Posted on 03/14/2014 1:21:24 PM PDT by Kaslin
The Republicans introduced (and passed) a bill that would require the President of the United States to enforce laws as they are written. Republican Trey Gowdy summarized the sentiment behind the bill nicely when he explained that Congress passes laws… Not suggestions. The bill is in response to the President’s most recent unilateral changes to Obamacare. But, the fact that it takes a literal “act of Congress” to make the President do his job, is not really the point of this article. I’m afraid it is far more basic than that.
Representative Sheila Jackson, a Democrat from Texas (yes… Texas has a few Democrats), argued in opposition to the bill. And her overall point – that forcing the President to follow the Constitution is somehow unconstitutional – was not the most impressive moment of her deliriously liberal tirade. Instead, what really caught attention, was her assertion that our Constitution was over 400 years old.
This, of course, is news to everybody… Including the people that ratified the Constitution 227 years ago.
FAIL: Democrat Claims Constitution is 400 Years Old
Um… First of all: “How well it is, that we’ve lasted some 400 years operating under the Constitution…” Really? “How well it is”? (Grammar check, please. And what is she wearing? Is that a British Colonial uniform?)
Then again, what’s a couple centuries, give or take? Especially for a Political Science major from Yale. (Yeah… She’s a graduate of Yale. There’s probably an article to be written about the intellectual decline of higher education – but that’s not this article.) Not only does Sheila get the age of our founding document embarrassingly wrong – but what exactly is unconstitutional about passing a law requiring the President to faithfully execute his responsibilities as outlined under the Constitution? I agree the law is mildly redundant… But, c’mon: What else is Congress supposed to do when a President changes laws without their consent, and judges refuse to give Congress “standing” to take him to court?
“That’s what the opportunity of Democracy is all about” she explains. Of course, we’re not a Democracy. And maybe, if she had ever read that “400 year old” document she’s referring to, she would have known that. But, I guess we’re expecting too much when we ask our elected leaders to understand rudimentary 8th grade history.
Her outrage at the bill itself is almost as ridiculous as her less-than-copious grasp of American History. After all, imagine the Democrat outrage if President Mitt Romney was unilaterally altering the Healthcare law with use of his “pen and phone”… Do you think there might be an angry liberal or two on Capitol Hill?
Of course, as I said, this isn’t an article about the codification of what the Constitution already states... It’s about Jackson’s brilliant aversion to intelligent thought. Her monumental ignorance of our government, founding document, and general lack of common sense, however, is not exclusive. Other “leaders” have shown a similar lack of intellectual-horsepower… For example, Democrat Hank Johnson once expressed concern that the island of Guam was in danger of capsizing. Harry Reid has argued that our compulsory tax system is “voluntary”. (Maybe history, Physics, and English classes should be mandatory for US Congressmen?)
Which raises the bigger question: Is this really the best we have to offer? I have to imagine that America is capable of electing leaders who do not display such unfathomable ignorance. Heck, can’t we at least elect representatives who have a peripheral relationship to the real world?
By the way, Sheila, the Constitution turns 227 years old, this year. I’ll send a copy of the manuscript to your office at 2160 Rayburn HOB, Washington, DC 20515. Flip through it. You’d be surprised how much guidance our nation’s instruction manual has to offer.
Say no more.
That’s nothing. A neighbor of mine is a grade school teacher and didn’t know who lived in Mt. Vernon!
No need to
so according to Miss Jackson, we has slaves picking cotton in 1613?,who was President? Benjamin Franklin?
Now now now! She is living proof of the value of “Diversity.”
Hey. It’s older than that! I wrote it to protect the Romans from the tyranny of Julius Caesar!
...and she's the 'educated' one!
I knew a teacher who didn’t know divorced had more than one meaning. She looked at me incredulously when I said the kitchen often was divorced from the main house on a plantation. She was serious when she said “a kitchen can’t get a divorce.”
Isn’t she also the one who said Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on or plant our flag on Mars?
Yes, and giants exist only in fairy tales./s
Sheila Jackson is a strong front-runner for 'stupidest person to ever serve in the United States congress'.
She is not just a corrupt, race-baiting, vile democrat - she is GENUINELY stupid.
Honestly, I would be surprised if her IQ is higher than 60.
Yes.
Misao Okawa, born in 1898, is the world’s oldest living person. Her birth is closer to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia than it is to the present day.
Maybe she can hitch a ride with Booker out to Hawaii and visit our 57th state.
Nobody like a braggart, you know...
;-)
I wonder if Miss Jackson knows that 400 years ago, we had no where near 57 States.
She gets a free pass, just like her idol in Washington. She can say all the stupid things she wants, and it won’t be on Saturday Nite Live or on the late night shows.
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