Thin Black Line
Member
I guess we'll have to see what happens in the 2006 mid-term elections,
but I hear a lot of people are fed up with the way things have been
handled by the Executive branch and how the Repubs on the Hill seem
more concerned about towing the party line rather than listening to
their people at home. It will be interesting to see how many of them
will be looking for jobs over the next two years.
My concern, of course, is that this will lead to handing both the Executive
and Legislative branches back to the Dems by 2008. We can then expect
to see a re-vamped attack on the 2A.
It's a sad thing to see how many single-issue conservatives were lulled
into a false sense of temporary security regarding the relaxation of gun
control over the last few years, but in the long run we may have already
lost out on many other issues that are making many Americans justifiably
angry.
We have the newly redubbed "long war" which I can only imagine how
history will look back on our Middle Eastern involvement (btw, I was
deployed to Iraq) and the ever-changing leaking of the truth from the
Executive branch --example: a dozen wire tap cases turned into 1500
that bipassed FISA; foreign take-over of 6 ports turns into 22. And,
all in the meantime, the executive claims sole privilege with a "whatever,
whatever, I do what I want attitude."
Yes, I look at 2008 with fear and loathing.....but we have been warned
of this in the past:
"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded
because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the
parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes. And armies, and
debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the
domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive
is extended. Its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is
multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of
subduing the force of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism
may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud,
growing out of a state of war...and in the degeneracy of manners and
morals, engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the
midst of continual warfare." --James Madison, April 20, 1795 (Works. Vol. 4,
Pp. 491-2)
but I hear a lot of people are fed up with the way things have been
handled by the Executive branch and how the Repubs on the Hill seem
more concerned about towing the party line rather than listening to
their people at home. It will be interesting to see how many of them
will be looking for jobs over the next two years.
My concern, of course, is that this will lead to handing both the Executive
and Legislative branches back to the Dems by 2008. We can then expect
to see a re-vamped attack on the 2A.
It's a sad thing to see how many single-issue conservatives were lulled
into a false sense of temporary security regarding the relaxation of gun
control over the last few years, but in the long run we may have already
lost out on many other issues that are making many Americans justifiably
angry.
We have the newly redubbed "long war" which I can only imagine how
history will look back on our Middle Eastern involvement (btw, I was
deployed to Iraq) and the ever-changing leaking of the truth from the
Executive branch --example: a dozen wire tap cases turned into 1500
that bipassed FISA; foreign take-over of 6 ports turns into 22. And,
all in the meantime, the executive claims sole privilege with a "whatever,
whatever, I do what I want attitude."
Yes, I look at 2008 with fear and loathing.....but we have been warned
of this in the past:
"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded
because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the
parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes. And armies, and
debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the
domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive
is extended. Its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is
multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of
subduing the force of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism
may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud,
growing out of a state of war...and in the degeneracy of manners and
morals, engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the
midst of continual warfare." --James Madison, April 20, 1795 (Works. Vol. 4,
Pp. 491-2)
