It's a Day to Fear Not the Result Thing

Dear America,

"ambassadors of providence, 

sent to reveal to us our unknown selves"

Calvin Coolidge, 

describing great statesmen...

one day in the life

of America

so let me get this straight...America is resting it's economic future (among other things) upon two people?  John Boehner and President Obama have been carved out of the whole to decide our fate?  Two guys?   Is that like some kind of twisted perversion of two men will move you?   Welcome to fundamental transformation, the movers and shakers of the twenty-first century; we can take you anywhere you wanna go from coast to coast, from sea to shining sea [and FDIC insured, to boot].

Little old G Thing has been wanting to get to this thought for days, possibly weeks now; needless to say, we've had a few and far more important contemplations to cover.

But just two guys?  Come on...you guys can't be serious?

Here's another two guys for you:

Hugh Hewitt interviewing the president of Hillsdale College, Larry P. Arnn, the day after the re-election of  Barack Hussein Obama --  same as, Barry Soetoro, by the way  [When we put it like that, it sort of shifts one's entire image of the guy, no?].   The interview, "Time to Give Up or Time to Fight On?" is highlighted in the latest issue of Imprimis, here.

That quote of Coolidge, above, was plucked out of something Larry Arnn said.  He was making the point that our "conservative statesmen" must articulate conservative ideas -- the positions and ambitions -- better; and to that end, stop trying to go about solving our problems, and speaking of our problems, from the mindset of a bureaucrat (like the Left), but rather from a Constitutional government, operating from the law.

But just before these two guys got into this -- Larry explained something worthy of repeating word for word:

"The experts who run the modern bureaucratic state think they are architects of a perfectly rational society. They think of themselves as scientists, and of the running of government as something more like science—the science of administration—than politics. They think they can coordinate society comprehensively so that no one is left out. That’s why they think of their work as something good and as something high. The problem is that what they are trying to do defies human nature—the human nature that led James Madison to write famously that men are not angels, and that led the Framers of the Constitution to divide government in order to limit government—and so what these experts are doing will ultimately lead to despotism.

But to speak directly to your question, Hugh, there are many indications that there’s a deep and even intensifying opposition to bureaucratic government today. People don’t like it, and they don’t trust it. They want less of it. And I don’t believe that yesterday’s election signified any change in that. Now, how to harness that opinion politically is the challenge. No one yet has been able to capitalize upon it."

Now let's take a moment to see how the bureaucrats -- and not the Law -- have changed things since November 7th.

Oh     my       goodness.  

Oh     my       goodness.

Aw no   he   di  nint... 

That probably wasn't enough time.

Just breathe, people.  

C'mon now, stay with me.

Before we all pass out, here's the entire paragraph surrounding the idea, 'men are not angels'....

"But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others. The provision for defense must in this, as in all other cases, be made commensurate to the danger of attack. Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions."

The Federalist No. 51

"But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?"

Whether we like it or not, whether we agree with it or not, this government is a reflection of us, in all of our glory or not.

And right now, with regards to this government -- 

"They think they can coordinate society comprehensively so that no one is left out. That’s why they think of their work as something good and as something high."

And surprise! it comes down to this -- just two guys will move you, too.

Let's go back to a little something Madison said:

"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."

Boehner is a pretender.

Obama is not only a pretender, he's an outsider.

Say what, G?  where's that coming from?

And you will simply have to go back up and read the full interview from Imprimis to pick up what this girl just laid down.

sure, it requires a little work on your part -- but get used to it people.  we have to re-load the entire household....beginning with re-wrapping every facet, dimension, ideal presented to us by our dear wonder boys of days of yore.   The House -- oh it's divided; in more ways than one.

But before we sign off this bill of lading for one more day, let me recycle another thought passed on to us like a priceless heirloom.  Larry Arnn closes with a story from another era, a time of Winston Churchill, saying:

"That same year, Churchill asked one of his assistants, John Colville, to find him the precise text of a prayer he remembered from the siege of Gibraltar. It reads:

'Fear not the result, for either thy end shall be an enviable and a majestic one, or God will preserve our reign upon the waters.'

We might follow Churchill in saying that prayer in hard times. We might cultivate the strength that it can give. 

While venturing out to find some back up of this moment in time, what do you know, I stumbled upon this:

"Prayers Before Battle:The Spiritual Utterances of Three Great Commanders"

Which is funny; this isn't at all how I pictured my day to end.  [Check this guy out...really good stuff.]

But it all fits now, doesn't it.   We started out with just two guys making a mockery of our rule of law, battling it out both behind closed doors and in front of the cameras...then we added an element of what is a conservative statesman anyway...and threw in a reflection of angels to men, just intention no. 51 in a series of  one through eight-five...and settled in upon a house divided, only leaving room for a prayer.

And after all that's been said and done today, all I really know is this -- I need to do better job at understanding my own government and my responsibility to it and pray one simple prayer:  "fear not the result, for either thy end shall be an enviable and a majestic one, or God will preserve our reign upon the waters."   

it's hard to believe the people's power has been usurped by a couple of blow-ks to decide our fate [say that with a limey accent, will ya].

thankfully, there are only two ways for this to go.

Make it a Good Day, G