The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works...
One year ago today, President Obama directed this cheap shot at advocates of constitutional government. His comments - dismissive of those who would reduce the central government back to its legal limits - echoed candidate Obama's bigoted remarks about people in mid-America who "cling to their guns and their bibles."
Out of the other side of his mouth, Obama made conciliatory remarks about working with opponents and receiving their ideas. He meant, of course opponents who agree with him about an unlimited role for government.
Marginalizing the millions of Americans who don't like the ongoing nullification of the tenth amendment apparently wasn't enough.
All major news outlets were expected to spread palm leaves, and make a straight path for the One.
One news outlet offered token resistance (they allow air time for dissidents). Obama's minions declared war on Fox.
The war didn't go so well. It only enhanced Fox's standing as the favored source for news broadcasts, and increased the profile of their mostly conservative programming.
This entire episode was emblematic of the ineptitude of the new administration. There was the terror inflicted on Manhattan by the surprise flyover of Air Force One, the appointment of Wall Street insider/ tax evader Tim Geithner to run Treasury, and the appointment and firing of self avowed Communist and "truther" Van Johnson as one of the "czars."
Finally an Islamic jihadist in our own army killed 14 people at Ft. Hood, and Obama responded with less vigor than was shown against Fox.
All of this contributed to a Republican victory in the Massachusetts Senate race yesterday.
Contrary to the chirpy Sean Hannity's annoying comments today, Brown's victory does not amount to a repudiation of big government in America, least of all in Massachusetts.
The electorate of Massachusetts, which inflicted five decades of Kennedys in the Senate on us, has not turned away from its love of Statism, or its affinity for Socialism.
Harvard elitists - reflecting the mindset of most New England voters - accept big government as a given, but have judged Obama as a failure in implementing it. It might even be unfortunate if this setback causes the administration to learn discretion, thus hiding its contempt for those who deign to dissent.
The risk is that Obama will learn to hide his contempt for working Americans and succeed.
That would be bad for America.
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