Some Ask if Bailout Is Unconstitutional

New York Times ^ | January 16, 2009 | John Schwartz

[reaganaut1]

The FreedomWorks report is here .

[Lurker]

Of course it's un-Constitutional.

Anyone who even needs to ask the question is a drooling moron. The only bigger drooling morons are the ones who vote for it anyway.

Like Senator McCain for instance.

L

[Squantos]

This bail out crap is such a cluster.....doom on those involved. Hope they hang em all !

[PubliusMM]

Well, shucks, we’ve got an unconstitutional President-elect, and an unconstitutional Congress. Why would we expect their legislative output to be anything but unconstitutional?

[yldstrk]

Yes. It is. Giving our tax money to banks and unprofitable private enterprise is unconstitutional

[yldstrk]

Congress is supposed to provide for the common defense and the general welfare not private welfare.

[FixitGuy]

Of course it's unconstitutional! That's the way the 545 jackasses in Washington DO things.

Meanwhile all the rest uf us Americans suffer.

Cursed banker mentality!

[HereInTheHeartland]

“Some Ask if Bailout Is Unconstitutional”

Of course it is.
Most government spending is.

[Old Professer]

Unenumerated, anonymous amendment?

[LRS]

Just contracts; just laws; just a constitution...

[Nervous Tick]

>> The only bigger drooling morons are the ones who vote for it anyway. Like Senator McCain for instance.

And, sadly, like my own Sen. Cornyn (R, TX). Cornyn is turning into more of a RINO every day.

[An Old Man]

What could possibly be more "general welfare" than a shiny new automobile. They are going to pay all those UAW people enough to absorb the entire production for the next ten years, aren't they?

[Marie2]

Well can someone sue and get it destroyed before it destroys the greatest economic success story on earth?

[mkcc30]

Our whole freakin’ Government has become UnConstitutional!

[MileHi]

I wonder, on the enableing legislation for TARP, what Constitutional authority Congress pointed to that authorizes this legislation?

Interstate Commerce?

[JamesP81]

Of course it’s unconstitutional. Just like 90% of the rest of the babbling, stinking horses**t the federal government does.

[Lurker]

It undoubtedly emanated from a penumbra.

L

[djf]

Well, we had a banker go to the Congress and tell them that if they didn’t pass the bill (without even reading it, of course), there would be martial law.

Written between the lines is the following threat:
Give us whatever we want or the bank doors will not open tomorrow and YOU get to deal with it.

Somehow I don’t think that was what the founders intended...

Sound Constitutional to anybody out there?

[Just A Nobody]

we’ve got an unconstitutional President-elect, and an unconstitutional Congress. Why would we expect their legislative output to be anything but unconstitutional?

Thanks for saying it so I didn't have to!

[Just A Nobody]

we’ve got an unconstitutional President-elect, and an unconstitutional Congress. Why would we expect their legislative output to be anything but unconstitutional?

Thanks for saying it so I didn't have to!
The Constitution is dead.