Posted on 01/27/2023 6:54:11 AM PST by Eagle Forgotten
It’s very strange not to seriously pursue a deeply held goal when you have unified control of Washington, then to insist on trying to achieve much of it in one fell swoop when you barely have control of one chamber of Congress.
But here we are. This is the Republican pattern. It has been, fundamentally, driven by the fact that two Republican presidents in a row now have won the White House by effectively running against the fiscal conservatism of the party’s congressional wing.
George W. Bush’s compassionate conservatism was an implicit rebuke of Newt Gingrich’s bomb-throwing majorities that tried to balance the budget at all costs. Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again populism was a rejection of Paul Ryan’s debt-obsessed majority that hoped to move the goal posts on entitlement reform.
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Lowry doesn’t say, but I’ll add, that the Democrats and their supporters aren’t shy about pointing this out.
They can, and they will.
As they say, a leopard can’t change its spots.
Interesting how it always falls on the GOP to be the bad guys, and save government from itself.
WRONG
They should 1) simply do things that give people more freedom from government, and 2) encourage government’s (ie. the left’s) collapse.
Continually remind young voters they will have to deal with the debt and the carrying costs of the debt which will dominate the budget.
Republicans gave up on being fiscally responsible in 2001 when Bush became president. Bush and Rove said fiscal responsibility was a vote loser and the rest of the national Republicans agreed 100%. The only time they brought it up was when Obama took office, but they really didn’t mean it. Now they may bring it up again with Biden in office but they have zero credibility.
All that it takes is for one patriot lawmaking Republican to effectively exercise "majority" voting power in Congress to close down unconstitutional, unaccountable federal spending is the following.
That brave Republican needs to go public and point out that corrupt Congress has been scandalously ignoring constitutional limits on its powers to tax and spend for many generations.
"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.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Patriots have gotten practice helping Trump to drain the swamp by primarying bad-apple “Republicans,” and we're going to have to do that again in 2024 and 2026 for Trump 47's last two years in office.
In the meanwhile, ALL the states desperately need to put a "permanent" stop to unconstitutional federal taxes, and likewise unconstitutional interference in the affairs of the sovereign states, by effectively "seceding" from the unconstitutionally big federal government.
The states will "secede" from the corrupt feds by repealing the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular voting for federal senators) Amendments (16&17A).
If the proposed amendment was limited strictly to repealing 16&17A, relatively little or ideally no discussion would be needed before ratification of the amendment imo.
Patriots need to get constitutionally clueless elected Democratic state government leaders of blue states up to speed with the constitutional reality that corrupt federal Democrats are stealing their state's revenues by means of unconstitutional taxes, taxes that Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, and a few other constitutionally enumerated expenses.
"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.
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