Citizens vs. Subjects

With control of the Executive branch for the next 3 and 1/2 years, a fillibuster proof 60 seats in the Senate and a 77 seat majority in the House, Democrats appear to be unable to deliver on President Obama's promise to implement "change we can believe in". Legislation on energy and health care is stalled and popular discontent is rising.

Under the pressure of a deeping recession, the Democratic coalition is beginning to fracture. Fissures started with the failed stimulus package. President Obama erred mightily allowing Democrats in Congress to write and pass legislation that started as a well intentioned program to lessen the impact of the recession but morphed into the mother of all pork barrel legislation. The American people know the stimulus was a payoff to democratic constituents. No amount of posturing by President Obama and Vice President Biden will change that.

The root cause of the Democrats problem is leftists do not believe in the principals of government expressed in the United States Declaration of Independence and Constitution. They support massive government management of all phases of life. No government of the people, by the people and for the people for them. They seek to change the fundamental relationship between the citizens and the government and think they have the mandate to enact these changes.

Conservative democrats understand the threat to our freedoms. Liberal Americans who support our form of government codified in the Constitution are getting quezy about the left's insatiable appetite for centralized management and control.

As this ideological battle plays out we must as a people choose; are we subjects or citizens? Do we want a society where we serve the government or the government serves us?

This ideological split threatens to short circuit the Obama administration, tear the Democratic party apart at the seams and usher in a new era of moderate to conservative national leadership.
A storm is brewing.