“We will carry on this struggle until in God’s good time, with all his power and might, he steps forth to the rescue and liberation of our God-given American liberty,” thus saith Rep. Steve King (R-IA), my representative in Congress, in a nearly hour-long rant on the evils--that's not a metaphor--of Obamacare.
Should the newly-elected House repeal Obamacare or not is immaterial. My congressman, Rep. Steve King (R-IA), has made it very clear that the Lord God almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth, is on his side in this on-going national debate. Perhaps in King's mind, there are tea bags hanging from God's diadem.
America is a fine country, land of the free, home of the brave. We carry wonderful freedoms here, including the right Rep. King (R-IA) has to believe that the God who watches over Calcutta's slums, who remembers the blood-letting of the American Civil War and every other war in human history, who was there, in fact, when the Himalayas were formed, when the Colorado River first carved its way through the Grand Canyon, that that God is, today, a Republican on health care. In this country, he is free to believe whatever he wants about Yahwah. That is his right.
But it is irresponsible for him, an elected official, to say it aloud for two reasons--first, because the gods of many other Americans, who are just as privileged here in this free nation as he is, may well have contrary political leanings; and, second, because Jared Lee Loughlins live on our streets, deranged folks who carry Glocks with functional expanded magazines and don't take declarations such as my congressman, Rep. Steve King (R-IA), made last week as, really, a form of blasphemy. What they hear is that God Almighty is comfortably situated on their side of this honorable, difficult debate, while Satan--a dark and detestable figure--informs the strategies of the evil forces on the other.
Saturday's horrific tragedy was accomplished by a young man whose mind had shipwrecked. Maybe he never listened to Glen Beck. Maybe he knew less about a tea party than he did about pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey. I doubt he heard Siouxland's own Rep. Steve King hold forth in divine triumph on the floor of the House last week.
But I think that the outspoken Pima County Sheriff isn't wrong: right now, the atmosphere in this nation is threatened by rhetoric so combustible that we're all in immediate fire danger.
This morning, like last night, I pray that those who send that kind of language out cease and desist, even though it is their right. I honestly hope that Rep. Steve King, from here on in, refrains from playing the God card, despite the favor it wins him.
On that point, I'm in the minority. In November, Rep. Steve King won in Sioux County, IA, with a 86.5% of the vote because people want him to say what he did and does.
I understand, but I find it sad, very sad.
Should the newly-elected House repeal Obamacare or not is immaterial. My congressman, Rep. Steve King (R-IA), has made it very clear that the Lord God almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth, is on his side in this on-going national debate. Perhaps in King's mind, there are tea bags hanging from God's diadem.
America is a fine country, land of the free, home of the brave. We carry wonderful freedoms here, including the right Rep. King (R-IA) has to believe that the God who watches over Calcutta's slums, who remembers the blood-letting of the American Civil War and every other war in human history, who was there, in fact, when the Himalayas were formed, when the Colorado River first carved its way through the Grand Canyon, that that God is, today, a Republican on health care. In this country, he is free to believe whatever he wants about Yahwah. That is his right.
But it is irresponsible for him, an elected official, to say it aloud for two reasons--first, because the gods of many other Americans, who are just as privileged here in this free nation as he is, may well have contrary political leanings; and, second, because Jared Lee Loughlins live on our streets, deranged folks who carry Glocks with functional expanded magazines and don't take declarations such as my congressman, Rep. Steve King (R-IA), made last week as, really, a form of blasphemy. What they hear is that God Almighty is comfortably situated on their side of this honorable, difficult debate, while Satan--a dark and detestable figure--informs the strategies of the evil forces on the other.
Saturday's horrific tragedy was accomplished by a young man whose mind had shipwrecked. Maybe he never listened to Glen Beck. Maybe he knew less about a tea party than he did about pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey. I doubt he heard Siouxland's own Rep. Steve King hold forth in divine triumph on the floor of the House last week.
But I think that the outspoken Pima County Sheriff isn't wrong: right now, the atmosphere in this nation is threatened by rhetoric so combustible that we're all in immediate fire danger.
This morning, like last night, I pray that those who send that kind of language out cease and desist, even though it is their right. I honestly hope that Rep. Steve King, from here on in, refrains from playing the God card, despite the favor it wins him.
On that point, I'm in the minority. In November, Rep. Steve King won in Sioux County, IA, with a 86.5% of the vote because people want him to say what he did and does.
I understand, but I find it sad, very sad.
12 comments:
Having grown up in the same denomination as you, I so appreciate your point of view. Thanks for your blog postings. I look forward to reading them everyday.
Jim,
Not everyone who voted for King likes all of what he says. Sometimes the alternative may be worse.
I did vote for him but think he is not always wise in what he says.
As a Native American, I believe that what goes around, also comes around. Patience is on our side. We all need to be praying and fasting on this matter as it isn't against flesh and blood that we are at war with. At least that's what it says in my Bible. It's beyond me who your "King" represents but it sure isn't me and I'm a Republican.
Obamacare? Jesus cares! After His Sermon On The Mount as recorded in Matthew 5, 6, and 7, Jesus came down from the mount and healed the sick, Mathew 8. When our government uses my tax money to heal the sick and meet the needs of the poor, I am happy to live in this great land. Jesus also referenced the rich in His Sermon. Let's be "Jesusists" and incorporate His teachings in our political rhetoric and legislation. Thank God that most Native Americans living on Native lands have free access to federal health care. Google Indian Health Care Improvement Act.
Let's face the truth. WE ARE NOT a rich nation anymore. China owns us pretty much lock, stock and barrel. Obamacare would be great if we could REALLY afford it...truth is, WE CAN'T.. We have gone over $5 trillion more in debt since your man took office. By the time he is done, I wouldn't be surprised if it goes up another $7.... WE ARE DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY FROM WITHIN.. sorry to say.. TRUTH hurts sometimes.
and your hero just a couple of yrs ago said, "if they bring a knife to the fight, we'll bring a gun." How's that for rhetoric?
Other modern nations around the world have chosen to provide health care for all their citizens, but of course they are not conducting two ten year old wars with Muslim nations. We have a federal law that requires a hospital ER to provide emergency life saving care to everyone who may require it, even if the patient can not pay. Those costs are then passed on in the overall charges and bills of those who can pay. Should the Congress also repeal that law, and force indigent people to die on our streets? We can not afford not to have universal health care for every one, like other modern nations and China. I would rather have my taxes go toward health care for my neighbors than for wars in the Middle East.
Anything we get in terms of health care is by way of the treaties drawn up between the Gov and the indigenous people of this country. All this for the taking of land and it's resources from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the border to the north to the border to the south. Even then we've been marginalized to the max.
and those other nations are BROKE too!!!! learn the facts...
It's a good thing our forefathers didn't think like you or we'd being speaking german of japanese now.
Well thank you, that's news to me, FOX NEWS, that is.
I know of at least one pretty prominent Siouxland Republican who thinks of King the same way you do and occasionally talks of challenging him. It'd probably be a quixotic run.
Then again, who knows? Things have certainly changed, but folks back in Siouxland were sufficiently independent to elect Berkeley Bedell to six terms in Congress.
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