In the brief span of one year, we Americans have witnessed the scale of government expand to gross proportions. It is to the point where a rise in GDP due solely to government largesse is ludicrously hailed by state-run media as sound economic growth. We offered no dispute as government gobbled up key segments of the private sector to become the principal source of demand for new services.

Surely America was not always this misguided, was it? Didn’t we, not too long ago, control government and not the other way round?

Much like the mythical Sisyphus, Americans are challenged by a new governmental philosophy; The philosophy of the absurd. We find ourselves devoid of and searching for a government based upon honor, honesty, and integrity.

Unfortunately, we do so whilst weathering a calculated, preconceived statist onslaught that is barren of reverence for American heritage and bereft of spirituality, responsibility, truth, and moral values.

Nation turned upside down

We have all repeatedly witnessed how those who now rule rather than serve have attempted to silence opposition, lock out opposition, ridicule opposition, verbally, financially, and physically attack opposition, foment class and racial strife, and ignore the will and wishes of constituents.

And Obama? Even to many of his former supporters, Obama has proven himself to be narcissistic, petty, bitter, dishonest, and vindictive. But more important are Obama’s seemingly illogical economic and diplomatic evolutions that suggest a hidden ulterior agenda. These are not stellar presidential qualities, nor are they those of any decent person.

America is saddled with an inexperienced, highly enigmatic president who has nevertheless revealed dark, deep-seated personal issues — issues that unflatteringly define his persona and impel his un-American agenda — and the nation is now paying dearly for it.

In one brief year, the American people have been force-fed notions from their own government that were once unthinkable. Debt and dependence are now good, self-reliance now evil. Diversity is good, liberty is evil. Bureaucracies are good for the economy, free market businesses are bad. Central planning is right, personal choice is wrong.

Demands for national sovereignty and lawful immigration are racist. Unprotected borders and distribution of national treasure to illegal aliens are virtuous. There is no such thing as terrorism. Americans don’t deserve what they have earned, created, and produced. America is to blame for the world’s ills. We must take by force from those who produce and give to those who freeload.

And mass murder is understandable and explainable, whereas religious fanaticism is non-existent and therefore impossible — unless one refers to Christianity.

From decency to degeneracy

Throughout all of their filth and all of their muck and all of their lies, we find those of the ruling elite blaming President Bush for every conceivable woe in which they themselves conspired, nurtured, and continue to spawn. And while President Bush must be held accountable for being goaded into indulgent spending and placing too much trust in Congress in the second term, his sins against limited government pale by comparison.

President Bush held the line for America and the West against rogue regimes and religious mass murderers. Despite repeated condemnation, he did not buckle; He honored his oath of office and kept America safe. Who is there today who will hold the line against despotic rule and mass murderers? Who will strive to prevent more mass murder by a religion-crazed terrorist in our own country?

Those who can have no desire; Those who would have no power.

Distinguished journalist David Warren wrote a brief paragraph of President Bush, far different than the volumes of hate-filled pap common to his venomous detractors:

"No matter how he is depicted, the man himself has been honest, thoughtful, courageous, modest — and remarkably free of personal vindictiveness. He has done consistently what he thought right under the circumstances, from a far broader view of those circumstances than his vindictive enemies have acknowledged, or would be able to acknowledge."

But now nothing is normal anymore. It remains to be seen whether normalcy returns to America after its scourging by Obama and the Democrat Congress.

Hype and Chains.