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  • Congress and the President Need a Sockdolager from Voters!

    01/12/2012 7:07:07 AM PST · by jmaroneps37 · 2 replies
    coachisright.com ^ | January 12, 2012 | Helen Sabin, staff writer
    In the late 1700’s, three term Congressman, Davy Crockett, riding the county to gather votes for his next term in Congress, received a “sockdolager” (a knockdown blow) from farmer, Horatio Bunch about Crockett’s vote to provide “$20,000 of charity” to an Admiral’s wife. Bunch asked, “Where do you find in the Constitution any authority to give away the public money in charity? …The Constitution, to be worth anything, must be held sacred, and rigidly observed in all its provisions. The man who wields power and misinterprets it is the more dangerous the more honest he is. You will very easily...