Current events viewed from a conservative point of view and legislative policy analysis regarding how it affects the average person in a real world way. Even occasionally contains historical context, constitutional comparison, or original intent mixed in for good measure.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090918/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama
Is this a case of quietly putting out to supporters to go around stating that the opposition is racist so Obama can look like the bigger man by claiming otherwise??? This wouldn’t be the first time.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,552021,00.html
The CPSC claims it is about large companies but the law makes no distinction. So, which is it? The federal government has shown no aversion to getting into the minutia of peoples daily lives so what is to keep them from enforcing this on some unsuspecting family holding a garage sale?
“The present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes.” - Alexander Hamilton
With the current assaults on the Constitution and our individual freedoms, this Alexander Hamilton quote is even truer today. It is time to stand strong & let the truth be heard. There is more at stake here for us & our posterity than we realize. If we as Americans don't stand up for our rights & say no more, we may be seeing our freedoms and liberties be taken away from us without a hint of resistance. First it will be government mandated and controlled healthcare, then our lives will be controlled under cap & trade (nope not really dead yet), then who knows what freedom will go next with the rest falling like dominoes. The media and their leftist allies are reduced to calling names & making accusations of racism against those who will not go away quietly & allow their freedoms taken away under the guise of saving us from ourselves. The rhetoric from the left is becoming quite hysterical & worrisome in many ways.
Don’t believe me? See what Nancy Pelosi has to say about the dissent and pushback by Americans that are currently going on (http://conservativedynamics.posterous.com/pelosi-chokes-up-warning-against-political-vi). ; It appears that Pelosi is threatening martial law and the total suspension of rights and freedoms if Americas doesn’t sit down, shut up, and take it like the good little sheep the liberals think we are. This quite unsettling to me as I would not be surprised in the slightest that the Obama Administration, with the help and support of those currently in control of Congress, would be willing to play that card if they thought they could get away with it as a tool to usher in their vision of America against the wishes of the people.
Things are getting scary folks. The last line of the Declaration of Independence reads thus: “And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.” It is again time to make the same pledge with each other as we fight for the survival of our freedoms from those wanting to destroy them. The only difference is that this time the usurpers of freedom are not from across the ocean, they are among us and we have allowed them to get the power they enjoy now. It is our own fault that we are in this dire situation. However, We the People can stop this shameless power grab and protect or freedoms through the continued public pressure that is being applied now and through the ballot box in 2010. But we must stay together standing firm with nothing wavering as there is a great deal at stake. If we don’t, we will have a lot to explain to our children and grandchildren as they toil under a tyrannical and despotic government not knowing or tasting of the freedoms we enjoyed.
Nancy Pelosi is clearly over the top on this one and deserves an Oscar nod for her performance. Here is the question I have (since she and her minions believe that all opposition is un-American, racist, and now unhinged) over this: Is this a prelude to moving towards martial law at some point? Her claims of this coming to “political violence” are unfounded from what I can find but she spouts it like there were constant attacks and threats of attacks all across the land. All it appears from her comments is that all it would take is one actual or staged event to bring martial law down on the American people who would find the loss of all basic rights guaranteed under the Constitution happened overnight. I have never seen such irresponsible and inflammatory rhetoric from a politician. It is almost as if she is setting the stage for something to come. Call me a conspiracy theorist if you want, but this just sounds odd to me, especially as Congress and Obama get closer to ramming socialized healthcare down America’s throat. I really hope I am wrong on this, but the rhetoric of the left is really getting out there and worrisome.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/sep/16/harry-reid-health-care-bill-wont-work-nevada/#
I hate to tell the Senate Majority Leader this, but if it won’t work for Nevada it won’t work for the other 49 states either!!! Both HR 3200 and the Baucus Plan are boondoggles that mangle the 9th and 10th Amendments and create a major power grab by the federal government.
10th Amendment reads: 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.
Fine Mr. Shuster. If you want to just start picking and choosing which parts of the Constitution to follow then that is your problem but I choose to follow all of it in spirit and letter. However, here are some of the Supreme Court's statements in several of their decisions regarding New Deal issues. This is after the Civil War, just in case you didn't know that, and directly focused on the type of social engineering and power grab that you so wholeheartedly support now.
1936 New Deal US Supreme Court decision (Carter v. Carter Coal Co.) "The Constitution grants to Congress no general power to regulate for the promotion of the general welfare." - "Those who framed and those who adopted the Constitution meant to carve from the general mass of legislative powers then possessed by the States only such portions as it was thought wise to confer upon the federal government, and, in order that there should be no uncertainty as to what was taken and what was left, the national powers of legislation were not aggregated, but enumerated -- with the result that what was not embraced by the enumeration remained vested in the States without change or impairment." - "The States, in respect of all powers reserved to them, are supreme. And since every addition to the national legislative power to some extent detracts from or invades the power of the States, it is of vital moment that, in order to preserve the fixed balance intended by the Constitution, the powers of the general government be not so extended as to embrace any not within the express terms of the several grants or the implications necessarily to be drawn therefrom." - "The determination of the Framers Convention and the ratifying conventions to preserve complete and unimpaired state self-government in all matters not committed to the national government is one of the plainest facts in the history of their deliberations. Adherence to that determination is incumbent equally upon the federal government and the States. State powers can neither be appropriated, on the one hand, nor abdicated, on the other."
1935 New Deal Supreme Court Decision (A. L. A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States) "Extraordinary conditions, such as an economic crisis, may call for extraordinary remedies, but they cannot create or enlarge constitutional power." -
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