“There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurancereform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.”

Many of us were required to read George Orwell’s book, 1984, in school.  It’s a disturbing book.  Thoughtcrimes or facecrimes. People gone in the cover of night.  Now this comparison my be a little overboard, but watching the news and seeing the Democrats and the Obama administration including President Obama lash out on ordinary American citizens that have every right to voice their opinions is making me wonder.  What does Obama really want for this country?  He was a community organizer, but obviously has no tolerance for those that organize themselves to stand up to what they don’t like.  He wants it his way or no way.  A quote from the book comes to mind. It’s harsh, but it makes you stop and think.

“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.”

This quote struck me because it seems to be right in the Obama administration playbook.  When the Democrats regained control of the Congress, I remember Nancy Pelosi coming out and saying we will not be like the Republicans. We will work together and make this country better.  I have yet to see this happen.  In my humble opinion, things are worse now that the Democrats are in control.  They don’t care about us. What politician does?  In a perfect world, I would hope all congressmen and women were like James Stewart’s Mr. Smith.  I am sure there are a few congressmen and women that really do care and want the best for this country, but there are others like Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Harry Reid, (the list goes on and on) that don’t care.  They only care about themselves.  What is happening in America today is exactly what needs to happen. We need to stand and let our voices be heard.  Don’t be imitated.  This is not George Orwell’s 1984 and don’t let them think they can get away with this.