For 6 years Barack
Obama in word and deed has battered the Constitution and slapped around the
Republicans. Abetted by his Luca Brasi, Harry Reid, he has run roughshod over
the separation of powers and his own oath to the highest law in the land. He
has responded to Republicans’ complaints about his executive arrogance and
unlawful policies with naked contempt and partisan calumny. With his minions in
the press and the Democratic Party, he has vilified conservatives as racist
warmongers and plutocrats indifferent to the plight of the poor. But instead of
fighting back in kind, some Republicans have bent over backwards just to get
along, a capitulation disguised as “bipartisanship.”.......
George Mason,
arguing against the idea that the Senate should originate money bills, said,
“Should the [Senate] have the power of giving away the people’s money, they
might soon forget the Source from whence they received it. We might soon have
an aristocracy.” Benjamin Franklin agreed: “It was always of importance that
the people should know who had disposed of their money, and how it was disposed
of.” Whether by an oligarchic Senate or an imperial president, the unbalancing
of the Constitutional order could be prevented simply by cutting off the
government’s money.…..To Read More….
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