The Constitution is a piece of paper, a thought, it has no power on its own, its authority is given by the people governed by it. Tyrants are now pushing the people around, taking their lunch money, and their Constitution and saying “whadaya gonna do about it kid.”
The Tea Party has thrown the first punch back but it wasn’t enough to scare the bully. Looks like its time to escalate.
The people who control this government (and the ones who put them in office) have no fealty to the the Constitution or the founding principles. It’s been a charade for many decades. The Executive and Legislative branches of our government are peopled with Marxists...pure and simple. Communist leaders long ago told us very plainly how they would take over, and they proceeded to do so right in front of our faces, and for all the (appropriate) agonizing about vile organizations like ACORN and SEIU, I will forever regard the NEA as the layer’s of the foundation of Socialist America. That in my view, is how they got us.
Here is the Stupak “fly in the punchbowl”: “...or when the life of the mother is in danger.” Who is going to decide that? An abortionist. And who is going to argue with it? No one. This bill stinks, and the Senate Democrats are a bunch of liars. And the Democrats - even Stupak - will fold.
So here is what typically happens: we, the people, put up a fuss because we do not like a bill. Congress ignores us, passes the bill, then we shut up, accept the “inevitable,” become obedient sheep, and then vote in the same dimwits. It is our fault that we let Congress get away with this stuff. So what do we do? We continue to apply pressure even after this bill passes - emails, town halls, phone calls, faxes, and visits to local offices between now and the election. Keep this on the front pages, in the blogs, on the radio, on the TV shows. We even run for elected office so we can get decent, honest people in those positions.
We also push for the items specified at http://pushbackuntil.com/Mandates.htm. These are just common sense ideas that will save our beloved country for future generations.
In addition, be in D.C. for a massive protest on the day of the State of the Union Address (anyone know the date???). We need to ruin their “party” - no more status quo, no more business as usual - WE HAVE A COUNTRY TO SAVE! Also be there on 4/15. We will have to have major protests in D.C. several times a year. We are not trying to awaken Congress - we are trying to awaken the American people! And it is working. But we have to keep the pressure on for the next five or ten years. Otherwise, nothing will change.
So...BE IN D.C.!
Harry Reid proclaim healthcare as a right, and a right it shall be. C’mon, get on the bandwagon! Get on the team (to paraphrase Slow-Joe).
Using the general welfare clause as a rationale for mandated government health care is idiotic. Even the Constitution’s chief author James Madison clarified the general welfare clause for future tyrants and idiots.
“If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare,and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare,they may take the care of religion into their own hands;they may appoint teachers in every State, county and parish and pay them out of their public treasury;
they may take into their own hands the education of children,establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union;they may assume the provision of the poor;
they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads;in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation down to the most minute object of police,
would be thrown under the power of Congress.... Were the power of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for,it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature of the limited Government established by the people of America.”
Keep the quote for future town hells. I trust James Madison. DEFEAT THE DIMS!
i could be very wrong, but it apears to me that tea-parties and calls and faxes and letters...end up to be non-binding.
as far as i can tell, the only non-violent way to attack this is via lawsuits.
if a judge were to declare this to be un-constitutional, what would that do?
if many many law suits were filed against many many parts of this, what would that do?
just thinking out loud........
You should review this it talks about the commerce clause under which they intend to force healthcare’s constitutionality:
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=17597