Posted on 03/20/2010 9:02:23 AM PDT by clarkster
I was born and raised a Democrat. My grandfather was a precinct captain for Tweed (the political machine, not the DOE) back in the day. He did the grunt work. Registered voters in cemeteries, voted many times in many places on election day, and left turkeys on the doorsteps of the indigent just before election day. I believe in the principles of the Democratic Party even though I have a strong libertarian bent, and actually conservative on some issues.
I am not one of these Originialists when it comes to the Constitution and the role of the federal government in our lives. I do believe that the Constitution is a "living document" and its words adapt to the times. This I believe was intended by the writers of it.
I go back and forth with the health care debate. I see through the BS, know something must be done, but cringe at the thought of the federal government messing around and doing a good job. I think they should have just expanded Medicare, kept the bill simple. But, and this is a big but. I can see where health care comes into play under the Commerce Clause, and the Necessary and Proper clause. Both clauses I feel go hand in hand with one another. And I can see how others can and will disagree with me on this.
What I am having a tough time with is how the federal government can bogart its way into local education matters. No where, not one word in the Constitution gives the federal government authority to decide local education matters. In fact, Amendment 10 states clearly;
Now wonder our education system is screwed up ...
“My grandfather was a precinct captain for Tweed (the political machine, not the DOE) back in the day. He did the grunt work. Registered voters in cemeteries, voted many times in many places on election day, and left turkeys on the doorsteps of the indigent just before election day. “
Was she making a funny?
From corrupted vines do corrupted thorns spring forth.
While we may agree with some of the things this blogger says, he/she has all of the logic of a pencil.
The blogger believes in a “living Constitution”, and in the next breath faults for somebody because the right to a quality education is not mentioned specifically in the Constitution! The blogger apparently doesn’t realize that a “living Constitution” would allow not only the things this blogger likes, but also things that he/she doesn’t like. Welcome to the “living Constitution”, where it allows anything that people in power want, effectively making it a “meaningless Constitution”!
I’ll bet grandad passed out “walking around money” too.
Another “highly trained education professional” demonstrates why she and her ilk should never allowed near impressionable children.
ANother idiot liberal who not only can’t make a distiction between cause and effect, but also wants complete escape from their responsibilities. You reap what you goddamn well sow.
Or to put it another way, "When they came for the gays, I said nothing because I wasn't gay. . . "
Last line of his article, "Where are the teabaggers when you need them?"
If ObamaCare passes, it would be a good opportunity for the Supreme Court to grow a few pairs, and make some rulings about what the Constitution permits the Federal Government to do in healthcare, education, the auto industry, farming, energy — to name a few.
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