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The Reign Of Morons Is Here

With each State making all the decisions you would have nothing but a bureaucracy of conflicting laws and regulations that rival a communist State. There would be NO reason to call this the United States because in your fantasy there would be nothing united about it. You forget that at the beginning the country WAS a patchwork of States and laws and the founders had to deal with this fact. But as time went by, efficiency out weighed States rights and our country truly became united. There was nothing special about a loose conglomeration of nation States but through unification we rose to become a great power.

each state is sovereign and independent from the other..Madison.

by having states create their own laws, this make laws closer to the people, and the people have more control over the laws that govern them, on a national level, laws are not as responsive to the people.

when this nation went from the articles to the constitution, states still retained their powers, they only secede a few powers to the government, those being 18.

we rose to be a great nation because people had freedom, and were not under the authority of the federal government. America has gone into decline in the last 50 years because of government intervention into our daily life's....a place they have no authority in.
 
each state is sovereign and independent from the other..Madison.

by having states create their own laws, this make laws closer to the people, and the people have more control over the laws that govern them, on a national level, laws are not as responsive to the people.

when this nation went from the articles to the constitution, states still retained their powers, they only secede a few powers to the government, those being 18.

we rose to be a great nation because people had freedom, and were not under the authority of the federal government. America has gone into decline in the last 50 years because of government intervention into our daily life's....a place they have no authority in.


The United States of America rose to world domination because those who believed the individual states were sovereign were defeated in the bloodiest war Americans have known.


The United States of America rose to world domination due to its geographic isolation from the European powers during those years when travelling across oceans entailed months of being out of contact with the home government

The United States of America rose to world domination because of the natural richness of the continent, the basic raw materials needed to build industry in the 19th Century.

America has "gone into decline in the last 50 years" due to the intransigence and basic ignorance of the world that appears to be the basic requirement for member ship in the modern Republican Party. This "decline" of which you speak finds this nation still the most powerful, militarily, in the present-day world
 
The United States of America rose to world domination because those who believed the individual states were sovereign were defeated in the bloodiest war Americans have known.


The United States of America rose to world domination due to its geographic isolation from the European powers during those years when travelling across oceans entailed months of being out of contact with the home government

The United States of America rose to world domination because of the natural richness of the continent, the basic raw materials needed to build industry in the 19th Century.

America has "gone into decline in the last 50 years" due to the intransigence and basic ignorance of the world that appears to be the basic requirement for member ship in the modern Republican Party. This "decline" of which you speak finds this nation still the most powerful, militarily, in the present-day world

we rose to were we where because people had liberty and the freedom to pursuit of their own dreams.

the civil war, did not give America national government and them the power to do as they will.

your label is a socialist, are you really going to be advocating for limited government and constitutional principles of the founding fathers, so how I don't see that.

your going to advocate for the opposite.
 
we rose to were we where because people had liberty and the freedom to pursuit of their own dreams.

the civil war, did not give America national government and them the power to do as they will.

your label is a socialist, are you really going to be advocating for limited government and constitutional principles of the founding fathers, so how I don't see that.

your going to advocate for the opposite.

The people of Iceland "had liberty and the freedom to pursuit of their own dreams." but they are not a world power because they have little in the way natural resources, they are small in number, they are close to Europe - the centre of power during the time that the United States was growing.

The Civil War meant that the individual states did not have the powers you assume they had, and have. Worshipping the Articles of Confederation as you seem to do simply shows that you really don't understand the real world.

Your next to last sentence is incomprehensible, please try again with proper grammar and spelling if you wish to make a coherent statement.
 
The people of Iceland "had liberty and the freedom to pursuit of their own dreams." but they are not a world power because they have little in the way natural resources, they are small in number, they are close to Europe - the centre of power during the time that the United States was growing.

The Civil War meant that the individual states did not have the powers you assume they had, and have. Worshipping the Articles of Confederation as you seem to do simply shows that you really don't understand the real world.

Your next to last sentence is incomprehensible, please try again with proper grammar and spelling if you wish to make a coherent statement.


my statement is clear, anything, which is about individual liberty, limited government, delegated powers, you going to advocate against.
 
Charles Pierce is a bit upset

Charlie P. is still around?! Like, writing stuff and getting it printed?!

Back in in the late 1980s, he was the laughingstock of Massachusetts. Want to see a hilariously idiotic hyper-partisan rant by someone who has no idea what he is talking about? Open the Boston Phoenix and find any "report" by Mr. Pierce.
 
I know, your mind is made up and you don't want to be confused by facts.

I didn't originate the claim that Obamacare is a train wreck. That distinction belongs to Max Baucus, the author of Obamacare.

Reconciliation is legal. It also is a poison pill which was necessary only because the bill had no bi partisan support, thus insuring opposition to it at every turn because it is the wrong policy for American healthcare.

The house should not pass a clean CR. It's important to know that bi partisanship is important. It protects the rights of all Americans because it insures that representation of all parties are involved in such important legislation. Had the Congress passed a bill with support from both parties, all of the country would have been represented, not just the left wing loons.



There are enough bipartisan votes in the House right now to pass a clean CR, but the Speaker still refuses to bring it to the floor for a vote.....Max Baucus is the "only" person that wrote the Affordable Healthcare Act? Doesn't think much of himself if he said that...
 
There are enough bipartisan votes in the House right now to pass a clean CR, but the Speaker still refuses to bring it to the floor for a vote.....Max Baucus is the "only" person that wrote the Affordable Healthcare Act? Doesn't think much of himself if he said that...


Please do some research prior to responding to me. I don't want to continually bring you up to speed on current events.
 
There are enough bipartisan votes in the House right now to pass a clean CR, but the Speaker still refuses to bring it to the floor for a vote.....Max Baucus is the "only" person that wrote the Affordable Healthcare Act? Doesn't think much of himself if he said that...

Official Credit goes to Max Barcus (D Mont), as he was the lead sponsor, however, he unfortunately had to admit that he never read the bill.

In reality, the bill was written by a group called the Apollo Alliance over a period of a couple of years before ever being introduced.

The Apollo Alliance is a project organized by the Institute for America's Future and the Center on Wisconsin Strategy. The Alliance is a project of the Tides Center[George Soros]

Its goals include establishing energy independence for the United States of America, as well as developing cleaner and more efficient energy alternatives. Its allies are drawn from businesses, environmental organizations, and over 30 labor unions.

The Alliance's current Chair is former California State Treasurer Phil Angelides, who is currently the Chair of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.

Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader (2007-present) from Nevada, credited the Apollo Alliance with helping to create the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (also known as the stimulus bill): “This legislation is the first step in building a clean energy economy that creates jobs and moves us closer to solving our enormous energy and environmental challenges,” he said. “We’ve talked about moving forward on these ideas for decades. The Apollo Alliance has been an important factor in helping us develop and execute a strategy that makes great progress on these goals and in motivating the public to support them.”[3


Apollo Alliance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

National Steering Committee[edit]
Ruben Aronin, Global Green USA
Andrew Beebe, Energy Innovations
Robert L. Borosage, Institute for America's Future
Dan Carol, CTSG, Young Apollo
Maggie Fox, Sierra Club
Bracken Hendricks, Apollo Alliance
Van Jones, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Mindy Lubber, Ceres
Mark Ritchie, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Joel Rogers, Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS)
Marco Trbovich, United Steelworkers of America (USWA)


The Apollo Alliance has now admitted that they wrote the Stimulus Bill AND the Cap and Trade Bill and healthcare.
 
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It went way over your head I guess.....

No Juanita, nothing you have said is over my head. I don't find you to be particularly up to date on current events and I would prefer it if we just ignored each other.
 
No Juanita, nothing you have said is over my head. I don't find you to be particularly up to date on current events and I would prefer it if we just ignored each other.




Yes, the sarcasm went way over your head... Your post is a sad cop-out, but that's fine with me....ignore to your heart's desire...
 
There is no doubt. The tea party are knownothing nihilists. They will cause the US government to default on its debt and result in another recession that will cost 1M jobs. They are freaks.

The only solution is removing them from office. Impeachment or recall, take your pick.

Nonsense.

The government will default on its debt in due time anyway unless somebody does something. Obummer and the liberals are running up the debt like there's no tomorrow. And the butt-headed Republican Rinos are just as bad.

I think we need to impeach Obama and kick the liberals the hell out of the country. They're spiritual and fiscal deadbeats.
 
The issue is not so much the political opinions of these house members. It is that they are simply bad at governing. They don't know how to do it. Governing, in this country, means compromise and getting along with people you disagree with. It means people from across the political spectrum working together and producing an outcome that attempts to satisfy everyone as much as possible. Acting instead like a stick in the mud and refusing to cooperate with anyone and holding out for nothing less than complete dominance over the entire system, despite representing the interests of a small minority of voters is entirely contrary to what members of congress are supposed to do. The house Tea Partiers are objectively bad at their job.


The purpose of congress is not to govern. It is to pass laws. The problem, in my view, has always been that it does this incompetently. Passing laws should be very difficult because the laws affect so many people. If a law appeals to one political ideology and not to the the other, then it is a bad law and shouldn't exist. All laws should be bipartisan or they shouldn't exist. All the good laws were passed years ago. At this point in history we are just assuaging ideology with the laws being passed currently.
 
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