Opinion
Democratic politicians' arrests shows natural match of
liberalism and corruption
By Tammy
Bruce
AP
Whether
it be President Obama or Democratic lawmakers at all other levels of
government, it’s becoming more apparent that malevolence and corruption are at
the core of what drives liberal politicians.
In the
past few days we’ve been bombarded with news of several Democratic lawmakers
being arrested on corruption charges while Mr. Obama continues his bizarre
mission to make the United States appear weak and confused in the international
arena.
Liberal corruption and efforts to do damage to this country
come from the same disease: politicians’ belief that they are superior,
requiring constant evidence for themselves that everyone else is beneath them.
With
the president embarrassing us in Europe and the first lady spending millions of
taxpayer dollars in China on what is obviously another private vacation,
Democrats have been getting arrested here at home.
California
state Sen. Leland Yee, an outspoken advocate for gun control, has been indicted
on charges of arms trafficking and public corruption.
Illinois
state Rep. Keith Farnham, a Democrat, has resigned after it was revealed he is
being investigated for child pornography. Pennsylvania state Sen. Leanna
Washington has been ordered to stand trial on corruption charges.
The FBI
and Internal Revenue Service have raided the home and office of Rhode Island
House Speaker Gordon Fox, a Democrat, in a “criminal investigation.”
Patrick
Cannon, the Democratic mayor of Charlotte, N.C., has been arrested by the FBI,
and faces federal charges of theft and bribery.
For
years now, it has become obvious that politicians are no longer the best of
society or the accomplished individuals the Founders expected would be drawn to
public service. Instead, lawmakers, in charge of our lives and protecting the
free world, are tending to be the worst of society.
This is
no surprise, however, in what is becoming a one-party system. I’m not speaking
of Democrats and Republicans per se, but of liberalism controlling the
political landscape in both parties.
Believing
that big, nanny-state government is the solution, you must also believe the
average citizen cannot control his own life, that government is the only answer
for a nation of what lawmakers see as drooling, incompetent infants.
Politicians’
contempt for the citizen is illustrated every time they exempt themselves from
the laws they create for us. They are above the law in their own minds; ergo,
better than everyone else.
Contempt
for the citizenry grows, and a surveillance state is put into place to ostensibly
protect us from ourselves. In truth, it exposes the distrust and contempt the
lawmakers hold for “regular” people.
Once
liberal lawmakers control pretty much everything, there’s no challenge at all
to ongoing criminal and unconstitutional behavior. After all, why stop? Laws
are for the “little people.”
And no,
the feds finally arresting corrupt Democrats is not a sign of progress. This is
likely the tip of the iceberg, and arguably an action by a highly politicized
Department of Justice in an election year, when polls are showing that the
American people have had enough of the Obama regime’s behavior.
Republicans
are complicit in this dangerous decline. There have been no consequences for
the IRS or National Security Agency crises, and Mr. Obama is never challenged
on what is arguably at least unconstitutional actions with his capricious and
autocratic changing of ObamaCare.
Mr.
Obama’s latest bizarre action? At a news conference at The Hague while
answering a question about Russia’s potential threat to the United States, he
actually stated, “I continue to be much more concerned, when it comes to our
security, with the prospect of a nuclear weapon going off in Manhattan.”
That
answer, in and of itself, is remarkable. Here the president of the United
States openly expresses doubt that we have secured the city of New York, the
No. 1 terrorist target in the world.
Perhaps
we should be concerned, because while publicly lamenting the nuclear security
of New York, Mr. Obama himself has been working to undermine that city’s
ability to defend itself from a nuclear attack. The New York Daily News notes
the Obama administration has again proposed to “slash the budget for the one
initiative designed to protect Manhattan from nuclear threats.”
Mr.
Obama’s efforts to make vulnerable the American people don’t end in New York.
He is also determined to abolish our highly successful Tomahawk and Hellfire
missile programs, an action that threatens the security of this nation as a
whole.
Liberal
corruption and efforts to do damage to this country come from the same disease:
politicians’ belief that they are superior, requiring constant evidence for
themselves that everyone else is beneath them.
Of
course, contempt drives a need to punish. How better to accomplish this than to
use political power forcibly creating a society of the weak and vulnerable,
while behaving in a manner that reinforces the craven irony that lawmakers are
above the law itself.
Americans
have grown increasingly concerned with liberals controlling both parties, and
this fuels the demand that the conservative ideal return to the governing
principles of the Republican Party.
It’s
time liberals at every level of government find out that their agenda of
tearing down this nation, spending us into oblivion while exempting themselves
from the rule of law will no longer stand.
The day
of reckoning is Nov. 4. In the meantime, Republicans and Democrats alike in
Congress have a duty to stop the increasing recklessness of Mr. Obama.
Tammy
Bruce is a radio talk-show host, New York Times best-selling author and Fox
News political contributor.
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