Outright Hostility Toward the Constitution

When asked by a reporter from where in the Constitution she and her Marxist cartel in Congress derive their authority to mandate the purchase of health insurance by the American people, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House and third in the line of succession to the presidency, said, "Are you serious? Are you serious?" When asked the same question, Patrick Leahy, Senator from Vermont, said, "No one questions our authority." Wrong.

Madam Speaker, we are very serious. And Senator Leahy, we are questioning your authority. Who are we? We are the American people, the very same people who authored the Constitution of the United States of America. And we do it in the rich tradition dating back to the Founders of this great country who penned the Declaration of Independence, our announcement to the world of the American intention to never again be held in the grip of tyrannical "authority" figures.

On display in the halls of Congress and in the White House is an arrogance of staggering proportion and a hostility to the Constitution that is breathtaking in its audacity. For 40 years this hostility has lurked in the shadows of the media and American academia but remained without a voice at the highest levels of American government. Until now. Our elected leadership has lost any pretense of fidelity to the Constitution to the point where instead of a quiet, secret assault on individual liberty and American tradition we now have the third most powerful person in America openly ridiculing those who question the legitimacy of her exercise of authority. Before this assault was conducted with words like "compassion" and the idea of "helping lift Americans out of poverty." Now, apparently, we have reached the point where such colloquialisms of formality are no longer necessary. Instead we get, "Are you serious?"

Nothing is more serious to the American people than ensuring that exercised powers are legitimate and blessed with the consent of the governed. And nothing is more serious than our beloved Constitution, which created a system of government intertwined with the Natural Law precepts articulated in the Declaration of Independence. These documents are the hope of mankind, and have allowed a greater magnitude of freedom and innovation than any other government conceived by the reason of man. It is clear that those who govern us no longer concern themselves with these precepts and this foundation, and instead have openly declared war on the traditional America given to us by our Founders and passed down from generation to generation. They have declared war on the American people and have abandoned any notion or acceptance of the limits of their own authority in exchange for an arrogant and reckless attempt to fashion a statist, authoritarian utopia that history proves has no alternative but to end in bankruptcy and ruin, and the enslavement of the American people.

All that stands in the way of this war, and the 1000 years of darkness that will follow, is the collective will of an aroused people who still hold dear to the idea of individual liberty that is written into the hearts of every man around the world and specifically encoded into the American DNA. These men, women and children that define the sleeping, silent majority of freedom loving, traditional Americans roared with collective might at the TEA Parties all around the nation on 4/15 and at the 9/12 Freedom March on Washington that numbered into the high six-figures. Lincoln said that the American people were the last, best hope for mankind and he was right. The only thing we weren't counting on was having to defeat the predictable assault on freedom right here at home by the people we ourselves elected to protect that very freedom. So in answer to your question, Speaker Pelosi, are we serious? You bet your ass we are. And in proving just how serious we are, we will make proud all those who fought and died for freedom before us.