What’s more fun than watching a propagandist who still can’t help being tethered to certain portions of reality duking it out with a tool of Rhode Island sized proportions who is completely unfettered by anything remotely resembling reality? I’ll have to get back to you on that.
Archive for January 23rd, 2010
Noted Senate Parliamentarian Alan Grayson (D) Neverland, Schools Chrissy “Tingles” Matthews On Reconciliation
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A simple question…
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With the finger-pointing, blame, conscientiousness, and general bad demeanor afoot in politics today, it is easy to forget that what it all boils down to is a simple question: What is the role of government?
This is an easy question to ask, but sadly, the answer proves far more complicated for many people than it should be.
Conservatives know the answer. The Constitution limits federal power to certain activities, and leaves the rest to the states, period.
Leftists, notsomuch. Some are well-meaning dunces, always feeling other’s pain, but simply not cognizant of the fact that some people bring it on themselves, and rather than teaching a person to fish, they believe that it is not only necessary to cook every meal to order, but that we either deliver, or prepare a sumptuous place for these people to eat an extravagant meal in. And cost is no object.
Some are more cynical. They know it violates the principles the country was founded on, and exceeds their authority, but they continue to play the guilt angle and do everything they can to foster a sense of entitlement in the subjects of their kindness. And they do it for power. They cloak it in whatever they think will work. They use concern for the unfortunate to foster more and bigger welfare, despite no net reduction in the percentage of the population living in poverty. They use their concern for us to decide what we can and can’t do, and what we can and can’t eat, and the fact that they gain a little more control over our individual lives is simply “incidental”…except for the fact that they feel entitled to that intrusive power, and get very upset when it is suggested that they shouldn’t have it. They want to “save the planet”, and nothing is a good reason to stop them. Not bad science. Not modern-day indulgences that benefit the high priests of the Modern Day Church of Gaia. Not the economy that such measures would destroy. Not the people who would die in their efforts to save the Earth. The goal is all important. A dubious result introduced as a foregone conclusion for the faithful, and limitless power for the elite perched at the top of the pecking order.
Across the nation, the debate rages between these factions. Does government do too much already, or is it not enough? The answer is simple. Look to the Constitution. If you can’t justify it by the Constitution, then government should not be doing it. End of story.
- "I want these “…and I’m a communist” dumbshits to have a Coming to Jesus moment that they will NEVER forget. I want them staring in to the eyes of every American who knows that government has very specifically designated roles, and are fed-up to their eyeballs with the overeaching, paternalistic, oppressive monster that the Left (with help from the establishment Right) set loose on us. I want those greedy, lazy, control-freaky bastards quaking with fear when they are met with an electorate determined to wrest their liberties, including the right to fail, back from a government that would enslave us all to the service of a soul-killing mediocrity. I want their asses so horrifiyingly and memorably whipped that the mere memory will cow a century’s worth of socialist/communist/marxist acoyltes into an ashamed silence." ________________________________ "When a strict interpretation of the Constitution, according to the fixed rules which govern the interpretation of laws, is abandoned, and the theoretical opinions of individuals are allowed to control its meaning, we no longer have a Constitution, we are under the government of individual men, who for the time being have power to declare what the Constitution is according to their own views of what it ought to mean."--Justice Curtis, Dissent, Dred Scott v. Sanford
- "The very idea of power, and the right of the people to establish government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government. All obstructions to the execution of its laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberations and actions of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency."- George Washington
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The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
-PlatoOne of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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