Why Leonid Brezhnev Still Matters

As all wisdom in the former Soviet Union resided in the Communist Party Central Committee - managing every facet of inhumane life across the eleven time zones of this vast Empire from inside the crumbling Kremlin walls - Party Chair Leonid Brezhnev was one powerful top dog.  From the wheat harvest quota in the Ukraine every five years, to the number of shoes manufactured in Kiev annually and to the length of women skirts nationally, no economic activity escaped the purview of the Dictatorship's central planners.  So then, how did all this government, all the time, everywhere work for the 200 plus million serfs?  Well, not so well actually - millions died of starvation, while the rest of the Empire's population suffered through the shortest life expectancy of any western nation, largely due to rampant alcoholism, social dependency and shameful loss of individual dignity.

Of course, President Obama is no Leonid- lite.  He doesn't think that only the Executive Office of the President should set the interest rate on every single student loan in America.  Oops, yes he does.  He doesn't think only the Executive Office of the President should decide what barnyard chores parents can allow their children to perform on every single family farm in America.  Oops, yes he does.  He doesn't think that only the Executive Office of the President should decide what health insurance coverage should apply to every single private business (including free contraception and abortion pills for every single church employee) in America.  Oops, yes he does.

Oh, did I mention that all the central planners in the Executive Office of the President work in Washington, DC, a separate time/space reality than all of us in the "real" world of business budgets, limited by actual cash flow, and debts that must really be paid.  Two examples of DC-mania - no local police could ever dare try to pull off the Secret Service trick of Guys and Paid Dolls.  To find government employees who feel no accountability to anyone, you need to issue them a federal credit card w/. no credit limit, a free plane ticket and a free week in Cartehegna, Columbia to get what America got last week.  Oh, did I mention that the unanimous response from the DC Establishment - Executive, Congress, Media - is that the Secret Service training programs may need to be tightened up a bit.  Are these inside the Beltway dolts serious?  The Secret Service agent who disgraced our Nation in Cartehegna, Columbia, who is unaware of this conduct's total unacceptability, does not exist.  Yet, the central Powers-that-Be either are so removed from reality that they don't know this obvious truth, or they think that we Americans are just too stupid to know this truth.

Well Leonid-wanta be's in DC - We are not Stupid. So, let me ask this - Do any of us wise Americans think it is a good idea to transfer more and more power to the DC Overseers, who just gave us the GSA Gone Wild in Vegas and Secret Service Gone Wild in Columbia?  I don't;  so give me back my personal health care responsibilities, while you'se guys clean up that cesspool of excess in DC.

The President's Rhetoric - "Unprecedented"

Well, Elite Members, paraphrasing Ronald Reagan: here I go again. Yes, I have another bone to pick with the current occupant of the White House. Surely, some out there in Blogsville will say enuff with the hypercritical bombast, Mr. Random Thoughts, as we already know how disdainful and disrespectful U are toward the President. Ok, then; I will not engage in any such ad hominem proselytizing. Instead, I will let Barrack Hussien Obama speak for himself:

I'd just remind conservatives that for years what we have heard is the biggest problem
on the bench was judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint - that AN UNELECTED
GROUP OF PEOPLE would somehow overturn the duly constittued ...

Now, most of the controversy in the media'a pushback on this week's Presidential Rose Garden Statement has been on the question of wherther or not Obama truly doesn't understand the separation powers mandating judicial review of Congressional enactments when challenged by litigants as being unconstitutional. He does. So, let's focus instead on what is unprecedented in Mr. Obama's "calling out" the Supreme Court as a bunch of "unelected people". That dismissive mischaracterization by the President constitutes a not so veiled attack on the very legitimacy of the Supreme Court's constitutional stature in our Republic of three co-equal branches of government. By undermining the very integrity of the high court, Mr. Obama has threatened the Rule of Law, the very foundation of our nation's exceptionalism.

I remember more than once growing up and hearing of some very unpopular Supreme Court ruling, followed by the President, most often Ike, (example - ban on school prayers) saying that while he disagreed with the decision, it was now everyone's solemn obligation to respect and obey the final word as laid out by the Supreme Court. This week, instead, we get a President, so disrespectful of the Court and its crucial role in our system of checks and balances that he declares them to be like a group of no buddies from down the block just hanging out waiting to mug some young girl trying to enter a Planned Parenthood Office to get her free contraceptives. And for a sitting President to rip the Supreme Court as not properly constituted or empowered to invalidate a federal statute while the appeal is still pending is truly UNPRECEDENTED in our nation's history. Some classy guy there.