My Christmas List

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My Christmas List

With Christmas right around the corner, my list needs is now for publication.  For openers, John Boehner is an establishment stooge.  Do not be fooled ladies and gentlemen.  Whether it be “the establishment,” “the Republican establishment,” the Democrat establishment” or even the “Insiders,” this influence and control stymies any hope for productive leadership.  As we all begin to anticipate the November Presidential sweepstakes, it is this shadowy influence  which requires our focus leading to its eradication.

Secondly, I am sick and tired of all this bellicose punditry.  Number one, who appointed these misfits to channel my thinking?  I think the answer comes down to the one doing the listening, me.  If we can stand back and disassociate for a time, isn’t it a bit overbearing that all these shallow voices churn our book after book and have totally overtaken the NY Times book list?  Do we really need, in all probability, the ghost writing efforts of a Dick (he was a Clintonite but now he’s a conservative) Morris, or the likes of a Karl (I’ll take down any conservative) Rove or the boisterous Bill (I can scream louder than you) O’Reilly?  In the coming new year, such viewing would be best served by downplaying their nightly discourse to our own “need to know” level.

With due emphasis upon my first two list makers, I am becoming well versed upon this recently concluded Congressional budget stalemate.  Listening to and reading of all the pros and cons, democrat verses republican and two months verses one year insistence, I now focus upon the reaction from my fellow hard working and patriotic Americans.  Echoing the sum of $19.23 per week, are we to believe that our President now beats the drums of concern for middle class working  Americans; the same class which his campaign strategists have publicly written off as being a wasted voter effort?  Or more to the point, could it be a re-electing campaign asset with the American worker caught in the middle?

The media’s coverage of this political football has fed the animosity between a differing of economic situations.  The heightened publicity surrounding this “class warfare” tactic also undresses the media’s blind support of a President who is the exact opposite from his 2008 “uniter” appeal.

My Christmas list for a better New Year centers not just upon the President but with my fellow Americans.  I’m aware that for many, on both sides of the aisle, the party comes first.  Having said this, the recent cave-in by Boehner has opened the Democrat flood gates.  Politicians being politicians, any and all want to get their jabs in while the carcass is still warm. When that $19.23 cents is combined with party support, it becomes a public no-brainer.  Further justification is fueled by the media’s incessant detailing of the Republican’s devilish support for the greedy rich.

A step back in time reveals a bargaining session, that dwarfs this current year long span of bickering and one upmanship.  Our Forefather’s creation required a compromise so that their newly written Constitution could be ratified.  Such a weighty subject as equal representation for both small and large States threatened its enactment.  However, the one difference with those negotiations verses the impasses of today is that our Founding Fathers all had the betterment of the Country as their number one goal.  And why would that be?  Simply because that they were the ones who sacrificed so much to attain what current day Americans take for granted.

So, my Christmas list ends with a hope that both sides of the aisle can find that humble respect and appreciation for what has been bequeathed.  The coming Supreme Court session, which will decide whether our Constitution includes socialism or not, characterizes just how far we’ve strayed from those founding principles.  America has but one path for her journey back to independent prosperity.  That would be a return to those constitutional limits that once keyed our prosperous growth.  Merry Christmas to all.

Jim Bowman, Author of,
This Roar of Ours