One again, here are the Republican Senators, a few of whom will now vote against the final bill (hoping we’ll fall for their gambit), who voted to sell out the American people — wages will be depressed, the Black community will see even greater unemployment, and certain red states will have been demographically manipulated to go blue as a result of this, ensuring a bigger federal government and a more entrenched and bloated perpetual welfare/Democrat client state — in order to please corporate interests and GOP establishment money men, be they from the Wall Street Journal or the Chamber of Commerce.
McCain
Graham
Rubio
Flake
Ayotte
Alexander
Corker
Hoeven
Chiesa
Wicker
Heller
Kirk
Murkowski
Hatch
I consider their vote an affront to the separation of powers, an affront to the Constitution, an affront to representative government, and an affront to the spirit of law, equally applied, that is the lynchpin of a constitutional republic.
I wish there were some method for removing elected representatives who lied in order to get elected. But that would mean ridding ourselves of most of them.
Which may not be such a bad idea — at least until we can figure out how to fix the broken system. And that will involve a resurgence of Governors, state nullification, refusal to abide by SCOTUS decisions that are facially unconstitutional (by violating the 9th and 10th amendments, and by granting the federal government powers not expressly enumerated).
We live in a post-constitutional police state. The establishment, safe in their gated communities, with their children in private schools, sneer at us.
But that is only because we, the people, have allowed them to.
It doesn’t have to be that way.
Beat Lamar.
We have Paul Ryan and John Boehner to do the right thing…oh shit, we are so fucked.
We’re going to have to destroy the GOP in order to save it. No, wait: In order to save ourselves.
Good recovery, Bill. I see no reason to save the Go-along Oligarch Party. Treat it like Mitt “It’s His Turn” Romney wanted to treat Obamacare: Repeal and Replace. For the irony.
Since there’s very little difference between the Dems and Repubs, I say we form a second party.
Also…
Refugium inveniemus in provinciis
[Find refuge in the provinces]
And that will involve a resurgence of Governors, state nullification, refusal to abide by SCOTUS decisions that are facially unconstitutional (by violating the 9th and 10th amendments, and by granting the federal government powers not expressly enumerated).
This needs to be set to some kind of religious music. Crescendoing with the whole SCOTUS part.
This needs to be set to some kind of religious music.
Oh, it has been. See for instance Randall Thompson’s Testament of Freedom, for one setting among many others.
I wish I were surprised to see Hatch’s name there but I’m not.
The man is second only to McCain/Graham (the same-sex senators) in venality.
No, Hatch has a way to go to catch Murkowksi.
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