Asshats
Monday, February 01, 2010
First Saudi Arabia, then Japan, now… Tampa?
Obama may have gotten his calendar mixed up, because he was caught bowing to someone who wasn’t a foreign leader. A leader, yeah, but just the Mayor of Tampa, FL. (No disrespect to the mayor is intended. Any disrespect detected should be presumed to be directed at that moron in the Oval Office.)
I mean, you can write off his being a fucking idiot and bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia. It’s not like anyone had told him that the President of the United States doesn’t bow to any foreign kings. Then came the repeat, and you could almost understand his confusion between not bowing to a King and not bowing to an Emperor.
But a Mayor?
Here’s the picture, courtesy of an AP stringer.
But he won’t put his hand over his heart for the American flag…
Friday, October 09, 2009
Yeah, Mr. Peace Prize?
Can I just call you “Nobel”?
Listen, it’s all been set up. What you gotta do is climb on this here motorcycle, get it up to about 50 mph and jump that there tank of live sharks. Okay?
What, you’ve already jumped the shark back in 2002? And again in 2007? And you just did it again today?
Well, damn. maybe I can get that kid Levi Johnston to do it. I hear he’s big news…
Saturday, October 03, 2009
The Olympian
Never saw that one coming.
A small part of me is laughing (on the inside) when the so-called most powerful, most well liked, most respected, and most important man in the world can’t get the 2016 Olympics to his hometown of Chicago.
I’m just sayin’ that it’s kinda/sorta funny. In a kinda/sorta funny and ironic way. Maybe everyone doesn’t bow down to him like we’re lead to believe, huh?
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Get Health Insurance or Go To Jail
That will be the newest option offered by Senator Max Baucus’ health “reform” bill. It has already been shown that the refusal to get insurance will result in an additional $950 (or $1,900) excise tax (yes, it is a tax, 99% of which will be paid by those making less than $200K/yr), and up to $3,800 for a family of four. Given that most of the very poor families can’t afford the few hundred dollars per month it would take to afford the level of insurance required by the Feds, there is no chance that they would be able to pay the extra $3,800 in extra taxes.
Ahhh, but Baucus already has contingency plans in place as to how to deal with those recalcitrant types who try to fly below the radar and not get health insurance, yet not pay the hefty fines…
Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) received a handwritten note Thursday from Joint Committee on Taxation Chief of Staff Tom Barthold confirming the penalty for failing to pay the up to $1,900 fee for not buying health insurance.
Violators could be charged with a misdemeanor and could face up to a year in jail or a $25,000 penalty, Barthold wrote on JCT letterhead. He signed it “Sincerely, Thomas A. Barthold.”
Copy of the actual note can be found here.
Why are all of the horror stories told in order to scare us into agreeing with this clusterfuck monstrosity about people that have no insurance? Why not concentrate on just covering those people and leaving the rest of us alone?
Let’s be generous and say that the numbers being thrown around earlier this year are even remotely correct. Let’s say fifty million people have absolutely no access to insurance at all (rather than simply choosing not to be covered, or being an illegal alien, or being a minor child not specifically covered under their parent’s policies). Fifty million times $200 per month (well over the actual cost of premiums) is $10 billion per month.
We would be able to pay for health insurance for those people for less than a third of what we spend on Medicare ($413 billion in 2009).
But Dems think it would be cheaper to send them all to jail.
As has been said, it isn’t about health care, it’s about controlling the population.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
You. Have. GOT.
To. Be. Fucking. Kidding. Me.
Obama is now “open to the idea” of a newspaper bailout.
Just as when the “bailout” of GM suddenly meant that taxpayers (well, they supply the money, anyway) own voting control, any taxpayer bailout of a newspaper would result in the de jure ownership of whatever news media is bailed out, whether or not it is suddenly a “nonprofit”. (Hey, you fucking moron, the whole PROBLEM is that they are not making any profits.) Would advertisers suddenly be making tax-deductible donations?
I realize that Obama is no more a Constitutional Lawyer than he is a Governmental Executive (regardless of what his current title may be - calling a chair a cow does not mean that it is true), but you would think that somebody who works for him would have at least heard of the First Amendment.
Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press....
First, I have no idea how Congress can write ANY laws requiring that the press - any of it - do ANYTHING without “abridging [their] freedom”.
Second, the whole concept of bailing out failing businesses with taxpayer money is entirely anathema to a free market. I’m sure that the nation’s largest buggy whip manufacturer thought his business was also “too big to fail” when automobiles became generally affordable, but when it became no longer profitable to sell large quantities of buggy whips, those employees became available to manufacture other things that were profitable, and to adapt to the changing reality of the times. That is the beauty of allowing a business to fail - it releases scarce resources to be more efficiently used by other companies, while eliminating a drag on the standard of living of the entire community, and maybe even the nation or the world.
But when a failing business - that is hemorrhaging money and losing income - is artificially propped up, all that it does is waste those resources, since the money used to do the propping will never be regained. It is as thoroughly lost as though you had dumped it into a hole, soaked it in lighter fluid and used the flames to illuminate a nighttime beach party - once you finish, all you have are the memories of the money you once had.
That money could have been more efficiently used by the taxpayers to power the economy, rather than in increased tax money that was ultimately wasted. And believe me, the Government is already wasting enough money.
Third, the fact that they will be doing what they can to use MY tax dollars to prop up the very same businesses that are bending their efforts to support the current political leadership proves that they are violating MY rights to freely associate. I do not choose to support the Left Wing Media with my money, but the Government is taking away that right to choose which businesses I wish to support, with no control over how that money is being used.
Fourth, when is it going to stop? Government taking over the educational system, banks, the auto industry, the arts (with the NEA), health care insurers/providers, and now the media?
What about contractors? When do I get my bailout? Just $15-20K and I’ll be happy. This year, anyway.
Or cops? I’m sure that John Cross and Helo would like a chunk of that pie, too.
What a crock of shit, but I don’t expect anything else from that off-off-off-Broadway understudy cast of HSM suddenly running things in DC.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
A-fucking-men!
In what can only be an “Oo-Rah!” moment, I must stand and applaud Jefferson County (MO) Sheriff Glenn Boyer for finally saying what most of us veterans truly think.
The back-story: A certain Ms. Fullofherself ran into a funeral procession for Sgt. 1st Class William Woods (killed in action in Afghanistan) and was stopped by a couple of guys escorting the procession. She was chastised for trying to interfere, and proceeded to fire off a “I want these miscreants arrested and executed for daring to talk to me” e-mail to the County Sheriff.
I tried to call you earlier this morning, but was unable to obtain your extension from the voice mail system as I was not sure of your first name or correct spelling of your last.
I was inadvertently in this procession as I was leaving work on 270 from Creve Coeur and proceeding on Hwy. 30 West. I have some issues and complaints. I called the Sheriff’s office last night, but the officer in charge would not speak with me. His name was Corp. Curtis. I am in no way complaining about your officers. I, however, was not treated very fairly when I called last evening because I wanted a ticket/complaint/or at least a slap on wrist for the people involved. Let me explain:
1) This procession should never have been held during rush hour traffic! Hwy. 270 is dangerous and people drive way too fast and there is too much traffic. This soldier’s certainly would not have want his family hurt on the interstate taking him to Cedar Hill. People were dead-stopping on the interstate even though the procession was in the far right lane, the other three lanes just stopped. There were many near accidents and possibly were after I drove through. I was in the 2nd to left lane, no way obstructing the funeral procession.
2) I exited off on Gravois (30 W), far right lane. Your police officers went in the left lane to stop any additional on-coming traffic so the procession could exit off 270 into the LEFT lane of 30. Again, I was in the right lane. The St. Louis County officer stopped and turned around at Weber Hill to return on 270 after the procession passed.
3) The road was not closed. (Only for president as far as I know.) Again, the road was not closed. Your officers only had the left lane blocked/closed for the funeral. All other traffic by MO law can proceed as long as they do not interfere (weave in and out )with funeral procession.
Let me say, that I did not know what was happening. I knew the did not have Kennedy coming to STL, at least not yesterday. I was at work all day. No news. Nothing reported on the traffic on the radio driving home.
Anyway, two of these dirty, nasty, renegade, who knows what motorcycle men that were escorting the procession proceeded to stop in front of me in the right lane on Gravois. I had to stop in the middle of an intersection. They proceeded to scream and yell at me about respecting this soldier, etc. One of them climbed off his motorcycle and came over to me and stuck his head in my car continuing to scream at me. I asked him what this was for and he told me I needed to stop as the officers had the road blocked and show some dang respect. #1, the road was not blocked, the funeral was in the other lane. #2, I am proud of our country and sorry for the family, but they had no idea where I was going or anything else. I could have a child at day-care, I could have been sick and racing to the bathroom, I could have a sick parent waiting for me, etc., etc.
#3, They are not law enforcement and had no right to stop in the lane on Gravois and they had no right to scream at me and intimidate and threaten me. If I would have had my pepper spray, I would have used it on this nasty man! He is just a big hoo ha that is not even related to this soldier. The other man did not get off his scooter, but was along side of my passenger window screaming.
I left an abusive husband 1 1/2 years ago and I did not need this intimidation. I was livid and shaking!!
My son is a deputy sheriff in another MO county. I respect police officers. It was not their fault as they were busy with traffic, but I called to make them aware of what was going on during this thing. The St. Louis County officer saw it but of course he was out of jurisdiction.
However, I called last night and your office asked me if I knew about this soldier. Again, I am sorry about him, but I am a taxpayer. I got a speeding ticket a few months ago and paid the fine. I do not deserve to be treated like this. I wanted to let the officer know how these men were acting. Also, they were driving into the turnarounds on Hwy. 30 and then back onto the road. the funeral was much further ahead. One of them nearly got hit by me and other people almost hit him and another as well. I wanted to lodge a complaint about them why they were still there, but no one in your office would take any information or do anything.
This was not a military funeral, even though it was a soldier. There were not military vehicles. It was a funeral and the road was not closed, the lane was closed, I was in the other lane and again, these nasty men had no right to do this and I would have liked them to get a ticket!
I am sorry for the soldier and his family but you cannot let these motorcycle renegades do this. They could have caused several accidents and I really wanted them arrested. If they had any respect for the soldier they would have dressed better and not looked and acted so scuzzy.Thank you.
The beauty wasn’t in the self-important whinge by this scrunt, It was in the reply by the Sheriff.
Dear XXXXX:
Yes, you do deserve a response and I am willing to give you one.
I would like to say that I am sorry for the inconvenience we caused you during the funeral procession of Sergeant 1st Class William B. Woods, but I cannot do so. I would ask instead that you take a moment of your time to take into consideration the scope of the event. Your very right to complain was the reason Sgt. Woods fought for his country and ultimately gave his life; thus making the ultimate sacrifice for you and your family.
Let me introduce you to him. After high school, Sergeant Woods entered the Marine Corps. After his contract was up, he joined the Army, where he became a Green Beret. He comes from a long line of military members in his family. His Uncle is a Vietnam Veteran and two of his grandfathers were World War II Veterans. His job in the Army was one of the most dangerous jobs - he was a sniper looking for the bad guys to stop before they killed or injured one of our soldiers. He has numerous decorations to include the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart.
He grew up in Catawissa and was best known by his middle name, Brian. He enjoyed the outdoors, playing sports, and skydiving. He had a wife, Elizabeth, and two daughters, whom he loved dearly. He was a soft-spoken, level-headed young man who was proud to serve his country no matter what the risk. Now, I did not know him, but I wish I did. I am quoting from newspaper articles written about him.
At the young age of 31, he was shot during an engagement with Taliban forces in Ghanzi , Afghanistan . He died of his wounds in Germany on August 16, with his family by his side. He did not choose the time of his death, nor did he choose the time his remains would be brought back to his home in Catawissa. He just did his duty. He was quite a young man.
While you were being inconvenienced in your car on your way home, there were soldiers just like Sergeant Woods carrying 100+ pounds of equipment in 120 degree heat, up some mountain or in the middle of some desert. They will shower out of a helmet liner if they get the chance. They will eat a cold meal of MRE’s; something most people would consider garbage. They cannot text their family or friends, or go to McDonalds, or watch TV. They can only continue the mission and look out after the guy to the left and right of them. They don’t complain because they know they volunteered. The only thing they ask is that we do not forget the sacrifices they have made.
One of the dirty “big hoo ha” bikers, as you call them, was Brian’s uncle, a Vietnam Veteran, like myself. We were not treated with a homecoming. We were spit on and called baby killers by a misguided public. Brian’s uncle was giving him the respect that he, himself, never received when he came back and I, for one, am proud of him for doing so.
You say that your brother is a deputy in another Missouri county. I am sure he would be proud to escort the casket of a fallen solder, the same as he would that of a fallen officer. I am also sure he would not agree with your complaint about being inconvenienced.
My mother recently passed away. She was a World War II Veteran, serving the U.S. Army. She would say, maybe you should pick up Sergeant Woods’ ruck sack and carry on where he left off. Then you could see first hand what it really is to be inconvenienced.
Per your request, I will forward your complaint to the Prosecuting Attorney’s Office for his review. It is my personal opinion that your complaint is self-serving and without merit.
Sheriff Oliver “Glenn” Boyer
Bravo Zulu, Sheriff. God Speed You To Your Reward, Sgt. Woods. And to this Scrunt, I hope that you hit every red light on every trip you ever take for the rest of your miserable life. And get ticketed every time you try to beat the yellow.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Can we tax stupidity?
I don’t mean things like sugaring your coffee twice or forgetting an umbrella on stormy days, I mean the kind of “weapons of mass destruction"-quality stupid that makes you wonder how the person can actually remember how to breathe. I mean comments like this one from noted subatomic mental fissionist Natalie “Padme” Portman:
“I think it’s kind of an exciting time. I mean, everyone is cutting back. It’s happening in every industry - including our own. All of a sudden, people are doing jobs that they hate and they’re not making as much money as they thought they would or they’ve lost their jobs entirely. I’ve started to see people looking more toward their own passions and what really excites them.”
A few more can be found here.
see more dog and puppy pictures
I say we have a 100% estate tax on such stupidity. Hollywood alone could pay off the National Debt.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Traitor goes to his deserved fate
Teddy “The Swimmer” Kennedy has apparently passed away, and all I can say is that my deepest condolences go out to the family…
of Mary Jo Kopechne.
I do not use the word “traitor” lightly, but since Teddy was eager to work with the KGB in order to defeat Reagan, during the very height of the Cold War, it fits. (For those of you too young to remember, the KGB were the “enemy” meant in the Constitutional definition of treason.)
So rest in shame, Teddy, and may the legend of Camelot (as regards American political families) die in shame with you.
Of course, the MSM will outdo itself to deify him, just like they did at the Wellstone funeral. And of course, the Administration will use every ounce of “legacy leverage” to pass that craptastic health care bill.
In case anyone misunderstands how much of a scumbag Teddy the Swimmer was, let me remind you of some of the things he did during his life. He let a woman drown because he was too busy working on an alibi to bother calling for an ambulance (walking past several houses and a fire station on the way back to his home). He was expelled from Harvard - TWICE - for cheating (in one incident, he hired another student to write a paper for him). After one such expulsion, his father pulled strings to have his Army enlistment shortened from four years to two (because Teddy never bothered reading the paperwork), and having him serve in Paris, but despite the connections, Teddy never made rank higher than Private. Cited for reckless driving on not less than four occasions while attending law school in Virginia (including the one where he was driving at 90mph through a residential neighborhood at night with his headlights off), yet never had his license revoked. He cheated on his first wife many times (including that one time where he was caught having sex with a waitress on the floor of the restaurant), finally dropping her for a younger woman. And in an openly partisan move, he fought hard in 2004 to get a law passed in Massachusetts so that then-Governor Mitt Romney, a Republican, would not have been allowed to appoint the replacement in the event that John Kerry won, but that “the people should decide”, yet now that it is his own seat up for replacement, he was fighting to have his own law reversed so that the current Governor (Deval Patrick, a Democrat) can replace him instead of a plebiscite.
That doesn’t include his flat-out treason, of course.
So fuck him with the barbed cock of Satan, and I can only hope that there is some chance of repairing the damage he did to my beloved country.
Update: I found this ad through a link over at Ragin’ Dave’s place. Below the fold to save space on the front page
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Mind Your Business
If you play with fire...
Here’s the long and the short of this story. Some dingbat professor goes a little bit nuts and acts a little bit weird and gets a little bit aggressive with the cops. As a result, he is taken into custody. The fat around the edges of this Porterhouse of a story is that the professor was at his house, yet there was a call for service to the police of a suspect fitting the description of the professor who was attempting the break into the house. When the police arrived, they saw a man fooling around with a door and trying to force his way into a house.
The professor dings-out on the police, and instead of simply saying “this is my house, and here is my identification,” he decides to stand his ground and get feisty. Getting feisty with the police means you’re going to get arrested.
I see weird stuff like this every darned day. Only it’s in the ghetto, where bad people do bad things with really bad weapons such as fully-automatic rifles and handguns. Yet the citizens of the community know an understand that iif they are acting shady and doing something in front of or to a house or car, we’re going to stop them, question them, and if everything checks out, they’re good to go. We hop in our car and move on to the next call. How half a million people in the ghetto can understand this plain and simple course of logic, yet a college professor cannot, is beyond me.
But back to the story. The professor dings-out and is arrested for disorderly conduct. That is a very fitting charge for someone who looks like they are breaking into a house and refuses to give the police identification when asked. If my book, he would have been arrested for attempt burglary.
And as with everything, there is a speedbump in the road. Or a monkey wrench in the gears. The professor happens to be a friend of Barack Hussein Obama. Barack Hussein Obama gets word of what happened, and decides to say the police officers “acted stupidly.” Of course they did. No police officer in their right mind would respond to a call and arrest someone for breaking into a house. Or at least ask them questions when they fail to present idea. I jest, but you get my point.
So Inspector Obama is off to find out what’s going on. In the meantime, the lead officer, a Sergeant, is getting hammered by the willing-accomplices in the media who proudly back every one of Obama’s play, and has his entire history torn-apart as he is called everything from corrupt to a racist. And then it is revealed that early in his career he performed mouth-to-mouth on a young, promising, black athlete who was passed-out. And one of the officers who was part of the arrest cadre when the professor decided to get a little bit nutty, who happens to get black, willingly steps forward to support the Sergeant and tell the world that everything is kosher. Obama realizes that he messed-up and that his buddy, the all-knowing, all-wise, all-perfect professor might have been more than a little out of line that night. So what does BHO say?
“This has been ratcheting up, and I obviously helped to contribute ratcheting it up,” he said. “I want to make clear that in my choice of words, I think I unfortunately gave an impression that I was maligning the Cambridge police department and Sgt. Crowley specifically. And I could’ve calibrated those words differently.”
As far as I could tell, he was “maligning” the police department and the Sergeant. When the president of the most powerful nation in the world steps forward to call you out and call you a incompetent, it’s a big thing. I don’t take many things on the job personal, but I think I would take that one to heart. Instead of “calibrating” the words differently, Barack Hussein Obama should have had a different speech written on his teleprompter that detailed a full apology to the Sergeant, his team, and the entire police department. The fact of the matter was that his friend, the nutty professor, was wrong, and Obama took his word at face value. In the meantime, the career of that entire team could have ben ruined, their lives could have been put in danger, and no one would ever look at the Cambridge police department the same way again. If that isn’t playing favorites in politics, I don’t know what is.
Thursday, July 09, 2009
Yet another Democrat tells you what your rights are
John Mellencamp, he of “Little Pink Houses” fame, is showing off his many years of studying Constitutional Law by explaining exactly what “Freedom of Speech” really is, and Cuffy Meigs is kind enough to share those thoughts with us all.
“I don’t think people fought and gave their lives so that some guy can sit in his bedroom and be mean. I don’t think that’s what freedom of speech is,” he continued. “Freedom of speech is really about assembly — for us to collectively have an idea. We want to get our point of view out so we can assemble and I can appoint you to be the spokesman. That’s freedom of speech — to be able to collectively speak for a sector of people. But somehow it’s turned into ‘I can be an asshole whenever I feel like, say whatever I like, be disrespectful to people and not be courteous.’ It’s not good for our society. Not being courteous is not really freedom of speech. …
Hey, Johnnie-girl, go fuck yourself sideways with your made-in-America guitar. This from the person (I won’t use the word “man” to describe Ol’ Cougar) who has spent his career questioning everything about America.
“I write a lot of songs that could be interpreted as big patriotic songs, but in reality they’re questioning the direction the country is going,” he said. ”After every song in Boston [two days after the attacks on 9-11-01], 20,000 people were going, ‘USA, USA.’ I thought, man. I almost asked them to stop, stop doing that. I don’t like it. I don’t like hearing that chant.”
I am so fucking sick of these celebrities who make a big deal about how much they hate this country, yet won’t go away! You don’t like this country? Pick a direction and start walking, pal.
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Probably wearing his dress uniform and hating every minute
I was just wondering where Helo has went and gotten himself off to, and then I hear on the news that fully 1/3 of the LA police forces are providing security for that Funeral for a Pedophile that is dominating the morning news shows.
Jeezus, people, he wasn’t the Pope, and he wasn’t the President. He was a once-was singer and dancer, hoping to make another pay-the-bills comeback, who died of a drug overdose. He was a thrice-accused pedophile who paid tens of millions of dollars in hush money.
Yes, he put out some popular music a few decades ago. So did Fleetwood Mac. Yes, and he could dance a little. So could Fred Astaire. But the man was an out-and-out freak show. Addicted to plastic surgery and doing everything he could to deny his own heritage (including, it has been alleged, the use of sperm from a white male to impregnate the brood mares that bore the children he dragged around with him in an attempt to look “normal").
I do not know what kind of abuse he might have gone through as a child, but he is not the only one who has ever gone through bad experiences, not by several orders of magnitude, and the rest of them haven’t gone out and molested little kids. Nor bought the bones of the Elephant Man. Nor had so many appearance changing surgeries - shifting from black man to white woman, in the words of one wag.
Plant his carcass in the ground, throw a few shovels-full of dirt on him and let the worms and gentle rain grok him. Maybe then he can find the peace of soul he stole from those kids…
Friday, July 03, 2009
And if you weren’t just two steps up
from a dancing monkey, Gwynnie-poo, your opinion might be worthy of taking more seriously. The next time this country you hate so much gives you lots of money to stand in front of a technology you could never understand, making faces on cue and mouthing words written by men and women much smarter than you, you should really hand it back. Since it comes from such a shithole country, y’know.
While you’re living it up in Spain, remember that you actually have to appear before a consular officer to renounce that citizenship. You can’t do it through the mail…
Great quote from that link: “At this point, Paltrow should just drive through Manhattan in an M41 with Putin and Ahmadinejad while waving a North Korean flag. You know, just so people won’t get the wrong idea.”
The So-Called Uninsured
There are lots of numbers being thrown around in the “let’s nationalize health care”, but a big one is the number of people that have no health care insurance.
A largish chunk of that number are the many millions of illegals who are living here, and try to live “under the radar”, so to speak.
But another, non-trivial portion is those who are too healthy to be worrying about health insurance. The 20-somethings who would rather buy another case of beer per month than pay for something they are probably never going to need. To them it is a highly preferable, but ultimately non-essential, portion of their monthly budget. If it is offered as a part of their job, they might, and they might not.
But that is a lifestyle choice they make.
One about to be taken away from them if the Senate version of the recent health care bill gets passed.
That bill will penalize anyone who does not have health care $1,000. (Presumably that money will be used to insure him or her whether he chooses to participate or not. But, given that we are dealing with a bureaucracy, that is by no means a given.
Isn’t that nice? Either you already have a policy, you buy into the government’s policy, or you get fined and are signed up against your will. And with any private policy having to compete directly with the government that oversees.
Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose, until the Government fines you and forces your hand.
Tree. Rope. Politician. Some Assembly Required.
Thursday, July 02, 2009
Economic indicator hits 26-year high under Obama
Unfortunately for those of us in the real world, that indicator is the unemployment rate, reaching a high point not seen since Reagan’s first term (one of those things he inherited from Carter). And the average work week fell to levels not seen since 1964 - before the Democrats’ “Great Society” (aka “The Great Welfare State").
Underemployment (which counts those who are working part-time jobs because they couldn’t find a full-time position as well as discouraged job seekers who have stopped looking for work) also hit an all-time high of 16.5%.
Thanks a pantload, Barry.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
How can Congress vote on a bill that hasn’t even been printed yet?
Seriously, there was an amendment to the latest Job-Killer Energy bill that was fully a fourth the size of the original bill, with lots of “Edit line 11 on page 237 to read” type crap involved, and the bill had not been sent to the various Legislative Leeches before they were required to vote on its final passage.
I think that might be a violation of the Constitution, but since the Supreme Court has long since ruled that simply being a taxpayer does not give one standing to challenge legislation on Constitutional grounds, even if it can be shown that the law under question would negatively impact the one challenging, there is absolutely no recourse we have.
Except one.
Our system is broken. Shattered beyond anything that the Founders could have conceived.
The Legislators no longer feel any affinity towards their constituents, either at the Federal, State or local levels. They are sources of income, not employers.
The Federal Executive Branch only has two positions that are up for any kind of election - POTUS and VPOTUS. They are not the lest bit interested in anything any one individual has to say, but are beholden to party and the various interest groups that are leading the parties around by their short-and-curlies.
The courts feel that their job is no longer to interpret laws according to the Constitution, but to enact social justice, based on extra-national sources. And with a lifetime appointment, there is not a damned thing anyone can do about any of them.
The Constitution has been interpreted to mean that free speech is no longer allowed in the period before elections when it is MOST needed; that private property is only permitted when the government is receiving enough in taxes from the owner; that gun ownership is only permitted to those who don’t bother obeying the laws in the first place; that freedom of religion means that you can never mention religion in public (except for the one religion that demands that its adherents kill the members of every other religion on the planet); and that “cruel and unusual punishment” includes not allowing sex-change operations on the taxpayer’s dime.
“When in the course of human events....”
Better practice your shooting skills, folks. It’s only going to get worse from here.