A Nuclear Senate Reinstatement Provides A Two Year Window of Security

Two questions were posted and discussed in “Our Caravan” on November 7, 2014.

Will the Republican Party take advantage of this opportunity to pronounce the Nuclear Senate established by Harry Reid and the Democratic Party dead in the water or leave it untouched and use it in vengeance against that party?

When will our president finally come to grips with his personal hubris and truly make an effort to be the leader that this nation needs and deserves?

The Nuclear Senate question is constitutionally, historically and emotionally a complex can of worms. I believe I made an error when I suggested it needed to be dropped. The rational for its removal, however, remains correct. The right to filibuster is important to all of us because it is a protection against the abusive rule and tyranny of those who are a part of a majority. That is why democracies fail and why the United States of America is a republic.

The reinstatement of the Nuclear Senate has a positive side effect. Reinstatement would provide our nation an important two year window of security which can be used to intelligently slow and perhaps turn aside the advancing progressive storm. Reinstatement can always be undone as the soon as the dangers of the next two years of the Obama Presidency have passed us by. With that passing, the door opens to the possibility of a return to the guiding principles, waiting to be found again, in our foundation documents.

We must, therefore, aggressively and successfully confront the fundamental changing of America espoused by our President and his progressive supporters. If we are not successful, the foundation documents will be without value and will be cast aside. Any threats of destruction from outside our nation’s borders will immediately become meaningless. The attacking enemy will simply arrive too late. We will have already destroyed ourselves and history will have been proven correct.

The newly elected republican majority in the Senate can and must reinstate the nuclear senate. However, the new Senate majority can and must step forward and pass legislation which effectively opposes and counteracts legislation based on progressive philosophy. They can and must oppose our current economic insanity. They can and must re-establish and protect the guaranteed rights and the guiding principles contained in our constitution. They can and must return us to a nation which values and follows its laws. They can and must provide clear and effective alternatives and changes to previously enacted legislation and deliver that legislation quickly and directly to the President’s desk.

The President could succumb to his hubris and conceivably veto every piece of legislation sent to him by the new majority. In doing so, however, the President risks finishing his term of office wearing his “New Clothes” and holding a shadow legacy.

(Special thanks to Hans Christian Anderson and his story “The Emperor’s New Clothes”. http://www.andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/hersholt/TheEmperorsNewClothes_e.html)

The second question is by far the easiest to answer because it requires only two words: Probably never!