Gingrich’s Team 10 to tackle Tenth Amendment enforcement

Hot Air ^ | August 9,2011 | Tina Korbe

[Hojczyk]

“When I talk about enforcing the Tenth Amendment, it’s not just Tea Parties, but there’s a broad understanding that there’s too much power in Washington, too much bureaucracy and we need to take a different approach,” Gingrich said today on a conference call.

The end product of Team 10 will be actual legislation, Gingrich said. But that a need even exists for additional legislation to enforce the Constitution says something about the state of the government and society today. (Incidentally, that’s an objection some folks make to the push for a Balanced Budget Amendment — if the president and Congress don’t abide by the Constitution as it is, who’s to say whether they’d abide by a new amendment?)

“Since the mid-1930s, the president and Congress have steadily ignored the Tenth Amendment and grown the government to an unbelievable degree,” Gingrich explained. “Prior to that … most of life was lived in your local neighborhood. Then, all of a sudden, partly as a response to the Great Depression and partly because liberals saw it as their moment to grow government, there was this huge, huge increase in government followed by Lyndon Johnson seeing the chance to create what he called a

Great Society and what I would call a bureaucratic socialist state. Now, we have a third wave of that with Obama, with this extraordinary increase in the power of the government bureaucracy. What that has meant is a decline in local government, local community — and, in businesses, a decline in the freedom to direct their business as they see fit.”

A Tenth Amendment enforcement act would return some of that power to the states. This isn’t the first effort by a politician to spotlight the Tenth Amendment.

[samtheman]

Go away, Newt.

[Bad~Rodeo]

Rick Perry’s pet peeve, thank goodness

[samtheman]

Yeah, it’s a good message, but I don’t like the messenger, if that’s what Newt is supposed to be.

I heard he’s just in this to sell books. I’m not even buying any of his books.

He’s just a loser. A pathetic, has-been loser. The fact that he subscribes to a few good ideas means nothing.

[Bad~Rodeo]

The fact that he subscribes to a few good ideas means nothing.

Even a blind squirrel finds a pecan from time to time

[kickonly88]

And teaming up with Pelosi to combat “globull warming” would have grown the gubmint to an even more gigantic size, Newt.

[Huck]

bfl

[Huck]

No specifics. Just bluster from Newtie. And with good reason—the 10th amendment says nothing of value.

[samtheman]

He’s always been more concerned with being a celebrity than supporting conservative causes. That’s what put h on the globull warming couch with Nancy.