Posted on 06/01/2016 10:32:58 AM PDT by JeepersFreepers
‘And, though many haven’t noticed yet, the bipartisan cooperation has been good for our politics.’
How true but terrible for the country.
In addition to confirming treaties and approving justices, senators were expected to protect their states by not only killing House bills that the House could not justify under Congress’s constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, but also by killing House appropriations bills that not only steal 10th Amendment-protected state powers, but also steal state revenues uniquely associated with those powers.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
The problem is that the anti-constitutional republic Progressive Movement spooked citizens into twisting the arms of their state lawmakers to ratify the ill-conceived 17th-Amendment, that amendment totally defeating the purpose of the Senate by allowing low-information citizens, citizens easily influenced by the corrupt media, to vote for senators.
For example, regardless what lawless Obama’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices want everybody to think about Obamacare, since the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for INTRAstate healthcare purposes, the Senate should have killed the bill that established Obamacare, but failed to do so.
And what’s worse is that the corrupt Senate confirms state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices who unsurprisingly declare that unconstitutional laws that the Senate wrongly helps the House to pass are constitutional.
The corrupt Senate, not the corrupt Oval Office, is the most unconstitutionally powerful office in the federal government imo.
Trump needs to lead the states to repeal the 17th Amendment. The 16th Amendment can go too.
Remember in November !
When patriots elect Trump, they need to also elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its Section 8-limited powers to support Trump, but will also put a stop to unconstitutional taxes and federal interference in state affairs.
Note that such a Congress will probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
How it spoze to work is the Democrats control the Congress, both Houses, whether they are in the majority or the minority, even a small minority. The Bureaus and Agencies are controlled by Democrats and other socialists and are not subject to control by the Congress other than to receive more grants of power from Congress.Republicans are very comfortable with this system because they are allowed a portion of the inevitable corruption in such a system and so long as they are enriched, everything is just fine.
If you have not noticed, look at the House. Newly elected first term Conservatives become gopes within days of taking their seats, with a precious few exceptions. My liberal friend used to say hey, quit complaining, get out there and elect your guys instead of complaining about our guys! Well, we do, but so soon as they become Representatives and Senators they cease being our guys. The wealth that will come to a Representative, even if he only lasts one term, for towing/toeing the gope/Democrat line is sufficient to turn the coats of almost any elected person. Remember almost all of them are attracted to Politics which is a good predictor of character.
This article is a rambling statement by a cowardly quisling advocating surrender to America’s enemies.
Time to start talking about American-style Nuremberg trials.
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