Posted on 12/25/2010 6:23:09 AM PST by fuzzybutt
The Constitution frequently gets lip service in Congress, but House Republicans next year will make sure it gets a lot more than that - the new rules the incoming majority party proposed this week call for a full reading of the country's founding document on the floor of the House on Jan. 6.
The goal, backers said, is to underscore the limited-government rules the Founders imposed on Congress - and to try to bring some of those principles back into everyday legislating.
"It stems from the debate that we've had for the last two years about things like the exercise of authority in a whole host of different areas by the EPA, we've had this debate in relation to the health care bill, the cap-and-trade legislation," said Rep. Robert W. Goodlatte, Virginia Republican, who proposed the reading. "This Congress has been very aggressive in expanding the power of the federal government, and there's been a big backlash to that."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Repeal ObamaKare and defund all the Czars...for starters.
WE THE PEOPLE WILL take back our government, one way or another.
What part of the United States Constitution empowers the Congress to pay people not to work?
What part the Constitution empowers the Congress to ally with the EPA and leftist organizations in an overt attack against the oil inustry and it’s product?
I have my copy of the Constitution right here, tell me where to look.
Life, liberty and the pursuit and destruction of totalitarians.
Just as a reminder of what happens when a government becomes unresponsive.
I used to carry my pocket Constitution in the car at all times but now,
I have a Droid phone and there are several Apps that contain every word. Now I can poke my phone a few times and it is at my beck & call.
The communists are not going to like it.
Cool. So they’ll know exactly the rules they’re not following. Again.
The RATs won´t even show up.
RE: the new rules the incoming majority party proposed this week call for a full reading of the country’s founding document on the floor of the House on Jan. 6.
Talk talk talk, style, style style, symbol, symbol....
You want me to believe them ? Let’s see them in action and then we’ll be the judge of what they do, but not until.
They will probably have to send out a release form to their parents that they are OK with the reading of the constitution to their congressmen children.
You want me to believe them ? Let’s see them in action and then we’ll be the judge of what they do, but not until.
You sure have that correct! I was just going to post the same thought.
The Pubbies at the top are still liberal and not conservative by any means. They are doing this to get us to back off and ignore what they will be, or not be, doing this session.
I doubt they will press to repeal Obamacare nor any other myriad bills that were passed in the past two years that will help destroy our country.
The repubs in charge want Socialism or Communism. They think they are special and that we need to be put in our place.
Bump
Thanks to every cynical, ticked-off, patriotic poster.
Words AND deeds BUMP!
I’m almost dreading the moment when pelousi hands over the gavel to Boehner, this will be the moment he should show strength and determination and not bust out bawling.
They, the Government, had better remember the cause for the 1st revolution. From soap box to ballot box to cartridge box.
I find this part of the Address ironic, as it identifies our current president:
I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.
This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.
Over the last few sessions of congress a law has been proposed that would require citing a power within the Constitution that supports the proposal. It has never passed.
My hopes are high, but the reading of the Constitution may be nothing more than showboating.
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