Free Republic

REALLY? Now, come on, my FRiend. You expect D.C. to give even an INCLINATION that what they do, the ‘Laws’ they pass, are illegal/unconstitutional??

Hell, I’d pay good $$ to see ANY MSM ask as many Congress-critters as possible, where the authority to create the FCC resides? What Article allowed Congress to delegate power to ANYTHING else (aside from those noted) when We the People have NEVER approved?

EVEN if the GOP were to win, what makes anyone think the screams of (from both sides) “It’s in the past! Why do you want to re-visit, waste resources, blah blah ...on THAT!?”

Might as well hope that the illegal EOs/etc. would be rescinded as well...but that would indicate they were illegal to begin and/or start some people waking up.

What happened to the rule of ‘void for vagueness’?!?

Was there a *single* adult there that SHOULD have just decried the stupidity and killed the whole thing?

Won’t acknowledge? Hell, how many in both chambers voted AGAINST these two for the leadership??? Too few and too late for any good.

I chalk it up to The Cryer and Turtle being whom they are. Disappointing, to say the least, were the ‘young bloods’ who did NOTHING to right the past wrongs, even with a landslide.

I thought they had FINALLY put that one to bed, and recently at that?!

Just goes to show....

I don’t care who you are, that’s funny stuff right there....

Why, all we need is the GOP to take the presidency, then they can AGAIN.....increase the size/scope of gov’t.

Hell, I can’t remember the name of the LAST Dept. they ‘0’d out’. Can anyone else??

If we were still a Republic, and a Constitutional one at that, the question is moot:

“...nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”

There would be no entitlements, no ‘robbing Peter to pay Paul’. Funds would not be stolen to be given to those ‘protected’ classes by gov’t.

Unfortunately, we haven’t be there for more than a Century already.

Freedom? That’s so...18th century.

To work: unions vs. right-to-work, work permit/w-2
travel: TSA, drivers license, plates, registration
house-work: permits, studies
internet: Google, NSA
....

I think the list of where Freedom (is still ‘allowed’) exists would be shorter

Damn. How much would it have cost the taxpayers (the ones PAYING the check amount) if they had stopped all travel to anyone traveling from W. Africa?

I’d presume million, and a few scares/infections less

I believe Mr. Pethokoukis needs some education about our Constitutional Republic and fiat currency

I, being just a lowly self-taught/post-indoctrination serf (ahem, Citizen), see exactly how the Fed ‘works’...at $120+TRILLION in unfunded liabilities. Or how inflation has decreased the purchasing power of the Dollar

Yep. Must be too nuanced for me.

“....there is a movement to destroy our representative government...”

It’s long been dead and buried, and *We the People* allow it to happen.

Hell, what was that story not that long ago....2/3 cannot name the 3 branches of gov’t?!

Can ANYONE tell me the last time a presidential contender even MENTIONED the REPUBLIC??

I see your problem: thinking the property one lives and pays for is somehow ‘theirs’

(almost /s)

“They’re obviously frustrated about not being able to have a voice in what happens around their own education...”

Talk to me when those landowners are no longer used as piggy banks, our property taxes lowered, and the indoctrination centers called ‘public schools’ are paid by those like EVERY OTHER SERVICE: by those that utilize them!

Or, when the People have a seat at the negotiating table for the unions that are somehow a ‘sacred cow’ above all else.....Some animals and all that, no? You were hired to do a JOB. You, and gov’t, do a piss-poor run at it too. But, we’re supposed to be happy about it and make sure your early retirement is cushy too??

If a Right is not absolute, it is therefore not a Right to begin.

I know the Left has no critical thinking/debate skills....I almost expected them to bring out the ‘Race Card’ (TM) along with this waste of ink.

SLIGHTLY incorrect...it is the one of the few where the gov’t is specifically DENIED to ‘mess with’; whereas the 1st only specifies Congress SHALL

Of course, we have some on the Right that fight for S.S./etc. because they think they ‘paid into it’ *rolls eyes*

Course, these are the same Leftist ass-clowns who have (SOMEHOW) perverted the Commerce *CLAUSE* to negate the whole of the Constitution. Only an over-educated Socialist idiot (but I repeat myself)...

Just for sh!ts and giggles (doesn’t hurt that they would also be wasting time instead stealing more of our Rights, Freedom and $$), I’d love to see how many pages of lawyer speak it would take to ‘clarity’ the 27 words of the 2nd Amendment.

Course, this is the same D.C. that fought Arizona in enforcing immigration Laws while they allow California to declare ‘sanctuary’-cities and creating Law from thin air that gives illegal aliens Citizen status....

Yeah, time to restore the swamp, per the EPA of course

Oh, I had NO doubt

I give him kudos for taking the flak already....let’s hope he’s got some fortitude to get the job DONE.

Still, some are more equal:
“..would cut pensions for current state workers, moving them to the lower-benefit pension plan for recent hires, despite a state constitutional injunction against the diminishment of pension benefits. The governor’s budget would exempt police officers and firefighters from the change...”

The only hope, if/when they finally sneak something to detonate in the U.S., they pick D.C. (1600 Penn. Ave. would be perfect. When the idiot is ‘home’)

Two birds with one stone as they say

/s (damn those 2 characters were a BITCH to type)

“We can’t turn them away”.....why?

Doesn’t everyone HAVE to have insurance now, thanks to OCare? If so, then the hospitals, etc. CAN turn away those w/out it.

I guess the servitude of the Citizen taxpayer knows no bounds to gov’t.

WHICH ‘Law’? The one HE (re)wrote or the underlings?

As you note, in the last sentence of your post, the single REASON we have the problems we face today:

An oligarchy, encouraged and EMPOWERED, over the will of the People, by the Executive branch....IE: We are, and have not been, a Republic, let alone a Constitutional one, for a great many year....

Funny. *I* didn’t make it through college, yet I have NO problem reading, understanding and following the less than 4543 words that make up the Constitution.

Hell, I’d say it’s the fact that I DIDN’T graduate, that allows me to understand simple snippets, such as, ‘...shall not be infringed’, ‘Congress shall make no Law...’, ‘...suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;...’ and many, MANY more

Nice post, but, yet again, we’re debating a moot point: I fail to find anything in the Constitution that even remotely authorizes ‘...to manage a scare resource: the radio frequency spectrum...’, let alone any other spectrum.

Next you’ll be hearing the scarce spectrum of LIGHT /s

The FCC, EPA, etc. are, and should, be null and void

Yet, let any gun store owner ‘lose track’ of a SINGLE weapon....

I know, I know....some animals and all that.

Boy, I bet ol’ Ollie North is pissed

I know...WHAT was I THINKING?! That ‘all equal under the Law’ is so, so....blase!

Ha, quite possibly true; but I put more (blind) faith in the police than I would a KNOWN element of crime (informants).

Though, I don’t recall any blow-back from the Duke lacrosse, or Brawley, or...Hell, women falsely accusing their spouses of abuse/etc. during divorce would fall into that category IMHO.

Course, I also believe those ‘in power’ should be held and sentenced more harshly too....

No go for me. That’s the job of the POLICE: validate the information BEFORE getting the warrant and DAMN sure before busting down the front door.

Too many times we’ve all read where the wanna-be’s get away with murder by not following through on (incorrect) provided information.

It is to laugh.....expecting Congress, whom ILLEGALLY created out whole cloth this entity now run amok, to do ANYTHING?! Let alone reduce the power they themselves usurped, heaven forbid the word ABOLISH?

It is to cry.

A32 - non-starter, not required. The language is plain and easily read, it’s lawyers and judges (I repeat myself) whom twisted the plain English meaning or toss out sections all together.

Might as well ‘re-affirm’ A1 - 10 since nobody in D.C. understands Federalism, limited gov’t, etc.

But, A31, I’ve been a HUGE proponent of the same!

Like A33 as well, but again, unnecessary IF/WHEN the Constitution is followed.

No offense, but this is exactly how one loses a debate.

States have POWERS, We the People have Rights. Rights are inalienable, powers are bestowed/taken.

In this case, the (usurped) Fed. POWER is used to suppress the States’ powers....again and again and again....

Course, that is what happens when you have a Democracy instead of a Constitutional Republic. Our fore-bearers have sorely let down their progeny.

I digress....

Just where IS ‘our side’ in all of this? Why are they/we NOT filing case upon case for all the ‘pretzel logic’ of the Left?? Where is our 14th incorporation of the 2nd, or Constitutional carry vs. the other 40+ States?

Ultimately, the Constitution should be the 1st citation required in ALL cases. Failing to do so would negate any further discussion, case closed; anything else supporting....It would definitely whittle down the case load I’d suspect.

Unfortunately, we have lawyers and judges (I repeat myself) whom build upon the crap that is known as ‘case law’, on the presumption that the same was valid to begin.

It allows the oligarchy to continue to insert itself without repercussion.

I’ll presume it DOESN’T involve getting rid of the DOE, DOE union goons, ‘teaching’ accreditation (learning to teach, not in the subject matter), pushing for lowering/removing property taxes and/or school choice/pay-as-you-go.

Leaders? More ‘solution(s)’ of gov’t by gov’t caused by gov’t

Count me impressed when ONE in the field starts working towards SMALLER gov’t, restoring the Republic and our Rights/Liberty/etc.

Well, I’d say 9 is enough...if we had actual debates instead of soundbite factories.

Most on the stage honing their skills of bloviation instead of answering the question or getting to the point (yes, I do understand the Left will blast ‘em at every turn with Leftist questions...there was a surprise there?? It was unfortunate that only Newt has the fortitude to lay one low).

Plus, I hadn’t heard, in many a year, anything BUT platitudes to the Constitution, nor our Republic. Why should I care to listen, let alone vote, for the lesser or the ‘you wanna, I gotta’ crowd? Does it matter how fast we arrive in the hand-basket?? Wake me when anyone hears any plan to REDUCE gov’t.

Yet, he and the rest of goobers in D.C. believe it’s perfectly acceptable to saddle those (that make it) out of the womb with a tax bill that can (most likely) never be repaid in their lifetime.

I hope, beyond hope, that those that are financing this douche bag finance him BIG TIME, so that when he loses they FEEL the stupidity burn.

With the power of hindsight, they both sucked...but Davis was (IMHO) more ‘in-tune’ with the Declaration and Constitution (self-determination).

Either we, as a (once) Free People have the authority “—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”...or we do not.

I know of no contract that can be enforced upon our progeny like the so called ‘Union’ ala Lincoln.

Those are State assets, first and foremost, regardless of whatever was signed/inferred/conveyed. Either the Constitution means what is written, or it’s as dead as I’ve said/think it has been.

I’m all for the States taking it all back...let D.C. pound its fists/feet.

Then, and only then, are they free to do as they please.

Forgot:

- Equal enforcement of the Law: I still can’t wrap my head around how they get away with exempting themselves, over and over and.... That should cut out most, if not all, insider trading, etc.
- Sunshine Law: No more behind-the-scenes, arm-twisting, smoke-filled-rooms deals, etc.
- NO benefits: No room, board, travel, per diem, healthcare, cars, etc. Make it so that only those that want to serve for their Country will do so...Make it payable by the State/District they represent.
- NO $$ from any entity that can not legally pull the lever: NO PACs, no unions, no nothing.

Ethics, I like, but we’re talking lawyers and the like here (mostly); that’s a lost cause. Though, I’d also say if they break those guidelines, there should be a MIN. MANDATORY stink in the clink and a HUGE fine

No! You mean the same twits that screamed for plastic bags, as we were cutting down ALL THE TREES, were the same ones whom now vilify those support freedom of choice, but were once THE anti-vac’ers?

Color me surprised.

Hush now. Soon you’d be hearing the caterwauling of the “....vote for Hillary instead”, “Loser/Liberal-tarians” or “electability” crowd.

Can’t have anyone thinking for themselves, off the (R) plantation, y’know.

Too many armchair warriors whom know medicine/human body better than Dr. Paul(s), since they know someone, who knew someone, who....

Otherwise, I think he did what they ALL should do: ENFORCE an even interview. Don’t allow ‘em to over-talk/demean/etc. like they usually do. It was a damned good change of pace that I don’t expect to see from many others of the (R).

The Republic has fallen too far for even some here. You’ll see the same on the (anti) Libertarian threads, or when ‘discussing’ SS/Medicare (they ‘paid’, you understand), etc.

Are vaccines good? Yes. Are they the cure? No.
What/which should be mandatory, and why?
How are they to be administered?
What are to become of those that refuse (for any reason)?

No offense, but you’re (and I’m calling out most on FR here) rebuttal is 5 steps ahead of where it should begin:

One cannot loot what/where one does not (Constitutionally) have authority.

Repeal, rescind, abolish....Then start the debate.

But, I concur with your indignation

Our Republic has LONG been dead...and I do not see it getting any better anytime sooner, nor later.

IMHO, it only lasted until the War of Northern Aggression (the ‘Civil’ War [war to change the sitting power structure/leadership]....Which, I guess, IS the correct term, but 180 degrees, and more to my point)

Instead of utilizing the tool(s) at hand (Amendment process), the North went to war to force their will upon the rest of the (Southern) States.

Lo and behold, they pass the 13th/14th/15th Amendments, and use Reconstruction to force the State to comply by extortion (which invalidates all in my eyes) and yet, do the same even TODAY (Voting Rights Act)

I was thinking more in the line of contraceptives. Or, better yet, abstinence.

As a taxpayer, I’d be HAPPY to plunk down a few $$$ to make sure all the tubes are tied and/or snipped.

Yea! Now to use the perverted 14th like the ‘new marriage’ cases and have it instituted across the board.

I say with no disrespect: John Adams gave his *impression*, his thought upon...he is not the whole/arbiter of the Constitution.

As an agnostic, *I* can read the words and understand their meaning: There are things ‘above’ mortal Man; his yearning for Freedom/Liberty/etc. Even I can acknowledge the question of our being (a soul? consciousness). I don’t know the answer(s) from when they originate; their source. If one wants to ‘chalk it up’ to their Creator, I, for one, believe that’s as good as any a place to begin....whom am I to judge or cast doubt? But, I’m willing, and open, to seasoned debate that COULD change my mind/way of thinking/belief (what more could be asked of anyone?).

But, to say it requires a moral/religious people to understand?? Sorry, no, not to me. Again, the simple reading of the English language is what is being perverted today; the secularism of gov’t/Left (anti-religion) only exacerbates the issues.

I have no issue seeing that abortion is wrong (science), or the ‘taxing’ by force for ‘charity’ (theft/slavery), etc. etc. etc. If there is a quote one must always bear in mind, to paraphrase: “Gov’t is a necessary evil. Like fire...”.

One must ALWAYS keep an eye out for the evils of Man, religious or not. Religion has/can be the crutch one uses to enslave another/others...’for their own good’...tyrants will be tyrants.

The only ones whom have a reason to gripe...are the ones whose $$ is being plunked down. If you’re feeding from the taxpayer trough (and, as a (L) that’s #1 that should go....no forced ‘charity’. Completely anti-5th and 13th).

And, no, they should be tested FIRST, on THEIR dime. Bring the results when you’re trying to sign-up.

Now, let’s not get into the voting side of things; I have my own growing list of ‘to do’ if I’m ever asked to be King for a day :) But, if anyone should start their a vanity thread on the same....

Sorry, I beg to differ.

It required NOT a religious peoples, it merely requires one to read, follow and ENFORCE the plain English of the Constitution.

Unfortunately, the Republic fell during the War of the North (aka ‘Civil’ War), and driven under by Teddy on forward (INHO, the ‘time of apathy’. We are currently entering the ‘time to re-servitude’).

Hopefully, our progeny can re-work the Constitution and give it some TEETH to ensure Life, Liberty and Freedom will once again reign true.

How ‘bout the ‘you F* up (literally) and now have a baby’ Law?

So tired of these niche attacks. Global warming is ‘settled science’ but they still can’t figure anything popping out of a human vagina is a HUMAN too.

And whom will be held responsible, Mr. Grassley?

Whom will be fined, fired, nay JAILED, for (at LEAST) aiding and abetting?

Whom will be debarred for the dereliction of duty, enforcement of Law and the revolving-door of ‘catch and release’?

Why do I KNOW *I* would get no such tender considerations when big gov’t comes after ME (for any number of made-up, throw it all against the wall prosecution)