Rep. Chip Roy Issues Blunt Warning To Republicans Who Voted For $1.2 Trillion Funding Bill

Forbes Breaking News ^ | March 22 2022 | Rep. Chip Roy

[Dr. Franklin]

The swamp is back in full force we have a thousand-page Bill of $1.2 trillion filled with all manners of spending priorities that are at odds with the American people. This bill is over a thousand pages long, contains hundreds of pages of report language, 1,400 ear marks, and we've had about 24 hours to review it. That is not the way to do business, and the American people and American families are the ones left holding the bag. This is business as usual in the swamp, and here's the deal to my Republican colleagues: You will own every single bit of this if you vote for this bill. You own it... Everybody who votes for this bill today, you own it don't go out and campaign this year saying you oppose this stuff when you write the check because that's what's happening today. Every single Republican, every single Democrat who votes for this omnibus spending bill today, they own it. We should vote "no". You want to win in November vote "no".

[Dr. Franklin]

It was true because that’s what Madison said!

How it was marketed, and what it was were not the same. "We the People" did not write the U.S. Constitution. It was written by the elites meeting in secret, and then sold to them. The criticisms of the Anti-Federalists have proven prescient.

[Reily]

You’re another F’n Marxist!

[Dr. Franklin]

You’re another F’n Marxist!

Anti-Federalists were never Marxists. Consolidation of power in the central government, on the other hand, is very Marxist.

[Reily]

I’m talking about you! Your views on the Constitution and the Founding Fathers (In spite of trying to steal from Franklin’s fame!) is very very very Wlisonian. I admit Marxist was a inaccurate label! Wilson & his lackeys were deep advocates of mobocracy, which could be Marxist it just depends on what you can stampede the mob to do.

[Reily]

I’m talking about you! Your views on the Constitution and the Founding Fathers (In spite of trying to steal from Franklin’s fame!) is very very very Wlisonian. I admit Marxist was a inaccurate label! Wilson & his lackeys were deep advocates of mobocracy, which could be Marxist it just depends on what you can stampede the mob to do.

[Dr. Franklin]

I’m talking about you! Your views on the Constitution and the Founding Fathers (In spite of trying to steal from Franklin’s fame!) is very very very Wlisonian. I admit Marxist was a inaccurate label! Wilson & his lackeys were deep advocates of mobocracy, which could be Marxist it just depends on what you can stampede the mob to do.

ad hominem attacks simply reveal the lack of a substantive argument, which in this case is contrary to the historical record:


The historical record is that the Seventeenth Amendment, in its final form, was passed first by the U.S. Senate on 42 to 36 vote on April 12, 1912, and by the House 238 to 39, with 110 not voting on May 13, 1912. William Howard Taft was the president at this time, not Wilson. Three state legislatures ratified the amendment before November 1912, and all candidates for president supported the passage of it, including Republicans Taft and Roosevelt. Thirty-three (33) of the needed thirty-six (36) state legislatures had ratified the amendment before Taft left office. Of the states to consider the amendment, only Utah rejected it:

So your premise that this is "Wilsonian" is false. Wilson had little to do with any of it, as it was a very popular reform occurring mostly under the Republican president Taft. It should be noted that to be ratified required the House accepting the language of the Senate which rejected the following language of House to reduce federal oversight of Senatorial elections: "The times, places, and manner of holding elections for Senators shall be as prescribed in each State by the legislature thereof." Again, the issue here is federalism vs. states' rights-Anti-federalism.