It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions: Samuel Adams (1722-1803), was known as the "Father of the American Revolution."
The Senate Foreign Relations committee passed the buck by not shutting down John Bolton's nomination for U.N. Ambassador,
many claiming loyalty to the President .
Only Senator Barbara Boxer had the courage to put a hold on Bolton's nomination ~ a privilege that any Senator can invoke ~
and it takes 60 Senate votes to overturn a hold.
We have obviously taken another giant step towards an irrelevant Senate ~ something our founding fathers were wary of ~ and a subject one of my readers commented on a few weeks ago .
Dear Dr. Roland,
I enjoy your articles and look forward to reading more from you. I am afraid, however, that you -like almost everyone- have missed the principle fact. The constitutional republic which the founders of the United States of America crafted and left to us is in fact over, defunct, ended, is no more, and cannot be brought back.
It might be some time before people recognize this in large numbers, but all we have remaining is the illusion. Events presently on the horizon are promising to finish the job and might do so.
Washington is an artifact of a bygone age, merely the stagesetting for what is already happening right under the citizens' noses: a powerful and fundamental change similar to that when Ancient Rome lost its republic, and for the same reason: ambitious individuals found themselves enabled to sieze power and keep it, and the previous form of government continued on merely in a vestagial form.
The Roman Senate actually continued to call themselves The Roman Senate for several hundred years after it had lost all its power. Our Congress have also capitulated, no more attempting to lead or guide in any real or legitimate way, but has foundered like a ship on a rocky shore, broken up on a coast clogged with selfish interests, political action committees, and outright aliens, of various kinds.
In my opinion, all we have to look forward to now is the time it takes for this government to come to a decisive end, and the new one to start, and the misery between.
Sincerely,
Robert Burt
rhb15@texxa.net
P.S. There is another option and that is directly emailing the President, as I have, and letting him know that he works for us and that John Bolton does not represent America's best interests.
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