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Pledge To Impeach: Will You Sign It?
Exclusive: Alan Keyes pushes ‘grass-roots initiative that circumvents the illusory party sham’
WND
Earlier this week I saw an interview Michele Bachmann did with Ginni Thomas. In it she observed that Barack Obama has committed impeachable offenses, but that the impeachment process cannot proceed without public support.
Bachmann’s insight is the key to understanding the Pledge to Impeach strategy I believe is the only effective way to bridle Obama’s effort to scrap the U.S. Constitution and establish dictatorial rule in the United States. The famous system of checks and balances has broken down, mainly because a corrupted party system is producing election results unconnected with any thought or intention of representing the people.
This week I read a description of the relations between the two major political parties in India that came close to describing the collusion that now prevails between the elitist faction GOP leaders and the Obama faction Democrats.
“There is a certain, and now growing, sense in India that the BJP and the Congress work best together. They have the same economic and foreign policies, they differ only slightly on domestic issues, and by and large appear to be natural partners who like to remain on opposite sides so that the opposition space is not occupied entirely by the regional parties. There have been several instances in the past when the two have come together to bail each out of tough situations inside Parliament, and their leaders are the first to admit that when they are in serious trouble in the legislature they first look at each other for help.”
Here we have two supposedly opposed parties that are actually in essential agreement in most respects. They maintain the façade of contention “so that the opposition space is not occupied … by the regional parties.” In the U.S. context, this latter purpose applies perfectly to the GOP. The Republican Party now exists to maintain the appearance of competition so that “the opposition space” in American politics is not occupied by the conservative grass-roots movement now identified by the tea party label.
As I’ve pointed out at length in a series of essays for my blog, this two-party sham entirely defeats the purpose of the American constitutional system, in which representation is vital to achieving the desire result. The intended result is a stable government, capable of defending the peace and order of society without tyrannically suppressing the liberty of the people. The system of checks and balances contributes to that result, but it only operates effectively in an environment shaped by what the founders called a “due dependence on the people.”
Reposted with permission
