Disdain

Webster defines the word disdain as “to regard as beneath one’s dignity; scorn”.  The attitude and actions of the Democrat Party in these past weeks have given a clear stark real life representation of this definition.  From the President on down to State officials, the Democrat Party has collectively thumbed its nose at the citizens of this Nation.

The President has ordered the review of all deportment cases using the DRAIN, I mean, the DREAM ACT as the criteria for the review.  This is the legislation that was rejected by the majority of legal American citizens and, yes, even a bi-partisan congress.  But this President is above us and above our democracy with its document of “negative liberties”.  Whether the we the people want it or not, we are going to get the DRAIN FACTS, I mean, DREAM ACT shoved right down our throats.

Our Governor has stated emphatically that Maine does want another state park.  Our State Congress issued a statement against a state park.  The people of the second district in an overwhelming majority have rejected a state park. Yet a member of the President’s cabinet, Ken Salazar, has come to Millinocket to circumvent the people and force them to accept a state park.  Senator Doug Thomas asked Mr. Salazar to explain where his invitation to trample State and local authority had come from.  Mr. Salazar replied that he “invited himself”.

Oh, well see, that’s the problem with us little people in the upper serfdom of the 2^nd District, we keep forgetting that having trees, lakes and streams in our backyards is a free license for the Democrat pompous to exercise their pomposity with arrogant impunity.  I’m sorry, Mr. Salazar.  I guess perhaps we should all forget we are citizens of a free nation, that you are a public servant, resign ourselves to bow before you and put your “boot on our necks”.  Sarcasm aside, my true feelings for Secretary Salazar’s scorn of our sovereign rights is not suitable for public discourse in an open forum.

The voters of the second district sent a loud message to the Governor and legislature that they want to have fair and equitable representation.  The Republicans came up with a redistricting plan that puts the 1^st and 2^nd districts within one vote of each other….one vote.  But the Democrats are furious at the thought of the second district receiving fair treatment because, remember, we are just supposed to be a wildlands project.  All is to be swallowed up into the bio-diversity as a sacrifice to mother earth that she might be appeased.  Now if those hicks up in the sticks get an even shake, they might turn their economies around.  People might start to prosper.  The paupers might get all filled up with themselves and lead a revolt.

The Democrats want to “invite themselves” into our lives to control our lives.  In order to achieve their goal, they will ignore the rule of law because they truly believe they are above the law.  In a historical context, this behavior would be considered tyranny.  The Democrats are rabid with power and the only cure is a steady dose of minority.  We the people must continue to block the Democrats from regaining power.  We must marginalize their influence.  Perhaps enough time spent on the sidelines will show Democrats the error of their ways but until then, remember this, there is only one response the Democrats have for the will of the people…disdain.

Liberty’s Progress

            Many years ago, but not so many as Nations go, a group of men with funny wigs and stubborn temperaments established a radical new causeway for a fledgling Nation to embark upon a progress for liberty.  Paved with the words of the Federalist Papers, Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, our Forefathers took the first resolute steps on this experiment called Democracy.  The road was rife with peril and almost immediately our enemies began to build off ramps enticing the unwary towards the regress of European fallacies, the failed government structures to which we had fought so hard and bitterly to be free of.  But under the firm hands of Thomas Jefferson, John and Samuel Adams, George Washington and so many others who were of one mind, this nation was set securely on a progress towards its inevitable emergence as the most powerful Nation on the face of the earth.  Bolstered by its belief in the one true God and bursting with the unfettered talents and futures of its diverse peoples, it seemed the United States would never be diverted from its course of freedom. Soon, it seemed, those Nations calling to it from the swamps of their mediocrity would examine their own failures, wisely choose to follow our example and join us on our way.

But time has a way of clouding the memory and this not so old Nation has allowed the enticements of universal acceptance to shake it from the resolve to be the standard for freedom.  Many of us who should have stood in vigilance are only now realizing the awful intent in those who work to crumble the great progress built by those before us.  It now falls to us to hail those lost in the confusing beltways, that meander off and lead in the dismal directions of the regress, to come back to Liberty’s Progress.

Many there are that would like for this nation to fully embark upon the regress and head back towards the bland grey haze of the inconsequential, forsaking our exceptional call to freedom.  There are many within our ranks.  These we thought perhaps were allies.  They present our greatest danger and bring us to the point of this symbolism.

The Democrats have long traversed the Regress and have been very open about their belief in the strength of government rather than the people.  But the moderate Republicans have been the builders of the off ramps from Liberty’s Progress.  We have seen in our own State how the Moderates have blocked the attempt from Conservatives and the people to return Maine to the Progress.  They have continued to try and mix statutes, which pave the causeways of the European socialist Regress, into the restorative policies our Governor wishes to implement.  These moderates openly campaigned on the fervor of the Tea Party, capitalizing on it.  Now, these politicians have betrayed those who trusted them and there is danger the Republican Party, as a whole, will pay for the misdeeds of a few.

So, I have an admonition to my friends in the Tea Party movement.  The Republican Party on its whole still represents the best opportunity to realize the revolution we seek in Maine.  If we abandon this path now, we will lose all the ground we have gained.  We must use the primary system to punish those who have opposed the Governor and the people.

My secondary admonition is to warn those who choose to challenge these moderates.  Make sure to pick viable stellar candidates with a strong apparatus to support them.  If not, you risk another clumsy, inept campaign such as what we have seen of Scott D’Amboise.  The only mark then left for political history is a mere reference point for non-partisan mockery.  We then do more damage than good.  We must take the next step in the maturation process of making wise decisions of progress rather than of regress.