Calling Evelyn Wood

Have we not arrived?

Horatius has perhaps been noted to have remained quite silent through a summer of discontent during which the gulf, between the Federalists of the Congress and Executive and the people who actually produce the wealth and pay the taxes in the country, became so obvious that he felt it better to let events speak for themselves.

Washington is run by those who speak of freedom while enslaving, of peace while waging war, and of informing and including the people in their governing process while in fact denying even the members of Congress themselves an opportunity to know what it is they are expected to vote upon.

One’s beliefs and preferences about the proper powers and role of the Federal government need not be considered here. If nobody knows what’s in a bill when it is voted upon, how can it serve any honest set of such beliefs and preferences?

The Orwellian maneuvers and utter arrogance of the Congressional leadership and the palace of the Czars at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue are shown for all their breathtaking enormity by making of Congress itself a plantation, lorded over by an Aristocratick Combination within an Aristocratick Combination. The elected representatives of the people and the States are told that reading is for their betters, not themselves, and that theirs is but to obey Miz Nancy and Mars Harry.

Lest anyone be dismayed at the use of this ugly imagery, Horatius begs to direct attention to an excellent and most apt commentary by Herman Cain today.

Perhaps the touted speed-reading of the late President John F. Kennedy could have coped with the production of thousand-plus-page bills presented willy-nilly for votes, but the truth is that these things are pushed through without any single person truly reading them from beginning to end.

Truly, the message of the successors of Hamilton is, War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength. Cameras may be watching everyone everywhere in Airstrip One, but as Cain reminds us, it is well within the power of the voters to sweep away the current Congress and send in its place people who understand that a legislature is a deliberative body, and who will, instead of plunging into madcap debt and crackpot experiments in massive new government interference and burdens, instead… deliberate.

Horatius