The Democratic Governors Association has characterized members of the Tea Party movement as “political terrorists”. And well they might, for Democrat elitism and worship of government as the source of all good is the direct antithesis of what our Founding Fathers envisioned for America. Government encroachment on our liberties and intrusion in our lives is precisely what gave birth to the Tea Party and the 912 movements. 

As Americans wake up to the intellectual dishonesty of those claiming to support freedom, even as they legislate massive entitlements that mandate dependency on government, these demagogues have every reason to be afraid – not for their lives, but for the impending loss of the plush trappings of the public offices which they have used for their own gain at the expense of our freedom and our national security.

While he was a U.S. Senator, John F. Kennedy wrote a book titled “Profiles in Courage.” In it, he chronicled acts of personal courage by sometimes unsung heroes who did the right thing regardless of personal cost. In every case, the people profiled in JFK’s book were faced with difficult decisions framed in the context of conflict. Sometimes the conflicts were the result of the perpetual struggle between right and wrong. Sometimes their struggles were the result of having to define what is right and what is wrong. 

Times have certainly changed since the publication of President Kennedy’s book. The struggles in Congress are no longer to define what is right, or even to do what is right. In Congress, the struggle has become how each member can best feather his or her political nest at our expense.