Exactly. I am especially incensed by this cynical window dressing related to citing Constitutional authority for all the new bills they plan to pass.
Ideally, they would have focused on the wide-ranging number of unConstitutional laws they were going to repeal!
But hey, I’m not a purist—how about they at least start by focusing on the core issue of Constitutionality—i.e., “We pledge not to pass any bill that is outside our Constitutionally enumerated powers.”
But no, they’re in no way saying that!
Like the entrenched apparatchiks that they are, they have essentially said that all the new bills THEY pass that increase the size and scope of the federal government will include a throwaway line citing either the Commerce Clause or the Supremacy Clause.
Wow, I feel the GOP hopey change a’comin’ now.
“We pledge not to pass any bill that is outside our Constitutionally enumerated powers.” But no, they’re in no way saying that!”
Not true ... Ryans proposal for HC reform (number one agenda item in my book) is saying exactly that.
Let them start with these ‘pledges’ as a baseline and see where it goes:
De-fund SS and ObamaCare and Medicare and SSI and SCHIP and every other welfare program under the sun.
Dump every Bureau, Department, Commission, and agency that cannot be traced back to a specifically enumerated power allowed by the Constitution (Environment, education, energy, tobacco, agriculture, Health and Human Services, HUD, etc, etc)
Return every penny of the costs of these worthless organizations to the people.
Repeal every “law” that was created by the courts or by a bureaucracy that did not get passed by the Congress and signed by the President.
Prevent or repeal or withdraw from any international agreement or program or entity that usurps authority from the American people as represented by their duly elected Federal gov’t.
That would be a good starting point.