Mr. Smith Has Left Washington
Last night I watched Frank Capra’s classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. The film garnered eleven Academy Award Nominations for everything, best picture, director, actor, screenplay, writer. The year was 1939 which was perhaps the greatest film year in history. The competition included, Gone with the Wind, Wuthering Heights, The Wizard of Oz, Stage Coach, Goodbye Mr Chips, Ninotchka, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and these are just my favorites.
If you have never seen James Stewart, Jean Aurthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Harry Carey and Thomas Mitchel in this movie, do yourself a favor over the holidays and rent or better yet buy it. And if you have seen it watch it again. The dialogue between corrupt Washington insiders and political machine hacks and what they are trying to do in this movie is right off the pages of your Internet on a daily basis today.
A greenhorn is asked by a State’s senior Senator to fill in. He comes to Washington and is promptly made a fool of by the press very much like they did to Sarah Palin. Their jaded sophisticated banter includes telling Mr. Smith (James Stewart) to his face that the truth is irrelevant and that their job is to make things up as they wish. Sound familiar? But they are nothing but minor evil mongers compared to the giant political bosses who set out to destroy Smith when he inadvertently steps on their graft(y) toes.
They cannot corrupt him and buy him off since he doesn’t understand not doing what is right so they take their own corruption, cook a reverse story and charge Mr. Smith with a worse version of the crimes they are themselves committing. They attempt to destroy his reputation and remove him from the Senate . It reminds me of the swarm of foul operatives that took a vacation in Alaska last year.
When Smith is befriended by his somewhat cynical yet big-hearted secretary (Jean Arthur) he decides to fight, but James Taylor (played by Edward Arnold) the big machine political crook buys off all the Press and actually sends his operatives to beat up the boys club that has its own printing press. After seizing their papers that defend Smith he runs a group of the boys off the road. It reminds me of SEIU and Acorn.
Taylor can be seen giving instructions to the newspapers telling them to scare the public and that Mr. Smith’s filibuster is going to throw people out of work because the “Deficiency” bill packed with pork for him is being hung up. He commands them to scare the folks. It reminds me of that half-wit Grayson claiming the Republicans want people to die, or the complete disingenuousness of Obama claiming the country will go bankrupt if we don’t pass the health care bill: as if one, it isn’t bankrupt already, and two, the health care bill will do anything but make it much worse!
Then the bought and paid for Senator played by Claude Rains, who hired Smith in the first place and orchestrates the smear campaign against him, begins to slam his fist and tell other Senators that the Deficiency Bill needs to be passed “Now! Today!” Sound familiar?
This movie will move you unless you are a Liar and Thief (Democrat) a Cowardly Republican, a Wall Streeter from Goldman Sachs (everyone in the White House) or have a Harvard degree (Certificate of Idiocy).
There is a very dark cloud over Washington today. It is far worse than the movie I saw last night, though the methods and shenanigans are the same. Imperial Elites like Pelosi and Reid and Obama and all the gangsters from Chicago are trampling our constitution. They are practicing thievery and graft and perversion on an unprecedented scale. They do not care about the American People’s will at all anymore. The bill has to be passed NOW!
They don’t give a damn and they want us to pay for the murder of babies, the bail outs of banks and financial reprobates, the propping up of their giant corporate and union buddies and the takeover of private enterprise en masse. In short, they are FASCISTS! They are using Marxist pap to forward a modified form of International Socialism and we all know it, including those like Bill O’Reilly who would wet his pants before coming out and speaking the TRUTH!
Goldman Sacks is building themselves a new skyscraper with our money after they personally engineered our collapse, and then seized control of our government with their puppet Obama to profit off of the disaster. Nice!
Things could not get worse. But there is hope! It is not the hoax and change offered by that prancing egomaniacal unqualified Harvard bonehead that now wanders the White House looking in the mirror, the Fool for All Seasons with his sidekick, Jester Joe.
It is the Hope offered by the One who gave us our rights and whose birthday we celebrate this season. It is in Him that we will hope. For He is Always. We will not fear, for He even has a sense of humor. While the International Liars Club of Climate Change crooks jet around the world screaming that we are burning up and Jeffrey Immelt at GE needs Cap and Trade, and Al Goracle needs a bigger house for his Nobel Prize, the Living God blankets Washington DC with a great snowstorm to remind us that He runs the weather and that their deaf ears are plugged by their own choice to be godless.
We will celebrate Christmas while the screaming, lying thieves will do their worst. And come next year with our prayers and our unrelenting work we will take back what God Himself gave us, our freedom. We will tar and feather the bastards if we have to. Our call will be the same as it was in the beginning, “No Taxation without Representation!” For we are no longer represented in our government. And:
” … when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security… ”
This government in Washington is no longer answerable to us and must be overthrown by force if necessary. For we declared at our founding that:
” We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Nowhere in our Declaration of Independence or our Constitution did we give the government the right to add that in order to be free and un-incarcerated, a citizen must buy insurance, or pay for baby killings. By the Living God their usurpation of our freedom and charter will not stand without a fight!
In the end of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, the crooked Senator has a change of heart and admits his villany. All turns out well in this ancient Hollywood story, the likes of which will most likely not come our way again. But we will enjoy Christ’s birthday knowing His Life, Death and Resurrection informed the minds of great men to claim our rights and freedom from His Father and Our Father.
Imperial tyrants who would destroy the greatest of man’s experiments in government must be and will be defeated next year. With His help and our prayers, and our diligence and resolve, and the threat of our being armed just for this purpose, He will crush their evil plans and restore our nation.
Mr Smith has left Washington. We must mobilize and send him back!
A Merry Christmas to All