I am the master of my fate....

Watching too much TV lately, but the campaigns are fun. I love seeing the dems rant in terror. I can't imagine that ol' Governor Moonbeam is running again in California. There's a state that's a glutton for punishment.

Neil Cavuto interviewed a dem Representative on Thursday or Friday -- hate to be so non-specific. The guy was on just in front of Bernie Sanders, perhaps sinking into socialist drivel by degrees. I did try to find out the guy's name, but haven't been able to. At any rate, they were talking about the Bush Tax Cuts and the different approaches to the role of government taken by the liberals and the conservatives. The Rep was definitely a liberal. At a certain moment, with Cavuto needling him, I thought the Rep was about to have a stroke. With his eyes bulging out of his red face, he looked at Cavuto with utter contempt and demanded:  "Do you want to go back to the days when there were no government controls!"

Well.... Yeah.

By Jove, I think he's got it! I mean, what does this guy think the Tea Party is all about? What does he think America is all about? And this guy's in congress? See, I really wanted to get his name. And hopefully everyone would vote against him.

Then Daniel Hannon the British Rep to the EU or whatever, has a book out called "The New Road to Serfdom." He's been all over TV and of course, I have to drop everything and listen to him. I like him as much as I like Paul Ryan. Anyway, Daniel Hannon was on Fox & Friends one morning on a panel. They were talking about the Bush Tax Cuts. The two liberals on the panel were all for the Obama-Reid-Pelosi Tax Hike. One of them said something like, "It will cost $770 trillion dollars over ten years. How can we make that up?"

The segment was just about out of time, but Daniel Hannon suggested, "Growth!"

See, folks, it's not hard. Let people make a living, and you get.... Growth. Ta-da! More income to tax. More taxpayers instead of leaches and mooches. It worked for Reagan and Calvin Coolidge and for anyone else who's tried it. So much better than kissing China's butt. However, we have the Comrade in office, and he likes bowing and scraping to people who would rather see the USA dead.  Or a doormat.

So anyway, I thought of this poem. It was actually written by a British guy who had a leg amputated. Wikipedia also tells me that it was a favorite of Nelson Mandela. I do believe FDR liked, too, perhaps for obvious reasons (the bad wheels), but I won't hold FDR's fondness for it against it. This is it:

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

-- William Ernest Henley

Per Glenn Beck on Friday -- he had Daniel Hannon and also Stuart Varney, another sweetheart -- and they talked about some cockamamie report done by the US government NIC agency, about how the USA will just have to take a back seat to China and India as we lurch through the 21st century. They talk about "state capitalism" and things like that.

We tried "state capitalism" in the USA once. It was called "The Confederacy." Nobody liked it. It didn't work. As I recall, slavery was a big issue then just as it is now. No one really liked it but the masters, and many of them ended up dead, broke, and discredited. But they died very hard and chanting slogans to the bitter end.

So are the Comrade and merry marxists actually talking about moving forward or sliding back? You decide.

I downloaded the whole NIC report, some crap about "Transformation," and skimmed the table of contents so far -- read just enough to realize that Yes indeedy, the Comrade is leading us down the road to perdition. And making it sound like, "Hey! Shit happens!"

No it doesn't, pal. In the human world, that is, among conscious and self-willed creatures, nothing just happens, except maybe earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, etc. Contrary to popular green principles, we do not control nature. But we are in control of what happens to us individually and to the USA, despite the dreams of the Comrade's father. And the people of this country have fought this same fight since the 1740's. Who do you think's going to win?

Save the Republic.