It would seem we have a congress that is completely impotent. Several congressmen have demanded in writing responses to legal issues from the president as well as others and today they have recevied no information back. They simply ignored as though they don't matter, and it may be that they don't matter.
The most recent example of this is the congressional oversight to try to determine the extent of Justice Kagan's involvement in the Obama healthcare plan and defense. 49 congressmen filed a freedom of information act for the emails from Kagan's office while she was Solicitor General. They didn't get everything they wanted, and before they could get more the DOJ was instructed to not give them anymore information. This means 2 things. First the freedom of information act is meaningless. You are not free to get information about the government that is supposed to be serving you.
It would seem that almost everyone feels free now to ignore the congress. If they demand something, it means nothing to congress unless they're dealing with some of the little people like us. Where the other Elites are concerned however, the congress is at the bottom of the totem pole.
The congress and most especially the republicans seem afraid to do anything that will rock the boat. They are more concerned with looking good then doing the right thing. They must know if they don't uncover this information about Kagan they will not be able to demand she recuse herself on any cases regarding health care. It is certain that Obama is counting on this so the deck will be stacked in favor of the Health care plan. If she isn't able to cast her vote it may mean that things go against the administration. The administration is not about to let that happen no matter what they have to do.
First they pass a law they know is unconstitutional and then get a Judge in place who most likely has ties and leanings toward communism and not the constitution. Even on these matters she was hard to nail down and again the congress fell down on their job. Though the citizens have a right to hold unconstitutional views and question the government, those that serve the constitution are required by their oath to uphold the constitution whether they like it or not.
The left/extremists/communists have become incredibly bold and aggressive in their agenda and the right has continually backed off. They behave as though they'll be able to get things back the way they were once they're in power, but they've already demonstrated that they don't mind if things go down this path in the first place. At best we can hope for little more than that they will try to change or amend the laws a little, but they will not get rid of them. If this law does pass th supreme court there will be no more discussion about it for many years to come just like Social Security.
The problem with the reasoning is that once something is declared constitutional it is assumed that getting rid of it would be unconstitutional, but this is not at necessarily the case. It may be constitutional for the government to give people welfare, but that doesn't mean removing welfare would be violating anyones constitutional rights. Both would be constitutional.
In my opinion all this shows is that the government shouldn't be involved with it in the first place. The constitution does a very good job of clearly defining the limits of the federal government and the states. Did the founders get it completely right? I believe there is little doubt that there were other things that needed to be done, but that is why we have the amendment process. The constitution wasn't meant to be changed on a whim. By choosing to simply ignore the limits placed on the government by the constitution we are grave danger of ending up with tyranny.
It is clear that tyranny can come from either of two quarters. When some individual or small group begins to demand freedoms and rights that are not actually granted by our creator we end up with the tyranny of the immoral. These people insist the government should have no power at all. It is clear that our founders understood that any people needs a good government if they are to live in peace and security. At the same time our founders understood that when a government grows too large it becomes possible for the government to become the tyranny the people so feared.
We did not go to war with England over a whim. It was not something that was rushed into. It is not something where the people of America woke up one morning and said lets have a revolution just so we can rule ourselves.
Our founders spend a lot of time pleading with England. Unfortunately England only increased the pressure all the more, the more the people pleaded with them.
We have a congress who bows to the president on almost everything for fear of the ever present politically correct rhetoric that they are being racist simply because they disagree with a black man.
Are we not allowed to disagree with any person of color either on political, cultural or religious views without being called racists. Do people who believe this realize that they are saying that people of color must always be right.
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