Delusional

There isn't much sanity left.  A new law was finally passed with enough Republicans and Democrats able to find cooperation.  So it must be a good, bipartisan, commonsense law, right?

I don't think so.  It's merely one of those laws designed to demonstrate politicians' good intentions.  The Violence Against Women Act.  Who is for violence against women, right?  That's the point, I suppose.  Democrats propose a fundamentally stupid and meaningless law and name it the "Violence Against Women Act", then dare Republicans to look mean and anti-woman by opposing it.  So of course it sails through, scoring a few points for the good intentions of Democrats.

The new CIA Director is sworn into office using a 200-plus year old draft copy of the Constitution.  No Bible.  There's a story out there that Brennan is a former Roman Catholic who converted to Islam and is cozy with the jihadists.  If the story's not true, why did he break with tradition and refuse to swear in on the Bible?  If it is true, what does that mean for the future of our countrygiven that the President obviously holds the same worldview as Brennan?  Obama himself was raised in a Madrassa, is the son of a Muslim, and is considered by Muslims worldwide as one of them.  So why do we choose to ignore the facts as we know them?

Rand Paul does a 13-hour filibuster in the Senate over his concerns over Obama's obsessive use of drones.  He demanded a clarification from the Administration that drones would never be used against American citizens in direct contravention of the constitution.  Eventually, he got a one-word answer from Holder to his question, "No".  But today I read that the White House released a statement that Rand's filibuster changes nothing as far as Obama's ongoing policies regarding the use of drones.

So which is it?  Are drones only to be used against terrorists on foreign soil, or is Obama plotting to use them against all enemies of the U.S. as well as all his political enemies?  John McCain says the very notion is ridiculous, and Rand Paul's filibuster was an unneccessary stunt.  I certainly hope that McCain is right, but if he is, why haven't we seen Obama on television explaining exactly how drones will never be used to spy on or kill Americans here at home?  Instead, we get the defiant White House announcement that Rand's filibuster meant nothing.

The Obama-created crisis called the "sequester" has passed with no changes to the small spending reductions.  It's abundantly clear to everyone by the most ardent Democrat that Obama shut down White House tours, not because it was forced by the sequester, but in a failed attempt to support his claims that the sequester was a bad idea.  The whole thing can be easily resolved with a budget, which of course has not been even taken up for debate in the Senate since Obama took office.

The next Obama-manufactured crisis is only a couple months away.  Paul Ryan will introduce the Republican Budget very soon, which will easily pass the House only to be once again thrown in the trash by Harry Reid in the Senate.  If Obama submits a budget, it's reasonable to expect it will be just as ridicuous as his previous budgets, which were both voted down unanimously.  Nobody seems to know that fact.

A delusional America re-elected a president who has destroyed the economy, allowed an ambassador to be abused and killed by jihadists without lifting a finger to prevent it or rescue him, and appointed a litany of communists and enemies of America to the Supreme Court and his top cabinet offices.

I find it sad that so many have been fooled.  Obama and his friends who hated the American Republic so much could have easily left for an existing socialist state of their choosing.  I mourn the fact that they instead chose to mislead Americans into handing them the power to enslave them.

Somebody I caught talking about the American economy said we've already lost the America we grew up in.  That we will not see it again without a dramatic change of the hearts and minds of the majority of citizens, and perhaps a decade of painful reforms.  We will not see those reforms in my lifetime, and there is no reason to hope the next generation will wake up to tackle them.  My generation destroyed the greatest country in the history of the world, and I'm ashamed to have been part of that.