March 17th, 2013 - A Cursory Recap of the Week That Was.

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy!

H. L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy, 1926

A cursory recap of the folly and nonsense being perpetrated upon the American electorate this past by the political class and their sycophantic media hacks demonstrate a depth of ignorance shocking in its scope.

To wit:

 President Obama this week stated in an ABC News interview that this nation does not have a looming debt crisis – his quote:

“We don’t have an immediate crisis in terms of debt. In fact, for the next ten years, it’s gonna be in a sustainable place”

At 16 trillion dollars – ($16,000,000,000,000) and growing, it could be said that the President is being disingenuous at best, ignorant at worst.

The current debate on gun control is expanding to include what are euphemistically called ‘background checks’. These checks will not affect law abiding citizens, but the hue and cry is to have these checks include mental health history. This information will be provided as a result of the Affordable Care Act – (ObamaCare). The question must be addressed: Do Americans want their personal medical history provided to a bureaucracy with no controls regulating that information? (The Madison Conservative will address the background check issue in a later post.)

At a time when there is an obvious lack of leadership, at a time when the American people are not being given a true perspective on the importance of what America truly means, the Madison Conservative believes a quick refresher course is in order.

To that end, please read the following address from President Lincoln. It is timeless and timely for Americans to remember what this nation means, and how a true leader speaks to the people in only 278 words.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.