America’s Growing Failures

Opinion by George McClellan:Gauging from what I hear, America is in complete foreign policy, social, political and economic confusion and is becoming a growing failure at all levels. Even our allies no longer trust us. The reason for that failure still sits in the White House. Obama is a narcissist of such epic proportions that he still believes he has a salvageable legacy as a world leader.

If that legacy is the destruction of America and throwing the world into chaos and turmoil because of it, then he’s probably right. One must conclude however, that because of his narcissism, clearly visible in his private go it alone talks with Iran’s mullah’s, then he deeply harbors the hope that America’s world role will be reduced to nothing, and Iran’s role in the middle east to grow exponentially until it throws a cloak of total despair over all Arab states.

Obama’s confusing foreign policy, unless that policy is to deliberately allow Iran to have a nuclear bomb and assume hegemony over the middle-east, appears to be in complete disarray. America’s Arab allies, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, and Israel, which he will soon abandon, have been thrown into turmoil by Obama’s lack of support for them, against jihadism.

One suspects too, that Obama must believe his policies should justify the Nobel Prize medal awarded to him upon his assumption of office simply because he promised hope and change. Didn’t the Swedes also awarded a medal to Jimmy Carter and Al Gore reducing that once prestigious award to a mere trinket like one that could be found in a box of Cracker Jacks?

Last Novembers elections were a complete repudiation of Obama and his policies. Even he said so before the elections. So, Republicans won and now where are we? Still in confusion and disarray. Obama performs like he won; the democrats still appear to be setting the agenda in Congress and while the electorate sent dozens of “Conservatives” to office, all all levels, the leadership still hasn’t got it and pursues policies that don’t reduce government, but expands it. Apparently Ga. Rep. Tom Price’s budget is not at all a deficit buster like it was promised to be.

Here in Georgia, our state (Republican) government just authorized, against stern opposition by aroused voters, HB 310, a bill that deliberately expands not only the size of state government but its police powers as well. Georgia’s state government also stuck a 20 plus cents a gallon tax on gasoline to raise a billion dollars for transportation needs. Let’s see where that money goes. I suspect not much on roads, bridges or highways and we don’t even know what the Federal government has in store for us as to added gasoline taxes.

Why should that be? Because mostly, the people who now make up our government have lost our trust. So, as voters we still have some GOP house cleaning to do. There are many career Republicans in office who were once democrats. Tea party’s need to get to work identifying these enemies of deficit reduction. Their voting record is the first clue to identify them, expose them, get to work to remove them, then find non-political but successful types who will be willing to step up as candidates and get them into office. I like the idea of tapping into the vast pool of former and retired military people who know and understand the importance of duty, honor and responsibility in keeping their word. Many are good managers of money, know how to meet goals and are unafraid of the dangers of political harassment.

Corruption is the nemesis of our politicians. We must remove the huge monetary gains available and restore our federal republic. Progressivism must be destroyed. Remember freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way. Now, go get ‘em! (30 March 2015)