There has been a slew of articles recently about the direction our country is taking. Over at Powerline, John Hinderaker asks Are We a Banana Republic?. Powerline also has a cartoon that captures the current tone of Washington (scroll down about 3/4ths of the way).
Meanwhile, Mark Steyn writes about The Outrage Kabuki now taking place in Washington.
Finally, Peter Robinson has some disquieting perspective from two people who have first-hand knowledge about banana republics.
Do I share their concerns? Absolutely! The claim that we are a nation of laws, not men may quickly be turning into the tag line of a bad joke. There are two related phenomena here: the refusal of our elected representatives to take responsibility for their own frantically-enacted laws (see my earlier post on this), and their efforts to scapegoat private citizens and enact punitive laws against them. Neither bodes well for the country.
This certainly isn't the change I was hoping for.
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