by Smitty

Via HotAir, Daniel Henninger offers a look at the disconnection of the Progressives from America. He notes

Constitutional professors quoted in the press and across the Web explain that much about the federal government’s modern authority is “settled” law. Even so, many of these legal commentators are quite close to arguing that the national government’s economic and political powers are now limitless and unfettered.

When you go to Tea Parties and see a large minority of attendees wearing some sort of military service-related paraphernalia, you need to know that Americans who’ve served understand the Constitution, and have sworn to defend it. This ‘settled law’ business, while certainly important, is also a foreign concept.

We don’t need is the glib one-liners from the members of this Judas Congress. We don’t need the POTUS jetting about, leaving carbon footprint and sales pitch in his wake, as if a deficit in trust can be overcome with a multitude of words. We don’t need the libe(ra)l media pissing down our backs and telling us it’s raining.

We need a concise, layman’s explanation of:
(a) how they think ‘settled law’ tantamount to a Constitutional Amendment, and
(b) how it is that common-sense interpretation of things like Article 1 and Amendment 10 are nullified by (a).

The Judas Congress is today what the British Parliament was in the 1770s: a distant, un-representative pack of louts. And the Tea Parties, which are a peaceful analog of Washington’s Colonial Army, are not backing down. If you read The Glorious Cause, you realize that Washington’s army won by merely sustaining its existence. By refusing to lose to Royal forces, time was on Washington’s side.

The modern Progressive louts, the Democrats and these GOP squishes that are already trying to cut their deals, promise to be highly entertaining as time drags on, the Tea Parties rise, and Progressive elites sink.