YOU JUST CALL OUT MY NAME

The next line should be " I'll "GO" (come) running". That's because Kerry and Obama have blind eyes and deaf ears to the ongoing danger posed by ISIS and Muslim extremism throughout the world. With all deference to James Taylor and his roadie Secretary Kerry, the "Kumbaya" foreign policy is not only not working, it is a joke gone terrible cynical.

Regardless if you think the President's recalcitrance against calling out Muslim radical killers is out of stupidity or duplicity, the reality is that liberals can't stop playing the hippie dippy cards of 60's philosophy.

Winning them over with love or flower power would not work, has not worked and will never work. Yet liberals like John Kerry refuse to burn their tie-dye tee-shirts and grow up to the reality that evil answers only to complete destruction.

Two more years can reap havoc on America and Americans given the utter ignorance of these delusional liberals running our foreign policy. The zealot regimes throughout the world are not just growing in confidence that they have the upper hand, their free hands have been busy readying for a showdown while our government continues to capitulate away our strength. 

The liberal cancer of appeasement has metastasized for an inevitable world war III, that seems brewing in the very near horizon. It is what always happens when you let evil off the leash rather than beating it back relentlessly, as is required, to fight its perpetual reanimation. Good versus evil is a struggle never won with total annihilation by either side but rather a battle for making one side more powerful and the other more marginal. However to marginalize evil, you need to confront it with blunt words, backed by blunt force, not idle threats and scoffing rhetoric.

The Obama administration is trying to negotiate with evil (Iran), trying to convince evil to play nice, trying to convince a skeptical public that evil can be trusted to keep a treaty deal. What part of the lessons of life were liberals absent for in regards to the nature of evil and its many deeds? 

Evil lies. Evil deceives. Evil is pure selfishness. Evil smiles while it betrays. Evil is patient. Evil is savage. Evil is opportunistic. Evil is a temptress. Evil is never satiated. Evil is a master of disguise. Evil plays by its own rules. Evil preys on naivety. Evil is predictable, because it can never be trusted, ever.

It is bad enough that our current government lies to its people but it bodes far worse for our future that this current government is lying to themselves, thinking that evil can be coaxed into cage by mutual agreement. Indeed, once you negotiate with evil, then it wins.

Liberals have been making excuses for Muslim extremism, while criticizing our allies especially Israel for being skeptical with any deal making that involves trusting evil zealots. The Democrats recent shunning and classless bashing of Israel's leader Bibi Netanyahu, depicts a President and a Party far afield from the American values that defends liberty both home and abroad. 

President Obama, and Secretaries Kerry and Clinton are responsible for having toppled the Libyan government, that now is overrun by Al Qaida factions, that they claimed in 2012 were decimated.

They lied about Benghazi and have  negotiated with the Taliban, the Haqqani, and the Muslim Brotherhood. 

They supported a Muslim fundamentalist dictatorship in Egypt, Morsi, that was hostile to Israel. They supplied that anti-American government with money and weapons. Thankfully and fortunately Morsi was overthrown by the Egyptian people without the administrations help. 

They stood by and watched as Syria descended into civil war refusing to arm or assists in any way Syrian freedom fighters, that then turned to terrorists for help against their fight with Assad. That turned out to be a most unholy union as it bred the rise of ISIS. 

They pulled out of Iraq, willfully leaving behind a weak power vacuum during a time of terror expansion that resulted in ISIS having the advantage to amass power and territory in its Judeo-Christian genocidal rampage.

Now they are attacking Israel's leader while defending Iran's Mullah government as honest negotiators. Yet, the Democrats and the liberal press wonders why Mayor Giuliani's comments regarding the President's dubious allegiances are resonating with the American people? 

"Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall, all you have to do is call" out the actions that show the intent. The actions of this President and his Democrat Party are either dangerously naive or purposefully anti-American or as we are beginning to understand; both. For there are the dreamers who believe in a new unicorn and multicultural love-in with the world, and then there are the seditious puppeteers in the background pulling their strings. 

One thing is for certain, this administration is no friend of America and her traditional American values.       

WHEN DID JUSTICE DIE?

Once upon a time in America, justice was blind to whom stood before her judgment and she aggressively protected the rule of law's equality. From the wrongdoing of a homeless perpetrator to illegality done by public figures, the law was respected and upheld by apolitical prosecutors seeking justice for victims while equally deterring those thinking of committing  similar crimes. 

Rightly or wrongly, Americans today have the perception that Lady Justice is peeking behind her blind as she refuses to prosecute the politician, and rich powerful figures while instead, seeking to target only the hard working middle class offender. From prosecutorial discretion to political persecution our justice system has become a shadow of its original foundation of faith by Americans; that there is equal protection under the law.

Upholding the rule of law requires not just prosecutions of those that violate the law, but prosecutors must make egalitarian examples especially when it comes to public figures and those leading our government's policies. The perception that one will be held accountable and serve jail time, is an important tool of deterrence, but it is also a necessary nurturance to morality in governance.

When illegal activities and unethical scandals are ignored or result in watered down punishment, it not only sends the message of hypocrisy but stamps the approval to the rich and powerful that they are untouchable which leads to furthering corruption.     

Americans are more than frustrated by a convergence  of current realities besetting the nation. The worse level of trust exists over our government's honesty, uprightness and representation of our needs in three centuries and three decades of our founding. In fact, the growing consensus is that Congress works for special interest monies only and by that, acts against the average American's needs.

We are losing our self governing system to career politicians who are corrupted by corporate monies and cowed by a liberal media pretending to report truth. The federal entrenched elitist government bureaucratic power continues to grow while simultaneously America's citizens fear and distrust in their government grows.

Where the law was once viewed as the pluralistic equalizer, between the governed and the governor, today the unconscionable volume of laws and regulations is a virtual pillory around the neck of hapless citizens. 

Meanwhile the lawlessness of our own government (Benghazi, IRS, Fast and Furious, DHS, NSA spying) is ignored, politicized and treated as minor missteps by those pretending to oath allegiance to our Constitution.

If Congress was serious about uncovering wrongdoing and investigating the truth over the multiple breaches of law by the government, then a special prosecutor would have been authorized long ago to investigate a warm trail of evidence. Instead, they allowed the trail to freeze over.

The people went to the polls in 2014 seeking to stop the fanatical actions of one party (Democrats) leading the country into debt, danger and ruin, only to find the other party (GOP) content to do nothing. 

The leadership of our country is so perverse and the representative rational is so contaminated with political expediency, there is a paralysis of decency, honor and trust in our government.   

Apparently it is no longer about the probity of our laws and the integrity of our Constitution, but rather it is all about politics, it is all about winning elections, it is all about 2016, it is all about political strategy while corruption marches onward without so much as a speed bump in its way.

The new normal of debauchery by government officials has replaced the respectability of public service and has the potential to dissuade the moral minded and incorruptible candidates from seeking office. Worse would be the return of a cynical public no longer seeking honorable office holders for their fight against lawless leadership.

The world outside your door might be a jungle of liars and thieves but they do not have the power to hurt or corrupt you, instead you have the power to set the example of righteousness and show that world fearlessness in the face of their false dominion.     

We Americans must be willing to confront, not bow, antagonize, not appease, vocalize, not stammer, expect, not forgive, demand, not ask, that our representative hold tightly in their hearts and minds our Constitution. The document that relies solely on the citizens preservation, acknowledgement and passionate possession.

Thomas Paine words  "These are the times that try men's souls" is as ripe today as it was then, for today is the time that tries all, of our American souls. 

LOUD AND CLEAR OR BACKGROUND STATIC?

Given that speeches are political hot air feasts intended to buoy public opinion on upcoming policy campaigns, they are meaningless without action, yet it is important to make voters feel that Washington is listening. 

It is also an opportunity for both political parties to present a buffet of policy ideas and receive feedback from the public, thereby getting a sense on what policy priorities are more or less popular. Obama's scorecard has already flunked, but the GOP, in its early grades don't seem to be acing any tests so far.  

Americans were not thrilled with either Obama's speech or the GOP rebuttal.

Obama has been deaf to public opinion since 2010, so few expected him to recognize that his Party and policies have nose-dived with independent voters, the same voters the Democrats rely on to make their minority "Kool-aid" policies seem mainstream. Indeed his administration has been marked with arrogant recalcitrant obstinacy that has diminished Democrat power.   

Yet the GOP response to Obama's SOTU speech was underwhelming and disappointing for its lack of inspiration and red meat, leaving conservatives and libertarians feeling wary about the lean, low fat agenda the opposition's menu contains.

Senator Ernst is not to blame, she is just a new member of an old party asked to deliver a speech that has been cooked up by high ranking members of the GOP in the back rooms of Washington's political kitchen.

The policy speech was troublesome for its bland banquet offerings and perhaps more importantly, worrisome because of the absence of sharp knifed proteins left off the table. Especially when a starving public expected and deserved full course satiation at a post game celebration feast.  

The first complaint is that the GOP agenda isn't bold, isn't innovative and somewhat mirrors the left. The left loves (especially Obama) to talk about job creation. The Keystone pipeline isn't going to make a dent in the number of jobs needed to re-energize the economy number one and number two, trade barriers are not the reasons entrepreneurial opportunities and business expansion is shrinking in America. 

Big government, class action lawsuits, high taxation, Obamacare, crony capitalism, myriads of regulations and laws that stifle growth have all have contributed to America's lackluster economy. 

Government need only to get out of the way by downsizing itself and repealing its unconstitutional presence in the marketplace allowing the free enterprise to grow. It is basic conservative policy to remove the mixed market governors from the economic engine that has served our nation well in the past and indeed created the Middle Class. 

Instead of touting un-tethered private enterprise as the curative, they spoke like Democrats by extolling what they (government) can do to fix the economy. They missed the opportunity to state emphatically the Ronald Reagan adage that resonated with Americans of all politically party persuasion: get government off our backs and out of our lives.    

Second complaint, was the hackneyed idea of simplifying the tax code. How many times have we heard that in the past? Today, we have an IRS agency that has been allowed to violate the law, punish political foes, destroy and or cover-up evidence, misuse public funding and to date, no-one has been held accountable, fired or prosecuted. 

Americans never trusted the IRS from its inception, but now more than ever the people want justice and the abolishment of the IRS. Calling for the closing of loopholes in the post Lois Lerner targeting age is beyond lame, it reflects a business as usual corrupt cluelessness over the public's discontentment.

Lastly the complete absence of bared teeth and pitchfork rhetoric we heard on the campaign trail in 2014 by the GOP over Obama's king George the third's impersonation in the White House. GOP Senators and Representatives seeking election assured voters that Obama's unilateral unconstitutional immigration plans would be met with legislative roadblocks that would take away his "phone and pen" by all means necessary. 

In the GOP response speech we instead heard this: "We will work to correct executive overreach."

Work to correct? Does that sound like a strong push back or a wet noodle chastisement? You work to correct mistakes, you don't work to correct defiance. You work to correct problems, you don't work to correct lawlessness. You work to correct mishandling, you don't work to correct a complete undermining of our Constitution and its clear separation of powers.

The GOP speech did not instill confidence in the public that we are being heard "loud and clear" instead it made most voters believe we are still a static background noise to Beltway buddies.  

The GOP seems to want to play nice with the administration until 2016 when it herds us to the table where Jeb Bush, Chris Christie and Mitt Romney wearing hair nets try to slop the same over-processed goop of small appetizers-teasers on our plates calling it gourmet opposition catering.

Most know it to be however, the same old political pablum we were spoon fed as children, albeit now we are not naive political knickers-wearing "Gruber-ites" that can be swooned by empty words that produce imperceptible change in the way Washington operates.  

So we will wait and watch what the GOP will do or not do in the coming months, hoping that they dial in to our strong voter signal because so far, we are holding our spoons ready to either gag and swallow or toss that slop back on their obtuse noggins.

P.S.  Advice to GOP politicians, wear a raincoat to your town hall meetings because Americans don't want to be taken to the cleaners again.