Competence ...

We look for people with competence when we are hiring workers, looking for volunteers and taking care of our kids.

Why don't we do the same when we are electing (and re-electing) the people that work for us in the government?

We seem to think that these people that we elect are smarter than us. That they are more capable than we are, so they must know what they are doing.

I have good news. These people are not better, smarter or more competent than we are. I mean, really, do you honestly believe that Ted Kennedy was all that intelligent? He was clever. He had tons and tons of money, and he had a family influence that was way out of proportion to his abilities. He talked a good talk and used threats and deception when his cleverness wasn't sufficient. He was a thief, liar, womanizer, coward and murderer. How did this man ever get elected to office?

What about Barney Frank? The man is an idiot. His constituents are either complacent, lazy, or worse. Why in the world would anyone elect Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi? Neither of them are any smarter than most of their voters.

Neither of them has the competency that I see every day from the people I work with. Neither of them, I suspect, have read the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, or the Declaration of Independence. Well, maybe the Declaration, as it is an easy read compared to the Constitution.

Ignorance of the Law is no excuse for breaking the Law.

Given the chance, I am quite sure that the President, Pelosi, and Reid would dispose of the aforementioned documents without reading them, and replace them with a fascist document that put them in charge permanently (for our own good, of course).

What we need is an amendment that reaffirms the principles of our founders, reaffirms government's role in our lives, and reasserts the power of the people, while limiting the damage that incompetents and liars can do through the executive, legislative and judicial branches.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has a program in place that allows us to recall defective and dangerous items and fix or replace them with better, safer and more reliable products.

Do we not have the same power as Americans under the Constitution of the United States of America? Is it required that we be forced to sit through two full years of idiocy before we can correct our mistakes? Is there no mechanism for recall of defective representatives, senators, and presidents?

We must recall and fire all the violators of the Constitution, whether they are Supreme Court justices, Presidents, congressmen and -women, city council members, school board trustees and the like.

We must do it now, or face a constitutional crisis the likes of which will be remembered in history as the Second American Revolution, or the Second American Civil war.

Bloodless or Bloody, something must be done to protect our children from the depredations of communism, socialism, and fascism.