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Audacity of Truth
"Diplomacy":
"People are saying what in the world is going on with North Carolina, we look like Mississippi." - NC Gov. Bev Perdue (D) on the passage of Amendment One, 5-11-12
Barney Frank: “It’s not my job to know what I’m doing” or something
Congressman Bawney Fwank (D-MA) says it’s not his job to know whether a law he votes on is constitutional or not — that’s the Supreme Court’s job, silly!
In the next Congress, Republicans will require every bill to cite its specific constitutional authority, a reminder to color inside the lines drawn long ago by the Founding Fathers.
The rule is a mostly symbolic overture to the Tea Party, for which an animating cause was that much of the congressional agenda over the last two years, including the president’s health care law and the bailouts for Wall Street, has been unconstitutional.
But some House Democrats are steamed at the charge their agenda has gone beyond Congress’s constitutional authorities.
“It’s an air kiss they’re blowing to the Tea Party,” said Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Barney Frank about the rule. “Anything we’re doing that’s unconstitutional will be thrown out in court. Some of them interpret the constitution very differently, but no, that will not be a problem.”
In other words, “anything I’m do is going to be checked by those guys, so why should I bother to understand the driver’s manual? Just because I have the keys? Oh, please.”
Bawney, there’s a big difference between accepting judicial review and just throwing up your hands and saying it’s not your danged problem. In fact, it is your danged problem, like it or not. Allow me to remind you of your oath of office — you know, that thing you recited between accepting fat envelopes from lobbyists:
“I, (name of Member), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”
Those highlighted parts are there for your benefit, Bawney. It’s a fair bet that carrying out your oath means understanding the document you swear to protect and defend. You might try it sometime, and try less of the arrogant jackass routine.
Be sure to read the whole article, folks. It’s just chock-full of charming quotes like that from “Representative” Fwank’s fellow oligarchs Democratic colleagues.
BY THE WAY: I have a question for the voters of the 4th congressional district of Massachusetts. What were you thinking? How in God’s name could you people ever choose that spiteful, arrogant, contemptible toad over Sean Bielat last month? Enlighten me, please; I’m really at a loss here.
h/t Jennifer Rubin via Gay Patriot
(Crossposted at Public Secrets)
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After all these years in Congress, Barney still claims he is incompetent to perform the duties for which he was elected. Seems to me that the House needs to refuse to seat him.
That is the question, not what that blithering queer buffoon spittles and croaks but how in God’s name can presumably sane people continue to re-elect such a fool and an embarrassment? What is wrong with large segments of such a small state?
This has to be the idiot statement of the year…..from an esteemed member of congress!
I think this is symptomatic of many in congress, particularly of the democratic persuasion. What they say goes….as Nancy Pelosi stated when the Obamacare bill hadn’t even been read thoroughly. Many parts are under judicial scrutiny now. In their mind determining constitutionality isn’t the job! Oh, so that means they are off the hook or does that mean they haven’t a clue of what the constituion says???? My take…they couldn’t care less what the constituional powers are of congress…they don’t mind overstepping them because they are elite statists who presume to know so much more than their constituents and will prescribe to them how the government SHOULD be run. The constituion be damned.
Barney Frank is an arrogant, sneaky shyster.
The Gay/Marxist Agenda Barney Frank represents IS cultural warfare.
Frank’s only regret is that he didn’t rip off enough from middle-class taxpayers.
Frank’s philosophy is from the “we’ll get ours” school of thought.
There is nothing warm and fuzzy about a crooked Radical Marxist who created the real estate housing mess.
He used the letter of the law to fast-forward banking foreclosures. And now he is hiding behind the letter of the law to save his own skin and obscure how he has profited.
The American families who are facing foreclosure want to know when Frank is going to be convicted.
If Frank had the guts to visit the people whose homes he has put into foreclosure, they would SPIT on him.
OK, remind me. Bawney wants the branch of government that found women had a wispy, smoky penumbra-like constitutional right to abortion over a baby’s real constitutional right to life to figure out if any particular piece of legislation adheres to the guidelines set in the Constitution?
My, oh my, he’s not the sharpest tack in the box, is he?