Posted on 11/08/2021 9:58:44 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Big Bump!
Obviously, the GOP wants the Green New Deal bill to pass. “Master parliamentarian” China Mitch has teed it up to pass via the reconciliation process that requires only 50 votes. Never Forget. Never Forgive
#34: +100
Based on a related thread...
Patriots are reminded that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to tax and spend in the name of INTRAstate infrastructure imo. This is evidenced by the writings of President Thomas Jefferson and Supreme Court justices, Jefferson actually encouraging the states to amend the Constitution for such a purpose imo.
In other words, governors accepting so-called "federal" infrastructure funding can argue that they are recovering state revenues stolen by the feds by means of unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that the very corrupt, alleged election stealing, Democratic Party-pirated Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
"10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“The great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphases added].” —Thomas Jefferson: 6th Annual Message, 1806." (The states have never amended the Constitution for new powers for Congress to do these things.)
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphasis added]” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"They form a portion of that immense mass of legislation, which embrace every thing in the territory of a state not surrendered to the general government. Inspection laws, quarantine laws, and health laws, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state, and others, which respect roads, fences, &c. are component parts of state legislation, resulting from the residuary powers of state sovereignty. No direct power over these is given to congress, and consequently they remain subject to state legislation [emphasis added], though they may be controlled by congress, when they interfere with their acknowledged powers." —Justice Joseph Story, Article I, Section 10, Clause 2, 1833.
“Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. [emphasis added], are component parts of this mass.” —Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln., 1837.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
The ultimate remedy for unconstitutionally big federal government stealing from the states and their taxpayers...
Consider that all the states can effectively “secede” from the unconstitutionally big federal government by doing the following.
Patriots need to primary federal and state elected officials who don't send voters email ASAP that clearly promises to do the following.
Federal and state lawmakers need to promise in their emails to introduce resolutions no later than 100 days after start of new legislative sessions that proposes an amendment to the Constitution to the states, the amendment limited to repealing the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments.
Patriots then need to follow up the repeal of 16 and 17A by pressuring their state lawmakers to do the following.
State lawmakers need to call a constitutional convention to amend the Constitution to give the power to confirm new Supreme Court justices uniquely to state legislatures, each state providing two natural born citizen justices.
And when justices are evenly divided on a decision, a constitutional convention will automatically be convened to reword relevant constitutional clauses.
"If the two departments [Federal and State] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire to decide ultimately between them? In cases of little importance or urgency, the prudence of both parties will keep them aloof from the questionable ground; but if it can neither be avoided not compromised, a convention of the States must be called to ascribe the doubtful power to that department which they may think best." —Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 1824.
Insights welcome.
Well, I’m not current but as I recall, Republicans have been asking since early on for an infrastructure bill.
Pelosi tried to thwart that effort by insisting the $3.5 trillion bill go first. She apparently gave up that effort.
Now, the Senate Republicans can make modifications to return the effort to what they proposed back in say January. As I recall Republicans have always favored an infrastructure bill of about $1.2 trillion that is actually for infrastructue meaning roads and bridges and perhaps broad band
I’d like to stick those 2000 pages right up his RINO arse!
Well some do learn by their mistakes and pain we shall see.
“McConnell is not the enemy..
The people who elected him ARE..
The sooner we accept this, the sooner we can correct it..”
Absolutely correct.
It wasn’t bipartisan. It was passed with the help of fake Republicans.
can we have turtle soup for thanksgiving?
He brings in the pork to Kentucky, just like Byrd did to WV. I imagine Graham does something similar in SC. How do you fight that ? The average voter wants their time at the federal trough ! FR readers are not the average voter nor the average conservative voter. We think its terrible, but most don’t. Particularly when its “our senator\congresscritter” ladling the money out to the state\district out of the treasury !
Is he mental?
Why would anyone be surprised that a statist goon would vote for statist things?
Mr. Bean’s understudy is at it again...
What a colossal richardhead...
Don’t want to get banned but yikes.
He has no idea how angry the Base is at him and his do-nothing Senate.
Yes indeed...
I warned this board about Mitch, but most people didn’t believe me.
Can ANYONE explain to me why this bill doesn’t have to go back to the Senate after all the changes the House did with it???
Let’s go turtle!
GOP is useless
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