Posted on 09/06/2010 7:44:54 AM PDT by timesthattrymenssouls
"This is Nero at his worst. As for the Constitution, it does not seem too much to say that it is gone. "
Justice James McReynolds in his opinion on the Roosevelt Administration's Gold Policy
Justice McReynolds' indictment against Roosevelt rings true today. Every time we turn around government grows bigger and we lose a little more liberty. The Constitution was painstakingly crafted to protect "we the people" from the government. But somewhere along the line, something went seriously awry. And, based on my read of history, a good deal of it began with FDR.
Return with me for a moment to Amity Shlaes' remarkable history of the Great Depression: The Forgotten Man.
Frances Perkins of Labor was worried that the Supreme Court would reject the social insurance system she working to put in place--what we know today as Social Security. She stated her concern to Justice Harlan Stone who advised: "The taxing power of the federal government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need" (Shlaes229). His words were meant to assure. If the Social Security Act was formulated as a tax rather than a government insurance program it would clear the Constitutional hurdle (229).
Fast forward: This is now one of the tact's the Obama Administration is taking in response to the many lawsuits against ObamaCare. Flimsy at best. But, more importantly, right out of the playbook.
In the famous Schechter Brothers case, where the justices ruled unanimously in favor of the Schechter Poultry Corporation and against the constitutionality of the National Industrial Recovery Act (NRA), Justice Hughes read the opinion: "Extraordinary conditions may call for extraordinary remedies. But the argument necessarily stops short of an attempt to justify action which lies outside the sphere of constitutional authority. Extraordinary conditions do not create or enlarge constitutional power" (emphasis mine, 242).
The corruption of the Constitution had gone far enough. Too far.
Justice Brandeis sent the message to FDR via two of the New Dealers' lawyers: "This is the end of this business of centralization, and I want you to go back and tell the president that we're not going to let this government centralize everything. It's come to an end" (243).
Roosevelt's response? To "castigate the press and the court" (244). Sound eerily familiar?
If congressional Republicans do not understand they are enjoying a tidal wave of support in their direction because the population overwhelmingly desires repeal of ObamaCare and the government's sudden lurch to the left, they will squander the greatest opportunity to preserve what's left of the Constitution in the history of this country. According to yesterday's Rasmussen polling 57% of Americans disapprove of the President's performance. 47% strongly disapprove. The numbers are remarkable to be sure. Additionally, 56% of likely voters favor repeal of ObamaCare though only 39% believe repeal is likely.
Republicans need to muster up the courage to do the right thing. They need to send the message that the American people are fed up. That "we're not going to let this government centralize everything."
Amen.
Nero WANTED downtown Rome to burn so he could rebuild it to his liking.
Nero fiddles while Rome burns = Obama golfs while America burns
[Nero WANTED downtown Rome to burn so he could rebuild it to his liking.]
Nero also blamed the Christians and Jews for the fire he started and murdered them in public exhibitons, including Paul, the apostle to the gentiles.
Only This Nero is Golfing! Having looted the Treasury and set for life no need of a 2nd term!
I still cannot imagine large numbers of Americans willingly turning in their gold. And yet they did.
We want our money back!
Given rinos + their soulmates, spineless republicans, conservatives would have to hold 75 seats in the senate before they might be free of the Quisling factor. That’s the only way that Obamacare will now be repealed.
They must have a filibuster proof and a veto-proof Senate.
The House will likewise need a 2/3rd majority + extra due to quislings. With 435 reps the Democrats now own a 255-178 majority with 2 vacancies. In other words, Republicans need 290 to have a 2/3 majority, so they’d have to win 112 just to get to the 2/3 threshhold and another 10 to cover quislings. That would be a 122 seat changeover this fall with all of their current reps keeping their seats.
The most optimistic view I’ve seen so far says the Republicans will take 47 seats and gain a simple majority of about 8 seats edge.
They’re not expected to take the Senate, so even if they did, it would be by just one or two seats. There are only 37 Senate Seats up for grabs. Only 19 of those seats are democrat seats. If the Pubs held their 41 and picked up all 19, they would have 60 seats. With quislings in their ranks, that isn’t even filibuster proof.
In sum, there is no chance to repeal ObamaCare outside of 2 landslide elections in favor of republicans or 1 landslide + a change in the presidency in 2012 with a few additional senatorial seats going republican.
Obama and a democratic house has doomed us UNLESS a conservative Congress would simply refuse to fund it or enact it.
Nero, however, had his mother killed after one failed attempt, wife, aunt and poisoned his step brother out of their disloyalty to him. Nero had no family loyalty, but unto Nero himself, his mission and unto his own glory be true.. When the the “famous” fire (5-9 days) started, some accused him of having organized it which had quickly burned down 3/4 of Rome. Those fighting the fire or attempting to were held off by thugs who threatened violence or torture. Nero had wanted to rebuild Rome according to his plan, which the Senate did not go along with. So he was the very suspect that came to mind, once the fire started (even though they were not unusual). Nero was safely off in Antium thirty-five miles away at his ocean front villa, on vacation playing his fiddle as his Rome burned. Nero, of course, blamed it on fanaticism by Jews and/or the Christians. You know what happened at the Forum, the human torches etc.
Nero thought of himself as a genius, an intellect, an actor/singer/musician. He hated any competition so he won First Prize in the Greek sporting events. He built his new palace, 300 acres and a statue unto himself, where the poor, in this case, had once lived at this “ground zero”, turned redevelopment. In his plan. No expense was ever spared, despite objections from the people and the senate, but some would always go along with Nero for self preservatio and greed in their protected seat in politics.
At the onset of his "emperor hood", Nero did lower taxes and was against capital punishment(but then he ordered murders) and after the fire, built some temporary housing for the poor and homeless to placate the arson rumors.
Like Hussein, FDR also made war on free enterprise. A talented entrepreneur with an odd name, Wendell Willkie was on FDR's hit list.
BTW, The Forgotten Man was not the down and out guy who needed a job. The Forgotten Man was the shlup who paid the taxes so that FDR could buy votes giving money to the down and outer.
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