Posted on 08/05/2011 12:14:16 PM PDT by IndePundit
The debt-ceiling crisis has prompted predictable media laments about how partisan and dysfunctional our political system has become. But if the process leading to the current deal was a "spectacle" and a "three-ring circus," as Obama adviser David Plouffe put it, the show's impresarios are none other than James Madison and Alexander Hamilton. Our messy political system is working exactly the way our Founders intended it to.
To the extent House members were the most intransigent during the processa matter of opinion, in any casethey were meant to be. The House of Representatives is the "popular branch," as described in The Federalist Papers, and was intended to "have an immediate dependence on, and an intimate sympathy with, the people." Many people, especially those who elected tea party candidates last November, passionately believe that the federal government has gone off the rails. They think that Washington has been spending like a drunken sailor since President Obama took office, and that this profligacy must end.
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I don’t think they would be happy with the very existence of massive entitlements.
I'm all for a Congress that doesn't get much done. Can we make them part timers in the next cycle?
What nonsense.
The Framers believed in gradual change.
They were revolutionaries.
To imply they would support boldface violations of our Natural Rights is idiocy.
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