Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were considered the founding father's of the Democratic Party. Both worked hard to empower the common man and did all in their power to limit government. Modern Democrats say that America has changed too much and needs government to tell the citizenry how to live their lives and spend their money. The new Democratic big government politicians say the Jeffersonian ideal of yeoman farmers as the foundation of a free society is outdated, as well as many other principals of the founders. I wonder what the millions of small business people think who are the direct descendants of the Jeffersonian vision for what best makes up the vibrant core of our citizenry. They do most of the hiring, provide most of the growth in our economy and sacrifice their very lives to "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." Will Rogers once was quoted; "I am not a member of any organized party-I am a Democrat." I don't think he would identify with many Twenty-first Century Democrats.

The Democratic Party is no longer the party of the common man, and it now seems to have the goal of concentrating power in the hands Big Government Democrats in Congress have been on a crusade to expand government at all levels and take more taxpayer money from the very entrepreneurs that have been the backbone of our economic growth for over a century. They pass bills that strangle their enterprise while continuing concentration of wealth and power in the hands of bureaucrats and lawyers. Congress increasingly rewards these bloated bureaucracies with automatic pay increases and benefits that the private sector funds, but can never aspire to enjoy. They tell us more Government will make the lives of Americans better when historic evidence proves otherwise.

There is a real danger in where that Party is going in to this fall. They show their disdain for public opinion and refuse to even allow dissenting views debate. Democrats lead the charge to consolidate their grip on ALL the levers of government and have attacked the Bill of Rights in the process. The Second Amendment, the right to bear arms, has been under attack for decades by the Liberal Left.  Now they want to limit the Tenth Amendment by usurping powers left to the states and even trying to stifle the free speech guaranteed by the First Amendment by advocating a new Freedom of Information act. This really is an assault on the Conservative Media outside most of the Mainstream Media they control. The Speaker of the House has arrogantly refused to even allow open debate on the Treaty for Free Trade with Columbia, a solid Latin American Ally or opening oil drilling in ANWR or off the U.S. Coasts. This last piece of suppression is a slap in the face to 75% of Americans who want more Domestic Oil production.

Some recent articles gleaned from the Wall Street Journal should open the eyes of the electorate to the type of Government Americans would be subjected to with a President Obama, Speaker for Life Pelosi and Senator Harry Reid  as Majority Leader of the Senate. That Newspaper is virtually the Only Mainstream Print Media that has presented a balanced menu of news and opinions. The rest of the Mainstream Print Media, Network News, and CNN have assumed the role of propagandists for Liberal Democrats. One article by Bill McGurn in the Journal, recently questioned the Congress for burying a small voucher program for the District of Columbia and hurting a voting block that supports them with up to 90% of the votes cast for Democratic Candidates. That is power exercised with an arrogance that only totalitarian governments have seen. An extension of Lord Acton's "Absolute Power corrupts absolutely" can be extended to anticipated control of all the levers of government that allow the Congressional Leaders to govern without regard to even their own supporters?

On July 25, Kimberley Strassel wrote about how Democrats are already telling K-Street Lobbyists to fall in line and support them with large contributions or else? Her article, "The K Street Project, Part Blue" actually borders on the surreal. They are threatening now what they will do when they get bigger majorities. What will they do if they get them and the Presidency? One paragraph was particularly chilling. She wrote; "In Congress itself, Democrats are using threats to bully business into supporting their legislation. Exhibit A: the ongoing battle over 'tax extenders,' a bill that includes provisions (such as the research and development tax credit) that business depends on Congress to renew each year. Speaker Pelosi passed that package in May, but only after pairing the tax cuts with $55 billion in tax hikes and stuffing it with perks for trial lawyers and unions. GOP senators balked, at which point aides for Mr. Reid, Ms. Pelosi, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, House Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel and Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus hauled in businesses most desperate to see the extenders passed and ordered them to lobby Republicans to fold."

All this reminds me of the many Hollywood propaganda films about right wing Military takeovers of the U.S. or other Republican Right Wing intrusions on American freedoms. Where is Hollywood's outrage at the increasing domination of the small business owner, a direct descendent of those championed by Jefferson and Jackson? There were excesses in what the House Un-American Committee did in the late forties, and they went way too far, but now is this the Left Wing's revenge? Paying back for what they suffered 60 years ago by trashing everything America has stood for the last 230 years? Are they doing whatever it takes to suppress any dissent against the Accumulation of Power by the Left Wing Democrats? Unfortunately the attack on America's freedom to control excessive government extends even to the states. John Fund wrote another chilling piece in the Wall Street Journal yesterday titled "The Far Left's War on Direct Democracy." It is about how the Democratic Left not only wants to suppress debate in Congress, but wants States that have Constitutional Amendment rights to eliminate those freedoms.

This November may be the last election "We the People" have any real say in how we want to be governed and taxed. The Left Wing wants control, even if they subject their taxpayers to bad government like many Northern States or California. Of course their friends will be exempted by writing complex laws that allow them preferential treatment. Those same complex, intrusive laws would help another set of contributors, the tort lawyers. To think they want to have an economy like Michigan, which is a testimony to how Democratic Control can hurt taxpayers and small business, should give every voter pause about the real threat to our country come November. Of course, as always, I feel we need to champion a Twenty-first Century Bill of Rights to constitutionally limit government!