If Rush had actually come out and endorsed a conservative GOP candidate (which precluded McInsane or any of those other RINOs), we might not be witnessing this garbage coming out of the 0bamunist regime right now.
Debates on the constitutionality of the Act
In the 1930s, the Supreme Court struck down many pieces of Roosevelt’s New Deal legislation, including the Railroad Retirement Act. In May, the Court threw out a centerpiece of the New Deal, the National Industrial Recovery Act, the Agricultural Adjustment Act, and New York State’s minimum-wage law.
President Roosevelt responded with an attempt to pack the court via the Judiciary Reorganization Bill of 1937. On February 5, 1937, he sent a special message to Congress proposing legislation granting the President new powers to add additional judges to all federal courts whenever there were sitting judges age 70 or older who refused to retire.[27] The practical effect of this proposal was that the President would get to appoint six new Justices to the Supreme Court (and 44 judges to lower federal courts), thus instantly tipping the political balance on the Court dramatically in his favor.
The debate on this proposal was heated and widespread, and lasted over six months. Beginning with a set of decisions in March, April, and May, 1937 (including the Social Security Act cases), the Court would sustain a series of New Deal legislation.
Two Supreme Court rulings affirmed the constitutionality of the Social Security Act.
* Steward Machine Company v. Davis, 301 U.S, 548[28] (1937) held, in a 5–4 decision, that, given the exigencies of the Great Depression, “[It] is too late today for the argument to be heard with tolerance that in a crisis so extreme the use of the moneys of the nation to relieve the unemployed and their dependents is a use for any purpose narrower than the promotion of the general welfare”.
The arguments opposed to the Social Security Act (articulated by justices Butler, McReynolds, and Sutherland in their opinions) were that the social security act went beyond the powers that were granted to the federal government in the Constitution. They argued that, by imposing a tax on employers that could be avoided only by contributing to a state unemployment-compensation fund, the federal government was essentially forcing each state to establish an unemployment-compensation fund that would meet its criteria, and that the federal government had no power to enact such a program.
* Helvering v. Davis, 301 U.S. 619 (1937), decided on the same day as Steward, upheld the program because “The proceeds of both [employee and employer] taxes are to be paid into the Treasury like internal-revenue taxes generally, and are not earmarked in any way”. That is, the Social Security Tax was constitutional as a mere exercise of Congress’s general taxation powers.
Rush discussed the primaries the other day. He claimed he never endorses in the primaries. I think he would have if he’d really liked anyone. I think he liked Fred, but Fred started too late and got out too early to have a chance.
That and Operation Chaos did a lot of damage.
He won't do that for good reason. If there is a conservative and a great leader out there, he/she wouldn't need Rush to carry their water for them.
Reagan wouldn't and didn't need Rush. He just came on the show as Ron in California to thank him after his retirement.
If you want to be the most powerful person in the world, it's YOUR job to convince people why.
But I understand your frustration. It's mine too. The NY Slimes has no problem pimping their candidate. But like Rush said about McModerate....if you rely on the media to make you....they can also break you. That's what Barack Fitzgerald Obama will find out when he dares think that he is his own man and goes against leftist principles.
Expect that to happen if Sarah Palin runs in 2012. She will be the perfect candidate to turn back Barack.
Only four days in office and he's shown what an unsophisticated cretin he is.