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I am writing to ask “Where are our leaders in America today?”  Are there no business leaders, no religious leaders, no political leaders anywhere in our country?  Those of us in the TEA Party movement just want someone, anyone, in authority to tell the truth!  Instead, we get this constant stream of politically correct babble. Insanity that we are supposed to accept as truth.  American leadership has turned into its own version of the classic Hans Christian Anderson tale “The Emperor’s New Clothes.”  Instead of the King being made a fool by wearing a suit of invisible clothes, American leaders are made the fool by saying, with much conviction, things that any common person knows to simply be untrue.

Let me make an example using the recent controversy over the “non-perfect, perfect game” pitched by Detroit Tigers Pitcher Armando Galarraga against the Cleveland Indians.  Anyone watching the game or the replay can plainly see that the Indians’ player is clearly out at first base for the 27th out.  The umpire who called him safe, after the game admits that he “blew the call,” and that the player was out, and that it was a perfect game. There is irrefutable photographic and video evidence that the player was out.  This is not just some minor dispute.  This matters.  This is one of only 21 perfect games in the entire history of major league baseball. 

What does Commissioner Bud Selig decide when the entire country is looking to him, as a leader of a respected institution, to reverse the call because it was wrong? He does nothing. Like all of our so called leaders today, he does not have the courage, the integrity, the leadership to call it like it is and deal with the consequences like a man.  He asks us to suspend reality and accept that a perfect game is not a perfect game, whether you saw it or not!  He ask this because of some technicality, some law, some rule, some politically correct but fundamentally wrong reason. And we are expected to buy that. 

Though we can all clearly see and decide for ourselves the issues of the day, like border security, our President and the governing class want us to believe the exact opposite of what is true. Our President says, with conviction, that the Arizona illegal immigration law will target all Mexicans simply based on their race when the bill clearly says specifically three different times that it forbids such behavior. Our President, who taught law to college students, rebukes the Supreme Court during his state of the Union Address for allowing a law to stand that he says allows foreign corporations to take out ads in political campaigns when the law specifically excludes foreign corporations. And trusting Americans believe him.  

The President instructs the federal government to take over Chrysler and GM and give the UAW 55% of the stock worth $4.5 billion for free while cheating the bond holders out of billions of dollars and then he tells us this is not only right, but fair - who cares about the bankruptcy laws. According to the Democratic members of Congress we are just expected to accept that we are going to provide free health care to 40 million additional people and health care costs for all of us are going to go down and service is going to go up. Sure, and that Indians player was safe at first base.

We are living in a time when not only our “king” has no clothes, but none of our leaders do either. Until we can again find leadership in the United States that understands that the truth exists and that it matters, we will continue to flounder as a society. It is a moral imperative that we search for the truth and act upon what we find to be true. That is why it is time not only to change our leadership in government, but in labor unions, and universities, and major corporations, like banks and insurance companies and oil companies, and in religious institutions and all other institutions who want us to believe that the runner is safe when we all know for a fact he was out.

Tom Zawistowski

Executive Director 

Portage County TEA Party

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