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Necessary But Not Sufficient

Posted on | July 2, 2011 | 6 Comments

by Smitty (h/t Insty)

I don’t disagree with the mighty Scott Ott’s practical approach to a deficit deal, insofar as reality affects the thinking of the current POTUS, which is somewhere around ‘not at all’. Framing the discussion in terms of increasing revenue is both valid, and in keeping with Ott’s gentle humor.

Past the friendly cajoling, though, there is this: you have to tell me what we’re doing to re-constrain the federal government to its enumerated powers, or you haven’t told me much.

Restated, the outcome of our current series of Constituiontal crises is that we are either returning to the existing Constitution, as amended, and with respect to technological improvements like the Air Force that fall within the spirit of the document, or we just need to scuttle the flipping document entirely, and embrace the European suck.

There is some room for moderation, where something akin to Ryan’s plan may be more politically attainable, for the decades it will take for the Progressive-era herd to die off (sorry, mom & dad), but we have to cut the nonsense on the false EUtopia pushed by the Progressives. If it’s not a bridge to a Federalist, properly Constitutional, limited government, then any transition plan or compromise is an invitation to continued Progressdecay.

Stick to your guns, Boehner.

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  • Joe

    Less is more when it comes to Government.  If you go by that, you are heading in the right direction. 

  • http://www.redstateeclectic.typepad.com AngelaTC

    How can you write a post about being serious about returning the constitutional limitations on federal government, then follow it up with a post that praises McCotter?

    Has McCotter ever once even pretended to acknowledge the document?

    I know the heart wants what it wants, but dude!

  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    I’ll tell you what’s going to happen. Come August 2nd, the GOP is going to cave and give Obama most of what he wants, maybe close to all of what he wants? Why? Because for some reason I just can’t fathom, the GOP is in love with the F*@1544312f3deaa0403b11fce202dd62cb:disqus &^)&) FDA.  They’ve already floated a trial balloon letting all and sundry know that they will not allow that bloated, useless, oppressive agency to fail, and if it looks like it might, they will back down on the grounds that it will make it impossible to keep the food industry going?

    I call bullshit. Do you mean to tell me that they are going to tell food producers and wholesalers that they can’t produce and sell food if the FDA doesn’t have the funds to “inspect”? That’s the most outrageous thing I’ve ever heard, and I have just about heard it all.

    Granted, only one GOP Senator said that, but you can bet they will find just enough-JUST ENOUGH-GOP Senators and House members that will fold in order to protect this one blatantly unconstitutional agency.

    It really pisses me off and it should everybody else as well. If it does, you should get on the horn and let your Senator and Representatives know that you will not stand for folding to Obama, nor will you stand for food production being held up because of the FDA, which should be de-funded.

    If there’s a problem with any food produced just tell them flat out, that’s what the courts are for.

    The very idea that we have to have a government agency before we can sell and buy food, or anything else, shows you how far we’ve slid over the last few decades.

  • Anonymous

    They will fold just like last time.

  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    And when they do they need to be voted out on their asses, including Allen West and Darrell Issa, who voted to okay the abominable payout to so-called “black farmers” through the Agriculture Department-another useless agency.

  • Jacob Asplund

    One solution to the repeated capitulation of GOP legislators is holding their feet to the fire by inverting the Republican Party power structure (as seems to have happened in Utah).  The other solution is waiting for the federal Ponzi scheme to completely melt down and then starting over from scratch.

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