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The goal, backers said, is to underscore the limited-government rules the Founders imposed on Congress - and to try to bring some of those principles back into everyday legislating.
*YAWN*
Gimmick. They couldn't follow "limited government rules" the last time they had Congressional control, and i see no reason to believe that they'll do so this time. What they're actually underscoring is the fact that we all know and remember their last tenure.
Tell'em to read Mary Poppins instead. Same difference.
The mark of good theater, people believing things that aren't so
It's just a different style of smoke and mirrors if the TSA isn't abolished and Homeland security gutted and remade along a line that respects rights. And the Patriot Act needs to be removed if its not just smoke and mirrors since by itself it guts the constitution. Doubt any of those things are going to happen regardless of spending time reading the constitution. But if Obama can play dog and pony so can the republicans. Thing is the people lose either way.
The goal, backers said, is to underscore the limited-government rules the Founders imposed on Congress - and to try to bring some of those principles back into everyday legislating.
"Their proposal leads us down the same path of fiscal negligence that the GOP took the nation down when [Republicans] got rid of pay-go in 2002," said Rep. Chris Van Hollen, Maryland Democrat. "We know how that story ends: ballooning deficits and an economic crisis not seen since the Great Depression."
Gimmick. They couldn't follow "limited government rules" the last time they had Congressional control, and i see no reason to believe that they'll do so this time. What they're actually underscoring is the fact that we all know and remember their last tenure.
Tell'em to read Mary Poppins instead. Same difference.
A number of these new Representatives have never served in either house so as to have a "last tenure". We'll have to wait and see if they actually walk the walk. I like to give people the benefit of the doubt until I see otherwise. The seat change is a positive development and the reading of the Constitution is a good sign.
Gimmick. They couldn't follow "limited government rules" the last time they had Congressional control, and i see no reason to believe that they'll do so this time. What they're actually underscoring is the fact that we all know and remember their last tenure.
Tell'em to read Mary Poppins instead. Same difference.
Is there a chance that the Republicans paid attention to the election that the Dems failed to understand what had happened and want to stay around? I just keep wondering about that since they have passed too much legislation since November 2 that those who determined the outcome of the election didn't want to see happen. I think that we must wait and see what they do rather than just sitting on our cans saying what they will do because of what they did before.
Senate Report 93-549
War and Emergency Powers Acts
"A majority of the people of the United States have lived all of their lives under emergency rule. For 40 years (1933-1973), freedoms and governmental procedures guaranteed by the Constitution have, in varying degrees, been abridged by laws brought into force by states of national emergency."
Most Americans have lived their entire lives under EMERGENCY RULES that abridge FREEDOMS guaranteed by the USCON...
(Yes, they TOOK AWAY our FREEDOMS, and have the arrogance to invade Asian nations to "preserve Freedom"!).
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