Tracking the Conservative Point of View of Politics in Washington that affect States Rights in the South. Promoting Tea Party Politics.
Showing posts with label congress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label congress. Show all posts
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Friday, January 7, 2011
The Tea Parties Revival of the Constitution
Congress has just done what has never been done in the Chamber's 221 year history,They have dusted off the Constution of the United States and read it outloud on the House Floor.
They will require that every new bill contain a statement by the lawmaker who wrote it citing the constitutional authority to enact the proposed legislation.
Call it the tea party-ization of Congress.
"It appears that the Republicans have been listening," said Jeff Luecke, a sales supervisor and tea party organizer in Dubuque, Iowa. "We're so far away from our founding principles that, absolutely, this is the very, very tip of the iceberg. We need to talk about and learn about the Constitution daily."
Brash and young though it is, the Tea Party movement has already added something distinctive to contemporary political discourse. It has made the Constitution central to the national conversation.
Not a few constitutional scholars say that it is possible to quarrel with the particulars while welcoming the discussion. And not just because it is nice to know that people read and care about the nation’s sacred text. The larger point, these scholars say, is that the Supreme Court should have no more monopoly on the meaning of the Constitution than the pope has on the meaning of the Bible.
Surveys conducted by Quinnipiac University indicate that some 40 percent of Americans say the Supreme Court should employ originalism in interpreting the Constitution; slightly more say the court should take account of changing conditions.
"The Tea Party movement in the United States now enjoys an approval rating which is four times higher than the United States Congress. The reason is simple. We believe in the need for lower taxes, limited government, personal freedom and individual responsibility",this according to MARK BARIE; founding chairman of the Upstate New York Tea (UNYTEA) Party.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
http://theweek.com/article/index/210193/get-over-it-liberals
This is a great article by a Democrat, Bob Shrum. Shrum suggests that Democrats in the House of Representatives cannot get a better progressive deal on the recent Tax Deal hammered out between Obama and Conservatives in the Senate. Considering the Conservative view of the recent Tax Debate,according to Charles Krauthammer, Obama really accomplished a great deal. Barack Obama won the great tax-cut showdown of 2010 - and House Democrats don't have a clue that he did. In the deal struck this week, the president negotiated the biggest stimulus in American history, larger than his $814 billion 2009 stimulus package. It will pump a trillion borrowed Chinese dollars into the U.S. economy over the next two years - which just happen to be the two years of the run-up to the next presidential election. This is a defeat?
This is a great article by a Democrat, Bob Shrum. Shrum suggests that Democrats in the House of Representatives cannot get a better progressive deal on the recent Tax Deal hammered out between Obama and Conservatives in the Senate. Considering the Conservative view of the recent Tax Debate,according to Charles Krauthammer, Obama really accomplished a great deal. Barack Obama won the great tax-cut showdown of 2010 - and House Democrats don't have a clue that he did. In the deal struck this week, the president negotiated the biggest stimulus in American history, larger than his $814 billion 2009 stimulus package. It will pump a trillion borrowed Chinese dollars into the U.S. economy over the next two years - which just happen to be the two years of the run-up to the next presidential election. This is a defeat?
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