In fact, I’m thinking the White House has completely lost all interest in it’s “We The People” petition process.  Not only have they failed to respond to mine, but it seems that they haven’t responded to any petition in quite a while.  Responses aren’t dated, so you can’t tell when they are posted, but I’ve been checking frequently and haven’t seen anything new in several weeks.

In case you tuned in late here, several months ago I posted a petition on the “We the People” page at WhiteHouse.gov.  Here’s a link to the petition.  I simply asked that 0bama spend one hour discussing the FairTax with me and/or Congressman John Linder.  Now that’s certainly not too much to ask for a piece of tax reform legislation backed by $22 million dollars in research. 

The White House had been making quite a big deal of this initiative, promising a response to any petition which managed to get 25,000 signatures.  Naturally, given the nature of the electorate today, several nonsense petitions started to show up, including one calling for the U.S. to build a death star.  Another petition called for the Monday after Super Bowl Sunday to be a national holiday.  Well … petitions like that show why we’re in the shape we’re in today.  So the White House retaliated by upping the required number of signatures to 25,000.  My petition, however, was grandfathered, and the 25,000 requirement remained.  Today we’re over 28,000.  Have been for a month.  No response.

Again … I think the White House has lost interest in this petition thing.  0bama’s narcissism and arrogance is simply not a good fit for a program that requires responses to citizen initiatives.  I’ll keep looking though, and we’ll keep you posted.

ARE YOU MISERABLE YET?

Well, you’re supposed to be.  Sequestration, you know.  After four years of almost unimaginable spending increases, our government has had to cut back on spending --- or at least cut back on increases in government spending.  0bama has been telling you that the sequester is “devastating.”  Do you feel devastated this morning?  Are the traffic lights  still working?  Is your flight delayed?  Did you notice all those hungry children roaming the streets when you drove to work? 

0bama, of course, is blaming this all on the Republicans.  Those nasty Republicans just didn’t want to raise taxes on the rich again.  They gave 0bama his 4.6% of additional income taxes on the rich in the fiscal cliff negotiations.  0bama told them that he would then sit down and discuss spending cuts.  When the Republicans tried to initiate that discussion 0bama suddenly said that he wasn’t willing to discuss spending cuts until he got some more tax increases on the rich.  He wants to close “loopholes.”  That’s 0bamaspeak for tax deductions. 

Most government-educated Americans aren’t smart enough to understand this, but this sequestration is being driven not by Republicans refusing to raise taxes yet again, but by 0bama’s obsessive and intense resentment and dislike for the rich.  He was raised this way.  This is something he learned from his mother and father, from his grandparents, and from his Communist teen-years mentor Frank Marshall Davis.  This resentment of the rich is something he learned from the Communist student groups and professors he gravitated towards while in college.  It’s something he learned discussing politics in the living room of his Communist/terrorist Chicago friend and ghostwriter Bill Ayers.  To 0bama there is only one way these rich people got that money – excepting entertainers and athletes.  They got that money by oppressing and exploiting the poor and the middle class.  0bama is the hero who will come along to seize that ill-gained wealth and redistribute it to the people who really need it.  After all, that’s just fair. 

I’m hoping that this sequestration debacle – 0bama’s idea in the first place – is opening the eyes of more Americans.  It may well be too late, but at least we’ll know the “why” as American continues its’ slide.