First, as a brief sidebar, may I remind everyone that the term “govern” apparently doesn’t describe the Obama presidency. Obama’s spokeswoman says that Obama is “ready to really take power and rule on day one”(http://media.newsbusters.org). Yikes. Doesn’t that give you shivers? But I guess presidents govern. Messiahs rule.

If Obama would like to be given a honeymoon, perhaps he should stop playing pretend president until the inauguration. Maybe, as presidential tradition and etiquette dictate, he should leave President Bush’s Executive Orders alone until inauguration. Not only is he already warming up the shredder to recycle Bush’s orders into house-breaking crate lining for the new puppy, but he seems keen on starting with the most controversial ones, like stem-cell research funding. So much for a moderate Obama, eh?

We learned today that Obama also broke with the presidential tradition of keeping discussions with the current President confidential. Mysteriously, the topics of their conversation were leaked today, much to the annoyance of President Bush. Already Obama is breaking the rules and sullying the honor of the office by acting, frankly, unpresidential. Don’t fool yourself – it was no junior staffer mistakenly inserting foot-in-mouth – this was a deliberate attempt on Obama’s part to “sharp elbow” President Bush into ceding his authority and buckling to the unions’ bailout demands through public embarrassment. Despicable.

Finally, Obama has made it abundantly clear that he has subscribed to Marxist theories for decades. Although his legislative career is short, his philosophies are discussed openly in his autobiographies and revealed in rare interviews. The few controversial issues he voted on in the Illinois and US Senate were radically left of the American electorate. We should have no illusions about the direction Obama, Pelosi, and Reid will take this country. And although they are smugly certain that they have a mandate, the uneducated electorate handed them this power solely based on economic panic – NOT on the upcoming frightening assaults on the First and Second Amendments and a massacre on the unborn.

The media has tried to semi-successfully talk some conservatives off the ledge by blowing off all of the clear signs Obama has already given us of his intentions. We must remain bright-eyed and vigilant watchdogs. We must not allow any legislation to be coated with sugar to make it go down more easily. As Congressman Mike Pence (R-Indiana) eloquently said on Fox News Sunday, “The purpose of the opposition is to oppose…” And oppose we shall. Starting now.