Thank you, Lurker! I keep my 'Pocket Constitution' right here on my desk, and I can never find whatevertheheck these CongressCritters are referring to within its pages, either!! I think they must be using this edition:
Yea but dontchaknow it's for the kids, or the puppies, or the kittens, or the cancer victims, or whatever.
Besides the Founders never thought of yada yada yada, blah, blah, blah.
When I was a kid the phrase "Geez, make a Federal case out of it..." meant blowing something waaaay out of proportion.
Now, everything is indeed a Federal matter.
The Founders must be whirling in their graves about now.
L