LAME DUCKS GROW AMID POLITICAL QUACKERY

The term lame duck in American politics historically has been defined as the period of months when a sitting President awaited his leave of office between the November election of a new President and the official inauguration in January. Yet, it has come to include all politicians serving in their offices after their defeat at the polls.

The origin of the term references nature in that a lame duck would not be able to keep up with his flock and therefore would be a target for predators. Given that in politics, political parties are like flocks, an outgoing politician has little influence and is generally ignored. Indeed, a loyal out-going party member is expected start working on a smooth torch passing transition along with not acting or using their remaining power to stir controversy.

What has once been seen as an obvious political condition of paralysis due to election results, has now transcended into a political strategy of cowardly inaction, played by both sides of the aisle before upcoming elections.   

The current thinking by both Democrats and Republican Party leaders is that in the many months prior to an election it would be foolhardy to introduce divisive legislation or make fractious public policy while voters are in contemplation. Both political parties fear doing anything significant because it might alienate their base of supporters and alter the outcome of the election to their disfavor.

"Wag the dog" was a fictional movie about a president embroiled in scandal using the political diversion tactic of going to war to redirect media coverage. The title's inspiration originated with an old expression "tail wagging the dog" to convey an opposite shift of normal control. It appears to many critics of modern American politics that instead of our media being the watch dog over political wrongdoing it has become the whimpering dog that only barks when it's owner (Obama) prompts it. 

Today given the alignment of mainstream media to the current administration, and our political parties in Washington in pre-election paralysis, Americans are increasingly disgusted as we watch our country being roiled with crises after crises while our leadership hides under their partisan beds.

Lame and duck are two words that aptly describes the political failure of our current representative  leadership in all three branches of government. The President's lame actions against ISIS along with his administration's continued denial of the western world's war on Islamic radicalism are no more than political stunts for election appearances. It allows him to appease his leftist base that detests wars while fooling independents that he is defending the country against the bad guys. 

Meanwhile afraid of their own shadow casting too large a specter before November elections, our Congress has been AWOL. The President's voodoo doll Harry Reid has manipulated the Senate chamber into a long running episode of the "Walking Dead" where House Bills go to die on his desk.

Let's not forget the Supreme Court that refused to hear any appeal cases on gay marriage laws versus states' rights to ban them. Some argue that the court held off because not all the cases involved in the dispute have made their way up the judicial ladder and therefore the court is waiting until the last moment to address the issue. That means that for all intensive purposes gay marriage will become by default, both legal and inexorably over time impossible to overturn.  Well now, doesn't that sound like a lame duck and a dodge to you?

We live in a smaller world made so by global corporate trade, world financial markets and transient citizenship that no longer respects borders, boundaries and privacy rights. The traditional patriotic American is now under siege by the importation of the world's problems welcomed on our shores by corrupt representatives seeking only to raise money to hold power. 

Who is the tail wagging the dog today? So we must ask ourselves who is the head of the dog? Where is the head of the dog? Why can't the dog's head control its tail anymore in America? 

The politicians are waiting for us, "We the People" to vote in a few short weeks, and yes, we are the head of the alpha dog. We have been leashed and chained by our wanna-be-our-masters (progressives) long enough. Time to growl, snap and bare our canine teeth, time to sic the Democrat Party that seeks to undermine our Constitution and our sovereignty.

Yet amid the political paralysis and "tail- wagging- the- dog" antics by Washington, the world grows more sinister, and the threats to our nation don't wait for election results. The terrorists are certainly not waiting. The Ebola virus is certainly not waiting.  The illegal aliens pouring over our borders are not waiting. The high cost of living, the shrinking of good paying jobs and the cultural diminishment of our values are all not waiting. Instead, for once, we the electorate are waiting for our own voices of reason to a government run by inept ideologues.

We can't act stupidly, by sitting on our hands and not voting for a Republican candidate out of protest for a lost primary race (Mississippi). We can't let Democrats win by voting for a long shot independent candidate that drains the votes needed by the Republican on the ticket. We must win and grab the Senate from Harry Reid and make this President quack and waddle. 

Only after 730 days go by, (every two years) do "We the People" have the opportunity to bark the truth, scare away the quacks and reintroduce the lame duck lawmakers; to who really owns the watchdog's tail, head and all the parts in-between.  The American electorate must show Washington, that yes, our bark is loud and our bite is always to be feared.