No DC. There have been illegal power grabs and Washington is fine with it. The people are awake now and are not. No one gave them anything. Commies and Marxists infiltrated the government, academia and the MSM. McCarthy was right. And he was silenced. People believed the crap the MSM fed them.....until now. The reaction is called the Tea Party. Hopefully it isn't too late.
Temperance Movement. Cotten Mather. Nancy Reagan and "Just say No". Don't give me that BS. That dam was breached long ago and both sides use it to grab MORE for themselves.
Those of us who see smaller government as a good thing are always derided as libertines and hit with all of this crap.
Exactly how are you planning on making government smaller and more Constitutional if you refuse to concede a few of your pet extra-Constitutional powers as well?
The problem with the governing power isn't in how it is currently being used to push a Commie/gay/whatever agenda, it's that the said power exists to be wielded at all.
Art 1 Sec 8 and NOTHING else. No penumbras. No emmanations. A Solid BoR.
There would be nothing for the Commies and the gays to use to push whatever BS de jure they are trying. Moral tyrants would lose that power as well though, and so it will never happen.
Get used to it...
Comstock made abortion a federal concern, and Margaret Sanger a celebrity.
National Review, which is the go-to source for the current pulse of conservatism, offers some observations:
Economic Issues at the ForefrontThe coalition Ronald Reagan assembled of fiscal and economic conservatives, evangelicals, and national-security advocates has always been dominated by the social issues at the grassroots level. While free-market economic conservatives lived in New York and dutifully attended their Club for Growth meetings and national-security types inhabited Washington, the Republican social conservatives dominated the grassroots of the party. They alone could turn out the numbers to rallies and to the polls on primary or Election Day.
Now, all that has changed. It is the fiscal conservatives and free-market supporters who own the Republican streets. Through the Tea Party, they have come to dominate the grassroots of the GOP. It is as if an invisible primary were held for supremacy at the grassroots and the Tea Party won.
And social issues are nowhere on the Tea Party agenda. I recently participated in a conference call with tea-party affiliates throughout the country. During the question period that followed my speech, one leader of a local tea-party group asked a question about abortion. The conference-call leader jumped in before I could answer and ruled the query out of order. "Our priorities are to oppose taxes, support fiscal conservatism, and advance free-market principles," she scolded the questioner. "We do not take a position on social issues like abortion," she added....
This shift in Republican priorities is opening up the way for social moderates and libertarians to back Republican candidates in the 2010 elections. The libertarian strain in the American electorate has long been neglected by the mainstream media. But, through the Tea Party, it has gained ascendancy on the right. Those who want the government to stay out of both boardrooms and bedrooms have come to dominate the party and its nominating process....