Letter sent to Harry Reid by the wacko birds, et al.:
Senator Harry Reid
Majority Leader
S-221, The Capitol
Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Leader Reid:
We write to express our alarm with President Obama’s announced intention to take unilateral executive action by the end of this year to lawlessly grant amnesty to immigrants who have entered the country illegally. The Supreme Court has recognized that “over no conceivable subject is the power of Congress more complete” than its power over immigration. Therefore, President Obama will be exercising powers properly belonging to Congress if he makes good on his threat. This will create a constitutional crisis that demands action by Congress to restore the separation of powers.
As majority leader of the Senate, you have the responsibility of not only representing the voters of your State, but also of protecting the Constitution through vigilant exercise of the checks and balances provided under the Constitution. Therefore, we write to offer our full assistance in ensuring expeditious Senate debate and passage for a measure that preserves the power of Congress by blocking any action the President may take to violate the Constitution and unilaterally grant amnesty; however, should you decline to defend the Senate and the Constitution from executive overreach, the undersigned Senators will use all procedural means necessary to return the Senate's focus during the lame duck session to resolving the constitutional crisis created by President Obama's lawless amnesty.
Sincerely,
Ted Cruz (R-Texas)
David Vitter (R-La.)
Mike Crapo (R-Idaho)
Mike Lee (R-Utah)
Pat Roberts (R-Kan.)
Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.)
So confrontational! So non-deferential. So demanding — as if the American people gave them some mandate or some such. Don’t they know how the game is played? You make promises to the rubes during election season; once you win, you roll-back promises on, say, repeal and replace, and you declare unilaterally that you will surrender the power of the purse to the Executive by taking governmental shut down off the table and by promoting left wing talking points about not “defaulting on the national debt”. That’s how you get to be a party leader. That, and helping pass an omnibus spending bill right after the people you claim to represent dragged you over the finish line as a last desperate attempt to keep the republic from going under. It’s all about positioning at the table, committee chairmanships, bigger offices, and better circumstances for your favorite cronies.
Christ. When will these people ever learn that there’s no place in politics for principle. That if they aren’t participating in the pantomime they are a bad tooth that must be extracted and disposed of.
Frankly, it’s getting tired.
Therefore, we write to offer our full assistance in ensuring expeditious Senate debate and passage for a measure that preserves the power of Congress by blocking any action the President may take to violate the Constitution
Beautiful.
I recently heard a lecture by some former GOP congresscritter who made a great point about political parties being the primary threat to the separation of powers. Because we have parties, Reid & Obama are on the same team, whereas the Constitution intends them not to be.
He also pointed out the straitjacketing effect that the two-party system has on congressmen, in that they have to select only items in Column D or Column R, not pick and choose as their principles dictate.
Parties are mostly fund-raising apparatuses anyway. We’d be better off if the parties were abolished and outlawed, leaving only single-issue PACs and similar advocacy groups. A candidate could court each group as s/he saw fit, and the voters could likewise weigh the candidates’ positions individually.
Of course, given the Total Gubmint No Gubmint continuum and the leftward ratchet effect, candidates would probably coalesce around two poles, each pulling in opposite directions.
Which, given the proclivities of some in the GOP, a helluva lot more of them would end up siding with current Dems rather than pretending to be their opponents.
Given the character-enervating effects of prolonged peace & prosperity, political careerism, sociopaths abounding, and the corruption of the demos, we’re pretty much screwed no matter how we arrange the deck chairs.
That was supposed to be Total Gubmint < —- > No Gubmint but I forgot my HTML-fu.
Maybe, Di, you have a touch of the fu?