Posted on 10/22/2013 5:48:25 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Forget the Vitter amendment. Rand Paul wants to make sure that Congress can’t ever again write laws with provisions specific to lawmakers. The Kentucky freshman Republican has introduced a constitutional amendment that would preclude senators and representatives from passing laws that don’t apply equally to U.S. citizens and Congress, the executive branch and the Supreme Court. The amendment is aimed squarely at Obamacare provisions specific to members of Congress and their staffs that became a central point of contention during the government shutdown.
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Make it retroactive for obozocare.
Well I’m all for it. Rest assured they will add loop holes however...
Od8ckwad just needs to be impeached.
and john roberts FIRST...top of the list...
Rand Paul knows this will go over like a lead turd.
It hasn’t got a chance.
While I applaud Mr Paul for his sincere effort, we all know the self serving pricks will never vote for this.
It would be nice to see a simple vote tally for this. I mean, who could be against laws applied equally?
At the very least, it will get the bastards on record.
With whose votes?
Impeached, removed and 90% of wealth confiscated for refund.
Even if such an amendment were to become part of our Constitution, it would be ignored by congress just like they do with the Constitution as it now stands.
Senator Rand Paul is going up against Senator Patty Murray,let’s see how he does.
I am not a lawyer, nor am I a constitutional scholar (IOW, I'm as qualified to be President as Obastard, but I digress), but it surprises me there is not a clause somewhere in there to keep lawmakers from exempting themselves from their own laws.
Exactly! It forces a response. Provided he gets support for his bill instead of nagging and whining.
Not enough....see tagline.
Methinks Rand belies his own libertarian tendencies with this one.
Better solution would be to get FedGov back within the confines of the Constitution by eliminating the anti-Constitutional departments, bureaus, agencies, offices, and pogroms that serve no purpose than to provide fodder for the career paths of these elected elitists.
Ted Cruz just proved there are more important things than winning every battle. Rand Paul is just trying to get McQueeg to call him a “Wacko-Bird” again. That’s paydirt for conservative votes.
(As an aside, I’d like to ponder something: Where did the addle-brained, addle-pated old coot ever get the term “Wacko-Bird?” I think it’s the politician’s disease, where they have to be trendy, even if they’re a senile crank. At the time of the utterance of that piece of voice-vomit, the hand-held video game craze was “Angry Birds.” I think Captain Queeg wanted to be hip and run with that, but decided at the last second “Angry” was too nice, so he changed it to “Wacko.” That or he simply forgot what his bloated female offspring told him. No other explanations make sense.)
Don't you think forcing Congress to live within the laws they write for the rest of us is a means to that end? I would think a king would be a little less likely to send officers among us to eat out our substance if his was being eaten out as well.
>>>it surprises me there is not a clause somewhere in there to keep lawmakers from exempting themselves from their own laws.
Lawmakers, in their brashness, claim the opposite... That by exempting themselves from federal law that they are, in fact, protecting the Constitutional separation of powers, by preventing the executive branch from controlling their actions through executive-branch-enforcement of laws.
I could see where that might make sense if we were talking about laws about making laws (meta-law?), but not about your garden variety legislation like ObamaCare.
It would be nice to see a simple vote tally for this. I mean, who could be against laws applied equally?
Which is why this will never come to a vote.
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