RELIGION or POLITICS ? The Presidency and the Constitution

(For now, I will continue with the writings of US Representative. Mike Pence of Indiana, as presented in the monthly newsletter published by Hillsdale College.)

Happy Sunday, good people, here we go on the continuation from above. Thanks for stopping in.



      It is a tragedy indeed that new generations taking office attribute failures in governance to insufficient power, and seek more of it.  In the judiciary, this has seldom been better expressed than by Justice  Thurgood Marshall, who said "You do what you think is right and let the law catch up."   In the Congress, it presents itself in massive legislation, acts and codes thousands of pages long and so monstrously over complicated that no human can read through them -- much less understand them, much less apply them justly to people  that increasingly feel like they are no longerbeing asked but rather told    Our nation finds itself in the position of a dog whose duty is not to ask why -- because the "why" is too elevated for his nature --  but simply toOBEY.

      The president in not our teacher, our tutor, or ruler.   He does not commmand us;  we command him.   We serve neither him nor his vision. It is not his job or his prerogative to redefine custom, law and beliefs;  to appropreiate industries;  to seize the country as it were, by the shoulders or by the throat so as to impose by force of  theatrical charisma his justice upon 300 million others.  It is neither his job nor his prerogative to shift the power of decision away from them and to him and the acolytes of his choosing.

      Is my characterization of unprecedented presumption incorrect??  Listen to the wordsof the leader of President Obama's transition team and perhaps this mext chief-of-Staff.   "It's important that President elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one."   Or, more recently, the latest presidential appointment to avoid confirmation by the senate -- the new head of the cosumer Financial Protection Bureau --who wrote last Friday:   "President Obama understands the importance of leveling the playing field again."

       "Take power ...rule...leveling."

      Though it is the model now,   this has never been and should never be the model of the presidency or the character of the American president.   No one can say this to strongly, and no one can say it enough until it is remedied.   We are not subjects, we are citizens.   We fought a war so that we do not have to treat even kings like kings, and --if I may remind you -- we won that war.   Since then, the principle of royalty has, in this country, been inoperative.   Who is better suited or more required to exemplify this conviction, in wordd and deed, that the President of the United States??


OK folks, I hope you all will read this carefully and see what is happening in our governmten these days and why it shouldn't be happening.  Bad days ahead.   Keep Alert.       Cheers    CJ