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.