Posted on 07/01/2015 1:06:55 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Many people are looking at the recent Supreme Court decisions about ObamaCare and same-sex marriage in terms of whether they think these are good or bad policies. That is certainly a legitimate concern, for both those who favor those policies and those who oppose them.
But there is a deeper and more long-lasting impact of these decisions that raise the question whether we are still living in America, where "we the people" are supposed to decide what kind of society we want, not have our betters impose their notions on us.
The Constitution of the United States says that the federal government has only those powers specifically granted to it by the Constitution -- and that all other powers belong either to the states or to the people themselves.
That is the foundation of our freedom, and that is what is being dismantled by both this year's Obamacare decision and last year's ObamaCare decision, as well as by the Supreme Court's decision imposing a redefinition of marriage.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
The dems get all their radicals appointed through. Robert Bork gets torpedoed.
Ditto to all, especially the concluding line. The solution for effective bottoms-up politics could originate in selective and effective application of Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.
Enforced nationwide endorsement of perversion is a small price to pay for a drug-free Supreme Court. /s
Words have different meanings for different persons and purposes. I recall that the EPA was Nixon’s bone to the environmentalists to keep them from continually biting his butt on some other political matters. One of the first actions by the new EPA was to redefine common understanding of the industrial world in the US. That is why rules and regulations could be worded and passed as the EPA people saw fitting. This modus operandi continues to this day by ‘government’ people. Obama was very clever in the same mode when he told people he was for ‘change’.
It does seem quaint in today's world to think that marijuana use in college would be considered a deal breaker for Senate nomination doesn't it?
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