Yea, that's why the lawmakers swear an oath to "uphold the Constitution", right? If they cannot tell what is Constitutional or not, they have no business being in congress. The judiciary is a citizens last (legal) defense against a tyranical government, the representitives should be the first.
Exactly.. It's like repelling an invasion.
Where do you begin? In the field or on your doorstep?
I don't disagree at all. However, when most legislation is passed out of congress with the majority required, by definition, they have said it is constitutional. This one is strange in that even those that sponsor it and those that voted on it democrat and republican concede that parts of the bill are likely unconstitutional. The CFR that has been in place has heavily favored the democrats and their cash cows the unions. Now why did they pass a bill that all of a sudden dries up their advantage in soft money and expands the GOP advantage in hard money. Then you have to ask why did they place so many poison pills in it. I believe that the politico's in the Whitehouse smell veto bait. Bush veto’s, the old CFR stays in place and in 2002 the issue is Bush's veto of CFR. In other words "don't throw me in the briar patch". Now is that me claiming that this is a grand strategy on the part of Bush? No it is me and if I could think of it, then anyone could think of it why not the Bush team?