Posted on 05/01/2021 10:14:42 AM PDT by rktman
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) led 38 other Republican senators in a letter Thursday to U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, calling upon him to withdraw the New York Times’ “1619 Project” from taxpayer-funded grant programs.
McConnell wrote that he and the other senators “express grave concern with the Department’s effort to reorient the bipartisan American History and Civics Education programs … away from their intended purposes toward a politicized and divisive agenda.”
The Republican leader observed that a recent survey found only 51 percent of Americans can name the three branches of federal government, while only 15 percent of America’s eighth-grade students have been found to be proficient in U.S. history.
“This is a time to strengthen the teaching of civics and American history in our schools,” the senators wrote. “Instead, your Proposed Priorities double down on divisive, radical, and historically-dubious buzzwords and propaganda.”
McConnell referred to the “1619 Project” as a “campaign to ‘reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding’ has become infamous for putting ill-informed advocacy ahead of historical accuracy.”
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“Letters, letters, we’ve got lots and lots of letters”
Once in a while, The Turtle wobbles in the right direction, but you still have to keep your eye on him.
Mitch always has a particular agenda he is pursuing.
Remember all those Judges he helped to get processed during Trump’s last two years as president? Don’t be surprised if most of them are John Robert’s type republicans, more Globalist than conservative as we see it.
Part of the new religion along with climate change.
Irrational again, like climate change, meant to confer misplaced and disproportional visceral reactions of rage and outrage, emotions that cultivate irrationality.
Mitch pretending he’s relevant
You left systemic racism, mass shootings, pantyfa is an idea.................
Josh Hawley should be Senate leader, not McConartist.
McConnell needs to be sent back to KY where he can mop floors in private prisons.
Yeah yet. Leader ship and the Republican party. Doing everything you can to put the Democrats in power including hamstringing Trump for four years, and working with the overthrow of the government in the 2020 election. And then hoping you can moderate your newly installed Democrat by writing him a letter. Weakling.
Covid and Racism is all they have.
Mitch pretending he’s relevant
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I can’t imagine any Democrat taking him seriously. They could care less what he says.
Is it even possible for these guys to appear more pathetic?
Gosh you owe us..We helped you get rid of trump
No one’s keeping track of McConnell’s “urges” anymore.
And that includes his ChiCom handler/wife.
I don’t thing “urge” will have any weight in WDC.
McConnell can now pretend he is an advocate for conservative causes now that he no longer has a majority and there is no hope of passage.
Yeah love how aggressive our GOPe is when they are toothless and irrelevant.
Why are we paying for this crap?
"Sen. Mitch McConnell Urges Biden Ed Department to Block “1619 Project” from Taxpayer-Funded Grants [??? emphasis added]"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s ArgumentAs patriots carefully plan ahead for who they’re going to primary in 2022 midterm elections so that they don’t replace RINOs and Democrats with more RINOs, patriots need to consider the following major constitutional problem with Ed Department.
In the example of this thread, post-17th Amendment ratification Senate RINOs are wrongly ignoring that they actually need to shut down the Ed Department imo, and they don’t need a majority vote to do so.
More specifically, all that McConnell and the other RINOs have to argue is that the states have never expressly constitutional given the feds the specific power to dictate, regulate, tax and spend in the name of INTRAstate education.
In fact, President Thomas Jefferson, in a State of the Union address, had used education as an example of a power that the states would first need to amend the Constitution so that Congress could stick its big nose (my words) into intrastate education, the states never amending Constitution for that purpose.
"On a few articles of more general and necessary use, the suppression in due season will doubtless be right, but the great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphases added].”—Thomas Jefferson : Sixth Annual Message to Congress
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Justice Joseph Story had likewise indicated that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to tax and spend for intrastate schooling, not the business of the feds.
"The power to regulate manufactures, not having been confided to congress, they have no more right to act upon it, than they have to interfere with the systems of education, the poor laws, or the road laws, of the states [emphases added]. Congress is empowered to lay taxes for revenue, it is true; but there is no power to encourage, protect, or meddle with manufactures." —Joseph Story, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1, Commentaries on the Constitution 2
As evidenced by RINO “dog and pony show” of blocking federal grants for intrastate schooling, as a consequence of seemingly not knowing the federal government's constitutionally limited powers, school administrators unsurprisingly don't seem to understand the following.
The so-called “federal” funding for their schools that they regularly beg the feds for is arguably local and state revenues that the corrupt, post-17th amendment ratification Congress has stolen from local and state governments by means of unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that 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.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
The remedy for unconstitutional federal government interference in intrastate schooling…
Patriots need to primary (2022) local, state and federal elected officials who don't promise to put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes and federal interference in state schooling and many other state issues.
And to make such changes permanent, patriots also need to be working with their local and state lawmakers to repeal the ill-conceived 17th Amendment.
The 16th Amendment needs to disappear too.
As patriots deal with unconstitutional federal government overreach, patriots also need to work with federal and state lawmakers to require judges and law enforcement officials to do the following when someone is accused of violating a federal law.
Judges and law-enforcement officials need to inform the accused of the constitutional clause(s) that arguably justifies the allegedly broken law for further scrutiny of the constitutionality of that law, especially where unconstitutional federal peacetime gun control laws are concerned imo.
Can’t I be offended anyway and claim victimhood? 😂😂😂🙌 Thanks.
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