A new year has come and an old one gone.
All in all it was a pretty darned good year. Here’s to the next one being better – starting with the new congressional mixup makinig Obama’s life hell.
But before that, I want to win a million-dollar lottery.
Please God, let me prove to you that winning the lottery won’t spoil me…
I’ll try to get back into the posting and art and/or writing this year. I’ve been awfully slack lately.
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Can it get any stupider, this liberal understanding of the Constitution? Source: The Spokane Conservative…
Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein mocked Republicans for wanting to start the 112th Congress with a reading of the Constitution.
Klein told Norah O’Donnell, “The issue of the Constitution is that the text is confusing because it was written more than 100 years ago and what people believe it says differs from person to person and differs depending on what they want to get done.”
So, in Klein’s view, the Constitution is old and therefore confusing and apparently should be ignored, or translated in a way that supports liberal policy.Klein also took issue with new rules requiring legislation be supported by the Constitution. He told O’Donnell, “the new rules require every bill name its constitutional authority in the bill’s text and what I want to point out about that is that bills don’t normally do that now.”But that is precisely the point, and it is partly why Republicans – many backed by the Tea Party – destroyed the Democrats in November’s election.
I’m sorry but I just don’t see November as having been a mandate or a slam-dunk. A lot of things are still being taken for granted by the Republicans, who still seem a bit dazed and confused. It’s like the Republicans keep showing up to a gun fight with a spoon.
Thank you, Joe Newby for your article…
“bills don’t normally do that now”
Uh, yeah. That would be the point of requiring them to do it from here on out.
I doubt this will change much, other than to make them cover their tracks better, but anything that adds on to the time it takes them to pass laws is a bonus.
Congress seems to have totally missed the boat – the whole system was rigged in the first place to make it very hard to pass laws. It was a procedural checks/balances gauntlet that needed to be run in order to pass laws.
Implication being that Congress’ real purpose is to be HANDS-OFF, and nudging things only when absolutely required and agreed upon by the full body.
It has become some rough beast and its hour came round a long time ago.
Oh, and in case I haven’t wished it yet, Happy New Year to all in the Lemur King house!
To you and yours Nicole!
Thank you very much! Likewise to you.
The phrase “general welfare”, the interstate commerce clause, and that nonsense about “well regulated militias” introduction to the 2nd amendment comprise the great Achilles Heel of the Constitution. If only they had known how they would be twisted by those that followed.
Hope y’all had a wonderful New Year’s, LK!!!!
And hope Ezra Klein shrivels up from his bitterness. What an idiot.