You ever hear the words “mission creep”?  It refers to the morphing of an original plan into something somewhat or entirely different.  I’ve taken some internal criticism from members of SCCOR this past week because I raised a valid point and I did it publicly.  Rest assured there are already “plants” within the organization.  Some are there to try and change the mission and some are there to derail what we’re trying to accomplish.  At some point in the future someone from within the latter was going to attempt to test for any religious litmus test.  Best we get this out of the way in the organization’s infancy stage. 

My argument is simply stated.  SCCOR was created to pressure for a return to sensible government.  The first focus should be local and state officeholders.  SCCOR, from my recollection, wasn’t birthed to become a personal pulpit and even more so not to be an adjunct for any political party. 

I’m a refugee from the People’s Republic of New York.  Government there long ago became a criminal enterprise, stealing silently and now openly from the public it “serves”.  The Upstate New York GOP was once a bulwark against the theft but its members long ago became so enamored of the trappings of office they acquiesced in the heist.  Bring home a sack of money, explain it was “secured” through great personal effort and then ask to be rewarded with another term in office in exchange for even more plunder.  It’s a sham.  It’s the people’s money laundered by government and then passed around by legislative leaders to loyalists who won’t cry foul.  If New York had anyone like Delaware’s Colin Bonini, he or she was long ago relegated to a back bench and left with an office budget that won’t buy a pack of cheap pens. 

This transformation is now happening in Delaware with lightning speed.  The Blitzkrieg is the daily offerings of new and exotic taxes and the deluge just buries a public trying to sort it out.  Aside from State Senator Bonini is there anyone with the courage to say no?  I’ve met State Representative Dan Short at a number of Republican functions.  He’s very much the archetype of the modern legislator.  Articulate, smart and witty you can also point out he’s gone over to the Dark Side.  The Governor proposes an income tax hike and Short not only accepts the bid but then raises the stakes with an offer of an additional income tax increase.  Short’s was the second signature on the offer.  Now Republicans can say publicly they’re doing their part to bring this crisis to an end, restore order in the streets and make Delaware first among equals.  All while picking the pockets of the public.

There is a warning for SCCOR and all Delawareans here.  The special people with the special license plates (Look at me, I can speed with impunity!) no longer even consider a limited role for themselves and for the government apparatus.  The word we’re looking for is “No”.  Maybe I’m mistaken but I continue believing that was SCCOR’s meaning for being.  Maybe we should’ve called it STOP in honor of the late William Buckley, ‘Standing athwart history, shouting “stop!”’  You should be enraged but now another meeting with coffee and donuts and a few more electoral maps? 

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