By Barry Secrest

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 Congressional Kryptonite

The current budget deficit is nearly double any previous administration's budget deficit at 7.8% of GDP.  This means that every household in America will owe a budget deficit in the amount of $ 13,120  (for this year) in addition to all other federal debt from prior years.  This fact leads us to wonder if perhaps the President, along with congress, has grown so distracted with the onerous duties of presiding over a Superpower, that both have decided to take the US down a number of notches in order to displace the Country outside of the Superpower ranking.

To illustrate this particular point, at the conclusion of the Nuclear Summit, an event which teemed over with a surprising lack of useful content as alluded to earlier, the President stated the following:

"It is a vital national security interest of the United States to reduce these conflicts because whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower, and when conflicts break out, one way or another we get pulled into them, and that ends up costing us significantly in terms of both blood and treasure."

The above remarks, unremarkably, set a large number of both the media and concerned Americans into wondering if their President had the same interests at heart as the people whom he supposedly serves--while this appears to be yet another veiled, internationally targeted apology.

The Anti-Moses

The President has, of late, come under significant verbal fire for his leading an "exodus" of the American people away from the established promised land of "milk and honey" and into a hellish economic maelstrom that seems to border on Socialism in its command and control facets.  Whenever the subject of the President's seeming "Socialist tendencies" comes up, no matter the venue, the left-leaning ideologues can be seen to visibly bristle at the indirectly negative connotation.

We cannot help but wonder if perhaps these individuals bristle because they simply dislike the characterization of Socialism as inaccurate-- or is it that they know and understand what this negatively but accurately portends for the President's seeming lame-duck future?  In a recent poll of the American people by CBSNEWS/NY Times, 52%  of the American people felt as if the President was leading the Country towards Socialism.  This would seem to scream confirmation of what many of we Conservatives and otherwise have been trying to say for the last 18 months.  In fact, only 38% of respondents indicated that the President was not leaning the Country towards Socialism.

We cannot fail to further note the "new talking points" that have apparently been delivered to the media as it regards "sedition."  Many on the Left have initiated another verbal accusatory assault on the Conservatives and Libertarians and even Democrats who now consistently disagree with those in power.  Sedition, in this case, is an extreme misuse of the word in order to insidiously blunt those individuals of their First Amendment Right to peaceably gather and redress grievances with those in power by way of protests, etc.

Desperately Seeking Souciance

We have yet to see or hear of any comments which actually urge individuals towards insurrection or violence--a required ingredient for the charge of sedition to stick.  But the now-consistently disingenuous Liberals repeatedly fall back into charge after charge against their opposites in a seemingly desperate attempt to try anything to quell the rising tide of fermenting dissent.

In order to understand the implications of all of this we must first look to the Tea Party as a harbinger of foreknowledge with regard to where we are as a Country today.  The majority of  the Liberal Democrats in Congress, having been seen to essentially rubberstamp nearly every one of the President's ill-formed autocratic epiphanies,  now actually appear to be coming out of the closet as Democrats transmorphed into quasi-Socialists with hand held out.

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