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To: backwoods-engineer
Utter failure of the Republican leadership. There is NO WAY that sponsoring a NASCAR team is even REMOTELY Constitutional. And don't give me any "recruiting" nonsense.

Who put the bustle in your hedgerow?

I'm trying to decide if your nonsense is anti Nascar or if your nonsense is anti military.

There is NO WAY that sponsoring a NASCAR team is even REMOTELY Constitutional.

Prove that or shut your pie hole.

Maybe you just don't like to see money well spent...?

20 posted on 02/18/2011 2:25:05 PM PST by LasVegasMac (Have ya hit 'em in the a$$, Never let off the gas 'til ya rolled into Victory Lane?)
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To: LasVegasMac
Who put the bustle in your hedgerow?

That's a good one; I like that!

I'm trying to decide if your nonsense is anti Nascar or if your nonsense is anti military.

My "nonsense" is neither. You think we should borrow millions from the Chinese to put a sticker on the side of a stock car that says Army, when the nation is already printing money? I don't. It's just a symptom of the same ol' disease: federal spending.

"There is NO WAY that sponsoring a NASCAR team is even REMOTELY Constitutional." Prove that or shut your pie hole.

Art 1 Section 8 of the Constitution does not discuss continuous "recruiting" for the army like we are doing; it talks about "raising armies". Now it does discuss maintaining a Navy, so a case might be made for "recruiting" for it:

"To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; To provide and maintain a Navy; To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;"

But even that's beside the point. We have a large enough Army and Navy now, and we're out of money.

Maybe you just don't like to see money well spent...?

I don't like to see the Federal government spending ANY more money, well-spent or not. Can we not forgo NASCAR just ONE YEAR in the depths of this crisis? We should, and forgo a LOT more besides.

21 posted on 02/18/2011 2:39:54 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (Any politician who holds that the state accords rights is an oathbreaker and an "enemy... domestic.")
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