DGS49
Diamond Member
My overwhelming reaction to President Biden's SOTU was, "Here's a person who has never even read the U.S. Constitution."
There was no acknowledgement whatsoever of the division in power and authority between the national government and the state governments, no recognition that there are well-defined limits on what Congress is empowered to spend the taxpayers' money on.
He overtly stated that he "thinks" (giving him the benefit of the doubt here) that healthcare ought to be a "right" rather than a privilege. And everyone in that half-cheering audience knows that (a) it would take a Constitutional Amendment to make that pipe dream a reality, and (b) there is nowhere near the consensus necessary to make that Constitutional Amendment happen. Indeed, the Lefties have been talking about this for DECADES, and none of them has even hinted at proposing an Amendment to cover their figurative asses on the point.
My own view is that the Left is attempting, through massive unconstitutional spending, to make so many Americans dependent on one or another of the Federal Government's programs that they will decline to give the Democrats the blood bath they so richly deserve next November.
But maybe I'm just being cynical. What other reason could there be for one half of the political universe to embark on such blatantly unconstitutional plans?
There was no acknowledgement whatsoever of the division in power and authority between the national government and the state governments, no recognition that there are well-defined limits on what Congress is empowered to spend the taxpayers' money on.
He overtly stated that he "thinks" (giving him the benefit of the doubt here) that healthcare ought to be a "right" rather than a privilege. And everyone in that half-cheering audience knows that (a) it would take a Constitutional Amendment to make that pipe dream a reality, and (b) there is nowhere near the consensus necessary to make that Constitutional Amendment happen. Indeed, the Lefties have been talking about this for DECADES, and none of them has even hinted at proposing an Amendment to cover their figurative asses on the point.
My own view is that the Left is attempting, through massive unconstitutional spending, to make so many Americans dependent on one or another of the Federal Government's programs that they will decline to give the Democrats the blood bath they so richly deserve next November.
But maybe I'm just being cynical. What other reason could there be for one half of the political universe to embark on such blatantly unconstitutional plans?