Posted on 11/22/2013 10:36:17 AM PST by yoe
The rule of law has been replaced in Washington by "yes we can." The events we witnessed Thursday in the Senate, that is Majority Leader Harry Reid's success at invoking the so-called 'nuclear option,' stripping the minority party of its primary power to block nominations, have become a stunning capstone to what has been already a steady erosion of a government of laws down to a sort of semi-political banana republic.
We are now living in a republic in which politicians do what they want without regard to tradition or the best interests of our country.
The rule of more than 200 years since the Senate was formed, as described by James Madison, to be "...the saucer of the hot cup of the House" has been overthrown.
[snip] The most recent and jarring example is the Affordable Care Act where the president has, despite the actual language of the law, assumed powers to exempt people, to change the meaning of the law. Of actual legislative statue.
In a way that is stunning. Indeed, the most egregious was the Democratic and Republican leaders coming together to agree to ignore the language in the Affordable Care Act legislation and grant themselves and their staffs a special subsidy. Sadly, this is something very few people have bothered to speak out against.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Third Reich comes to mind.
I agree. America’s been “Weimar” for a few years now. We’ve gone overboard now. Yesterday was America’s “Reichstag Fire” moment, IMO.
Caddell further cementing his position as the Last Sane Democrat.
I don’t get the qualifier ‘semi-political’.
"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty also: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them." - Thomas Jefferson
Remember that bold statement as representing the underlying, and essential, principle of America's Declaration of Independence!
Then, as you think about John F. Kennedy today, remember these words from him:
“The same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe, the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.” - (John F. Kennedy - 1961 Inaugural)
Pat, when, and how, did your Party's leadership wander so far away from that essential, underlying principle of liberty?
Patrick Caddell. The last principled democrat on earth?
Pat Caddell has almost made up for giving us Carter.
The truth of the matter is the legislative branch is now irrelevant. That fundamental change obama promised has arrived. I still can’t understand how he has so many people on his side. Even if it’s NSA blackkmail it would mean thousands of people helping him. It has to be evil plain and simple.
The Rat idiots have no boundaries on either their tyranny or their will to control.
They will abide by nothing less than that legal remedy, and they may even disregard that, leaving only one option.
Let me remind you that we here on FR have know this for a LONG TIME.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2173300/posts
See Post #23:
“Welcome to New Kenya”
“Where the law of the jungle has replace the Law of the Land”
23 posted on Wed 28 Jan 2009 06:42:31 AM CST by Texas Fossil
Agree with a small addition to your listing of characteristics redundant as it may seem.
I am trying hard to find where the founds required 60 votes. I really am. We wanted the Republicans to do this when they had the Senate and were pissed off when McCain caused the Republicans to chicken out.
Yes, we can be a Marxist tyranny!
WE HAVE PASSED THE POINT. WE ARE A COMMUNISTS RULED NATION.
Come on Pat, there is no law that says the Senate must honor a filibuster. Its a tradition not law.
Each house makes it own rules, controlled by majority.
Power grab yes, illegal no
You know.... when the have nots figured out they could vote to take money away from the haves.... its been over since then. And really, while we love our constitution and the brilliance of the forefathers. Like most legal documents, it wasn’t perfect. And we’re seeing that play out.
America's Constitution set the rules and limits for such power-thirsty individuals who might combine with others of their stripe to undermine "the People's" Constitution.
Below are the words of James Madison:
"Of the Declaration of Rights by the Assembly of France, Madison said: "The three first articles are the base of Liberty, as well individual as national; nor can any country be called free whose government does not take its beginning from the principles they contain, and continue to preserve them pure; and the whole of the Declaration of Rights is of more value to the world, and will do more good, than all the laws and statutes that have yet been promulgated. "As it was impossible to separate the military events which took place in America from the principles of the American Revolution, the publication of those events in France necessarily connected themselves with the principles which produced them. Many of the facts were in themselves principles; such as the declaration of American Independence, "While the Declaration of Rights was before the National Assembly some of its members remarked that if a declaration of rights were published it should be accompanied by a Declaration of Duties. The observation discovered a mind that reflected, and it only erred by not reflecting far enough. A Declaration of Rights is, by reciprocity, a Declaration of Duties also. Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.
"However true, therefore, it may be, that the judicial department, is, in all questions submitted to it by the forms of the Constitution, to decide in the last resort, this resort must necessarily be deemed the last in relation to the authorities of the other departments of the government; not in relation to the rights of the parties to the constitutional compact, from which the judicial as well as the other departments hold their delegated trusts. On any other hypothesis, the delegation of judicial power would annul the authority delegating it; and the concurrence of this department with the others in usurped powers, might subvert for ever, and beyond the possible reach of any rightful remedy, the very Constitution which all were instituted to preserve.
"The truth declared in the resolution being established, the expediency of making the declaration at the present day, may safely be left to the temperate consideration and candid judgment of the American public. It will be remembered that a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles, is solemnly enjoined by most of the state constitutions, and particularly by our own, as a necessary safeguard against the danger of degeneracy to which republics are liable, as well as other governments, though in a less degree than others. And a fair comparison of the political doctrines not unfrequent at the present day, with those which characterized the epoch of our revolution, and which form the basis of our republican constitutions, will best determine whether the declaratory recurrence here made to those principles, ought to be viewed as unseasonable and improper, or as a vigilant discharge of an important duty. The authority of constitutions over governments, and of the sovereignty of the people over constitutions, are truths which are at all times necessary to be kept in mind; and at no time perhaps more necessary than at the present." - James Madison
So our nation has been hanging by a thread for 200 years by “a rule”?
bump
Not illegal, just illustrative of the current attitude of “we’ll get rid of any Constitution, law, regulation, or rule that’s in our way, and damn the consequences!”
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