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Excellent Henninger Article In WSJ

Posted on | April 1, 2010 | 12 Comments

by Smitty

Via HotAir, Daniel Henninger offers a look at the disconnection of the Progressives from America. He notes

Constitutional professors quoted in the press and across the Web explain that much about the federal government’s modern authority is “settled” law. Even so, many of these legal commentators are quite close to arguing that the national government’s economic and political powers are now limitless and unfettered.

When you go to Tea Parties and see a large minority of attendees wearing some sort of military service-related paraphernalia, you need to know that Americans who’ve served understand the Constitution, and have sworn to defend it. This ‘settled law’ business, while certainly important, is also a foreign concept.

We don’t need is the glib one-liners from the members of this Judas Congress. We don’t need the POTUS jetting about, leaving carbon footprint and sales pitch in his wake, as if a deficit in trust can be overcome with a multitude of words. We don’t need the libe(ra)l media pissing down our backs and telling us it’s raining.

We need a concise, layman’s explanation of:
(a) how they think ‘settled law’ tantamount to a Constitutional Amendment, and
(b) how it is that common-sense interpretation of things like Article 1 and Amendment 10 are nullified by (a).

The Judas Congress is today what the British Parliament was in the 1770s: a distant, un-representative pack of louts. And the Tea Parties, which are a peaceful analog of Washington’s Colonial Army, are not backing down. If you read The Glorious Cause, you realize that Washington’s army won by merely sustaining its existence. By refusing to lose to Royal forces, time was on Washington’s side.

The modern Progressive louts, the Democrats and these GOP squishes that are already trying to cut their deals, promise to be highly entertaining as time drags on, the Tea Parties rise, and Progressive elites sink.

Category: Democrats, Republicans

Comments

12 Responses to “Excellent Henninger Article In WSJ”

  1. Bob Belvedere
    April 2nd, 2010 @ 3:10 am

    The song The Battle Cry Of Freedom came to mind after reading what you wrote, Smitty.

    Thanks. I needed a bump-up.

  2. Bob Belvedere
    April 1st, 2010 @ 10:10 pm

    The song The Battle Cry Of Freedom came to mind after reading what you wrote, Smitty.

    Thanks. I needed a bump-up.

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  4. Phil P
    April 2nd, 2010 @ 6:42 am

    The Constitution is *meant* to enable and expand the federal government.

    Real friends of liberty oppose it on exactly those grounds.

    Long live anti-federalism!

    Phil

  5. Phil P
    April 2nd, 2010 @ 1:42 am

    The Constitution is *meant* to enable and expand the federal government.

    Real friends of liberty oppose it on exactly those grounds.

    Long live anti-federalism!

    Phil

  6. FenelonSpoke
    April 2nd, 2010 @ 11:41 am

    I like that phrase, Congress is “a distant, unrepresentative pack of louts.” Almost everyday I put anti-Congress and anti tone deaf government signs on whiteboard outside my house. I would like to put that as well.

  7. FenelonSpoke
    April 2nd, 2010 @ 6:41 am

    I like that phrase, Congress is “a distant, unrepresentative pack of louts.” Almost everyday I put anti-Congress and anti tone deaf government signs on whiteboard outside my house. I would like to put that as well.

  8. Phil
    April 2nd, 2010 @ 1:30 pm

    Every single congressperson holds his office by will of the people. They are indeed representative — of the majority 2 years ago. Hopefully, that majority is feeling differently now.

    Phil

  9. Phil
    April 2nd, 2010 @ 8:30 am

    Every single congressperson holds his office by will of the people. They are indeed representative — of the majority 2 years ago. Hopefully, that majority is feeling differently now.

    Phil

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