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So Much for a REPRESENTATIVE Government

March 18, 2010 Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama Lies, Communism, Death Care, Democrat Corruption, Fiscal Irresponsibility, News, Obama Fascism, Opinion, Orwellian Solutions, Pelosi - The Wicked Witch of the West, Presidential Distortions, Presidential Politics, The Wicked Witch of the West, U.S. House, US Senate, United States Constitution, socialism View Comments

The US House today released the text of their Death Care Reconciliation bill which assumes the Senates Death Care bill was passed. This is the Slaughter rule in action.

By releasing this text, SanFran Nan and her lackey Steny Hoyer are making a unilateral decision to create a law in spite of the wishes of 73% of the American people who do not want this bill to become law. Pelosi and Hoyer, with the help of Louise Slaughter, are passing legislation that an estimated 217 members of the House would vote “NO” on.

The bill they are about to deem passed cannot pass the Senate today. Add to that the fact that it won’t be voted on in the House. The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that each House MUST pass the same language of a bill to comply with Article I Section 7.[1] What about each House MUST pass the same language does the Speaker and her cohorts not understand?

In a sense, their joint contempt for and perversion of the legislative process of this country is putting us on the verge of a dictatorial system where a President (in this case Emperor Obama) and a couple of minions in key positions (Pelosi and Reid) can in a sense ignore the Will of the People and do whatever they want. Why must Death Care pass? Because Obama wants it to pass. No other real reason. 85% of Americans like the health care plan they have now but Obamacare will likely put an end to that health care.

To this point, I’ve referred to Barack Obama as “The Emperor” in jest. But as of now it is no longer funny it is a very scary reality. His is assuming Imperial power with the aid of Nancy Pelosi, Steney Hoyer, and Harry Reid – The Emperor and his Legislative Jesters. He does have an interesting looking Court doesn’t he?

Assuming this thing goes forward on Sunday, expect several lawsuits to be filed on Monday challenging the Constitutionality of the procedure used to “pass” the Death Care bill. Once a federal court, any federal court, agrees to hear the case, the whole mess goes on hold. As I’ve said before, it could take YEARS for a final ruling.

To make a legitimate attempt at repeal, the Congress will need to shift power and there must be a 2/3rds majority in support of repeal to survive an Imperial veto. [Note: I did not strike out Imperial because that is in fact what it is at this point]

Relying on a 2/3rds majority for repeal in 2011 is a gamble; however if the federal court system can tie-up the bill’s enforcement until January 20, 2013, Death Care can die the death it so richly deserves. This is because after January 20, 2013, a repeal effort wouldn’t require a 2/3rds majority because Obama’s successor is going to be ready with the pen to sign the repeal of that POS Death Care bill the day he/she takes office and it never has to do any damage.

As of this writing, the votes in support of the rule are falling short of the 216 required for passage in the House. The proof will be in the pudding come Sunday afternoon and evening. If the vote does not happen before midnight, the votes do not and will not ever exist. Why else would Obama indefinitely postpone his planned trip to Asia? The ONLY reason for his not going is a lack of votes and Pelosi needs him in DC to twist arms.

Those voting “yes” against the will of their constituents will be facing the very real possibility of losing in November. If the Emperor promised these people appointments for their “yes” votes at the expense of their re-election, those appointments have the real possibility of coming before a Republican controlled Senate for “advice and consent”[2] also known as a confirmation hearing. What are the chances of an affirmative vote for confirmation of these appointments? Ask Senator Tom Coburn who informed “yes” voting Democrats today of what would happen.

The truth is, Representatives are selling their votes. The Emperor has convinced a bunch of them to “take one for the team” and in doing so doomed them to an early retirement from the House. So what has he promised them? There has to be something in it for them. What did Denny sell? Kucinich got on Air Force One on Monday at Andrews a “NO” vote and landed at Hopkins Airport a “No Comment” – translation “maybe”. Wednesday he’s a “Yes” vote in spite of his repeated announcements that he could not support a bill which did not include a “robust public option”.

Those on the far left who have been holding out for a “robust public option” are being wooed by The Emperor with language that says, “this is just the starting point”. Obama has said that single-payer is the goal but it isn’t realistic to get there overnight. You just can flip a switch and change without a trans-formative step. This is their trans-formative step. [Note: Not sure if trans-formative is an actual word but The Emperor uses it a lot] He said that Canada didn’t get to single-payer without this same trans-formative step.

Great. Look how well Canada’s system works.

My wife and I spend a tremendous amount of time at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and out in front of the main sections of the hospital known as the concourse there is a circle for traffic picking up patients. In the center of that circle there are 8 international flags representing the 8 countries from which the most international patients have come for treatment. Canada always has a flag displayed. There has never been a visit there when there hasn’t been a Canadian flag flying out in front of that hospital. NEVER. Witness by my own eyes so I do not have a citation because I am the source. I’ll let you judge the Canadian health system based solely on that fact.

MEMBERS OF THE US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES:

WE DO NOT WANT THIS TO PASS!
QUIT TINKERING WITH THE RULES AND LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE!
END THIS NOW!

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Article I Section 7 – Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a law, be presented to the President of the United States: [↩]
Article II Section 2 – He shall have Power,… and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, [↩]

Remember Taxation Without Representation? What Happened To It?

March 17, 2010 Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama Lies, Death Care, Democrat Corruption, Fiscal Irresponsibility, News, Obama Fascism, Opinion, Orwellian Solutions, Pelosi - The Wicked Witch of the West, Polls, Presidential Politics, Taxes, The Wicked Witch of the West, U.S. House, US Senate, United States Constitution, socialism View Comments

Because so many members are afraid to cast a “yes” vote to approve the Senate’s Death Care bill, Nancy Pelosi and her rule changer in chief Louise Slaughter have come up with another hair-brained scheme to get the Death Care bill to the Emperor’s desk. This time, they’ll forward a rules change which would allow the House to move on to language they want in the Reconciliation bill in the Senate thereby declaring the Senate bill passed in the House without even taking a vote. Seems to me that our founders fought a war over this kind of thing.

Embedded in the Senate Death Care bill is billions of dollars in new taxes. So in a manner of speaking passing the Senate bill through declaration and by not taking a vote, the House is rubber stamping a bill without representing the people. I think the founders called that Taxation Without Representation. Are you ready to grab your pitchfork yet?

The American people need to let our Congress-critters know that a vote to approve this change in the rules which would allow this scheme to pass is just the same as if they vote “yes” on the bill. Members are banking on their ability to say, “No, I didn’t vote for the Senate bill” but would they deny voting for the rule which allowed it to become law without the House voting on it?

A “yes” vote by any member on this rule or on the bill itself should be treated the same and mark any member voting in any manner which allows this bill to become law and they should be thrown out on his/her ear for their decision to not listen to the American people who DO NOT WANT THIS BILL TO BECOME LAW.

The President says that he doesn’t concern himself with procedure but perhaps he should. The more he ignores what’s going on the more power he is grabbing and the American people have noticed. His poll numbers are entering the dismal range when even Gallup has his disapproval ratings higher than his approval rating (47% disapprove 46% approve).

Rasmussen Reports has him worse off with a Presidential Approval Index of -18.[1] The percentage of those polled who say they “approve” of Obama’s job performance is 44% with 55% of those polled saying they “disapprove”. Those who “strongly disapprove” out number those who “strongly approve” 42% – 24% in today’s Rasmussen Reports Presidential Approval Index polling data.

Something that we all need to keep in mind is that if this monster of a bill passes, it is going to take not only a Republican controlled Congress, but a Republican Super-Majority in each house numbering 2/3rds to over-ride an ~~Imperial~~ Presidential veto. So the reality is that this thing cannot pass.

Should the Democrats succeed in their political shenanigans and forward this thing to Obama without the House voting on it, there are preparations already made to file a federal lawsuit challenging the Constitutionality of the procedure upon which it was passed. If that should happen and a federal court agrees to hear the case, the whole danged bill goes on hold from that point on. But that is a HUGE “if”. The court would have to agree to hear the case to delay implementation of the law and it could take YEARS for final disposition of the case.

If your Congress-critter is on the fence about this bill, make sure he/she knows that even voting for the change in the rule would mean a vote for his/her opponent November 4th. The only word you want out of your Representative is “NO” on Death Care.

Say it with me…

NO TAXATION
WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!

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Rasmussen Reports Presidential Approval Index is tabulated by subtracting the percentage of those polled who “strongly disapprove” of the President’s job performance from those who “strongly approve”. [↩]

Judgment Day; Dems Scramble to Find Way to Pass Death Care [UPDATED]

January 19, 2010 Barack Hussein Obama, Death Care, Democrat Incompetence, Elections, Fiscal Irresponsibility, Health Care, News, Obama Fascism, Opinion, Orwellian Solutions, Pelosi - The Wicked Witch of the West, Stupidity, The Economy, The Wicked Witch of the West, U.S. House, US Senate, United States Constitution, socialism Comments Off

With the latest polls looking rather grim for the Democrat seeking election to the seat formally held prisoner by the late Senator Edward Kennedy, Congressional Democrats and the White House scramble to put together some way to get Death Care rammed through without needing to face cloture with the possibility of a Senator Scott Brown voting ‘NO’. They’ve discussed budget reconciliation but that maneuver would strip the guts out of their Death Care bill. They’ve discussed rushing through a compromised bill while delaying certification of Brown by the Massachusetts Secretary of State thereby allowing their political stooge, Sen. Paul Kirk, to cast the required ‘Yes’ vote on cloture. And now they are actually considering bringing the Senate bill to a vote in the House. Of the three proposals, only the third has a viable shot at achieving their goals.

Attorneys for the Republican Party have been painstakingly going over legal language in Massachusetts law which provided for the current Senator by Special Appointment, Paul Kirk, to be seated and have come to the conclusion that after a winner is declared in the Special Election being held today, Kirk will no longer be a United States Senator. The language in Massachusetts law only provides for an appointee to be seated in the Senate “until election and qualification of the person duly elected to fill the vacancy.”

The Weekly Standard explains…

But in the days after the election, it is Kirk’s status that matters, not Brown’s. Massachusetts law says that an appointed senator remains in office “until election and qualification of the person duly elected to fill the vacancy.” The vacancy occurred when Senator Edward Kennedy died in August. Kirk was picked as interim senator by Governor Deval Patrick.

Democrats in Massachusetts have talked about delaying Brown’s “certification,” should he defeat Democrat Martha Coakley on Tuesday. Their aim would be to allow Kirk to remain in the Senate and vote the health care bill.

But based on Massachusetts law, Senate precedent, and the U.S. Constitution, Republican attorneys said Kirk will no longer be a senator after election day, period. Brown meets the age, citizenship, and residency requirements in the Constitution to qualify for the Senate. “Qualification” does not require state “certification,” the lawyers said.

To my knowledge, there hasn’t been any challenge of either candidates’ qualifications to sit as a United States Senator especially since both are current office holders in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. So an attempt to rush a bill to the floor of the Senate before Brown can be seated is not a viable plan for Democrats. They would still be at least 1 vote shy of cloture on a Compromise bill.

So budget reconciliation is not an option and rushing a compromise bill is equally non-viable. That only leaves passing the Senate bill in the House. But can it?

For those on the far left who want more than the Senate bill allows it may be a difficult pill to swallow. For those who have a pro-life constituency to answer to, it may be an even larger pill.

Rep. Bart Stupak (D MI-1) authored an amendment to the House bill which gained enough majority votes to pass their version of the bill. Remember, that bill very narrowly passed gaining only 2 votes over the required 218 for passage. Without a similar restriction on federal funding for abortion I doubt some who voted for the House bill based on inclusion of that amendment would be willing to vote for the Senate bill. And any changes to the Senate bill would have to be returned to the Senate as a compromise bill where 60 votes for cloture will not likely exist after today’s election.

We must also remember that all 435 members of the House of Representatives are up for re-election (or elections to fill vacancies created by retirements) this year. Each House member who votes for this bill will have the daunting task of facing his/her constituents about why he/she voted to pass a bill that a clear majority of this nation does not want. Many members will be thinking of their political futures before casting a vote on Death Care. A vote for passage of Death Care will forever be pinned to those who cast it and spell political suicide come November 4th in most cases.

The Democrat Caucus is already down by 1 vote with the defection of Rep. Parker Griffith (AL-5) to the Republican Party reducing the Democrat Caucus from a 40 vote majority to a 39 vote majority. Many more have chosen the path of retirement rather than the embarrassing thought of facing the voters of their district for helping to pass massive spending legislation in direct contrast to the wishes of the people of their districts.

What a conundrum for Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. Unless the House passes the Senate bill “as is” the Emperor’s 1st year in office will go down in history as an epic failure. But Nancy seems like she feels that she has the votes to pass the Senate bill in the House.

According to Alex Koppelman of the War Room hosted on the extremely liberal Salon.com…

Given what looks like the impending loss of the party’s Senate supermajority, Democrats have reason to be down in the dumps about healthcare reform. But if that’s the way House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s feeling, she’s not showing it publicly.

“Let’s remove all doubt, we will have healthcare one way or another,” Pelosi said during an event in San Francisco on Monday. “Certainly the dynamic would change depending on what happens in Massachusetts. Just the question about how we would proceed. But it doesn’t mean we won’t have a health care bill.”

Well let me be as equally clear as Ms. Pelosi has been. Should Scott Brown win today’s special election in Massachusetts, Pelosi will need to pass the Senate bill “AS IS” in the House to get her precious Death Care bill. Without it, Death Care is as dead as the Cap and Tax bill.

[UPDATE 1143]

Intrade’s latest numbers has Brown listed at 65.4 which means traders believe that he has a 65.4% chance of winning in today’s Special Election. Coakley conversely is down to 36.0. This doesn’t bode well for Coakley as Intrade is remarkably accurate.

[UPDATE 2 1151]

New numbers out of Intrade has Brown at 70.0 and Coakley at 30.0. It’s not looking good for the Lib-team.

[UPDATE 3 1335]

Newest numbers out of Intrade, Brown tops yesterday’s close of 77.1. Current numbers have Brown at 78.9 Coakley 21.0.

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The Downfall of America

August 12, 2009 Abortion, American History, Opinion, Taxes, The Fight For FREEDOM, US Senate, United States Constitution Comments Off

Recent events in this nation have begun to raise some questions about how far we have drifted away from the original intent of the founding fathers of this country. A nation originally conceived as a collection of smaller countries. Each state maintaining a level of sovereignty in the world but banded together for mutual defense. Our nation actually has 2 founding documents. The first, the Declaration of Independence put the world on notice that we no longer considered ourselves subjects of the British Monarch King George III. But more especially, it put King George III on notice that we were not going to accept his oppressive treatment any longer without a fight. The second founding document, established a governmental framework around which that mutual defense was to be structured. This document is the Constitution.

The Constitution is the people’s permission for the federal government to operate. As originally written, any issue not directly given as a responsibility of the federal government was to be left to the states. As specified in the 10th Amendment.

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

The supreme authority in the United States is actually granted to us, the people, by our Creator as stated in the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration was much more than our asserting our emancipation from an oppressive dictator, it was our establishment as a people. This establishment went on without direction until after the American Revolutionary War when the Articles of Confederation were established. This loose agreement among the newly freed former colonies of the British crown established them as independent states with no way to settle disputes among them. This facilitated the Constitutional Convention which was empowered by the states to refine the existing Articles of Confederation.

When it was convened a decision was quickly made that the current Articles of Confederation were so flawed that they needed to be abandoned and a new agreement of the states needed to be made.

The intent of those who drafted our Constitution need not be interpreted as those who believe that it is a living breathing and evolving document would have you believe. For the love of Pete it is written in English. The intent is just as clear today as it was in 1787 when it was signed. The United States was and is to be a Constitutional Federal Republic in that the political power of the nation is to be centered in the various states NOT as some would have you believe the federal government.

Upon its signing, the US Constitution was nothing more than 7 Articles establishing the responsibilities of the Congress, President, Supreme Court and subordinate courts, interstate relations, a method of amendment, an establishment of authorization for the payment of debts, supremacy, and oaths of office, and the mode of ratification. It was to be understood, that if the Constitution did not address an issue specifically, it was for the states themselves to deal with or the people.

The USA Began to Unravel Before the Ink Was Dry

Since it’s ratification in 1789, the United States Constitution has been modified for better or for worse according to Article V.

The first fracture in this limited government was made with the adoption of the Bill of Rights. Jefferson, the Democrat that he was, believed that by establishing a bill of rights it would open the Constitution up to assumptions. If the government can assume one right over the people, where would it end. We now know. It doesn’t end.

How Abortion Has Led to the Downfall of a Nation

The next crack was with the adoption of the 14th Amendment. As necessary as the 14th was at its time in history, the amendment was written so broadly that those who cannot understand that a document written in English needs no interpretation will find meaning in its lack of wording to define rights or responsibilities that were never intended. This is how a Constitutional right to terminate life can be found in an amendment adopted to establish citizenship for all persons living in the United States at a specific moment in time regardless of previous state of servitude; and that those persons could not be denied due process under the law. I’m sorry people but slavery has been illegal in the United States since 1862. NO ONE living in 1972 – or since – had ever been a slave. Subsequently they could not be denied due process of law based upon a previous status of servitude. The basis for the legalization of abortion in the United States as legislated by the Supreme Court – a clear violation of Articles I and III of the Constitution – could not and should not have been made by the Warren court. The Amendment cited does not apply.

In contrast to the Warren Court’s establishment of the superiority of the 14th Amendment over all other provisions of the US Constitution, the 10th Amendment shines brightly above it. Or at least with any free thinking individualist with skills to comprehend a sentence written in plain English.

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

Abortion is in the most liberal of terms a medical procedure. There is no Constitutional authority for the federal government to regulate, over-see, fund, or otherwise interfere with medical procedures in this country in spite of the establishment of Medicare and Medicaid. There simply exists no authorization the federal government to do so in the Constitution. However, under the 10th Amendment the states have such a right.

The Warren court decided to supercede the right of the State of Texas to deny a woman an abortion because the state had established the procedure as being not lawful within its jurisdiction. The Warren court’s decision to hear the case much less find some twisted “Constitutional right” was a clear violation of states’ right as defined under the 10th Amendment. Their justification for even hearing the case in the first place – interstate commerce. A medical procedure – legal or illegal – has suddenly become a matter of interstate commerce. This will be the justification for Obamacare next. But I digress.

With this decision, the Warren court made it possible to argue that since every product and/or service performed in this country – legal or illegal – has an intrinsic value and might be a cause for an individual to cross a state line in order to seek said product or service, it is automatically a matter of interstate commerce and thus the jurisdiction of the federal government. And if a product or service is denied to a citizen of a state by the state, it can be argued that the citizen’s rights of due process have been violated even though, that person had no previous condition of servitude.

Using that argument, in Nevada, anyone can walk into any public building and play a slot machine. Here in Ohio we cannot. Therefore my right to feed a potential gambling addiction (which I don’t have) cannot be satisfied. Because companies in Nevada supply these type of machines, it can be argued that Ohio’s anti-gambling laws constitute a violation of my 14th amendment rights under interstate commerce. I don’t have readily available access to those machines. (note: this is actually a better argument for interstate commerce due process interference than the Roe decision was.)

In a sense, the Roe decision opened the 14th amendment up for bastardization by any liberal crazy with a wild hair to do anything that is currently forbidden by a state government.

The Income Tax and the Beginning of Class Warfare

The next modification to our Constitution that contributed to our demise as a country is the 16th Amendment. A very simple amendment the establishment of an income tax.

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

This removed the requirement established in Article I requiring an enumeration of the people before the levying of any taxes in Article I Section 2 Paragraph 3. I know the reason for doing so however, that does not justify the levying taxes without an enumeration of the people as required by our founders. Removing the racial make-up and devaluation of the human-being implied by Article 1 Section 2, it still should be required that if any new tax is to be imposed on the people, an enumeration of the populous should be conducted in order to know how much revenue would be generated by said tax. This only makes common sense and thus why it was originally written into article I.

This income tax has been a vehicle by which a particular political party has created a separation of the people based solely on one’s ability to earn. Hard work, effort, and the taking of risks in this country is what makes it great. Those who wish to impose some twisted sense of social equality based solely on existence have created in a sense a war among the classes that takes place every 4 years at the ballot. Those who ‘have’ continue to be vilified in this nation rather than rewarded for creating wealth and providing opportunities for others to establish themselves and provide for their families. A progressive and overly burdensome tax system has been implemented in order to spread the wealth in a quest to redistribute the wealth of the nation according to Karl Marx and Frederick Engels.

The worst kept political secret in this nation is that the Democrat party has been working towards full implementation of social Communism by way of income redistribution. And the vehicle used most often is the 16th Amendment.

The Popular Election of Senators – The States Are Removed from the Equation

With the passage and ratification of the 17th Amendment, the people would in a sense have two Houses of Representatives. Originally, the state legislatures had the responsibility of appointing 2 Senators in different term classes to the United States Senate for terms of 6 years. This is outlined in Article 1 Section 3 of the Constitution.

The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote.

Being appointed by the state legislature made a Senator accountable to the state from which he/she was appointed. This gave the state more power. With the passage of the 17th Amendment, the people of this nation removed this accountability to the states and in a sense made the states subservient to the federal government. And the end of our Republic was begun.

Clause 1. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.

Clause 2. When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of each State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.

Clause 3. This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution.

As of the ratification of the 17th Amendment, we are no longer a collection of 50 separate and independent nations, we are nothing more than 50 provinces or districts within the out of control monster known as the United States.

Conclusion

Many cite the Constitution as the ultimate authority in the United States. This idea is nothing more than fiction. It is the will of the people as expressed by the people. We will it or it cannot be so. This authority is granted to us by GOD and declared to the world as such by the Declaration of Independence.

With the growing emergence of the sovereignty movement among the states, I can see a day when the United States as we know it could – and I emphasize the word COULD – be obsolete. If every one of the 50 states declared itself independent again – like the Constitution originally intended – then perhaps a new agreement among the states could replace the now totally flawed and bastardized Constitution like it replaced the Articles of Confederation. One could only hope.

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ACLJ Takes On Obama’s ‘Snitch’ Program

August 7, 2009 Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama Lies, Health Care, News, Obama Fascism, Opinion, Presidential Distortions, Presidential Politics, U.S. House, US Senate, United States Constitution, socialism Comments Off

The following is a copy of a letter sent by the American Center for Law & Justice to President Barack Hussein Obama…

August 6, 2009

President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear President Obama:

I write to request that you withdraw and rescind the citizen reporting program set forth in an August 4, 2009, blog post by Macon Phillips, the White House Director of New Media.

In his post on the White House Blog, Mr. Phillips stated that “[s]cary chain emails and videos are starting to percolate on the internet, breathlessly claiming, for example, to ‘uncover’ the truth about the President’s health insurance reform positions.” He noted that “[t]here is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there” and that the “rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation.” He concluded the post by explaining that “[s]ince we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.”

This citizen reporting program raises significant First Amendment concerns. For what purpose is this information being gathered? To whom will the information be disseminated? Is the intent of the program to stifle free and open debate on the serious policy issues raised by health care reform? Will you flag media outlets that publish articles critical of your health care plan? The IP address of the reporting email itself raises questions – for what purpose are these individuals being “flagged?”

On January 21, 2009, you issued a memorandum to the heads of executive departments and agencies on “Transparency and Open Government.” In the memorandum, you stated that your Administration “is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration.” You declared that “[g]overnment should be participatory” and that:

Public engagement enhances the Government’s effectiveness and improves the quality of its decisions. Knowledge is widely dispersed in society, and public officials benefit from having access to that dispersed knowledge. Executive departments and agencies should offer Americans increased opportunities to
participate in policymaking and to provide their Government with the benefits of their collective expertise and information. Executive departments and agencies should also solicit public input on how we can increase and improve opportunities for public participation in Government.

Creating a program that requests individuals to report on their neighbors, co-workers, family members, and friends who express personal opinions in opposition to your policy choices is not the way to encourage openness and transparency. It is tantamount to policing ideas. Such a program will only stifle free and open debate among the citizens of this great country.

Our country was founded on a belief in the necessity of free and open discourse on the important policy and political issues of our day. In Terminiello v. Chicago, 337 U.S. 1, 4 (1949), Justice Douglas wrote,

The vitality of civil and political institutions in our society depends on free discussion. . . . [I]t is only through free debate and free exchange of ideas that government remains responsive to the will of the people and peaceful change is effected. The right to speak freely and to promote diversity of ideas and programs is therefore one of the chief distinctions that sets us apart from totalitarian regimes. Accordingly a function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger. Speech is often provocative and challenging. It may strike at prejudices and preconceptions and have profound unsettling effects as it presses for acceptance of an idea. That is why freedom of speech, though not absolute, Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, supra, pp. 571-572, is nevertheless protected against censorship or punishment, unless shown likely to produce a clear and present danger of a serious substantive evil that rises far above public inconvenience, annoyance, or unrest.

Your program is counter to these core principles, and since it was announced on the White House Blog it has induced confusion and uncertainty among the American people as to its purpose and underlying goals. Such confusion could lead some into wondering if this is a return to COINTELPRO (the FBI’s Counter Intelligence Program directed against Martin Luther King, Jr.), something we are sure you do not intend. We respectfully request that the program be withdrawn.

Sincerely,

Jay A. Sekulow
Chief Counsel

Colby M. May
Director and Senior Counsel

Not only does Mr. Obama’s ’snitch’ program violate the 1st Amendment, it is a violation of Title 5 U.S.C. subsection 552a which outlines what records may be kept on individuals by any and all agencies of the federal government which includes the executive branch of which the office of the President and all of his dozens of czars fall into. Specifically it states under the scope and authority of the executive branch

(7) maintain no record describing how any individual exercises rights guaranteed by the First Amendment unless expressly authorized by statute or by the individual about whom the record is maintained or unless pertinent to and within the scope of an authorized law enforcement activity; – h/t: RedState

In Mr. Obama’s quest to become Emperor of the United States he is bulldozing over many of your rights. And he is being permitted to do so by your inaction. I write about facts that are generally available to any person who seeks them out. I write my opinion about policies adopted by elected officials and the potential benefits (if any) and downfalls for the American people. If there exists any misinformation about Obama’s health care proposal now making its rounds through Congress, that misinformation is coming from the White House. Since the President hasn’t sought fit to read the bill before endorsing it, perhaps he should be turned in to his own Gestapo.

Make no mistake campers, Mr. Obama is using fascist tactics to ram home his policies before you get wise to his goals. Overwhelm the system is an Alinsky rule. He is overwhelming you – the voter – and Congress. They cannot possibly read all these bills they are passing because he doesn’t want you to read them. He doesn’t even want to know what SanFran Nan and her right hand man Henry Waxman are slipping into these bills. They could embed silly things like moving the official capital of the nation to San Francisco or change our official language to Farsi or some crap and you wouldn’t even know it.

Having health care stew over the August recess is the best thing that could happen to this bill. Hopefully, members will get enough of an earful while they are home that it will die a painful and demoralizing death.

Make no mistake about this bill, there is no looming crisis that its passage will avoid. Doing nothing at this point is better than any bill the House, Senate, or White House can draft.

Speaking of losing our freedoms – check out this video. h/t – Young Gun Conservative Radio

Like the “snake oil salesman” peddling “ISM”, Barack Obama is selling a bill of goods which like “ISM” takes everything you hold sacred. Are you buying?

Please forward this post to flag@whitehouse.gov. My goal is to get turned in enough times to get the Secret Service to look at me. So that I can sue Mr. Obama’s pants off. And those of all his minions behind this bullshit. I’m sure the DRONES will oblige.

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Proud to be One of Napolitano’s ‘Right-Wing Extremists’

May 21, 2009 Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama Lies, Communism, Democrat Corruption, Democrat Incompetence, Domestic Terrorism, Libtards on Parade, Lunatic Lefties, News, Obama Fascism, Opinion, Presidential Distortions, Presidential Politics, Stupidity, The Blogosphere, The Useless Nations, United States Constitution, socialism Comments Off

Last week I named Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano ‘Public Enemy #1′ because of her efforts to stymie political dissent in this country by naming people like me to a list of ‘potential’ domestic terrorists.
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She considers anyone who…

Opposes abortion
Opposes same-sex marriage
Opposes restrictions on firearms
Opposes lax immigration laws
Opposes the policies of President Obama regarding immigration, citizenship, and the expansion of social programs
Opposes continuation of free trade agreements
Are suspect of foreign regimes
Fears Communist regimes
Opposes a “one world” government
Bemoans the decline of U.S. stature in the world
Is upset with loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs to China and India, and more

… to be a ‘right-wing extremist’ and capable of violent acts against her beloved government, its socialist leader, and those who support him and her.

I’m proud to say that I’m pro-life. – This automatically puts me on her list.

I’m proud to say that I oppose same sex marriage. – Calling the coupling of individuals of the same sex marriage cheapens the sanctity of the union I share with my wife. It lessens our bond with one another. Sexual coupling in a manner which cannot result in the procreation of children is a mortal sin and calling that coupling marriage legitimizes that mortal sin in society. So Janet can call me a domestic terrorist all she wants, but I refuse to alter my thinking because she finds it offensive. I find her and her homo buddies offensive.

I oppose any restrictions on the ownership of firearms in this country. – I do so because I swore an oath one time in my life to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign or domestic. Those who have wet-dreams at the prospect of removing guns from our society do so as enemies of the Constitution. The Second Amendment is clear. It along with the rest of our founding document is clear and needs no “interpretation” because it is written in English. “… the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. ” What about the words, “shall not be infringed” do these simple minded morons not understand?

Too many people in this country get hung up on the introductory statement of fact that a well maintained militia is necessary. “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,…”. This is nothing more than a statement of fact. The Second Amendment was also meant to empower the people in the event that the politicians reverted back to an authoritarian state. Janet sees this as a threat because she and her boss are in fact reverting back to an authoritarian state.

I am proud to say that I oppose lax immigration laws. – I am all for legal immigration. To say otherwise is a deception. What I oppose is the free flow of individuals who are not citizens of this nation to cross our borders in clear violation of the law. To do so once is a misdemeanor. To do so a second time ( or more) is a felony. Anyone who claims these people are law abiding need to consult the immigration laws of this nation. Their mere presence in this nation is a violation of law so those who claim that these people are not criminals are twisting the truth.

It is my belief that any elected official, or individual employed by any of the 50 state governments or the federal government, who fails to enforce the existing immigration laws of this nation is guilty of dereliction of duty and should themselves be arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced as if they aided the individuals who violate our laws directly. This includes the President of the United States and the Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano. And if this belief warrants my being labeled a right-wing extremist and a domestic terrorist – I’m fine with that too.

I oppose POTUS Barry Obamaramadingdong and all of his policies because he and his policies are dangerous for our people. He is a moron. His ideas are outdated socialist tripe which have failed each and every time they have been tried before.

Einstein said it best when he described insanity. “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” The Russians did it – failed. The Chinese did it – nearly starved to death. The North Koreans did it – they are still starving. Cuba – same deal. Our forefathers in the United States even tried it and nearly starved to death the first winter. Why on earth would anyone believe that because Obamaramadingdong is the self-proclaimed “chosen one” would his socialist goals for this nation actually work this time? To do so would be in Einstein’s words, “insane”.

I’m on the fence about free-trade agreements. In some cases they are good for the nation. In others, not so good. But if even if I unilaterally opposed every trade agreement I would be in good company; or at least in liberal eyes I would. You see labor unions oppose free trade agreements as well.

It is my belief that the United States needs a trade policy that reciprocates the trade policies of our trade partners. If a partner levies a 10% tariff on our goods, we levy a 10% teriff on theirs. If a partner places our goods in quarantine for a period which makes those goods unsellable, we should do the same to their goods. Free trade can only be free if the rules are the same in both directions.

If this makes me a “right-wing extremist” than it also makes the UAW and other big unions “right-wing extremists” as well. Perhaps a letter to the bosses of these unions explaining this to them would go a long way to secure their support for Obamaramadingdong in 2012.

I am suspect of all foreign governments. Even our allies. Each nation is only going to look out for the best interests of their citizens. That is of course excluding our own who is more interested in protecting the rights of foreigners who are sworn enemies of our country and are pledged to destroy it or die trying.

I oppose Communism in all its forms. Which automatically puts me on this list because Obamaramadingdong himself has a goal of creating the United Socialist States of Amerika. A nation made in the Soviet model which his mommy, daddy, grampy, grammy, and his adopted uncle (Frank Marshall Davis) worshiped.

I oppose any effort to make the United States subservient to a “world government”. I especially oppose it if it is to be run by the Useless Nations. An organization which I believe should be evicted from our soil. It is my belief that we should relocate the UN 50 miles east of its current location and withdraw from the organization.

I have a problem with an organization which derives 25% of its funding from our taxpayers then has the audacity to attempt to tell us that we owe them more money and how to run our country. As far as I’m concerned, it should go the way of the League of Nations. And if that puts me on Janet’s hit list, so be it.

The decline of the US in stature of this world is a product of the expansion of socialism at the hands of people like Obamaramadingdong. In other countries I couldn’t give a flying fig what they think. But to deride the United States from within is treason in my opinion and should be punishable by death. I won’t hold by breath waiting for Obama’s confession (or Janet’s for that matter).

I am upset with the loss of manufacturing jobs in this nation for multiple reasons. The unemployment rate being the first and quality of the goods sold in this nation is another. Our workers produce the best goods available in the world. Losing these jobs hurts this nation in every conceivable way. Price isn’t always everything. However, it is a myth to suggest that it is wages or free trade agreements driving these jobs offshore. The true culprit is taxes.

If believing what I believe makes me an enemy of the state, good. I don’t like Obama or his Secretary of Homeland Security. It is my opinion, which is protected by the First Amendment, that they are destroying this nation. They are wasting their time compiling lists of “right-wing extremists” in preparation of some sort of Naziesque or Stalinesque purge while real terrorists plot the destruction of our nation. They sit in Washington looking for ways to get political revenge and are ignoring real threats. For this, they are showing their inability to govern.

As the nation sinks deeper into this recession and our national debt continues to double, triple, or quadruple while the Man with the Middle Name Hussein infests 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W., the true enemies of this nation are plotting. And we are all less safe with him “in charge”.

One last thought…

Remember Orwell’s warning in ‘1984‘. Big Brother is here and her name is Janet.

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Normally Dem Friendly AP Calls Obama Out on Deficit Responsibility Denial

President Juggears attempted to shift blame for the escalating federal budget deficit onto his predecessor…

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“Number one, we inherited a $1.3 trillion deficit…. That wasn’t me. Number two, there is almost uniform consensus among economists that in the middle of the biggest crisis, financial crisis, since the Great Depression, we had to take extraordinary steps. So you’ve got a lot of Republican economists who agree that we had to do a stimulus package and we had to do something about the banks. Those are one-time charges, and they’re big, and they’ll make our deficits go up over the next two years.

However, the normally liberal friendly Associated Press isn’t buying it. In an unusual confirmation of just exactly how the federal government is defined by the United States Constitution, the AP reminds us…

Congress controls the purse strings, not the president, and it was under Democratic control for Obama’s last two years as Illinois senator. Obama supported the emergency bailout package in President George W. Bush’s final months – a package Democratic leaders wanted to make bigger.

To be sure, Obama opposed the Iraq war, a drain on federal coffers for six years before he became president. But with one major exception, he voted in support of Iraq war spending.

The AP even goes further confirming Republican and Conservative reminders that President Obamaramadingdong is actually making the economy worse with his “fix” for our nation’s financial woes.

The economy has worsened under Obama, though from forces surely in play before he became president, and he can credibly claim to have inherited a grim situation.

Still, his response to the crisis goes well beyond “one-time charges.”

He’s persuaded Congress to expand children’s health insurance, education spending, health information technology and more. He’s moving ahead on a variety of big-ticket items on health care, the environment, energy and transportation that, if achieved, will be more enduring than bank bailouts and aid for homeowners.

The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimated his policy proposals would add a net $428 billion to the deficit over four years, even accounting for his spending reduction goals. Now, the deficit is nearly quadrupling to $1.75 trillion. – emphasis mine

For all the excuses that the AP makes for the man with the middle name Hussein in their article, they also are pointing out his disconnection with the truth. Which is in fact something that we on the right have been telling you since before YOU voted for him. YOU, the American voter, are responsible for what is happening with our country. YOU, allowed Barry the Wonder Turd to become POTUS in spite of questions that have gone unanswered to this day. YOU elected him without knowing who he is. And YOU buried your head in the sand when he began to show his colors before the election writing off verbal mistakes which gave us glimpses into his intent.

YOU, whether YOU voted for Barry the Wonder Turd or not, are equally guilty as those who did because YOU didn’t do enough to prevent his election. YOU, allowed him to get away with avoiding substantive debate and taking his eloquent speeches on face value.

By failing to demand answers to the questions about his place of birth and his associations with known domestic terrorists, racist pastors, and known Communists, YOU have failed the American people past, present, and future.

My conscience is clear. I did my part. I voted against him and wrote about him. I asked the questions to which I am still demanding answers to. Where were YOU?

I find it incredibly disconcerting that the AP – the liberal propagandists that they are – are doing more to counter Obamaramadingdong’s pretty speeches attempting to absolve himself of all culpability than YOU are. It is time to act. It’s actually past time to act but the time for burying your head in the sand is OVER.

With the defection of Arlen Spector to the Democrat Party the Senate Majority Leader has the super majority required to bypass the Will of the People. It is now more imperative than ever to take away that majority.

1/3 of the Senate is up for re-election next year. We need to either reduce that majority to make it possible for the Republicans to block harmful legislation (no matter how well intentioned) or regain the majority in the Senate. Every single House seat is up and it is possible – no matter how improbable – to regain the majority there as well.

We also need State Houses. For example – Ohio.

Commie Ted Strickland is up for re-election in 2010. If not for the corrupt way in which his predecessor governed, he would NOT have that office now. Ken Blackwell would. But that wasn’t in the cards thanks to Bob Taft. But Ohioans have a shot in 2010. If someone like John Kasich can be persuaded to run, he would be elected by the Buckeye State.

It is YOUR job to find qualified candidates in YOUR state to throw these Commie Bums OUT OF OFFICE. So get up off YOUR [three letter term for Democrats] and get it done.

News Source – The AP via MyWay News

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Chavez is Obama Light

March 7, 2009 Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama Lies, Chicago Politics Goes National, Communism, Democrat Corruption, Fiscal Irresponsibility, Libtards on Parade, Lunatic Lefties, News, Obama Fascism, Opinion, Presidential Distortions, Presidential Politics, Stupidity, The Economy, United States Constitution, socialism Comments Off

The Drudge Report headline states, ‘Chavez Calls On Obama to Follow Path of Socialism‘. I’m sorry to inform the fascist/socialist dictator of Venezuela but Obamaramadingdong has already inflated the federal government to its largest level in the history of our nation and implemented more socialist policies than even FDR. In a sense, Chavez is Obama light.

Obama hadn’t taken office yet and already a New York Congressman allied to Obama came forward introducing a bill that would repeal the 22nd Amendment – you know term limits on the Presidency. Doesn’t that sound like something that Chavez tried in his home country only recently to succeed? How long has he been in power?!?

Obama is on a path to nationalize the banking system, it took Chavez years to accomplish that. He would like nothing more than to put the big 3 under federal control, again Chavez took years to take over the oil industry in his country. Speaking of oil, Maxine Waters (D CA) wants to “socialize – umm ummm ah….” the oil industry…

From Fox News Channel’s ‘Fox Report’ via YouTube:

So Chavez’s call for Obama to lean the US further to the left is a little tardy. The US is already to beginning to lean to the left even if the majority of its citizens are resisting. Yes I said majority.

The majority of this nation is center-right. The leadership of this country is hard left. So hard left in fact that they make Hugo Chavez look like William F. Buckley.

Chavez’s form of Socialism more resembles Benito Mussolini or Adolf Hitler than Karl Marx’s. He’s like a little girl playing in her mother’s clothes and makeup. Playing the part of a Socialist but in reality he’s a fascist addicted to power.

Obama, on the other hand, has the overpowering stench of Vladimir Lenin. But to get there in this political climate, he is going to need more than 4 years to do it. He’ll need more than 8 to be honest – but it’s 8 years that he is Constitutionally limited to. That is unless his compatriots in the Democrat Party find a way to repeal that silly term limit thing contained in the 22nd Amendment.

In all honesty there is no way that Obama or his ultra liberal allies in Congress can eliminate the 22nd Amendment. The votes do not exist in Congress much less the 3/4ths requirement among the states.

As I stated above, it will take more than 8 years to fully implement a socialist model within the United States. That said however, it will only take 4 years based upon the speed at which Mr. Obamaramadingdong is screwing up this nation and its economy to hinder the first term of the next President, whose first term begins January 20th 2013 by-the-way, for his/HER first term. The next President will have the tough job of undoing all this failed liberalism that Barry, Harry, and Nancy are implementing. It will not only fully consume the next President for his/her first term, but second as well as the first term of the next President.

As much as I fear the next 3 years 9 months and 14 days I do so knowing what we are facing as a nation during this time will only insure that Barry O, the self-professed savior of the world, has already gotten his boarding pass for that one-way trip back to Chicago to live out the rest of his miserable life in political obscurity and shame. And when it happens, he will make Jimmy Carter the happiest man in America. Because Jimmy will no longer be the worst President in the history of the United States.

We have a President and a Party in Power which cannot understand that if you tax businesses and individuals who have the economic resources to employ others to a point where they cannot sustain those businesses, people lose their jobs. If these same businesses and individuals are forced out of business, not only is the government losing the taxes collected from them, but the taxes collected from those employed by those same businesses and individuals. Not only that, there will be even MORE people clambering for their turn at the government teat.

Obama and the current crop of Democrat idiots in power cannot understand the basic market based economic model. If a business is in danger of failing, bail it out and take control of it. Nationalization by bailout. But who is going to bailout the United States when all this paper they are flooding the world with becomes worthless and the currency collapses? China – a true Communist nation – is waiting in the wings to cash in some of that paper that they are buying.

So Chavez and his pleas to Obamaramadingdong about leading the US down the path of socialism are not only a bit tardy, but a bit off mark. Chavez sees socialism through his fascist rose colored glasses and Obama is looking at socialism through the eyes of Saul Alinsky. Which, unlike Chavez’s rose colored glasses, is a blindfold to reality.

China on the other hand understands that once the dollar collapses, they only need to demand payment on the paper they are collecting in order to install their form of puppet dictatorship. Washington will then answer to Beijing.

Socialism may be Obama’s goal – but Communism is his destination if left unimpeded.

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What?!? Obama Affirms Detainees in Afganistan Have No Constitutional Rights?!?

February 21, 2009 Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama Lies, Chicago Politics Goes National, Election 2008, Global War on Terrorism, Liberal MSM Bias, Libtards on Parade, Lunatic Lefties, MSM Ignorance, News, Opinion, Presidential Distortions, Presidential Politics, Stupidity, United States Constitution, War on Terrorism Comments Off

THE CHOSEN ONE – THE MESSIAH – THE SAVIOR OF THE HUMAN RACE – the man who campaigned on being the anti-Bush is affirming a Bush Administration policy denying Constitutional rights to detainees being held at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. It seems the view from the other side of the fence is a lot clearer than the one he had from the cheap seats as the Junior Senator from Illinois. He now suddenly realizes that individuals sworn to destroy all things American including our Constitution being held outside the borders of our nation are not protected by our founding document. Why then close Gitmo?

In a related story posted on FoxNews.com, a report prepared by Adm. Patrick M. Walsh to POTUS Barry Obamaramadingdong concludes that detainees being held at the terrorist detention center Guantanamo Bay Cuba are being treated humanely. This is a stark contrast to the picture that candidate Obama painted of US treatment of these same terrorists at this same detention facility during the ‘08 campaign.

These two stories represent evidence that the American people have bought a bill of goods sold to them, not by the Obamassiah, but the media who hand picked Obama as their candidate. The media’s role in selling Gitmo as a den of torture led to public outcry that Obama then fed upon to draw votes. As I stated above, he is now in a position to see the truth and is in fact agreeing with Bush Administration policies governing these facilities.

Perhaps, we should transfer the campers at the Guantanamo Bay resort and recreation center to the detention facilities at Bagram Air Base. At least if we were to do that we know that Obamaramadingdong won’t try to apply the protections of our Constitution to individuals who are sworn to destroy it and everything it stands for.

Referenced Stories from FoxNews.com:

Obama Administration Affirms Bush Policy on Detainee Rights
Pentagon Report Concludes Guantanamo Detainees Treated Humanely

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Apathetic American Lemmings, The Constitution, And Destined Failure Because of Them

January 17, 2009 Democrat Corruption, Liberal MSM Bias, Libtards on Parade, Lunatic Lefties, MSM Ignorance, News, Opinion, Presidential Politics, Stupidity, The Economy, U.S. House, US Senate, United States Constitution, Voter Fraud, socialism Comments Off

A realistic appraisal of the current disaster that is the US economy reveals what the actual causes were. Unfortunately, the people of this nation elected a “person” from the party which created the mess in the first place. This further explains why I consider most American voters members of a special class of people that I refer to as Politically Apathetic American Lemmings*.

These people have no grasp of the reality in consideration of the political system which is the United States of America. The US Constitution, as originally written, is a marvelous document crafted by perhaps some of the most brilliant men in the history of the world. They were so clever in their wording, that it needs no so-called interpretation. Because it is written in plain English, no one with an understanding of the English language and a dictionary should be confused by the document. But it remains, that there are those within our nation, and our government, who fail to recognize that the document says what it means and means what it says.

The framers of our founding document were specific in some areas and vague in others intentionally. Where ambiguity seems to occur, the subject was meant to be referred to the states for definition. This is further explained in the 10th Amendment.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Thomas Jefferson, a hero of Democrats by-the-way, saw no need for Amendments to the Constitution. He believed that once you begin to define the text of the founding document, this would lead to the above mentioned ambiguity. He advocated adoption of the founding document free of a “bill of rights” because once you define individual rights, the state would then seek “rights” of its own. Something that no one in the Constitutional Convention intended. The rights that were to be defined by the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution were understood as being “reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

This is the heart of the states rights platform of Conservatives. Be not confused by the difference between members of the Republican Party and Conservatives.

Republicans have Party Loyalty to consider as members of the Party. But Conservatives, follow a “Strict Constructionist” or Federalist approach to defining the Constitution. In other words, it says what it means and means what it says. Republicans on the other hand, will adopt whatever interpretations of the founding document necessary to obtain political victory. States rights as defined by the 10th Amendment will suffer under the Republican view of the founding document but is at the heart of the argument for every Conservative.

Where the founding document is vague, it is intended by the 10th Amendment to be referred to the individual states for definition should they choose to take up the subject. If not, it is assumed by the 10th to be a right of the people directly and up to them to define how they will exercise their right. These rights began to be eroded with the ratification of the 11th Amendment in 1795.

Law suits against the US government had not been addressed by the 7 Articles of the Constitution. The Congress chose to pass legislation for the adoption of an Amendment to the United States Constitution not to place a limit on government, but rather to put a limit on the people. The 11th limits the people’s right to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

If the federal government wrongs someone, the 11th Amendment removes that person’s right to challenge the government before a federal judge for redress. This isn’t defining a “right” of the people or a placement of limitation on the national government as the original Amendments were intended to be. Just as Jefferson predicted, once you begin to define individual “rights” in the Constitution, the state would begin to look to define its “rights”.

The worst infraction against the framers’ intent? The 17th Amendment.

Clause 1. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.

Clause 2. When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of each State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.

Clause 3. This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution.

Originally, the idea for the appointment of Senators by state legislatures was to make the Senate a representative of the states and the House a representative of the people.

Article 1 Section 2 paragraph 1:

The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.

Article 1 Section 3 paragraph 1:

The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote.

The intent was clear.

Bottom line is that “the people” are ignorant. They think that because the politician they’ve been groomed to favor believes that the Constitution is an evolving document that is what they must believe. The members of the Politically Apathetic American Lemmings* are dangerous. They are dangerous because they fail to think. Some one who blithely follows someone else because of the grooming done by their mentors in organized labor, the news media, or ethnic group leader are weak minded lemmings and because they are given the right to vote, we all must suffer. And worse, our nation is NOT what it was intended to be. Therefore, it is doomed to go the way of each and every democracy before it.

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Politically Apathetic American Lemming is a Gribbitism*

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