Posted on 08/03/2012 12:09:12 PM PDT by RedMominBlueState
...The entire Democratic Party, from the top down, now looks like Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright. The hatred of America is open. The desire to undo American constitutionalism is explicit. And this exposure will only accelerate in the coming months and years, as the left realizes ever more acutely that its days as an accepted political faction are numbered, and it is forced to take increasingly drastic and sudden measures to achieve its brutal aims before the clock runs out....It has become patently clear that the present Republican Party establishment is not up for this fight. Constitutional conservatives must do it themselves, using the GOP apparatus as just one tool. They must remain cool and workmanlike, rebuilding dams faster than the leftist waves can knock them down. This is the means to conservative victory. One cannot merely "go back" to a better time. Societal decay cannot simply be undone. One must allow -- even encourage -- the progressive degeneration to play itself out, fighting it at every turn until the leftists, seething with an increasingly open hatred of America, overplay their hand and self-destruct.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/08/conservatives_have_a_secret.html#ixzz22Vm23w8S
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Interesting perspectives.
I rarely use this Federalist and anti-Federalist FReeper Book Club ping list, but this article is so good that I felt I needed to ping the old gang. It’s one of the best articles I’ve seen in a very long while. Also scroll up a few posts to Billthedrill’s analysis. Spot on brilliant, as usual.
This is conservatism's well-kept secret -- the secret hidden in its very nature: from a long series of hard-fought failures can come sudden victory.
Well, here is the unavoidable, inescapable and inevitable source of that "sudden victory":
How Chief Justice Roberts Saved America
Sooner or later, conservatives are going to have to understand this, because the alternative is the loss of America. That's WHY he wrote such an amazing ruling - to FORCE people to study it, out of fear for the very future of their families and their country.
So have YOU read it yet?
Bookmarked for later.
I’ve read it. And I’ve read the dissenting opinion.
The dissenting opinion has the right of it. The Court has no Constitutional authority to rule as it did. None at all. The Constitution grants the Court the power to interpret the law, not the power to rewrite it. The power to amend the law is granted solely to Congres—and so is denied anyone and everyone else.
The Roberts opinion is Constitutionally null and void, because it exercises a power not granted to the Court.
We only have the advantage is we actually take the opportunities it affords us...
Truer words were never spoken.. and the take away from this thread so far..
Are YOU a democrat?.. Don’t answer quickly maybe you are...
good ping..
“Remember, the problem is not Obama. The problem is the people who voted for Obama.”
Hallelujah!
The US constitution is a masterpiece of checks and balances, because the founding fathers realized that a written law invites evasion as soon as it is written. Therefore only bodies of people with competing interests can function for any length of time.
This being said, we first need to know what these checks and balances are, and then we must take the corrective action to restore them if imbalance exists.
The most egregious imbalance was created when, in the balance between the federal government, the state governments, and the people, the states were stripped of power by the 17th Amendment.
This not only meant that the states could be oppressed by the federal government, but also that the states could no longer defend their people as citizens of their state, from the federal government.
This was the greatest victory of the Progressive movement, to put all citizens under the control of the federal government, whenever and however it saw fit. They ceased being citizens of their states.
Unfortunately the repeal of the 17th Amendment is impossible, because senators enjoy being federal employees instead of servants of their states. They would never agree to repeal.
And since the early part of the 20th Century, Progressives have indoctrinated the public that a constitutional convention is “too dangerous”, so must never take place.
So the way to correct this terrible imbalance cannot be just corrective. It must overcompensate and give the states enough power to reduce both the size and power of the federal government to more appropriate levels.
This must address as well all three branches of the federal government, executive power, legislative power, and judicial power.
The means is to create a Second Court of the United States. Not a federal court, but composed of two state legislature appointed judges from each state, on terms consecutive with the terms of their two senators.
This court would not decide the constitutionality of laws, which is a job for federal courts. Instead, as an inferior court to the Supreme Court, they would still be superior to the Federal District Courts, and would determine if cases appealed from these courts were indeed of federal jurisdiction, or if they should be returned to the states as not being constitutional issues, just intrusion.
Importantly, it would also have a single original jurisdiction: as the first court to hear lawsuits between the federal government and the states.
This would mean that the states, not federal judges, would be first to decide such lawsuits. If enough judges from enough states agree, the effect would be of a “safe” form of constitutional convention. The SCOTUS could not overturn their opinion.
But even more so, because the Federal District Courts normally have some 8,000 cases appealed to the SCOTUS each and every year, which can only hear at most a few dozen. So if these cases must first be decided by the states, as to jurisdiction, if the SCOTUS rejects them, they would return to the Second Court’s *jurisdictional* decision.
This could slash the amount of federal judicial bullying of the states, and also diminish the ability of the POTUS to push around states with lawsuits. Instead, the states could easily sue the federal government, hoping that enough of the other states would agree with them to overrule the feds.
THANKS for posting this.....MUST READ....bookmarking
Thank you for the ping, Publius! And an expert observation, Bill!
A sad fact of the world we live in is, the American people WANT socialism. They voted for it; they crave it; they yearn for it; and they destroy people and property when they don’t get it.
The nation I defended with pride and love for a quarter-century no longer exists. America, like Soviet Russia before her, has been consigned to the ashheap of history. The final act remaining is to be prepared for the coming collapse, by protecting you and yours when that final death rattle sounds.
Thanks for the beep!
Kevmo......
This writer expresses thoughts similar to mine that to be viable and relevant the conservative coalition must obtain raw political power that is only effective within one of the two parties. It is hard enough within the amalgamated coalitions and impossible outside them.
Parties have evolved for the specific purpose of giving some real voice and power to small groups that can form alliances within the larger group. Alliances involve tradeoffs and negotiation toward the most acceptable alternatives meeting the needs of the majority of the representatives casting votes.
To succeed in the long run is to make pragmatic choices trending in the desired direction.
5.56mm
Outstanding thoughts, BTD.
To succeed in the long run is to make pragmatic choices trending in the desired direction.
***It’s okay to be pragmatic about strategy, but not about principles.
Alliances involve tradeoffs and negotiation toward the most acceptable alternatives meeting the needs of the majority of the representatives casting votes.
***And that is exactly what has happened. The tradeoff the GOP-E & Romney are engaging in is this: they think they don’t need conservatives to win this election, so they’re tossing us overboard. They are counting on enough conservatives to compromise their principles, hold their nose at the voting booth yet again, and to hell with the principled conservatives.
This website is a dedicated group of principled conservatives. At least, it used to be.
They are counting on enough conservatives to compromise their principles,
should be:
They are counting on enough self-described ‘conservatives’ to compromise their principles,
“IOW, we’ve become Europe.”
Try not cheering for your surrender monkey parade on FR, little girl. You’re stinking up the place.
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