House moves against Obama’s Internet Giveaway

For years conservative activists have prodded the House of Representatives to use their unique Constitutional power of the purse to rein in Obama Administration excesses.

This week, the U.S. House of Representatives is doing just that through a series of amendments that will be considered to the bill that appropriates money for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, along with other science related agencies.

One particularly important rider is being offered by Representative Sean Duffy (R-WI). The Duffy amendment prohibits the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) from using any funds to relinquish the responsibility over the Internet domain name system functions.

In basic terms, Duffy’s amendment stops funding the Internet giveaway to unknown international governments, corporations and advocacy groups that President Obama’s Commerce Department is actively conducting.

OH, THE IRONY OF IT ALL Obama, the man who campaigned on his alleged Constitutional expertise, did not perceive that the mechanism of the bicameral Congress and the three branches of government, would impede reckless agendas, such as his.

I guess Obama "forgot" that the Founders (who lived under tyranny) constructed our govt to smack down tyranny whenever it raised its ugly head. The Founders' attention to this detail actually worked.

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Obama Meets Congressional Resistance, Selectively Sulks
americanthinker.com ^ | 5/28/14 | James Longstreet / FR Posted by cotton1706

It worked. And somehow, the man who is the alleged expert on the Constitution did not perceive that the mechanism of the bicameral Congress and the three branches of government would impede reckless agendas. It worked.

Mr. Obama seems unable to grasp the fact that, as mentioned in Federalist 45 by James Madison, “[t]he powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.”

The president seems frustrated that he isn’t getting “his” way. In an article in the Washington Times WRT, “President Obama taking a swipe at the Founding Fathers, he blames his inability to move his agenda on the 'disadvantage' of having each state represented equally in the Senate.”

Progressives would like nothing more than a giant merger of all (Obama's 57) states and national popular voting.

Disappointed and finger-pointing once again, Mr. Obama blames our form of government for not allowing his plans to be implemented. Curiously, Mr. Obama does not point to Harry Reid and his antics in the Senate.(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...

Throughout history, these tin-horn type pols get frustrated by the checks and balances of a constitutionally-structured republic.

The tensions of monarchy, aristocracy and democracy,.......the one, the few and the many, battling each other.....further the tensions of the legislative, executive and judicial, with further checks "by the people" among the states.

Which is exactly why it was set up this way, so that power checks power, passion checks passion, and interest checks interest, "that we may be a government of laws, and not of men."

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