One of the more difficult things to understand is why, after 230 years of success, people would willingly give up the foundation of our country for 50 sheckles.

It really doesn’t speak well for Americans.

When we take power back from the contemptable greedy criminal con artists, the ONE thing we have to absolutely get right is to get a large majority of SCOTUS’s who believe in the Constitution. As I’m seeing it now, that is more important even than than the War on Terrorism.

“Alexander’s Essay – October 29,2009″ from “The Patriot Post” reminds us that, “Never before has there been more evidence of outright contempt for our Constitution than under the current liberal hegemony presiding over the executive and legislative branches of our federal government.”

I couldn’t agree more! And how disgusting, “outright contempt for our Constitution”!

He goes on to say (and I would encourage all of us patriotic Americans here at S&L .. and elsewhere .. to get ahold of a copy of the whole essay and share it widely), “However, if we are a nation of laws with a national government limited by our Constitution, and, indeed, we are, then Obama has no legal authority to “transform” our government.
Those who laid our constitutional foundation were very clear about its limits on government.”

Our Constitution’s principle author, James Madison, said, “If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions.”

There is an additional and HUGE problem though!

And Alexander highlites it nicely by pointing out, “But too many among us have become so fixated on the superficial parameters of today’s political debates rather than demand an answer to that most essential question: What is the constitutional authority for Obama’s proposals now being debated in Congress?
For example, amid all the acrimony over Obama’s transformation of health care, the debate should not be centered on which plan is better, but whether constitutional authority exists for any of the plans under consideration.
Unfortunately, such inquiry is scarce, and hardly noted.”

And that is very true! Not right in any regard; but true!

How many of us knew .. thank you MSM (not) .. and again from Alexander, “In every successive Congress since 1995, conservative Arizona Republican Rep. John Shadegg has sponsored the Enumerated Powers Act (HR 1359), which requires that “Each Act of Congress shall contain a concise and definite statement of the constitutional authority relied upon for the enactment of each portion of that Act.”

We all know that things may be different if THAT had been enacted; but, Alexander unfortunately informs us that, “The measure continues to fail, however, because of a dirty little secret: There is no legitimate constitutional authority for almost 70 percent of current federal government programs, and, thus, no authority for the collection of taxes to fund such activities.”

So yeah, Pro .. “it” likely won’t work. Should. Should’ve. Sad that it won’t.

Our Constitution has never failed us. Have we failed it?

Has complacency and inaction coupled with purposeful ill intended deeds by those in positions of power infected our Republic past the point of no return? Are we to simply roll over and bemoan “It won’t work”. Or, are we to look for ways to make it work!

Do we need to launch a huge effort to get the Enumerated Powers Act passed?
Do we need to put huge efforts and resources behind organizations that demand Constitutional behavior by government and a true transformation of government back to Constitutional roots?

Or, do we allow the continuation of the erosion that has got us here finish off the Republic and its’ Constitution?

I’d like to think there’s far too many of “us” for that to happen. Heck .. I’m all for coming together and drafting a Re-Declaration of Independence. The abuses of power have got to again see the light of day and real change be ignited.

One of the reasons I haven’t been posting as often here at S&L is that I’ve kicked off a little group here in MN in the spirit of the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence. Those courageous Americans pledged “their Lives, their Fortunes, and their Sacred Honor” and got this grand example of freedom and liberty in motion. We are in their debt! And the best way to honor their sacrifices and committment is to do all we can to keep it alive.

We’ve got some ambitous goals; but needed to get started with something. Take a peek at our (initial) website if you care to (hope it’s okay to mention, Steve) – http://www.the56club.us – We certainly hope to gather momentum and help to push this thing in many productive directions.

Who knows, Pro .. maybe even write that Re-Declaration.

God Bless Us All .. God Bless America ..
God Bless & Keep Our Troops Safe

Having said that, to quote the inspector in “Young Frankenstein”, “A riot is an ugly thing, and I think it’s time we had one.”

TAKE IT BACK EVERYONE!

Everyone has his or her limits.

Many are already there and await only a leader with the guts to act.

They work for us not the other way around and it’s high time they were reminded!!

The problem with finding anything to be a violation of the Constitution requires two things:

1) “Standing.” This is the ambiguous definition used to dismiss most every complaint, most recently that of the “truthers.” Whether you believe their beliefs were wacko or not, they were not even heard because they “lacked standing” to bring a complaint.

2) Judges willing to find it a violation of the Constitution at a lower level, let alone at the SCOTUS level. Good luck finding a judge who believes anything Obama does is unconstitutional, aside from not closing Gitmo sooner or not overturning “Dont ask, don’t tell” earlier.

It won’t work.

They have 5 votes on the Supreme Court.

The opposition needs to be that they have NO CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY whatsoever for any of this health care crap (and about 70% of all the crap that comes out of DC).

The fed needs to be reigned in! Corralled. Detained. Arrested. Jailed. Assets siezed and returned to the Treasury.

I gotta go lay down.

Huh? Isn’t this system supposed to insure us all? [/sarcasm]

http://www.americanthinker.com.....ew_ta.html

Fortunately, we can be 100% assured that nobody making less than 250,000 per year will pay one thin dime in new taxes.

Obamy has promised he will never ever lie to us.

Got a funny feeling that it DOES NOT cover the fees that uninsured people will be forced to pay at the point of a gun…….or the fines that small businesses will be forced to pay at the point of a gun…….or the increases in private insurance premiums that will occur as the government underpays for services…….or the true costs of the MASSIVE new bureaucracies that will be created…..or the MASSIVE inflation that will be trigggered by the tsunami of new spending.

And of course, the mythical $1 Trillion is for 6 years of benefits, but 10 years of taxes. Did you know that?