His Lips
are Moving
Thank God for the Bible. It is the infallible Word of God
and has served as an anchor for me these last two decades while sailing
through seas of human and demonic treachery.
But I must say that after nearly a half century on planet
earth, there are a few old secular sayings picked up through the years that
also contain a few grains of truth.
Let’s see, there’s, "A taxpayer and his money are
soon parted."
"Eat three square meals a day…and several round
ones."
And my favorite, "The only way to tell when a
politician is lying is to see whether his lips are moving."
I suspect that legislators on both sides of the aisle have
been practicing the art of ventriloquism for years because the American
people just keep on getting hoodwinked.
Case in point? The conservative’s friend…hah…Representative
Henry Hyde, Republican of Illinois.
Here’s a man who has all the dance moves down pat. But
like just about every other finger-in-the-wind politician we know,
Representative Hyde knows how to tailor his deep-seated emotions and
strongly held positions to the audience of the moment.
We could point to the intense conservative pressure and
media lobbying necessary for Hyde to finally move the Clinton impeachment
proceedings out of his judiciary committee and onto the floor of the house.
Oh yes, Henry Hyde finally did the right thing…but only after months of
foot-dragging.
Now, fast forward to June 9th and a Chicago
dinner banquet thrown by six area conservative groups featuring the good
representative as the keynote speaker. During the question and answer
period, a dyed-in-the-wool, concerned, conservative businessman from
Arlington Heights asked Representative Hyde whether he would be willing to
co-sponsor a bill brought by Texas Representative Ron Paul, requiring that
the United States withdraw its membership from the United Nations.
Hyde brought the house down with his promise not to sponsor
the bill but rather to support its passage if it ever came down to a floor
vote. Among those at the meeting who heard Hyde’s promise and later
reported it to a national radio audience was Eagle Forum President Phyllis
Schlafly.
Curiously, Hyde, himself, never repeated that pledge for the
broadcast media.
And when a concerned constituent wrote to the Congressman’s
office asking whether he intended to abide by his pledge offered so glibly
to the home folks, Hyde had already changed his tune, talking about how
reforms were needed at the UN and we needed to protect our national
sovereignty but that withdrawal from the UN would endanger relations with
too many of our friends around the world.
Classic political double-speak.
We wonder whether Hyde's globalist handlers sent him to a
summer re-education camp? Or is it simply a case of "out of sight, out
of mind" when it comes to keeping commitments made to those who
recognize the United Nations as the genuine threat to freedom that it has
become.
When blue helmeted troops from Germany, China and Libya are
marching through our streets "keeping the peace," it will be too
late to reconsider. When they send our President to the Hague to
answer for crimes against humanity, who will be left to protest? With the
corrupt bunch of leaders we’ve been getting lately, should we even waste
our breath?
Nevertheless, now is the time to wake up and speak up. Tell
Henry Hyde that we demand truth from our elected officials. Conservatives
and Christians will no longer be satisfied with smooth words and unkept
promises. We want men and women of integrity representing us. And we expect
results.
We’ll close this friendly tirade with another quote that
deserves repeating. The British Lord Acton warned, "Power corrupts.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Perhaps we can send this humble suggestion to Henry.
"Don’t get too comfortable in that big leather
chair."