The Real Comeback Kid? Our Constitution
Despite the resurgent tingles up the legs of numerous liberal commentators — and even a smattering of conservative pundits — President Barack Obama is anything but a comeback kid. No amount of yelping among the ever-shrinking liberal ranks can make it so.
For the moment, there is only one genuine comeback kid on the American block: the U.S. Constitution. And the mighty resurgence of interest in that document, along with a new call for a return to constitutional fealty, is brought to us all by liberty guys and gals reincarnate: the Tea Parties.
Liberty’s spirit began to rise anew as an ultra-frustrated Rick Santelli issued an extemporaneous call on the floor of the New York stock exchange for modern Tea Parties. His rallying cry against the collectivist economic policies of the new administration was immediately dubbed “the shout heard ‘round the world.”
By spring of ’09, Santelli’s rhetorical call to arms had received its response: tax-day Tea Party rallies in 306 cities, drawing more than 250,000 Americans out of normative nonchalance and into the arena of patriotic protest.
The Tea Partiers were either ignored or scorned and mocked by mainstream media buffoons. But in less than two years, individual grassroots American citizens mounted the most formidable political movement seen in this country since the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Tea Party activists, once the collective butt of puerile, adolescent humor, are now honored guests in the media halls that first scorned them. Many members of Congress who arrogantly rebuffed Tea Partiers’ valid questions at summer townhalls now find themselves unemployed — grateful only that tar and feathers are no longer the tools of a disgruntled citizenry.
Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) will head the newly formed Tea Party Caucus in the House of Representatives. And the cry of the Tea Party Express these past two years — “Flip this House!” — has become a reality. But at the heart of all the national hoopla, in the bosom of every Tea Party protest, is our true comeback kid, the Constitution of the United States of America.
I’ve spent a great amount of time over the past 18 months among Tea Party activists, interviewing many. I’ve talked to Americans from different regions of the country — old and young, rich and poor, black and white, union and non-union. To be sure, there is among Tea Partiers a mountain of economic angst and disgust for both parties’ profligate ways. But the real glue that holds all these disparate folks together — the reason they will not just go away — is their bedrock respect for the Constitution.
It has not been lost on this monumental grassroots movement that lawmakers of both political parties have either ignored or defied constitutional limits on their powers for going on a century now. And for those taking to the streets in protest, our government’s growing tyranny is the primary driver of disgust. Suddenly, Americans are buying and carrying around pocket copies of the nation’s treasured document. All across the land, ordinary citizens are attending classes on the Constitution.
And, due entirely to all-American Tea Party activism, everyone who is anyone is talking and writing about the U.S. Constitution. One would need to be a ninny living under a big rock in the San Francisco Bay not to notice that on every network the Constitution has become the topic du jour. One would need blinders the size of Mount Rushmore not to see that Constitutional commentary has become downright ubiquitous in both the dead-tree media and the new media.
Reading the constitution in Congress is Lip service and serves only to dilute the document.
Only congress has the power to coin and regulate the value of money, since 1913 that responsibility has been given to a private central bank ( Federal Reserve). The Nations economic ill’s are traced back to allowing the same group that loans money to the US, also decide value of the currency…truly epic ignorance on global scale.
Reading the constitution……how about actually enforcing the Constitution.
Reading is the first step.
Actually, Congress has delegated – Constitutionally allowed – that power to the Fed by law. You may not agree with what they did, but its within their power to do it.
Dilute the document?? How can one dilute the doc which is the backbone of America?
The fact that Liberals moan and complain about this is absolute proof of their disdain for the Constitution, which is one of the reasons it shall be read!
Unbelievable, arrogant, full of self-importance…(running out of descriptors that aren’t profane)
You know, Alex I’ve heard that theory before, from wildly divergent sources. One is a conspiracy theorist who thinks that the Pentagon blew up the WTC on 9/11 and the other is an author well trained in the classics and graduate of St. John’s college, whose intellect I respect.
However, it has never been explained to me why the Fed is bad, what precisely is so magical about gold, nor why America;s greatest economic expansion has happened under the Fed. If it had been nothing but depressions since 1913, I could see an argument. But, it hasn’t. We’ve had the Roaring 20′s, the great economic expansion of the 1950s, early 1960′s, and again the 1980′s, 90′s and then American greatest econimic growth from 2002 to 2007. In fact, America’s economy grew more after the Fed was created than before. Same with standard of living. So could someone explain to me, how the Fed is responsible for everything that goes wrong in the American economy?
Mike, I’m currently reading “The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve,” by G. Edward Griffin. It is an AMAZING book in that it clearly explains many issues regarding the Federal Reserve, such as its origin, its purpose, how it affects our economy (and the world’s economy), why it is not a healthy (or constitutional) organization to have involved in our economy, etc.
One of many things that has struck me so far is that the Fed creates money from nothing, and loans it out (or banks loan it out, or the government to other governments). By creating this money, it causes inflation, which is really a hidden tax on Americans.
Another item that has amazed me is that, through these loans, many of which are not even expected to be paid back (such as those to third world countries, or banks that are bailed out…), the bankers (or whoever’s offering the loans) still receives the interest payments, knowing full well that the American taxpayer will repay the principle through a bailout. And, it is a way of “sharing the wealth” of our country by moving funds to other countries, not expecting it to be paid back, but by reaching into the taxpayers’ pockets to give that money overseas. The banks making the loans are not held responsible for making good loans (as we have all learned)–the taxpayer is.
The book is huge (600 pages), but the author writes the chapters in a way that you don’t have to read it chronologically, but can pick and choose the topic with which you’d like to start. And, each chapter begins with a very brief introduction of what will be covered, and then at the end has a summary of what has been covered in that chapter. So, you can skim the contents quickly by reading just those parts to get a brief overview. However, the body of the text is very interesting, and is extremely well documented with resources. I think you can even pull up a PDF version online.
“Hairmericans” save the Constitution and their country from the evil clutches of Sorge Goros and Nancy Poles-I-Dont-See in this hilarious new animated web movie A Not Too Grimm Fairy Tale… You’ll laugh your butt off as the truth about America is unveiled This movie gives American a new symbol (weapon) to use against Liberals — the “head-up-the-butt” person.
http://www.marcrubin.com/Hairmerica.ivnu
Dear Clarice,
First, a nit to pick – Mr. Santelli spoke from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Other than that, you are absolutely correct.
You mentioned the Civil Rights Movement. There were two other major populist movements in out history – Abolition and Prohibition. The prohibition thing came a cropper, the abolitionists precipitated the completion of the American promise.
I’ve been a political junkie for quite a while, ever since seeing Harry Truman on TV. I learned early on that, like stamp collecting, most folks don’t share my interest. That has changed! There’s got to be 5 to 10 times as many people interested than there were just 2 years ago. The newly awakened sure ain’t happy with the Dems. The Republicans are not beloved but they don’t scare folks as much.
I suspect that this revolution will happen a lot quicker than most folks anticipate. Although the Senate didn’t turn over the Reps actually had a slightly higher batting average in the Senate than in the House. The 23 Senate Democrats up in 2012 know that. With the defeats of folks like Feingold, Specter and Bennett of Utah they’re real nervous. Look for some real surprises in the upper house.
On a final note, I hope that some interest will be aroused in The Federalist Papers. Aside from being one of the finest bodies of literature ever produced they are the finest philosophical treatise of the last millennium. I try to get through them at least once a year.
Regards,
Roy
Roy,
I have a copy of the Federalist papers at work next to the phone most lunch breaks I will read a few pages or several “papers” what ever time allows.
While most “kids” would find this book “boring” they should be made to read it and test better than 70% on it in order to get out of school!
Right along with the Constitution!
Our Schools have conveniently forgotten to “teach” these things to the students. I got out of High School over 20 years ago and we were taught just the basics and no more back then. And after listening to many of today’s “younger” folks speak they have been taught even less! And in some case have been misled completely. Tine for that to change.
“The newly awakened sure ain’t happy with the Dems. The Republicans are not beloved but they don’t scare folks as much.”
You nailed it.
Those who disrespect and loathe the Constitution, and who would abandon it because they think they are wiser than the men who wrote it, are like those Europeans who are foraking the civilization and faith of Mozart and Shakespeare to become Muslim. Their sanity and or morality are questionable.
Dear Friends of the Constitution:
Understand that any person or any thing that is revered by Tea Party people will ultimately be attacked, slandered, and vilified by the MSM and liberals. So we take up the US Constitution and decide to read it today in the House, and just look at the media attack dogs going wild. It is fun to watch if it was not so pathetic.
I am a big fan of the US Constitution not because it says everything that I want to hear but rather that it provides a governing framework that has survived longer than any other constitution in history. I would not suggest that the Constitution itself is solely the cause of America rising to be the economic power that it is today. However it played a key role in allowing our freedoms to continue in the face of totalitarian facists control freaks like liberals who always drift to some form of command and control political model because they simply can’t trust mankind and the masses to do what they want.
We have listened for many years while politicians have ignored us and just rammed crap down our throats. We have waited while presidents have abused their powers and waged political war against it’s own citizens and in addition pitting one citizen against another. We have watched while the Suprreme Court and other courts and the laws of this land, are high jacked by liberal agendas and pushiing us to the brink of revolution with their high handed behavior. Well I see the tide is changing and true Americans are ready, willing, and able to take back the powers that they have loaned to all three branches of government.
We are beginnng a new era of freedom in America. Today everyone should take out their copy of the US Constitution and read it. By God it can and will save us from those people who purposefully undermine and subvert this great country and the great people who have defended it for over 200 years. You liberals just better get the hell out of the way. It is time for the adults to take over–Again!!
“During Ms. Pelosi’s rule as House Speaker, far more attention was paid to her San-Fran liberal dream-schemes than to the Constitution.”
I guess Pelosi, Reid, and Obama can take comfort in the fact that they set BACK the cause of far-left liberalism for about two or three generations of Americans. It will take a long, long, time for Americans to forget what these three thugs did to not only our country, but to the Constitution as well. And they also proved how determined the far left is to destroy and ignore the Constitution in order for them to get their way.
Don’t believe how much contempt Pelosi has for the Constitution? Always remember what she said to that reporter when he asked her if Obamacare was constitutional. She replied, “Are you kidding? Are you KIDDING?” That about sums up what she knows about the Constitution. She is the lowest form of life there is and certainly no defender of the oath she was required to take when she was elected to Congress. She is nothing but a spoiled brat who is accustomed to getting her way and would force the entire nation into bankruptcy if it ment following her political agenda. The Constitution was set up to protect us from megalomaniacs like that.
And guess what, Nancy? It has. That’s why you’re not speaker anymore. Deal with it, chump.
Democrats like Pelosi are tone-deaf to the wants and needs of the American people and to the rule of law.
Both parties ignore the rule of law. Millions of people entered this country illegally or stayed after their visa expired. They are allowed to simply stay here in violation of federal law, using false or stolen social security numbers for employment purposes.
Is it any wonder that these politicians ignore the US Constitution? Why is it a surprise?
Thanks for this essay. To history buffs, the re-awakening to why America has been the beacon of freedom for so long, its constitution defining a republic of sovereign states model, gives hope. History of democracies such as Rome proves that eventually people learn they can vote for entitlements from politicians bent on re-election and end up as dictatorships. Masters of this vote-buying scheme include FDR and LBJ. (“New Deal or Raw Deal” documents FDR’s use of this methodology for increasing his personal power. He even said social security was a permanent guarantee that this method worked.) The constitution limits such corruption to the state and local level.
For years, as few people voted or even wanted to know what was happening, I thought we were doomed to follow the old Utopian quest into bankruptcy and dictatorship.
There is a ray of hope, after all. We must keep the momentum going; it will be a long haul to scale back 100 years of ever-increasing and intrusive power in Washington, but we gain self-respect in the process.
100 years is a long time and D.C. has become what the History channel illustrates in their special “X- Years after Humans”. Vines and weeds growing everywhere, rodents and vermin infecting the capitol. The tea party has arrived with chainsaws, wood chippers, lopping shears, blowers, and D-Con.
This is going to take some time but I hope the effort will last longer than a couple of generations. The constitution is the Round-Up that can keep the vines of creeping socialism and marxism at bay. Informed and literate voters are the D-Con needed to prevent future infestations of our halls of government by rats and vermin. 2010 was the year the sleeves were rolled up. 2012 will be the year a flurry of activity surrounding our institutions gives us a glimpse into what the restored capitol may soon look like, and a restored sense of pride in the people at large. Heck, within a couple of years, congress may even poll higher than used-car salesmen.
Former Speaker Pelosi was nothing more than a parasite to the American People, as were most of those in the Demcoratic Party a parasite to us as well !! I suspect the American people do not have to fret over Demmocrats submitting any new legislation in the House anytime soon as they first would have to find their personal copy of the Constitution, then they would have to read it and understand just what is allows them as law makers can & can not do with respect to it’s restraints of imposing there will onto the American People so worry not of any Democrat writing any new legislation anytime soon and that my friends is a good thing !!!
Today will be a grand start though some will refer to it being nothing more than symbolic at best, but IMO the MSM, and Democrats across the nation still have not realize just what happened back on November 2, 2010 nor have they fully understood the will of the People will no longer be dismissed by narcissistic ideologues like Pelosi, Reid, Obama and the like and though it will take sometime to pull this Country together as one Nation Under God, Indivisible with Liberty and justice for all !!!
It has been along time coming, and starting today I urge all those who have Children who may be old enough to understand whats about to happen today to allow your kids to stay home to witness history in the making, this doesn’t happen every day and it’s something worth allowing your Children to witness instead of reading in a History book sometime later in life.
Article II Section 4, Issa do some good.
Nice picture of a woman in the act of going through a nasty divorce with a document and it’s supporters.
Lying, cheating, stealing, and running up the credit cards before the divorce is final.
I hope there’s a camera trained on every democrat recording every grimace, wince, and snore all throughout the entire reading.
If not the Constitution, then what is the basis of the country? Pelosi’s whim, Obama’s manias, this judge or that judge’s opinion today or tomorrow.
It’s not so much that it’s a brilliant framework than that it IS a framework. Even if it contained a ton of stupid stuff, it would still be the cornerstone of the country.
But the leftists don’t want there to be ANY cornerstone, other than the siren song they are singing at the moment. Particularly one that favors limited government rather than unlimited government. Leftists don’t want any limits on their power.
The reason the United States has been able to increase the wealth of THE WORLD a hundredfold is because we have a set of written principles that establish the boundaries of what government can do. The reason that we have fallen so far so fast is that leftists have schemed for decades to undermine those principles, and have succeeded in doing so in great measure.
To reinforce those principles as step 0 of the great reclamation project is brilliant. The Republicans have made a lot of idiotic mistakes, but this one is highly symbolic that, as a group at least, they understand what needs to be done.
Now they need to do it.
The work of American Citizens is just beginning. It was these citizens that allowed, even praised. some of the more egregious theft of their Rights, e.g. political correctness and the race and gender amendments. Had they done their job as citizen they would have known that these were NOT necessary as BOTH are implicit in the Constitutional Equality of EACH CITIZEN under the Law of the United States They allowed themselves to be gulled, without protest by lawyers with their interested reading of the Constitution, and mis-use of words, who then stole Rights from unsuspectging citizens. With additional work for lawyers in defending interested citizens from the abrogations of their rights. Still doing it as shown by the re-election of Pelosi and Reid, among others who showed just how much they despise American citizens.
Some of the more aggressive thieves were some of the “stars” of the political theatre, e.g. ALL the Kennedys, the Clintons, and of course Obama and his praetorians Pelosi and Reid. The other cast members were those Congressmen and Senators who permitted, and allied with these thefts.
ETERNAL VIGILANCE must be the script. As delightful as a New Congress is, mustn’t forget that power is a tempting beast. To save the new Congressmen from temptations, they must be watched continuously, and aided to do the “right thing”. Pun intended.
If not the Constitution, then what is the basis of the country? Pelosi’s whim, Obama’s manias, this judge or that judge’s opinion today or tomorrow.
It’s sad and scary for this old veteran to admit but our Constitution only means what 5 Supreme Court justices say it means. They’re free to make up their rulings out of whole cloth or to cherry-pick foreign law if that’s what they want to do and there’s nothing we can do about it.
Elected officials like the president and members of Congress take an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. I, like the millions of veterans before and after me, have taken a similar oath. Only, unlike all too many of the elected officials, we actually meant what we said.
I favor a Constitutional amendment that would make it easier (not easy, easier) to remove federal justices, including Supreme Court justices, not just for bad behaviour or crimes but because they have grossly violated the will of the people.
The conventional argument is to beware of unintended consequences.
My response to that is: what unintended consequences could possibly be worse than what has happened because it is nearly impossible to get rid of them?
The Founders knew that the people could be passionate and that passions would change, sometimes fairly quickly. History has certainly proven them correct. The lifetime tenure for Supreme Court members was a check upon the temporal nature of those pitchfork or palatial passions. Remember FDR and his threat to pack the court? He would have heartily agreed with your proposal. The Founders, not so much, except when they became Presidents and clashed with the Judiciary.
Jefferson had already declared Burr guilty of treason and the country agreed, so how dare Marshall rule otherwise, based on a technicality OF THE WORDS OF THE CONSTITUTION, its definition of treason rather than using the British Common Law definition which Jefferson wanted? The pitchfork folks would certainly have voted Marshall out in a heartbeat.
My reading of the current furor is that the many of the current “Constitutionalists” especially the recent converts, will support its resurrection as long as it appears to be achieving their political ends. When something happens to demonstrate that the Constitution will NOT lead to the end they desire, they will simply move in a different direction.
At any rate, I look forward to many discussions of the Constitution over the next year.
Well if new amendment proposals are proof positive that people only defend of the constitution when it agrees with themselves and that any disagreement is surely due to fits of “passion”, then the only conclusion is that all the amendments should be done away with entirely, right Dwight? That is basically what you are proposing. After all, all 27 amendments were passed in fits of passion.
But back to the main point, anyone who thinks that the intent of the framers was for Supreme Court justices to be independent legislators seriously misunderstands the basis of this country. The fact that they have become so is one of the biggest problems the country has.
“Article III
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Section 2. The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;–to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;–to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;–to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;–to Controversies between two or more States;–between a State and Citizens of another State;–between Citizens of different States;–between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects. ”
How that permits the Supreme Court to legislate a “right” to abortion, to cite one obvious example, is beyond understanding. But the problem goes far far beyond that one egregious example. The Supreme Court observes NO LIMITS whatsoever on its power. What a travesty of justice it has become.
Kyle-Anne, Honey, I just love your stuff. This was a great article. I just can’t understand how anyone who understands the Constitution could possibly reelect Pete Stark.
So glad to see you here, Dr. Dave!
Darlin’ the truth is no one who voted for Pete Stark has read, much less understood the constitution! Those would all be Californian Democrats and as every real American knows, most of California’s Democrats believe our guiding document is the Communist Manifesto…not the U.S. Constitution.
What a bunch of nitwit poppycock-peddlers those people are.
The Congress, those who understand the U.S. Constitution, must dedicate their efforts in the name of the document and all legislation must pass muster based on the Constitution as the template. This could only mean that monstrosities called health-care reform and finance reform would be but a few pages and therefore not worth passing in the final analysis. The more time progressives have to spend trying shoe horn their ideas into the Constitution, the less they will be able to foist on us.
On the other hand, there can be no Constitutional challenge to the simple idea of reducing spending, cutting taxes and restoring individual liberties.
The simple ideas should be the easiest to pass.
Kyle-Anne, never in the course of our history as a nation have we been presented with a clearer choice.
Preserve, protect and defend our system of self-governance and the document upon which its liberties flow or tear down the system, and debase, ridicule and deride that document as inferior, useless and unworthy.
It all depends upon whether you view this nation as wonderful and exceptional at its core or whether you view this nation as tainted, grimy, mean and in need of replacement and overhaul.
The Constitution and our flag are symbols of unity and greatness or the “wrong kind of patriotism”.
The Pledge of Allegiance is a civic duty and a source of pride or it is an anachronism in which neither “God” nor “country” are anything but bumpkin-clinging concepts of mouth-breathing Neanderthals.
Nancy Pelosi is a San Francisco warrior in the tear down the system camp. She believes she was “productive” and she was…if you are in the camp of those who wish to destroy, deride and debase “Americanism”.
She is right, if you believe that “capitalism” equates to greed, racism, homophobia, gender discrimination and religious persecution of those outside of our Judeo-Christian heritage.
The extreme radical leftism that marked the past four years of Congress, the past two years in the Oval Office and is the hallmark of the NYTimes, Newsweek, MSNBC, Hollywood and academia…declared war on the Constitution and all the “rubes” who have the silly notion that it means something.
This Constitution thing, that is 100 years old (or so I hear from the geniuses in the lapdog media) and so boring and hard to read, …is in the way. Just ask the oracle of wisdom, Joy Behar.
It’s a trifling thing. Just like the truth. We need only know what “outcome” is important, the facts and truth of matters are just likely to confuse us poor slobs.
So, forgive me if I think that reading the lines written in that document take second place to the reading between the lines of the choice before us this very day. We either have something worth preserving or we have something unworthy that needs to be torn down.
The media, Hollywood, academia and now, the overwhelming majority of the Democratic party have made their choice known.
Are the rest of us willing to do the same?
The Constitution and our flag are symbols of unity and greatness or the “wrong kind of patriotism”.
Unless you agree (and support)the socialist, Anti-American, Leftist agenda of the present powers that be… then yes you are professing ‘the wrong kind of patriotism.
It is so frustrating that too many of the last two generations of now young adults have been so indoctrinated by the radicals of the 60′s. Those of 60′s who could not ‘make it’ in the ‘real world’ and chose the path of Academia, many are now are teaching our children… how very sad. Now somehow we need to de-program them…
A good site to browse is a sight called zombietime.com A lot of the photos are from CA. A lot of protest pics are students from the most ‘liberal left’ college in the land – Berkely. Compare the two – Liberal Protest and Tea Party Righty protests, who appears to be more sane? I ask because the Liberals say Conservatives (Tea Party Righties are ‘crazy’) judging by their ‘protests’ HuH?
Three things have done tremendous damage to subvert the constitution: 1.) Having senators elected directly by the people rather than by the legislatures of the state they represent; 2.) The delegation of mixed powers to agencies created by Congress wherein the agency holds executive, quasi-judicial powers, and rule making authority; and 3.) federal revenue sharing.
Senators used to look to the states as their constituents, not the voters of their state. As such, states retained more power in the federal scheme of things, thus offering an additional check to other concentrated federal power centers.
The subversion of checks and balances by delegating mixed powers to agencies is best thought of in terms of the Walt Disney interpretation of the symphonic piece, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. When in that cartoon, the Master gave Mickey Mouse, the apprentice, the magic wand, a few incantations, a recipe book, and responsibility over the shop while the Master went away for a brief time, all Hell broke loose. When Mickey Mouse tried to stop the water hauling broomsticks by chopping them in two, more broomsticks arose to add more and more water to the flood. Allegorically, think of the flood waters being the flood of federal regulation over our lives.
The final matter, federal revenue sharing has corrupted the citizenry, their towns, municipalities, and their states. Even as the federal government picks pockets locally, the people and the local and state politicians thinks of money from Washington as “free money”. And, the way programs are set up, if you don’t take the “free” money from Washington, it will simply be sent to others states who are more willing to be corrupted.
Solving these three structural defects of our federal government and you will easily see a rebirth of liberty and prosperity in our land.
God save our Republic.
And in the end, Yen Sid had to fix Mickey’s mess himself, because even though Mickey knew he had screwed up royally, he didn’t have a clue how to fix it. Interpret that as you please.
You do a reasonable job of describing where we are. I can see that in the unlikely event that we would reverse all of the above that our liberty would increase. But unless we find workers to work as hard as the Chinese…at Chinese wages, where in heaven or hell is the promised prosperity coming from?
I went to the Tea Party march in Washington DC 9/12/09. I went because I love my Country and felt a profound ‘need’ to go. I was scared too of the political movement I saw encroaching on our Government by the people who now held the ‘power’. I kept having a sick feeling in my stomach and a sense of hopelessness about the direction we were going as Country…I never went to a march or protest in my life. I listened to those who probably knew more than I at the time and I learned even more.
I did not know what to expect that day. I figured a couple of hundred people my husband and myself included. When we went to the meeting place, Freedom Square in Washington DC. I was blown away ! There were ‘already’ hundreds of people there and more kept coming. As we marched, if you turned to look back there were people as far as the eye could see…
People kept coming, from every state on their ‘OWN DIME’ – because they love their Country, their Constitution, Liberty (Truth) and their FREEDOM! Those who could not make it that infamous day we knew were there in Spirit!
I never felt more proud that day! To march with so many thousands of fellow Patriots! I regained my sense of hope. I said to my husband I hope this is just a beginning and this keeps up…because we need to let our Government and the world know Americans will not be tread on…the ‘Sleeping Giant’ has truly awakened….
Thank God for the Tea Party and those who stand up for our counties most sacred Document – The Constitution… It has been more than worth all the (false) ‘labels’ that have been attached to the Tea Party by those who have tyranny on their minds…
I continue to participate and support the Tea Party…contrary to Leftist belief, anyone who believes in what true Americanism is, and what our Constitution stands for is more than welcomed to participate as well…
I read the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and the Priciples of Liberty before going to work at the hospital today. What a great day to be an Ohioan and American. Got all of the above in at the Tea Party on 9/12 in DC! I ditto your comment FAITH7…God Bless America and you Kyle~Anne. Maybe we’re finally getting somewhere. (Typing this at work (couldn’t wait) haven’t read your article yet;) Oh btw,I printed and passed out the Principles of Liberty to fellow nurses and docs! Happy Holy Epiphany Day!
“President Barack Obama is anything but a comeback kid.”
WRONG. He goes to Hawaii, he comes back. He goes to Martha’s Vineyard, he comes back. He goes to [Europe, Egypt, Spain], and he always comes back …
Where’s the Bermuda Triange when we really, really need it?!
Literally LOL!
Anon is me. Great article. I’m home:)
And so is America. It’s a new day:)
To your comment that the Tea Party Reps are now “honoured guests” on establishment media venues. The very same media hosts / “comedians” that outdid themselves in ever escalating maleficent and malicious lies / libels and slanders again and again against those very representatives. Is all then forgiven by those who were vilified.
WHY would any SELF RESPECTING American give a toss what these establishment media personnel/stars think or do? How damaged in self-respect do people have to be to agree to make nice, to kow-tow publicly to their declared enemies. Especially when the Tea Party with its support from “ordinary” Americans is gaining ground.
As long as establishment Media have ANY influence on the public discourse were it not more strategic to ignore them. Or comment in those New Media outsiders and pioneers, with the truths of America,her history and national behavior’s to counter the lies and slanders. Better to allow the established media “stars” to continue their superior sneering without the vulgar, stupid, racist, sexist, bullying Americans as guest or audience and bankrollers / advertisers for their lies. Is appearing on “major” TV really so important in today’s world with so many other public forums?
The establishment media HAVE HAD THEIR DAY in the sun. They have done enough damage. Interested in CHANGE as they are, it’s long overdue time for them to hang up their boots and ride into the sunset..
Just to follow up, the bipartisan reading of the Constitution in the House yesterday was troubling at one moment, when a representative accidentally turned two pages of the text instead of one page. Skipped over was Article IV, section 4, that any American concerned about the flood of illegals into our country knows of. It was read into the record later when the mistake was noticed.
Why is it that I know my Constitution better than my reps? I would have noticed the omission immediately, and called it to attention.
Try that same question for the establishment Media “stars” AND for the “representatives of the People” bound on oath to “Uphold and Defend” that LAW as documented and witness to the intention of the founders. The Constitution has not yet been declared invalid by the Legislature,Judiciary etc.
Much easier to simply ignore it and CHANGE it without due process, Process detailed in the document. The answer to your question is in the question, AND the reasons we have this mess on our hands.
When the ordinary citizens know the Law of the Land better than the Legislators, Judiciary and Executive. You notice these are “educated” persons. And that many of them if not actually most are “lawyers”.
If Congressmen/Senators do not have the Constitution inscribed in their minds/memories, what value is the oath they take on accepting the privilege of representation? No surprise then their infidelity to their oath throughout living memory.