Our life at worst would just be a silly comedy if Congressman Barney Frank and Vice President Joe Biden and their fellow chaps in Washington, D.C. were mere buffoons.
Unfortunately we are not talking about a Bud Abbott and Lou Costello burlesque act. We are talking about those who use debt, fear, greed, class warfare, and political harlotry to procure political domination. A political deception not seen in an industrialized nation since the moral and financial collapse of the German Republic and eventual rise of Adolf Hitler.
In the very early 1900s, Germany was Europe’s great economic and industrial success story unequaled in Europe. In little more than a generation, this financial and industrial powerhouse was morally and financial bankrupt. That is where the Barneys and Joes operating in Washington, D.C’s moral vacuum are taking us—if not stopped.
How do we end up with such leaders? It is often said we get the leaders we deserve. I pray not—particularly Barney.
Once considered the poster boy for immoral Congressional buffoons, the rumpled and plump Barney Frank is now the senior leading light—not too bright a bulb at best—in Congresses’ push to enact President Obama’s divide-the-wealth and other national socialist policies. Barney, whose lover Stephen L. Gobie once ran a gay prostitution ring out of the Congressman’s home, is now House Financial Services Committee Chairman. Barney’s committee oversees the financial services industry—including banking, housing, insurance, and securities.
Oh yes, although he denies it now, it was Barney who led the fight to force banks to lend to unqualified low-income would be homeowners. The result, a housing bubble and burst, near collapse of financial markets, and several trillion more in debt for the American taxpayer. And now Barney is in charge of the show.
So, if you are looking for someone to lead America into moral and financial bankruptcy, Barney is the poster boy. For comedy at home and abroad we have our own Number One Blunder in Chief.
Vice President Joe Biden is a man well known for his public comments. In one of his 2009 exceptional statements, Joe claimed President Roosevelt went on TV during the 1929 stock market crash to address and reassure the public. Even Barney knew that was dumb—I hope. But then our Joe is known worldwide for his inaccurate and outlandish, if not dumb, comments.
Roosevelt of course was not President in 1929. We were decades away from national TV. Roosevelt’s historic six-and-a-half minute address to Congress in 1942 regarding Japan’s December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor and the start of World War Two was televised, but not his image. Instead, an image of an American flag was shown. Even then, there were only about two thousand TV sets in the U.S.
As I said, how do we end up with such leaders? If only Joe and Barney did not represent the majority of Washington, D.C.’s policy makers, but they do. Worse yet, Washington, D.C. is more than America’s center of corrupted buffoonery. It is now the center of an arrogant and disconnected federal government.
Worshiping their own wisdom, House and Senate members seek to rule every aspect of our life, including nationalization of energy, education, health care, and financial institutions. And we are left with trillions of dollars in government spending and trillions of dollars of additional debt, and thousands of pages of strangling laws, rules, and regulations.
"It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged."
____ G.K. Chesterton, The Cleveland Press, 3/1/21
Perhaps a wee bit strong, even if said tongue in cheek—I think. Many in Washington, D.C., however, no longer consider themselves our public servants but our masters.
There is good news. Middle America is awakening. And it is not too late to reverse our national descent into carnal morality and financial chaos. There is still time. The carnal citizens of Nineveh were given only forty days to repent or be overthrown. Repent they did and saved themselves from destruction.
"The people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them."
Just holding down a place on a pew Sunday and going about our secular life the rest of the week has not and will not stop our slide into collectivism. It will take intercessory prayer on the part of those who support Judeo-Christian values—and political action by those called to do so.
The fate of our culture is in our hands. We have a choice: the America of Biblical standards and moral absolutes, the Judeo-Christian values that made America a strong, prosperous, and generous. Or we can be sucked into the moral vacuum of secular national socialism being formulated and imposed by the Barney and Joes in Washington, D.C.
Middle America’s failure in the past to stand up and call to account the Barneys and Joes has resulted in the enemies of Judeo-Christian thought and values to capture and control Washington D.C.. But, be as it may be, if we wish to see a change, we must sincerely pray for all our elected leaders and appointed officials—all.
We can stand up and speak out or we can surrender to further moral collapse, increasing financial chaos, and eventual tyranny.
It is not too late. Be Informed Be Involved ______ Michael E. Odell
What can you do? For six proven action steps go to Blog Archive at upper right, click on May-11-08, "But What Can I Do?" Pick yours.
Write your Senators and Representative in Washington, D.C. Tell them: No to government sanctioned envy, greed, and sexual immorality. No to political correctness and its special treatment of sexual deviates and other special classes. Yes to supporting self discipline and personal responsibility.
You may follow this format:
Senator Donna Arrogant
Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C., 20510
Senator Arrogant,
Rep. Bill Spender
House Office Building,
Washington, D.C., 20515
Congressman Spender,
COMMENTS: Your thoughts and comments are welcome. E-mail: MichaelOdell@Lycos.com
