Food safety bill passes Senate, but dead in the water because … Dems can't read the Constitution

Hotair ^ | 12/01/2010 | Ed Morrissey

[Carley]

We’ll see.

[ClearCase_guy]

Perhaps they will just deem that they have all the power in the world.

[Billthedrill]

Interesting. This tends to validate Hamilton’s insistence that the two houses of Congress would serve as a check on one another through sheer jealousy if nothing nobler. Don’t expect this to get wide play in the media, however. They’re still trying to blame Bush for the economic decisions made in the Democrat Congress.

[VRWCTexan]

NOT to Worry > Speaker of the House Pelosi will rule the bill as “deemed” to have been previously passed in it's modified form

[saganite]

I’m not optimistic any Dem anywhere will really block this bill on Constitutional grounds. Reid will huddle with Pelosi and they will dream up some clever way to bypass the law and pass the bill.

[traditional1]

"check Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution "

Don't worry about that old piece of paper that doesn't get Upheld in Court anymore. We just had the Obamacare ruling that the Constituion Commerce Clause (which will soon be claimed to cover the Faggot/Dyke Marriage issues), is the catch-all, and the Obamacare is thus Constitutional as a result.

The same with those pesky non-Agrigiant Corp. farmers; we will regulate the snot out of 'em, so they can't compete with Mega-Corp Agribusiness.

After all, the Commerce Clause is used "FOR THE COMMON GOOD".

[SMARTY]

It will be more ‘creative government’ from the same clowns who brought us ‘Obamacare’

[Uncle Ike]

” We’ll see. “

Agree — given the Dim’s absolute talent for twisting the Constitution out of recognition (or ignoring it altogether) to get what they want to expand Government, this sounds like ‘whistling in the dark’......

[ChildOfThe60s]

The debacle could prove to be a major embarrassment for Senate Democrats

That's assuming anyone outside the beltway hears about it after the media locks it down.

Half the people in this country don't even know that only the House can originate tax and spend bills. Most of the morons think the President just passes spending bills all on his own. And since all libs think the Constitution should be ignored, I can't imagine any of them finding fault with the Dems in the Senate on this anyway.

[Molly T.]

I'm with you on this one....I have NO FAITH WHAT SO EVER that any of the greedy power seekers in Gov. will think twice about trashing our Constitution....look at how many times the guy in the white house has run over that precious document since he's been in office...sorry, I think the bunch of crooks running the show now will stop at NOTHING to get their agenda passed....there will surely come a time when the people of our nation will rise up and say ENOUGH ALREADY.

Don't get me wrong...I sure hope this thing can get stopped, I'm just not holding my breath till it does.

[1stIowa]

open letter to TOM HARKIN -D Iowa:

We will “Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense”
(Winston Churchill)
You can try to pass some S-510 bill to regulate farmers, both small and large. We will not submit! We will not give in and we will not give up. You are wrong again. It is time for you to retire. You are too far gone and out of touch with us, the people in your district, to be of any use anymore.
Beau

[Captain7seas]

See here now...

Senator John Glenn said that they could not run this country if they had to go by the Constitution.

[Uncle Ike]

FWIW— ADM is up 1.5% (roughly) and Monsanto up 2.5% in this morning’s trading...

[Uncle Ike]

” Senator John Glenn said that they could not run this country if they had to go by the Constitution. “

That might have been a typo - ‘run’ SB ‘ruin’......

[E. Pluribus Unum]

They can do whatever they want.

Just ask them.

[goldstategop]

“Blue slipping” is what the House does when the Senate usurps its power of the purse. To put it simply, such a bill is dead. The House won’t even consider it.

[frogjerk]

“Blue slipping” is what the House does when the Senate usurps its power of the purse. To put it simply, such a bill is dead. The House won’t even consider it.

Correct, but will the House do it?

[goldstategop]

Its already done. The may both be Democrats but the chambers operate very differently and the House And Ways Means Committee’s feathers were ruffled. So the bill is effectively dead since Tom Coburn won’t give consent to proceed on it unless changes are made to his satisfaction.

[ANGGAPO]

I wonder if anything will be left of our way of life when our bloated government gets finished redesigning it. Now the price of food will increase because of micro-inspections, endless regulations and stupid politicians. The wave of the future, fixing something that isn't broke and taxing the public for it. Get these people out of office now.