Posted on 03/04/2016 1:47:56 PM PST by molewhacka
[The worm has turned.
Americans are awaking to the realization that we are not genetically predisposed to heed the Siren call of the Establishment Pied Piper or join Sisyphus on his hill.]
Correct. Welcome to the political revolution, boys (DNC / GOPe).
The country is awakening.
Bump
“...................But simply clambering from the Establishment pit isn’t enough.”
The pit must be concreted over. Everything unconstitutional must be removed, and the bureaucracies laid to waste.
We must renew our Constitutional government.
I’m not sure what the short term consequences are if the current establishment falls, but I DO believe it’s a ‘God Thing’.
The Repubs are supposed to be the more Godly half of the two parties, and they haven’t been. They’ve been liars and deceivers.
[They’ve been liars and deceivers.]
Absolutely. And thrown us all under the bus.
It’s way past time to dethrone them and their DNC buddies.
By ANY means necessary.
Good luck with that. Sanders or Clinton would get almost 50 % of th vote!
HOLY HEDGE FUND! Jeb-You/re-Next spent over $125 million on his failed campaign. The GOPe power brokers must be choking on the chilled Cristal, Oestra caviar, and stuffed lobster in the country club Grill Room. Jeb left the presidential race after two humiliating out-of-the-running finishes in NH and SC.
Once upon a time,the RNC brought together a brain trust of GOPe party elders to figure out what had gone wrong. Obama had just throttled Romney, the party lost ground in the Senate, and voters just weren/t into the Old Christian White Man demographic. So the Big Tent of gays, abortionists, secularists, feminists, was resurrected.....and conservatives were herded onto an ice floe set adrift in the Arctic Ocean.
IMHO, the ignominious collapse of Jeb-You/re-Next drove a huge stake into the heart of the establishment GOPe. Forget erectile dysfunction. The fallout of being politically castrated is devastating to a Big Buck power broker.
The GOPe de-b***ing began when candidate Jeb said he didn’t need the Republican base .... and proceeded to carry on, business as usual, as his numbers sunk into oblivion.
Jeb telling a key bloc of Republican voters to take a hike is the consequence of the country club GOPe demeaning and dismissing conservatives as not being worthy of their elite party.
The entitled Jeb-You/re-Next took it as Gospel when he heard the Bush elders condescending attitude towards conservatives....people to whom the aristocratic Bush/s feel socially superior.
But the GOPe should know this: they will get no pity from conservatives for their woes.....and we aim to stick their noses in the mess they made every frickin’ chance we get.
Is there any doubt left that the Republican Party and its media lackeys have been stage managed by forces and factions that spit upon the founding principles of this nation. Oligarchs - America’s aristocracy, American’s monarchy, unmerited power derived from birthright- not ability or intelligence or ethical standards. A state of mind governed by the accumulation of wealth and control of human destinies with allegiance to no nation, no people, no history, no tradition other than the exercise of dominion over the minds of otherwise free and unfettered beings. Now it is their time to watch America rise up in defiance standing shoulder to shoulder against the very evils that our Founding Fathers warned us against in word and deed. Sons of Liberty, grab your manhood and advance upon the forces of Ultimate Stupidity.
Didn't want to have to do this, but you forced me into it.It won't slip away completely until we install TERM LIMITS that prevent them from spending decades in office, and make all political donations ANONYMOUS so they can't sell influence while they're there.
It's supposed to be about SERVICE, not about POWER.
The analytical part of this piece is really well written, however the ending is weak. The real question is where does all of this lead? A Second American Revolution resulting in a revitalized republic or French Revolution style chaos resulting in even greater tyranny.
As the country is awakening, the GOPe is reaching for a handful of pills and a bottle of Jack Daniels. That wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for the fact they are still behind the wheel.
2016 may well be the last opportunity to move back toward constitutional government. Incrementalism favors the Left, and even when they lose, they never give up or go away.
The only decent attempt to correct the federal power grab would be the administration of Calvin Coolidge.
One thing is for sure, if we don’t at least try, we are only going to run out of other people’s money sooner rather than later. You can bet Bernie and Hillary’s fan club is not going to take that without burning down some businesses.
“The pit must be concreted over. Everything unconstitutional must be removed, and the bureaucracies laid to waste.”
Absolutely true! If Trump is successful in serious cuts and/or departmental closures, we stand a fighting chance to retreive our republic. He should start with the EPA, Dept of Education and the Post Office. He should also go through the State Department and make serious cuts, because administrations come and administrations go, but the State Dept, at the working level cruises along it’s liberal path. But, I would submit that the first order of business is the SCOTUS. Trump needs to apoint Scalia’s successor and ole Ruth Buzzy Ginzburg has one foot in the grave and one on a banana peel, so that’s two!
Good post.
From a related thread …
Consider that the mostly wealthy delegates to the first Constitutional Convention actually put their money where their mouths were with respect to the Constitution that they had drafted. They did so by committing themselves and their rich friends to uniquely paying for the federal government to operate.
“The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied [emphasis added]. … Our revenues liberated by the discharge of the public debt, and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone, without his being called on to spend a cent from his earnings.” —Thomas Jefferson to Thaddeus Kosciusko, 1811.
H O W E V E R …
What protected the rich from high federal taxes in the early days of the Republic was the knowledge, evidently forgotten generations ago, of the following Supreme Court clarification. The Court had clarified that Congress is prohibited from appropriating taxes in the name of state power issues, basically any issue which Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
In fact, regardless what FDR’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices wanted everybody to believe about the scope of Congress’s Commerce Clause powers, the justices who had written the Gibbons excerpt above had also clarified that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate INTRAstate commerce.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
But since rich people evidently no longer understand that the feds do not have the constitutional authority to regulate how they run their businesses, I presume that they are unthinkingly bribing corrupt federal lawmakers for loopholes in the federal laws that the post-17th Amendment ratification Congress actually has no constitutional authority to make.
So let the rich once again pay all the taxes needed to run the federal government. But let the rich also police the feds to make sure that the feds are appropriating taxes only for what they can justify with Congress’s Section 8-limited powers.
Again, corrupt federal lawmakers must be laughing all the way to the bank to deposit their bribes made from making loopholes in laws that “benefit" the wealthy, the feds actually having no constitutional authority to make many of these laws.
The ill-conceived 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and corrupt senators who accept bribes for putting loopholes that favor the rich in unconstitutional intrastate commerce regulatory laws along with it.
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