THE VOTERS ARE THINKING CLEARLY, MR. PRESIDENT

This past week, the President explained that because voters “don’t think clearly when scared” the electorate seems poised to defeat dozens of Democratic lawmakers next month. Can you recall a leader of this republic ever accusing the majority of voters of not thinking clearly? What arrogance! What condescension! More importantly, what a misjudgment.

In actuality, those who “think clearly” are the ones leading the opposition to the President’s policies. Can we obtain higher quality health care for less cost through more government regulation and price controls? Does confiscating wealth from the productive, taxing carbon dioxide emissions, printing billions, and borrowing trillions lead to economic prosperity? Should the government bail out irresponsible corporations ? Should the rule of law be abandoned to aid corrupt union bosses? Should the leader of the free world apologize for our country’s past endeavors? Should our President humiliate our staunchest of allies, Israel? Should his Justice Department sue a state for enforcing immigration laws? Tens of millions of clear thinkers respond with a resounding “NO” to each of these questions.

Overwhelming opposition to the President from millions of citizens this fall is not due to lack of clear thinking, the administration’s lack of communication capabilities, or an electorate who can’t understand “complicated” [in the word’s of VP Biden] legislation. We are simply evaluating the policies of this administration. We are realizing that a day of reckoning approaches for our that our nation.

In the words of Rudyard Kipling in his poem “The Gods of the Copybook Headings”:

In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."

Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.

We are thinking clearly.