Summer of Our Discontent

We’re moving toward the middle of one long, hot summer in America. And that’s not the result of the myth called man-caused or ‘anthropogenic’ global warming. It’s because the American people have reached a final judgment on Obama and his cabal, on Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, and on the farce that passes for American journalism in 2010—and they reject all of them. But there seems to be nothing they can do but sit and burn up with day after day of being lied to and condescended to as ignorant masses. Maybe they’ll have the patience to endure the remaining 100 days until the November 2 elections; maybe they won’t. A survey of the scene is not encouraging when it comes to fostering patience.

The economic policies of this administration are now seen not only as a complete bust in terms of helping the American people—they are also seen as the purposeful means by which to take down America into the ditch of fiscal insolvency, more government control, and a socialist mindset.

The energy policies of this administration are now seen as job-killers borne of a wild leftist bias against all private industry. We’ve seen an Energy Secretary deliberately lie about the recommendations of experts with regard to the question of an offshore drilling moratorium; we’ve seen the same Energy Secretary proudly speak of a ‘boots on the neck’ attitude of government toward the private sector that provides the most important ingredient to economic activity: energy.

We are watching a media that treats the American people like ignorant, manipulable masses, who can’t possibly sense when the race card has been played into self-parody—making a complete mockery and Orwellian inversion of the concept of justice. The United States Department of Justice is now no better than the enforcement arm of a leftist dictatorial ambition; facts, law and truth be damned.

Every week and sometimes every day we are being treated to the unraveling fraud that is Obamacare, from the emergence of a dyed-in-the-wool socialist like Donald Berwick to run the biggest part of the program, to the ‘executive orders’ that make private insurance companies pay for services they’ve never paid for before (as an obvious tactic to drive them out of business and move the country to a single payer system), to the Solicitor General defending the individual mandate to buy health insurance by calling it a form of tax, though Obama is on record denying anything of the sort. The parade of “that-was-in-this-law!!!” horribles is hemorrhaging on the American people.

Somewhere in the bowels of George Soros’ thinking must be an assumption that Americans are so numbed down or dumbed down by decades of affluence and political correctness that they’ve developed an interminable well of tolerance for being lied to—or a naïve and self-destructive determination to believe they are not being lied to.

We don’t think either of Soros’ likely assumptions is true. We think Americans remain predominantly a humble, decent, God-loving people who have always been slow to be roiled and generally patient with the imperfections of their politicians. But the Obama crowd has them roiled now, and the imperfections of politicians have moved into an entirely different realm: that of defiant criminality toward the will of the people and the very concept of ‘the consent of the governed’.

The level of lying is unprecedented in American history. It’s going to take an extraordinary people to defeat this menace and remove it from government. But the American people are extraordinary; they still draw their inspiration for living, consciously or unconsciously, from the God-given ideals enshrined in their Declaration of Independence. “Self-evident truths” still exist, which means that lies that contradict those truths are still discernable.

It’s going to be a long hot summer, and it is not going to be a ‘summer of recovery’ in any economic sense. But American recovery has already begun. The American people know exactly what’s happening; they know who’s doing it; and they are going to stop it.

Paul Gable

July 25, 2010