Senate Whores: Let the Fiddling Begin

Paul E. Scates

To almost nobody’s surprise, SenatorBen “Nighthorse” Nelson joined his fellow Democrats to ensure the most dramatic expansion of government power in our history. Oh, sure, he did so after a lot of posturing about “moral concerns” over the abortion language, etc., but all that was just haggling for a better price. Like Mary Landreau of Louisiana, who got upwards of $100 million in earmarks for her state, Joe Leiberman of Connecticut, who got…well, we don’t yet know what his price was, nor that of the other supposed “Blue Dog” (i.e., “conservative” Democrats…who can say that phrase without laughing aloud?) Democrats who supposedly were a threat to the passage of this bill. That was just cant facilitated by the mainstream media to keep the lazy and complacent electorate comfortable in their willful ignorance until it was too late. And it worked…again.

While we may not know the exact price of all those who voted for the bill, what we do know is that the U.S. Senate is populated by whores. To be sure, they’re high-priced ones, but whores nonetheless.

When I was in Vietnam, the single guys who took R&R in Bangkok would regale us upon their return with tales of the whores they encountered there – the girls you could buy for an hour or two, then in other bars a slightly higher class (and more expensive) prostitute who would offer their wares for the entire night. But the top of the line whores, those who cost the most, were the ones who would take the GIs into their apartment for the week, becoming a concubine of sorts. They’d buy groceries and cook, wash the GIs clothes and show them around the city (in addition to the usual services for which one goes to prostitutes).

Prostitute (Photo credit: Jose Pereira)

That’s the U.S. Senate. They preen and posture, bluster and blow about fairness and equality, about the poor and the need for justice, about “the people,” etc., but when it comes right down to it, all they want is a higher price for the screwing they’re giving the American people. Because those millions of our tax dollars, doled out in the form of state projects that employ their constituents, are the currency of power, of re-election to their positions of power, prestige and perquisites. And that, regardless of their rhetoric, is their one and only concern; everything else is simply a means to that end.

This so-called “Health Care Reform” is no more about health care than the Campaign Finance “Reform” bill was about stopping the influence of money. In fact, you can pretty much take this to the bank: when you see the word “reform” in the title of a piece of legislation, get prepared to lose more of your liberty, pony up more in taxes and endure more government encroachment into your lives. You see, career politicians’ idea of “reform” is to make it easier for them to stay in power and harder for you and I to unseat them (the true aim and impact of the Campaign Finance Reform legislation).

What we’re witnessing is the single greatest usurpation of power by the government in the history of this nation. The Founders could not have been clearer about where the greatest danger to our freedom lies, and it’s not foreign powers or alien philosophies. . .it’s the government itself! And we’re witnessing, and facilitating, the takeover of our democratic republic by elitist, career politicians who have no more character or integrity that a bitch dog in heat. How else do you explain our so-called representatives voting for legislation with which many of them do not agree, or even see as detrimental to the long-term health of our nation? They do so because they value their positions far more than they do this republic, and certainly more than the freedoms that make us nuisances, at best, and downright dangerous roadblocks to their political goals when we do pay attention and join together to oppose their betrayals (i.e., the Tea Party movement).

Yes, there will be dramatic impacts on our health insurance and health care, to be sure, but the major thrust of this legislation is to give the federal government more control over the lives and fortunes of its citizens. Think England’s socialism for starters, quickly followed by the tyranny of government experienced by Central and Eastern Europe under the Soviet Union’s totalitarian system.

Ironic, isn’t it, that while the Communists of the old Soviet empire thought their empire would never end, most Americans today lull themselves with the same “it could never happen here” falsehood. The Soviet Union, the second-most powerful nation in the history of mankind, no longer exists! But in our blithe apathy and willful political and historical ignorance, we keep whistling in the dark, refusing to believe the most powerful nation in history could ever fail.

China, along with the oil emirates, owns the U.S. economically. Far left elitist socialists who share none of the values or goals of the majority of Americans own us politically. And the Almighty Self owns us spiritually. G.K. Chesterton wrote that when men stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing. . . they believe in anything. Like global warming, or American “imperialism,” or widespread white racism, or religious exclusion (against Muslims), and on and on.

Well, all you mindless liberal hordes who feel guilty about our material prosperity and liberties, take heart. . .you’re witnessing the end of both. Like the man who killed the goose who laid the golden egg, you’re too blinded by Self to see that you, too, will be consumed in the maw of big government. So while you’re congratulating yourselves for your multicultural sensibilities and moral superiority over the crass American public, why not break out a fiddle, as Nero did, while your nation burns around you. Play it loud, and enjoy your brief celebration. . . you’ll have plenty of time to lament your foolishness.

Formerly a liberal and an atheist, Paul E. Scates served as a Marine in Vietnam and is a lifelong student of American history, politics and culture. A former contributor to national website TooGoodReports.com, he writes his staunchly independent Conservative and informed Christian commentary for his fellow ordinary, working Americans, the “we, the people” who are ultimately responsible for preserving our Constitutional liberties.

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