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January 30, 2009
Exclusive: FSM Introduces the Keep the Change™ Award
Ready for hope? Ready for change? Or do you just want to say “fuhgeddaboudit?” FamilySecurityMatters.org is pleased to announce our Keep the Change™ Award, bestowed monthly on deserving recipients who, under the guise of “change,” are really undermining fundamental American values in one or more of the following categories:
· National security
· National sovereignty
· Fiscal responsibility
· Ethics in government
· Education of children – the leaders of tomorrow
· Limited government, as defined by our Founders
· Tarnishing the Constitution
And now, the runners up for January:
SECOND RUNNER UP: Congress, for passing the latest so-called Economic Stimulus bill (it was rejected by all House Republicans and 11 Democrats). A shot in the arm to the economy or simply an excuse to dish up extra juicy pork to special interest groups and pet government projects? You be the judge. The $819 billion whopper includes $1 billion for the federally-run Amtrak train service, which hasn’t turned a profit in 40 years; $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts (perhaps to fund more women smearing foodstuffs all over themselves?); $400 million for global warming research (have our congressmen not been paying attention to the weather lately?); and even $650 million more for digital television conversion coupons. One thing that didn’t make it into the bill was matching funds to all 50 states for contraceptive services. According to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, “family planning services reduce cost.” Meaning that the less people there are, the less people will be clamoring for food stamps and the like. Interesting concept: kind of like saying “have your cake and eat it too.” We must give a hat tip for originality to Ms. Pelosi, though, and admit: this is the first time we’ve heard of reducing costs by eliminating people.
In fact, the stimulus plan is so unstimulating that, according to the Wall Street Journal, roughly only 12 cents out of every dollar is intended for something that can conceivably be considered a growth stimulus or job creator. Unless, of course, you count government growth. After all, someone has to regulate all of the extra bread and circuses being provided for the plebes.
FIRST RUNNER UP: Government representatives once again trying to silence a conservative radio talk show host. In October of 2007, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid penned a letter to the CEO of Clear Channel Radio, which was signed by 41 Democrat senators. The letter asked Mark Mays, Clear Channel’s CEO, to “repudiate” remarks made by Limbaugh on his radio program about “phony soldiers.” Limbaugh neatly turned the tables on them, auctioning the letter on eBay for several million dollars, which was promptly donated to The Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation, a charity which provides financial assistance to the children of fallen Marines and federal law enforcement officers.
Now, the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee (DCC) has launched a petition campaign against Limbaugh because Limbaugh said on the air that he wants President Obama to “fail.” What exactly they hope to accomplish with this petition is unclear. Yet the idea is chilling that the body that is “the official campaign arm of the Democrats in the House” is recruiting signatories to a complaint regarding the remarks of a private citizen exercising his First Amendment rights. There has been quite a bit of talk lately about reinstating the Fairness Doctrine – a move that would likely put conservative radio hosts like Limbaugh out of business. You don’t have to like what Limbaugh says, but all Americans should be concerned when elected government representatives get involved in anything that even remotely smacks of government obstruction of political free speech.
AND THE WINNER OF THE JANUARY KEEP THE CHANGE™ AWARD IS: President Obama, for his first actions in office that erode the security of Americans and that of our allies. Hesigned an executive order to close Guantanamo Bay within a year with no plan in place to deal with the detainees; renounced interrogation techniques such as waterboarding; and most recently, a report that – if true – means the Obama administration is not in a great hurry to implement the promised missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, which is, in effect, a capitulation to Russia.
And Obama’s first official phone call (to Palestinian Authority President Abbas) and first television interview (to an Arab satellite network) could hardly be reassuring to Israel or to those of us in the United States who care deeply about our national security.
What exactly are Americans to make of these early actions less than two weeks into the new administration? It appears that Mr. Obama does not understand the Jihadist enemy whose “ideology does not respond to the political culture of democracy, and that the indoctrinated Jihadists are not impacted by the moral and legal debate within what they see as the sphere of the infidels.”
Americans – and the rest of the world – are waiting to see what Obama does next. If these early actions are any indication, the forecast is not at all a sunny one.
Check back at the end of February for the next winner of the Keep the Change™ Award!
Brought to you by the editors and research staff of FamilySecurityMatters.org.
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