John Brummett is in panic mode. Those horrible uncontrollable beasts (Republicans) who want to do away with government handouts are plotting to take over the Arkansas Ledge. (They did on November 6, 2012.) For the uninitiated, Ledge is the Democrat controlled legislature. He says those beastly conservatives (my words) hold a ridged conservatism that is caused by an (quote) “antipathy toward Barack Obama” (unquote).  Mr. Brummett fails to acknowledge that we conservatives have always had an antipathy to big government and the nut job only reinforces our desire to return to constitutional government.

And does he complain. He wrote in his Arkansas Democrat-Gazette column on 10-9-2012, that “This kind of political animal (beast? My word) believes government is but a necessary inconvenience to provide a bare minimum of spartan (sic) public services to fill rare gaps in the private sector’s bounty-a road, a policeman, a fireman.” I wonder if the man has ever read the United States Constitution and the Arkansas document. He takes umbrage to the fact that the beast thinks it is “absurd that government could be used for economic stimulus and commendable human benevolence.”  Do tell and my word lodges in the mind. And he says that the beasts think “government-induced economic activity is always artificial and fleeting.”  Does not the man read history?

Here comes the kicker of all that he writes. The beast “believes government can never be allowed to tell a free man what he must do with his own money, beyond, that is, paying the barest minimum of taxes for the spartan (sic) government.” That is correct and we conservative beasts make no apologies for freedom from government and the liberty to do with our means as we see fit. 

The Brummett animal wants government to run this and that and believes that this and that are better with government running the show; government will stimulate the economy beyond measure. He implies that recipients of government run programs will not abuse the system and it is folly to think that the government runs wasteful programs. The Brummett animal thinks that higher income people should pay a higher percentage. Can Mr. Brummett spell Karl Marx or Communism? Apparently not, since he is spouting the doctrine of “from those with the most ability to those with greatest need”; both determined by the most generous with your money government.

Mr. Brummett doesn’t like the idea that conservatives believe that prosperity cannot be created by taxing taxes. That was tried once by the federal monster when LBJ was the chief instigator of big government; the name was surtax, a tax on the tax and it didn’t produce anything but misery for taxpayers and stagnation of the economy.

Last is a direct quote of the last paragraph of Mr. Brummett’s column. “We have long constructed in this country a public-private partnership that values and balances free enterprise and personal responsibility with a government that provides broad services, both compassionate and stimulative (sic?), and a safety net. Some of us want to make that coexistence work better. These people don’t.” Mr. Brummett needs to study history because that last paragraph is pure nonsense. Our republic was built into a dynamic country by keeping government at arms length; that is by following the Constitution’s limits on government listed in Article I, Section 8.

Paul wrote And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?  (II Corinthians 6:15) The principle of which Paul wrote applies to the relationship of private and government. How does anyone live with a rattlesnake or a predator animal that wants to devour the prey? Mr. Brummett, there is no coexistence with the evil that government hides with pleasing sounding words. Coexistence you say Mr. Brummett. Please give us a break. We don’t believe in it for a minute.

© 10-11-2012 DEC