Senate Ignores U.S. Constitution

Pfesser | 10/01/08 | Pfesser

[Pfesser]

Fox news reports:Senate to Vote on Rescue Plan With Added Tax Cut

Article 1 Section 7

All bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives;
but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.

Not only are they moving towards Socialism but now they have trashed the Constitution.

[djsherin]

Right above the welfare section and right below the authorization of federal money for education.

Oh wait... those don’t exist either.

[djsherin]

Constitutionalists second this sentiment.

[fr_freak]

Liberals cheered when "penumbras" were found emanating from the Constitution and conservatives cheered when pre-emptive wars were started to "save" the country from third-world powers.

I don't disagree with your larger point - the Constitution has been ignored for years. However, I do not see an equivalence between the "penumbras", which were a blatant re-write of the Constitution, and the Iraq War, which, given that Congress voted for it, was perfectly Constitutional. In theory, it is perfectly Constitutional for us to invade any damn country we please, so long as Congress declares war (my standards for constitutional scrutiny are so low these days, I will accept Congressional approval in lieu of a formal declaration of war). I don't see the Iraq War as being unrelated to our national security, but even if it were, it was conducted constitutionally.

[RichardMoore]

Warren Buffet said recently that ,”The game is over!” I believe that things may get a bit worse before they have to get better. China recently asked that we, These United States, go back to the Gold standard. If we don’t dump the Fed soon we will never be the same again. I think that it’s time thatwe all got behind the Constitution Party. Just because they can’t win today doesn’t mean that we can’t make an impact on the MSM.