But the hard right, which still believes when the federal government moves -- [you] chop off its hands -- still believes, you know, traditional values kind of arguments and strong foreign policy... All that is over.
Don't believe it? Check it out:
http://townhall.com/blog/default.aspx?mode=post&g=1fb95cc0-e4b6-4f00-b476-d3470548056e&comments=true&submitted=true2465e073-c98f-462d-a3bc-243a40726ec1
I think it's also been posted on YouTube.
Hey, I thought that was my line, that "America is over." Only I don't say it with pleasure and a sense of satisfaction. And I'm usually a lot more articulate and precise.
I never did like Schumer. He usually has that same smirky-face thing going that Tom Daschle and Dick Durbin have, kind of a half-smile, and talk ver-y slow-ly and care-ful-ly, so the voters can grasp their lofty thoughts. I think Al Gore popularized this "American-voters-are-stupid-lumps" style of presention.
Funny though, none of these buttheads are smiling a whole lot anymore. The last time I saw a tape of Al Gore, he looked sort of apoplectic. All redfaced and puffy, like he was about to keel over, exhausted by his righteous passion. What a dope. Black baptist preachers are the only people who can get away with that kind of thing with any dignity.
So, has Schumer just spilled the beans, or what? Carrying tales from the closed Democrat committee meetings where they scribble out their 1,000-pages of unintelligible legislative proposals and scheme about how to shove them down the throats of the American public without anyone thinking about them.
Do they think we won't notice?
I think the Democrats are finding out that the American public is not quite as stupid or polite as the Republicans in congress. We will chop off the hands of government; I don't think the Republicans would. They're more likely to take it as "Well, you win some, you lose some." But this is not a fight that American citizens can afford to lose.
And here's an entirely new question, inspired by Congressman Bachman's putting the screws to Geithner in congressional hearings. She kept asking him (and I paraphrase): "Where in the Constitution do you find the authority to dictate to private businesses?'
He said, "Congress authorized it."
You know what? I don't believe Congress can authorize a transfer of power from the legislative to the executive branch. I think they'd have to amend the Constitution to do that.
But Congress does this all the time. Writes a vague and general bill [Everyone must eat popcorn on Friday nights], allocates some funding [$17 million], and then leaves all the rest of the details up to the president to figure out. [Hiring a Tactical Public Recreation Squad in black ski masks, equipping them with microwave ovens a trailer of Orville Redenbacker. They won't leave your living room until you've downed at least two handfuls.]
Anyway, Congress has to figure out the budget for whatever kind of silly crap they perpetrate upon us. All US spending has to start in the House of Reps.
I don't think TARP started in the House of Reps. I do believe it was Treasury who found these billions of dollars just laying out somewhere and decided to divide it up among the bankers. And that's not within the power of the Treasury, which is part of the executive branch.
No matter if it's constitutional or not, though, it's certainly socialist -- even fascist, lacking as it does even the pretense of democratic deliberation. It concentrates all that money and power to make decisions in the hands of a single individual who wasn't even elected.
That's not what our forefathers had in mind.
And the word "fascist" is interesting. One etymology traces it back to the Italian word for "fist."
That seems appropriate.
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