Preface: The following was posted as the House of Representatives were in the midst of multiple votes for Speaker:
It was January 6, of 2021....early afternoon....and I texted our son with these words...."Are you watching this?" I texted him this evening....an hour ago....with the same simple question....no identification as to what would he be watching was necessary. He was watching both times.
I have noticed this for years....no....decades....when these very serious and solemn politicians....(our representatives voting)....when they don't think that the camera is on them....they are seen laughing and joking and giggling....sometimes even with their ideological opponents! As for tonight....who knows what one side promised the smaller rebel side? They most likely won't keep the promises anyway....and the rebel side....maybe with the exception of a very few....probably doesn't really care. These are the leaders that God has given us....for they are what we deserve.
"Alexis....Did you say this or not.....'America is great because America is good...if America ceases to be good....America will cease to be great'."
A Democrat Congressman during one of yesterday's nominating speeches quoted only the last sentence of a greatly disputed and longer Alexis de Tocqueville quote....(the Democrat did mention this dispute)....the full quote being....
"I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers....it was not there....in her fertile fields and boundless forests....and it was not there....in her rich mines and her vast world commerce....and it was not there....in her democratic Congress and her matchless Constitution....and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."
Quoting Alexis de Tocqueville might not be accurate....but quoting Eisenhower or Kennedy....quoting de Tocqueville.....would be accurate. We know this also...Alexis de Tocqueville would have visited America in the middle of what is known as....The Second Great Awakening. So much for possible spurious quotes....the following is a quote that we not only know is legitimate....but we know that it is truth....because Isaiah wrote it....in the very Word of God.
"Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter. Woe to those who are wise, and shrewd in their own sight!"....the passage ending with this...."For they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel."
The first....'woe'....in my estimation....describes the one side of America today....seeing good as being evil....and evil as being good. The second....'woe'....could describe us....for we have always believed ourselves to be the wise ones....so wise in fact....that we do not need the actual Word of God to guide us....but it is a good banner to f
