Posted on 11/15/2014 2:07:30 PM PST by Mariner
In fact, as mentioned in related threads, regardless what FDR’s activist justices wanted everybody to believe about the scope of Congress’s Commerce Clause powers when it wrongly decided Wickard v. Filburn in Congress’s favor, the Supreme Court had historically clariifed that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate commerce.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Also note that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to decide intrastate environmental policy.
So Obama has no constitutional authority to close down coal plants even if he had the legislative support of corrupt Congress to do so.
So while it is tempting to believe that McConnell is stupid, evil becomes the reasonable explanation, imo, with respect to why he is keeping his mouth shut about Section 8.
DUH!
Yeah...Sure...Reminds me of the class of 94 BS...They turned out to be just another bunch of anti-Constitutional, power-grabbing scum...Only marginally better than the commie demoncrats...
Not a bit.
it’s about time that the Pubbies decided that they (most of them) had gonads and what they were for. The liberals have had their way for years with such nonsense as gay marriage, killing your babies when it suited your needs, allowing MILLIONS of citizens of other countries to cross our borders, unimpeded, claim welfare and medicaid benefits and stick the American public with the bill. There is no excuse whatsoever for this tragedy....none!!
You realize this essay is a leftist criticism of McConnell for promising to go to war against Obama, don’t you?
he was hoping to help them clean out their desks!!
Of course I do, I posted it!
It's the irony I wanted to illustrate.
McConnell WILL go to war for Kentucky over coal. No doubt about it.
But he's OK if the Nation is utterly destroyed in the interim.
Yes, he's both stupid and evil.
Don't tell me you think McConnell and crew will do anything about that.
It would diminish my opinion of you.
Same with all the rest of the liberal GOP. I don't care about their motivations. I want them gone, and replaced with conservatives.
/johnny
If voters wanted people to work with democrats, then voters would have elected democrats.
Period, end of story.
When McConnell says “war” he means “gasbaggery.”
Mitch Mc Connell, 2, 24, 14. Voted for ObamaCare.
easy answer, EVIL.
Dean: Harry Reid Saved the Constitution from ‘Crackpot Tea Party’
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/11/14/Dean-Harry-Reid-Saved-The-Constitution-From-The-Crackpot-Tea-Party
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