Posted on 02/08/2013 8:08:15 AM PST by RummyChick
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From day one of this administration, such as it is we have seen enough to know they have a total misconception of the type of government that exists in the USA.
They truly believe they are in positions of power as rulers of the people, NOT as representatives of the people working as public servants on behalf of the people to maintain the union.
The Leftist Bureaucratic control of our government that has incrementally been installed at the Federal level has to be literally destroyed. Older Californians understand what I mean by “Jack In The Box” style.
If the States want an EPA for their State, then let the State do it, NOT the Fed. Let the State suffer the consequence, NOT the Nation. If the State wants a Department of education, then let the State do it, NOT the Fed., and so on.
We have to return to the government the founders designed, and strengthen it to assure balance in the focus of the representation.
We cannot allow our Congress to ever capitulate their duties to bureaucracies of Leftist bent Departments under the Executive Branch that the Left, or the Right for that matter can ever accomplish what is happening today again.
Although I agree with the sentiment... it’s a false quote. No evidence Jefferson ever said or wrote it.
This is the state of affairs. They really think they have this dictatorial power, or at least they want it.
My understanding is that Senate-approved officials aren’t immune to being directed to appear before Congress.
Someone in the House (Issa maybe) should just summon Holder up to the Hill to publically clarify his remarks everytime something like this escapes his lips. Sure, he’d be up there several times a week ... But it would be SO worth it to see him having to explain away his own words.
Hey Eric, the Constitution says otherwise.
Obama has no legal right to say what I can and can not have.
You forget, you may work for Obama but I don’t. He works for me. And if I had the ability to fire his sorry ass I would. And you would be gone with him.
“A commenter named Henry from Charlotte, North Carolina, said he read through the Monticello page, but he isn't ready to declare that the comment is fake.
“I do not know if Jefferson actually ever made such a statement or not, (but) I find it odd that many people attribute it to him if it wasn't true. It's ridiculous in my opinion to propose that since nowhere in his writings there is trace of such a statement, then Jefferson has never said something like that. Jefferson could have come up with those words in any occasion of his public or private life and someone else recorded and then quoted him.”
All I know is if Thomas Jefferson did not say it, he would have if asked. IMHO
I agree with your last paragraph. All the Founders would have said it if asked. This we know. Just striving for accuracy so as not to be attacked on that front.
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