Health Care vs Gun Control

Just a simple observation on the subject of Presidential Hypocrisy.

President Obama is now suggesting that House Republicans appear neither willing to work with him nor listen to the American public on the issue of gun control.

“The House Republican majority is made up mostly of members who are in sharply gerrymandered districts that are very safely Republican and may not feel compelled to pay attention to broad-based public opinion, because what they're really concerned about is the opinions of their specific Republican constituencies,” the president said in an interview with The New Republic.

Kind of ironic when you think about the way the President and the Democratic majority, at the time, rammed through their health care reform when an overwhelming majority of Americans were opposed to it.

This is the sad state of politics in the United States. Hypocrites, in both parties, pat themselves on the back while they are promoting their beliefs, and yet condemn the other side when they do it.

So much for the great statesman who promised during the 2008 campaign that he would bring “…Democrats and Republicans together to get the job done.”

This country is not supposed to be run this way. Maybe we need a reminder of the principals of our constitution.

I fear the actions of today are exactly what our founding fathers feared most. A government that has become a living breathing entity that has decided that it alone knows what is best for us. Whether we agree or not is no longer the point, we re just being told to submit for the “common good.”

Will this pursuit of an American Utopia end with the establishment of an actual American Dystopia? History teaches us that this type of environment never ends well. That is unless you happen to be at the top of the food chain when those changes are implemented.

For some reason I can’t seem to get the lyrics to the song by Canadian rock band Rush, 2112, out of my head:

“We've taken care of everything
The words you hear, the songs you sing
The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes.
It's one for all and all for one
We work together, common sons
Never need to wonder how or why.”