Posted on 05/06/2008 1:21:04 PM PDT by Dawnsblood
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is about to lead her party into a major showdown over Iraq funding by violating two Democratic campaign pledges in one fell swoop.
To the critics, whether anti-war activists or House Republicans, Pelosi has made her feelings clear: Get over it.
This week’s maneuvering over a $200 billion war spending bill has revealed Pelosi self-confidently playing what she believes — with increasing evidence — is a strong hand.
Strong enough that she is expected to break one promise — her 2006 pledge for a more open and inclusive committee process — by circumventing the powerful House Appropriations Committee on the Iraq bill.
And when the final Iraq bill reaches the president’s desk, any troop withdrawal conditions are likely to be gone from the legislation. That is another 2006 pledge that has fallen by the wayside.
Pelosi’s calculation, say political analysts, seems clear. Democrats are using the Iraq bill as leverage for billions of dollars in domestic spending priorities. As for anti-war activists, they seem to accept the speaker’s logic: More than 40 previous Iraq votes have left Democrats maxed out in terms of legislative efforts to dictate an end to the war over a veto-wielding President Bush.
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“War funding would break Dem promises”
Fortunately, this is not a problem. In fact, it’s a tradition.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
It’s so easy to “fund” the war. No painful taxation. Just borrow the money against the retirement of the baby boomers. To heck with the anti-war crowd. And why alienate an important democrat constituency, you know, the ones who put up the big bucks?
Given the following examples of Speaker Pelosi's contempt for the Constitution that she swore to defend, is anybody really surprised by the idea of Pelosi breaking campaign promises?
Speaker Pelosi and her big-shot federal spending cronies in Congress are in contempt of the Constitution that they have sworn to defend for the following reasons. First, Pelosi is foolishly following in the footsteps of FDR's dirty federal spending politics. More specifically, FDR and the USSC wrongly ignored 10th A. protected state powers in order to establish FDR's constitutionally unauthorized New Deal federal spending programs.
This post (<-click), from a tax-related thread, provides more details as to how constitutionally unauthorized federal spending got started when constitutional flunky FDR established his New Deal programs.
In fact, since a related thread mentioned Pelosi in conjunction with Medicaid, note that when Jefferson talked about the Founder's division of federal and state powers, he mentioned that the Founders had trusted the states, not the federal government, with the care of the people.
"Our citizens have wisely formed themselves into one nation as to others and several States as among themselves. To the united nation belong our external and mutual relations; to each State, severally, the care of our persons, (emphasized by Amendment10) our property, our reputation and religious freedom." --Thomas Jefferson: To Rhode Island Assembly, 1801. ME 10:262 http://tinyurl.com/onx4jAlso, Speaker Pelosi is also arguably in contempt of Sec. 3 of the 14th A. for the following reason. Just as Jane Fonda went to North Vietnam to embarrass American officials, Pelosi made a trip to Syria in '07 to embarrass President Bush. The problem with Pelosi's trip, however, is that given that she had taken an oath to defend the Constitution, she arguably crossed the line established by Sec. 3 by giving comfort to the USA's enemies. Indeed, I would argue that because of Sec. 3, Pelosi is no longer legally a congressperson, let alone Speaker of the HoR.
The people need to reconnect with the Founder's requirement for constitutionally enumerated federal powers, particularly those powers which reasonably justify federal spending. The people then need to wise up to the major problem that, thanks to constitutional flunkys like Nancy Pelosi, the federal government is not operating within the restraints of the federal Constitution as the Founders had intended.
The bottom line is that the people need to get in the faces of "leaders" like Pelosi and the Democrats and Republicans who support her shenanigans, demanding that they start upholding their oaths to defend the Constitution by stopping unauthorized federal spending programs and appropriately reducing federal taxes - or get out of DC.
Just like the Republicans. Except the other side is getting a better deal.
Why are you posting here? Go back to DU where you belong.
The number has gone from $8,816,009,655,724 as of May 4, 2007, to $9,352,382,329,893 as of May 5, 2008, growing at 6% in that time period. (The public debt numbers are from the very handy webpage at the Treasury http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np.)
Even cutting such atrocious wastes such as the federal Department of Education would not make much of a dent if we are going to increase the public debt by $600 billion per year.
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