A Culture Hootenanny

We returned home Tuesday night to find the parking lot at Weddington High School full. It was not until the next morning that I realized what I had missed, thank God. I do not like mob mentality and I pretty much refuse to take part in it on anyone's or anything's behalf.

Here is my problem. The Bush Administration spent us to the level of debt that we have today. It lied to us about the cost of the drug bill and then admitted that they had lied when it no longer mattered. They never made a concession to pay for it in any way. They put the war off budget to hide the cost of it and to make claims of being fiscally responsible. They listened into personal telephone calls including phone sex calls between soldiers and their spouses. They reconstructed the Imperial Presidency concept that had been trashed with Nixon. They played with color coded days to scare people into voting for them and otherwise staying in line. They allowed the victims of Katrina to languish in the mess created there for days when the only person able to cut all the red tape and activate help was the President and he refused to do so.
It is no stretch to say that we just got rid of the most anti-American administration ever to defile our principles and spend us to the edge of obscurity, and all these masses could have cared less. Where was the outrage? Why, all of a sudden, are we on the cusp of destruction?

If there had been a hint of outrage from the masses now gathering during all the eight years of the Bush Administration, then maybe today we could take them seriously. But there was none and we are left to reason, why now?

This is a culture war because if it had anything to do with debt and spending then it would have erupted long ago. Those of European heritage in this country are in the battle of their lives. Like the Sunni of Iraq, we are no longer the majority and our ability to influence government through the standard mechanisms that our forefathers established through the Constitution no longer assure us of the ability to dominate, and dominate we must or become extinct at the hands of those who we may have not treated so well in the past.

It all seemed so unimposing so long as one of our own was defiling the Constitution and spending our grandchildren's money. Now, the symbol in the White House, The Leader of the Free World, is not of European decent, partially, and the storm clouds of impending catastrophe seem to totally blanket the horizon.

There is not an ounce of my being that has the least feeling for those who spent the night pretending to be fiscal hawks. They are imposters. That was a good old culture hootenanny led by the queen of culture hootenannies, Sue Myrick.

You want to cut spending? Then let's put aside the culture obsession and get down to business. We have a president with a learning curve. He has a spending tendency, but he learns and he can learn to love balanced budgets. His greatest need is to be seen as a reconciler. We can get the budgets under control under his leadership, something that was impossible under George Bush.