Don't Expect Maturity from November 2010 to January 2011!

I have spent a lot of the last two years trying to define what the talk media has been calling "tone deafness" exhibited by our President, Speaker of the House and other Democrat elected officials. When our President tries to rekindle images of slavery and racial oppression; when our Speaker of the House feels that we are too stupid to know that passing a bill that we haven't read is a problem; and, when prominent television personalities are comfortable describing the majority of Americans as "ignorant" and "too stupid to know what is good for them", it is more than tone deafness.

Today as listened to Bill Maher malign the majority of Americans it hit me--there is no emotional intelligence/maturity in this administration. Emotional intelligence is missing in the dialogue of the ruling Democrats. For those of you who are new to the concept, emotional intelligence/maturity is defined as "a self-perceived ability to identify, assess, and control the emotions of one's self, of others, and of groups."

Not convinced? Bring on the name calling as well as the character assassination. Consider Joy Behar calling Sharron Angle out of her name, and the even less gracious way that Behar accepted the return jab of flowers.

My point? Don't expect maturity from this crew if they loss big on November 2nd. You should expect a tantrum of legislation and executive orders that will occupy the first year of the new Congress with repeals and legal challenges. And our President, who promised a new age of civility will continue to act as the "Playground Bully in Chief."

While I pray that I am wrong...well, we'll see!

PA Pro Life Federation Dinner

I had the pleasure of attending the PA Pro-Life Federation Dinner last night. The speaker was Rick Santorum. Mr. Senatorum made me remember some key aspects of being an American. To better remember them I reread the Declaration of Independence last night. I remembered that in declaring our independence from England we stated that:
* All men are created equal
* Our Creator has endowed us with inalienable rights of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
* Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

We long ago defined men as humans in our law (not gender or race).

We have forgotten some very important parts of the these three points. These equal humans include those born and unborn and sick and imperfect. One of the inalienable rights is the right to Life. And finally, that government derives its power from the consent of the governed.

We must reclaim these attributes of being an American. We can no longer consent to a government that tells us that our lives may be inconvenient or too expensive to allow them to start or continue.

We must not allow our government to tell us what is good enough for what we are or who we are in the delivery of our health care.

We must not consent to government by those who read polls that state that over 50% of Americans are Pro-Life or that over 70% of Americans are against government control of our health and our health care system, and yet dismisses us as too scared or stupid to know what we really want.

We must not continue to consent to the patronizing attitudes of liberal or conservative politicians who do not respect the people who elect them or the system in which they serve.

We must reclaim these attributes of being an American on November 2nd. Do not compromise and do not consent to allowing those who do not respect us and our system of government to continue to govern us.