tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-759178030677978044.post7715456100301479061..comments2024-02-19T07:24:42.397-08:00Comments on Anglican Curmudgeon: Sic semper republicaeA. S. Haleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05108498446058643166noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-759178030677978044.post-53461007712837210462013-10-23T07:07:54.848-07:002013-10-23T07:07:54.848-07:00Topper, you are exactly right -- the legislation w...Topper, you are exactly right -- the legislation which Congress and the President passed in order to end the shutdown <a href="http://spectator.org/archives/2013/10/23/schumers-dangerous-idea" rel="nofollow">is unconstitutional</a>. However, because it is in effect only until February 7, 2014, it most likely will be allowed to go without challenge. A lawsuit to challenge it would scarcely be under way before the law would expire, and make the issue moot. <br /><br />Nevertheless, if Sen. Schumer succeeds in passing permanent legislation to the same effect, then I would expect a challenge to its constitutionality to be filed by conservatives in the House and Senate. A. S. Haleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05108498446058643166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-759178030677978044.post-46398306889978832552013-10-22T18:54:27.746-07:002013-10-22T18:54:27.746-07:00Mr. Haley,
If, as you forcefully state, "Con...Mr. Haley,<br /><br />If, as you forcefully state, "Congress abdicated its Constitutional responsibility (Art. I, sec. 8) 'to pay the Debts ... of the United States.' " in their recent legislation, then isn't that something that is ripe for a legal appeal to the Supreme Court? Surely the constitutional responsibility of Congress is a duty they must not be permitted to abdicate? Or am I being naive?Topperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14537239370392917165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-759178030677978044.post-78755522182008667542013-10-21T12:49:16.900-07:002013-10-21T12:49:16.900-07:00 As usual, better said in fewer words by the ... As usual, better said in fewer words by the Underground Pewster.<br /> We have directed our meagre flock to this blog for an economics lesson that is quick, profound, and understandable.<br />El Gringo ViejoDavid Christian Newtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02486433908063462273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-759178030677978044.post-26341156169223133422013-10-21T06:45:34.644-07:002013-10-21T06:45:34.644-07:00A man who builds his house with paper as its found...A man who builds his house with paper as its foundation will have children who are cold and wet when the rainy day comes.Undergroundpewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10182191422663119484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-759178030677978044.post-79460844804578943662013-10-20T21:30:59.487-07:002013-10-20T21:30:59.487-07:00"And lead us not into Temptation,...."
..."And lead us not into Temptation,...."<br /> There is nothing quite as expensive as "free" medical, AFDC, food stamps, farm subsidies, Solyndra subsidies, central government loan guarantees, WIC, school lunch - breakfast - afternoon snack and summer feeding program, Section 8....SSI, unemployment compensation....99 weeks? Disability on one's word of honour...? Madison's fears have been delivered by the stork, and the baby is the comprehensive welfare program.<br /> The Nazarene would have hoped better of us. It was not for us to leave to Caesar to provide for those with naught. The Nazarene wanted us to provide for the poor...he wanted us to prosper in our fields and vineyards and flocks so as to provide for ourselves and for those who had fallen off or were forced off the path of self-provision.<br /><br /> We see no chance for a cure. While our leader calculates that each of the 300,000,000 souls aboard this creaking ship moving through the field of icebergs,.owes about 60,000 USD right now as his/her share of the national debt....it is even worse. My granddaughters, still in single digits in terms of age, actually owe almost 130,000 right now. Why? Because they will be producers of one kind or another. In that we are now one producer for each consumer....my granddaughters will have to provide at a minimum for one other parasite, and assume his/her debt as well. <br /><br /> It is madness. I bang my head against the wall on an hourly basis but it is difficult to preach and point the way around the abyss when there are so very many who either do not care or do not believe that calamity awaits the profligate.<br /><br /> There rests some forlorn but persistent hope that the Obama Socialised Medicine Initiative will wind up rolling-out with such a flop that the people will see it for the Edsel that it is and rise up as they did in 2010 and 1994....We simply must. Barring that, it is my serious task, already undertaken to prepare my way down at our little place and also to work for the removal of Texas from the American Union. Cruz said it best in San Antonio yesterday. "It is so good to have left Washington, D.C. and to be back in America again." This he spoke to a huge banquet room in a San Antonio Hotel after having received an 8 minute standing ovation from a standing room only crowd of about 500 invitees and banquet attendees.<br /><br />Off to sleep. You are a good man Mr. Mike Anderson. I shall dream of fighting the good fight and awaken to conduct the good fight on Monday. I shall re-direct the OROGs from my site to this to read the comments and ovservations of our host, and to appreciate the truth and wisdom in his words. Buenas Noches.<br />El Gringo ViejoDavid Christian Newtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02486433908063462273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-759178030677978044.post-70663376597516064952013-10-20T19:59:30.064-07:002013-10-20T19:59:30.064-07:00Our road to hell is paved with good intentions of ...Our road to hell is paved with good intentions of deficits. A government can’t step in to fix everything in the lives of a free people. It may hope to protect them from an invasion but not from a calorie. However appreciable its intentions, it can’t be like God; it doesn’t have unlimited supplies and resources, excluding its own self-righteousness. The scale of interest, today, in Man’s towering aspirations brings us back to even earlier in history ... Babel.<br />Mike Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12413346095428111799noreply@blogger.com