The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.”
– President Barack Obama, Inauguration, 1/20/09
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
That would be the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution for the clueless (or graduates of the Government school system). Alternative titles:
- “Both President Obama and Senator Jeanne Shaheen both agree with only half of “The Bigger the Government, the smaller the citizen”.
Obvious, both of them believe that Government is not big enough!
- With a stroke of the pen, software tyranny begins (and Obama and Shaheen’s signatures are bigger than John Hancock’s)
- There is no difference between tyranny at the point of a gun or the point of a knife and tyranny at the point of a pen, especially when that pen is back by the power of the sword
We have certainly seen lately that Shaheen decided to shred the idea of Federalism when she used the force of The Feds to override the NH elected Executive Councilors in funding Planned Parenthood. And now, it seems, she not only has joined and gone all in with Obama with his assault on religious Liberty (Liberty – you know, the foundational philosophy of our country in all things personal, economic, and religious?). It seems that as well sneering at the five Republicans on the Exec Council (“Look at me, you puny people – *I* can use the force of Bigger Government to tell NH how it will be run!”), she’s also been in forefront of getting Obama to throw Catholics onto the tracks as the Progressive train runs the US away from the idea of individual Liberty to that vaunted goal of
“we’re all in this together – whether or not you want to!“