Krauthammer, on “Constitutionalism”:
Americans are in the midst of a great national debate over the power, scope and reach of the government established by that document. The debate was sparked by the current administration’s bold push for government expansion – a massive fiscal stimulus, Obamacare, financial regulation and various attempts at controlling the energy economy. This engendered a popular reaction, identified with the Tea Party but in reality far more widespread, calling for a more restrictive vision of government more consistent with the Founders’ intent.
Music to my ears, if it catches on.
So, then. My work here is done. MIMOSAS FOR EVERYONE! / I’M GOING TO DISNEYLAND!
Actually, I’m going downtown with my wife for lunch. Which is similar, while being more fiscally responsible.
Take care while I’m gone, all!
hopefully you’re mimosas are stronger than the one I had Saturday. not even fizzy.
MIMOSAS FOR EVERYONE!
Make mine a double.
Because, check it out, Glenn Beck was DEAD WRONG on something this morning, and I told him so (via Twitter and also The Feed), but did he listen? No!
He was upset that when congress read the Constitution this week, they left out the 3/5 clause and Prohibition, and attributed that omission to “political expediency,” and put it in the same category as the Huck Finn n-word censorship. He wanted them to leave those parts in as “teaching moments,” so that people, hearing the 3/5 clause, will wonder WTF and then maybe find out what the deal was. As if the purpose of reading the Constitution were a history lesson.
NO GLENN, THEY LEFT OUT ALL THE PARTS THAT HAVE BEEN REPEALED BECAUSE THEY WERE REMINDING CONGRESS OF THEIR CURRENT DUTY.
Like I said, he didn’t listen to ME, and THAT truly signals the end of Western Civilization.
But I was told there was an LDS intra-net where you could get him on the blower directly dicentra! :)
That’s the last time I get my TRVTH from the internet.
And seriously, I’m surprised to hear that Glenn Beck was in agreement with the NYTimes on this matter.
I agree with your position, myself.
I have to ask whether their reading included the 18th Amendment, which was entirely repealed by the 21st, according to that same logic…
I’M GOING TO DISNEYLAND!
Balls of Fire. Great line.
Drumwaster: Yes, they left out anything that has been repealed, not just the stuff I mentioned.
I’m surprised to hear that Glenn Beck was in agreement with the NYTimes on this matter.
He’s just connecting a couple of dots, as is his wont, and this time one of the dots ain’t what he thought it was.
A radio personality reacting viscerally to a news story? THE DEVIL, YOU SAY!
But I was told there was an LDS intranet where you could get him on the blower directly dicentra! :)
No, no. That’s used by our leadership to pull the levers of those LDS who have infiltrated the highest levels of government throughout the world. A mere peon such as I doesn’t have access.
Peter Berkowitz, who wrote that great piece about Obama and the State of Progressivism not so long ago has a post on What Would a Return to the Constitution Entail?.
This is the one you mean I assume. The New Progressivism: Same as the Old Progressivism?
This one geoffb, though I wouldn’t disinclude that one either.
Thank you.
Good work, you stud.
Intentionalism just lost ground to the idiots trying to tie SarahPAC’s “crosshairs” targeting (gasp!) certain Democrat Congressmen (including Giffords!!) as evidence that Sarah is personally responsible for the shootings.
Surely it didn’t Monster, for how could it lose what it had never gained in the case of such stupid people?
I think the number of Team Rs what will rush to defend Sarah will be vanishingly small. They’re very frightened. If their cancellation of their health care repeal vote means anything it speaks of an abiding timorousness.
Team R’s been looking for a reason to throw her under the bus anyways. I think they just found it.
“Never mind that the person who allegedly shot Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and murdered several others, Jared Loughner, is reportedly a marijuana-using loner who lists the Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf as among his favorite books, or that the most recent items which could bee seen as potential incitements to violence against Giffords have come from the left, in response to her refusal to back Nancy Pelosi for Minority Leader in the House just days ago.”
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2011/01/08/ap-determined-pin-giffords-shooting-multiple-murders-right-ignores-lefis
That’s seems like a ridiculous reading of the mood happyfeet. Why wouldn’t you attribute the cancellation to a gesture of their respect for their colleague and her circumstances, as yet unknown, rather than to fear?
They just found it, ‘feets?
You’re weird. No they didn’t just find a reason to toss Sarah under a buss. . I can’t link with this Droid, so go look at Volokh where you’ll find a post linking a friend of this crazy shooter’s twitter feed. Seems he’s not a Palin friend.
I’ll bet he supports gay marriage and owns a.donut shop.
Maybe. But I think they’re driven more by fear of looking disrespectful than by respect. The health care repeal vote is now linked with the shooting. That’s creepy how that happened.
here’s the Volokh link
“The health care repeal vote is now linked with the shooting. ”
effin’ 1/8/11 is linked to the shooting you idiot cupcake. O!’s linked to the shooting. the ocean is linked to the shooting.
I understand that you’ve a low opinion of the Republicans in DC generically speaking, and to the extent that they’ve disappointed us all, you, me, everybody here, the country even, we’ve a just cause to be angry with them.
But here, when one of their own colleagues was the victim of an attempted murder by a deranged man — a colleague who so far as I can see is a lovely person, and one liked by every Republican I’ve heard speak about her — it makes no sense to me to fault the Republican leadership for calling a halt to a symbolic vote that has no pressing necessity behind it in the first place.
Think what that leadership, of the whole House now, and not just of the party, is hearing from their fellows across the aisle, or for that matter, from every delegate from the State of Arizona. They may all be insisting that they be given time to go home to visit Rep. Giffords or her family. Surely they are concerned that their own schedules will be disrupted. Decency rightly demands things that can be delayed should be delayed.
You’re probably right that I’m letting my disdain for the congress get the better of me. Interesting that the health care repeal bill has “killing” in the title, no?
Heh, yeah, making the Democrats deranged guntoting job-shooters in the retrospect, no?
“it makes no sense to me to fault the Republican leadership for calling a halt to a symbolic vote that has no pressing necessity behind it in the first place. ”
that’s dysfunctional. give regards to victim and then move on. i don’t want to be in a fox hole with you.
I say, if the psychotic shoe fits, make ’em wear it.
Right back attcha buddy.
where’s the meme that says ” kos kills people”?
“Right back attcha buddy.”
yea 1 member of your group of 435 get’s shot attacking a position and you want to have a counseling session. nice.
Targeting, Right and Left.
Krugman is his usual quiet, contemplative, rational self.
Mr. newrouter I think Mr. sdferr makes two very strong points in particular. This lady was very well-liked by her colleagues. And the Arizona delegation for sure and maybe many others will have to attend funerals and such. And looking at things now it was the Reuters reporter what linked the delay specifically to the health care bill, not the Team R leadership.
I didn’t say anything about a counseling session newrouter, so why would you make that up? Have you never lost a friend or near acquaintance to sudden death? Have you no sense of the fellow feeling that grips one in such a circumstance?
“Decency rightly demands things that can be delayed should be delayed.”
why. are bills not to be paid? why not stop the country’s business for every car accident? are these folks worth less? sorry about gabby and her encounter with a delusional leftist but life goes on.
It is only common decency to take a few days off for this event. And as a plus, the Left jumped the shark, very publicly. No sense doing anything to give them cover. Let them have their words float out there for awhile.
Is that an example of something that can be delayed? Or are you just stupid?
“Have you no sense of the fellow feeling that grips one in such a circumstance?”
sure but her vote is 1/435 so it doesn’t mean much in the great scheme of things. wish her a speedy recovery. but the country can not stand still for her.
“Or are you just stupid?”
no the debt clock is still ticking. this needs to be done. i don’t give O! any excuse to meet his judgment day.
No one said the country should stand still. Nor will it.
Further, it isn’t a question of her vote for cryin’ out loud, so why bring it up?
Again, people in Congress may do bad things in their roles as legislators, but in the final analysis they are still people, and as such due any and all the respect we would give to our neighbors and friends in circumstances like this.
the bond markets are looking at this little gambit by the left to get a psycho to shoot a demonrat with interest.
“Further, it isn’t a question of her vote for cryin’ out loud, so why bring it up? ”
then don’t delay anything. make a remark about it by the speaker then move on about the business of the country. look these leftist goons will use ANY excuse to slow down what was won in november.
So if Congress is not in session the country will stand still? The oligarchy variation on the Great Leader as God theory of the Left? Really.
If it happens again and then again then there is a plan behind it. This is the happenstance one.
“So if Congress is not in session the country will stand still? ”
yep as far as a business or an entrepreneur is concerned. repealing O! care is big.
And no one here has said “It isn’t.”
C’mon.
We know the symbolic value of the measure. We also know that the votes in the House will still be there when it’s taken up a week or so from the date on which it was scheduled to be taken up. We also know that it most likely won’t pass the Senate, and we for damn sure know Obama will veto it if it does pass the Senate; we know as well the requisite votes to over-ride his veto aren’t there.
So, what is it about this chain of impending events that you don’t understand?
Then we shall be still for the next two years since the House by its lonesome cannot repeal Obamacare. They can only pass a repeal bill that makes the Left defend it, over and over it is to be hoped.
This event is already playing out to the detriment of the radical left. Their insanity is pouring out from behind their mask. Let it play out. Time enough to pass the repeal bill next week.
Yes, that. Regardless of the letter after her name. she seems like exactly what we ought to expect of our Congresscritters and she was shot while doing exactly what she should have been doing.
This is a very sad day, and I’m not about to question the fact that her colleagues are moved to deference.
what’s happened is Team R is letting the delay be wholly defined by the health care repeal and letting the media link that with the political violence … that’s a suboptimal state of affairs I think.
“So, what is it about this chain of impending events that you don’t understand?”
why let the communists control the narrative by freely giving up our power to shape it?
“I’m not about to question the fact that her colleagues are moved to deference.”
no the speaker of the house did this. he and his cronies should have waited til monday to let the dust settle. too stupid on their part.