Posted on 07/15/2011 10:22:56 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
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As I consider McConnell's suggestion, I find myself thinking of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the War Powers Act and the other steps by which the U.S. Congress surrendered its constitutionally mandated initiative...
Is McConnell's proposal part of a similar surrender with respect to the money issues? It masquerades as a clever ploy intended to tag Obama with the damaging political consequences of the U.S. government's runaway spending and indebtedness. But it's too clever by half (or is it two-thirds?). McConnell's proposal actually shifts the initiative in money matters away from the body intended to represent people at the grass roots to the executive. The executive gains a free hand so long as he is supported by an override-proof minority of the U.S. Senate (i.e., the one-third that blocks both a veto-override and any Senate decision to remove the president from office after his impeachment by the House.)
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...they should simply propose legislation, based on the 14th Amendment language, that requires the executive to give first priority in expenditures to servicing the debt, including veteran's pensions and the Social Security system's paid-for retirement and survivor benefits...
As for McConnell's shift of power to Obama, this is the way the republic ends. This is the way tyrannical empire rises. The Republican Party makes a show of caring about the U.S. Constitution. Do the actions of leaders like McConnell prove that it is all a sham; or do they simply prove that the GOP's leadership lacks the competence to understand and defend what they profess to revere? Either way, what sense does it make to pretend that a party subject to such leadership offers an alternative that will save the American republic? Whether from treacherous malice or tragic incompetence, they simply hasten its demise.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Hey, let’s see what Jim DeMint had to say: Read: http://demint.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=7d48ce05-9004-4209-a130-5b198b3e56aa&ContentType_id=a2165b4b-3970-4d37-97e5-4832fcc68398&Group_id=9ee606ce-9200-47af-90a5-024143e9974c&MonthDisplay=1&YearDisplay=2007 ~ so much for Plan-B eh?
“. McConnell’s proposal actually shifts the initiative in money matters away from the body intended to represent people at the grass roots to the executive.”
Precedent: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau funded by the Fed Reserve and housed completely in the Fed Reserve, outsources to the Fed Reserve with E. Warren, the entire financial life of all US citizens away from the Congress of the US. Warren will serve to make recommendations to...the executive. Unknown to the public, the CFPB will be governed by 10 appointed council members by the Fed itself in the background, and Warren will be a spokes person to funnel the Feds ideas to the executive. The Fed will be running the country, in spite of careful current denials of such.
The financial products offered to the public for credit instruments, mortgages, micro-management of daily transactions with everyones accounts transparent to the Fed, the Bureau, and the IRS and many other Federal executive bodies will be “control of everyone’s life..”Central”. McConnel’s move is only in direct line with the same ideas behind the CFPB, in which Congresses outsources Congressional representation to the...FED and the CFPB. Warren will be, with the 10 member Council appointed by the Fed, the most powerful Czar in the US, and the Executive Branch will be directly guided by it.
Interesting.
Great point.
The RATS and MSM like it. Case closed.
And the left has said they want no one else except Elizabeth Warren!!!!!!! SHe must be stopped because if the left want her so bad, she’s very bad for the country....the Pubbies must stand tough.
has mitch ever been sane
Good question.
The Kentuckians really believe in McC, but they don’t think of themselves as cowardly at all. See the disconnect.
A Kentucky Ping....for those interested. :D
said WHO!....
Cowardly Sen. Mitch "Get Along / Go Along" McConnell?
Gave a Great Speech Today, then threw it all away within minutes....
for some kind words from OBahbah "Mindless" Minions on Capitol Hill.
This is one Kentuckian who stopped believing in McConnell a long time ago. When he pushed a former Democrat RINO (Trey Grayson) for Bunning’s seat, he lost me. Thnak God we got Rand Paul instead.
“This is one Kentuckian who stopped believing in McConnell a long time ago. When he pushed a former Democrat RINO (Trey Grayson) for Bunning’s seat, he lost me. Thnak God we got Rand Paul instead.”
Same here—Ditch Mitch!
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