The Swamp is the Enemy
How the Left became the swamp they promised to drain

"We have come here to drain the swamp. The New Direction Congress will for the first time open the ethics process up to the participation of our fellow citizens, which will make this institution more accountable."

- Nancy Pelosi
March 11, 2008, upon the establishment of the Office of Congressional Ethics

What is "the swamp," exactly?

The swamp is the very "culture of corruption" that Speaker Pelosi promised to end. It is not limited to one house or branch of government, or even the government itself. The swamp also includes the voting bloc that encourages their own government to act against their nation's founding principles. Without a doubt, that very culture has proven itself all the more corrupt under the Speaker of the Swamp.

With that introduction in mind, Speaker Pelosi's latest stunt should come as no suprise. She is asking swamp voters for contributions to prevent subpoenas and investigations that may result if the GOP should take back the House.

Indeed, there are many butts to cover. In the midst of a massive ecological disaster, the Obama Regime can't afford to let a good crisis go to waste. From the Stimulus to ObamaCare to the Dodd- Frank banking takeover, thousand-plus page bills have been stuffed down our throats, and we have no idea what we're consenting to. This was infamously revealed when the Swamp Speaker said "[W]e have to pass the [health care] bill so that you can find out what is in it." Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) echoed these sentiments in overdrive as the banking takeover passed the House. “No one will know until this is actually in place how it works. But we believe we’ve done something that has been needed for a long time. It took a crisis to bring us to the point where we could actually get this job done.”

Evidently, we have a government being run by the consent of the charlatans. They can't run a lawnmower, but they sure know how to use a good crisis.

Even as Pelosi's share of the swamp has served as a breeding ground for insects and alligators, things haven't exactly changed for the better under Sultan Obama, either.

The hearings have kicked off for Elena Kagan's nomination to the Swamp Court as we speak. This woman has never been a judge. She may not have a "paper trail," but her fecal trail is of grave concern. As dean of Harvard Law School, she kicked military recruiters off campus over her opposition to "don't ask, don't tell." Ironically enough, that has been Obama's policy whenever the press has questions about Elena Kagan.

In addition to her call for "the redistribution of speech," it is no secret that Kagan supports the massive redistribution of wealth. An excerpt from Kagan's senior thesis from Princeton reveals her blatant adherance to the socialist movement:

“Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism’s glories than of socialism’s greatness,” she wrote in her thesis.

“Conformity overrides dissent; the desire to conserve has overwhelmed the urge to alter. Such a state of affairs cries out for explanation.”

She called the story of the socialist movement’s demise “a sad but also a chastening one for those who, more than half a century after socialism’s decline, still wish to change America... In unity lies their only hope.”

During the 1980 election cycle, she accused the bulk of Democrats of being "closet Republicans" and expressed a longing for when "a new, revitalized, perhaps more leftist left will once again come to the fore."

If what we already know about Kagan isn't bad enough - indeed, a radical Marxist on the bench is par to the course - Obama has been using executive priviledge in a massive cover-up scheme. So claimed Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) earlier this June.

"The batch of documents received today represent less than a third of the 160,000 pages of material we have been told exist from Elena Kagan's time as a senior policy aide to President Clinton," the senator said in a statement. "We are now a mere 24 days away from the hearing and the committee still has yet to receive over 100,000 pages of documents."

With Sultan Obama's obsession with identity politics in mind, it's no coincidence that he would nominate a Jewish woman. After all, his support amongst Jews is in the dump. This should come as no suprise. We already got our wise La Raza woman. We sure don't want another "typical white person" on the bench. And we sure don't want anyone who puts the rule of law above empathy. Not on our Swamp Court.

A McLaughlin Group poll of current U.S. Jewish opinion found that from enjoying 78% of U.S. Jews’ approval on Election Day 18 months ago, Obama now is down to 42% versus 46% who say they would vote for his opponent. He has lost almost half his former support from that sector.

Even if, miraculously, the GOP manages to bork the Kagan nomination, and pressures Sultan Obama into nominating “by and with the advice and consent of the Senate,” a half-way decent judge with a proven record of experience, the cultural swamp will still exist. And few represent the poster-boy image of that swamp other than Michael Moore, who gains a pound for every lie he tells.

It took an entire trilogy of documentaries to debunk nearly every big fat lie told by Michael Moore up through Fahrenheit 9/11. They are Michael & Me by Larry Elder; FahrenHYPE 9/11 by Alan Peterson, and Michael Moore Hates America by Michael Wilson. There is also a film called Manufacturing Dissent (which I have not seen).

Michael Moore's audience is all well and good with his fabrications as long as they represent an ideological truth to them, no matter how far-fetched it may be. The end justifies the means, and a lie told often enough becomes the truth. Sound familiar? Moore and his ilk understand that they have to lie in order for their depictions to hoodwink their viewers. Just as a jihadist may be permitted to lie under the condition that it advances Islam, Moore's audience allows him to lie under the condition that it advances the leftist agenda.

For those who experienced more guilt than pleasure from consuming Moore's fraudulent catalogue, there is the "inconvenient truther" himself, Al Gore. On April 23, 2009, the House Democrats refused to allow Lord Christopher Monckton, former science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, to testify alongside of Al Gore. The Democrats had plenty of reason to fear Gore's humiliation. Monckton, who holds a legitimate scientific background, wrote an extensive report that identifies 35 errors found in An Inconvenient Truth. To this day, Gore holds no scientific degree.

In the midst of a well-publicized divorce with Tipper, his wife of 40 years, Gore faces allegations of sexual assault. as well as rumors of an extramaritial affair with fellow inconvenient truther Laurie David. If either of these allegations are proven to be true, it will prove once and for all that ethics are the last thing on Al Gore's mind. He won't be remembered solely as the original inconvenient truther, but as an inconvenient groper as well.

Despite an increasingly arrogant and dishonest swamp culture, there is something each of us can do to fight back. We must raise a generation that understands what it means to be an American.

Recently, Dennis Prager wrote a column on just that. The post-Christian world has failed to fill the God-shaped hole with anything other than moral confusion and a culture of gluttony. And that's leaving out quite a bit.

As Prager explains...

[T]here were never any Christian Auschwitzes -- i.e., systematic genocides of every man, woman and child of a particular race or religion. Nor were there Christian Gulags -- the shipping of millions of innocents to conditions so horrific that prolonged suffering leading to death was the almost-inevitable end.

Prager also offers a lengthly explanation on why he believes that the greatest long-term threat to America is the loss of our national identity.



Many of Prager's points touch on what I have included in this article.