure shrouded by symbolic triumph.

People are gagging and preparing for the next Tea Party.

Just for your information, Mr. President, we do not supply 90% of the guns to drug cartels: a proven fact you conveniently ignore as you slander your own people.

Furthermore, Mr. President, you’ll find very few drug users among the 49% who voted for McCain or among the people in the streets on April 15.

Most of the drug users voted for you, if they could drag themselves to the polls, or get a lift from ACORN bus drivers.

Lately, Mr. President, we’ve seen you smiling at and shaking hands with the likes of Castro, Chavez and Ortega. Mr. President, for being one of the smartest guys on the planet, you don’t seem to understand that average Americans take a dim view of you having parties with murderous dictators and taking notes as they drool anti-American vitriol, especially in the wake of your performance bowing and scraping in the presence of King Abdullah.

You may think Axelrod calling us “unhealthy” provides cover but we are not “harmless,” and we are not stupid, Mr. President.

Even so, we urge you and your friends in Congress to keep on keeping on. The more you express your disdain for us, and the more you forward your agenda and embarrass and slander us overseas, the more our ranks swell, promising good things come November 2010, looking forward to 2012.

We pray you follow in the grand traditions of LBJ and Jimmy Carter: out-of-touch failures limited to one-term disasters.

See you at the next Tea Party, average Americans!

Growing numbers of Americans appear to believe the federal government is out of control, and has been for years. Facing $60 Trillion in long term debt, this government now suggests $5 Trillion in new spending. That is more than out of control. That is insane.

More and more people are increasingly vocal about government abuse of power and wasteful spending. Many believe most politicians are drunk with power and addicted to spending our money.

Therefore, there is a need for an intervention.

Government spending and tax increases to solve the problem of recession have never worked. Yet, this is precisely what we are told to embrace. Common sense tells us the fix is in. We have no say in the matter. Is the Chairman of the Federal Reserve elected? Does he represent the people? Is the Treasury Secretary elected? Does he represent the people or is he more concerned about the bankers?

When the President calls it a tax cut to issue payments to people who don’t pay taxes, it is beyond irrational.

When Congress claims to embrace fiscal responsibility and economic freedom, and then they double our indebtedness and the size of government while destroying economic freedom, they have ushered in a spin zone bearing no resemblance to reality. Congress appears so addicted to stealing and lying, they aren’t even trying to cover their tracks anymore.

We know the major fault for the economic crisis lies with government. Government spends too much money. Government fails to regulate properly. Government intervened in the mortgage business, creating these toxic ‘assets’, the credit crunch, and the overall downward spiral. And now we think Government spending, regulation, intervention and confiscation are solutions?

We are called upon to believe that being in debt to China is not a threat. We are told not to worry about hyperinflation or devaluation of the currency while the government prints money like toilet paper, which is what it will be worth shortly. We are told to sleep peacefully, Uncle Sam will solve the debt problem. It may take generations, but rest easy.

It is all truly outrageous. Government officials insist we believe lies.

The few in power in Washington have decided to dictate to the people. This is the exact opposite of what the Constitution calls for: government of The People. In America today, 536 people in DC dictate to the 304,000,000 citizens across the land. Those 536 should be taking orders from us, yet they ignore us, take our money and our freedom, and insist we be content with that, and if we object, DHS calls us threats, radicals, terrorists.

It is much easier to justify a dictatorship when you 1) create or promote various crises, and 2) suggest only government can address serial crises. Those in power have no confidence in the people, you know, the ones who actually create prosperity and fight the nation’s battles. No. Only government can solve problems.

Although government has been out of control for years, notice in the short term the many crises we’ve been warned about daily: economic recession/depression, global warming, Mexican drug wars, enemies within, Somali pirates without, North Korean missiles, Iranian nukes, crumbling infrastructure, energy crisis, healthcare crisis, crises in education, racial tensions, and on, and on.

The only solution? Bigger government taking a bigger share of your resources to do what exactly? They don’t know where hundreds of billions of TARP dollars have gone. As the ’stimulus’ dollars flow, is anyone confident your federal government will spend wisely, or if they do, that the spending will actually create jobs or provide economic development?

Bare-boned truths: government does not create prosperity, government hinders prosperity; government does not create jobs, government creates dependency; government does not expand freedom and opportunity, it crushes them.

Notice the political blitzkrieg: massive information overload, legislative initiatives, executive orders, scare tactics, emergency measures. This government is trying to accomplish everything at once. There is no planning, no procedure, no systematic approach to problem identification/solution. There is only a wild spending spree and the accompanying concentration of power in Washington.

It is the essence of Americanism to be suspicious of power, especially centralized power. Our reaction has always been to confront such power and get it under control.

Hence, we saw this week about 500,000 people nationally attending protest rallies called TEA Parties. These TEA Parties reference the Boston Tea Party in 1773, an event credited with sparking the American Revolution. One central theme of the present-day movement is protesting high taxes. However, there is much more going on in the hearts and minds of your fellow citizens.

Our local demonstrators talked about insurmountable debt run up by the feds, and how unfair that is to future generations. Indeed, it is immoral for our elected representatives to ignore us and run up this kind of debt.

Other people talked about the power of the central government, power so great, officials have the audacity to suggest such things as gun control, infringements on freedom of religion, freedom of speech and economic freedom, the audacity to recommend we let the Europeans regulate private American businesses, the audacity to suggest the President manage the internet and access private data ‘in an emergency,’ the audacity to suggest DHS spy on citizens and veterans based only on their political beliefs, the audacity to force doctors to perform abortions against their will, the audacity to use your tax dollars to pay for abortions overseas, the audacity to take over private business and dictate who gets hired, who gets fired, and what people can and cannot earn. And the audacity to tax you to send more to the United Nations, a thoroughly anti-American organization.

The issue is much larger than taxes. It is much more than the national debt, deficits and wasteful spending. It goes far beyond partisan politics.

The issue is liberty.

Be forewarned: your individual freedom is at risk. A government arrogant enough to believe it can get away with commandeering private enterprise can rapidly turn the corner from economic freedom to centralized control, is arrogant enough to tell you where you can live, where you can work, what you can earn, and place limits on what you can say and think. It is a government arrogant enough to make public service mandatory, arrogant enough to take your children and force them into labor camps.

Hyperbole?

Consider only one aspect of the present agenda. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) is fast-tracking hate crimes legislation. The President says he will sign it into law. Congress passed it before. Congress will surely pass it now. Bush vetoed it. When it becomes law, if you speak your mind in opposition to gay marriage, you will be prosecuted. If you speak your concerns about threats posed by radical Islam, you could be prosecuted. As a pastor, if you preach about the immorality of homosexuality, you will be prosecuted. Abortion protestors will be prosecuted.

The Deptartment of Homeland Security, an arm of the Executive, already thinks you are a security risk if you oppose abortion, gun control and illegal immigration. Read the news.

The issue is liberty.

The Founders knew small government was the only way for freedom to ring, and that conversely, large government ensures the death of freedom. We must choose. Are you willing to sell your freedom, and thereby denigrate our Constitution, and renounce the sacrificial blood of patriots spilled for 233 years?

If you love freedom, join us in this national intervention, to secure the blessings of liberty, and to make this once again a land governed by The People.

Otherwise, get comfortable with the collective, and embrace your worker bee status. Just don’t complain about the loss of liberty you refused to protect.