Strange things is that through the years I have heard hundreds of people say the same thing and I'm quite certain that the numbers are probably a thousands times that, yet suddenly it took B.O. and his merry band of freedom robbers to get people involved enough to shed some light on this issue. Since the nation is a business to which we the people own why is it that it take a differing political ideology to suddenly wake people up who should have been awake long before this. You can't stop a car from rolling off the cliff if you apply the brakes after it is in free fall. This nation has been in free fall since around Eisenhowser and has continued to drop. Not sure we can save this nation peacefully any longer and if the 112th congress decides the people have once more gone to sleep while they play in the band then freedom as I knew it as a kid will be GONE.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Common Sense <commonse...@citizensincharge.org> Date: Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 8:18 AM Subject: Reading Comprehension (Paul Jacob applauds Congress for reading and recognizing the Constitution and hopes the infatuation blossoms) To: t.ma...@gmail.com <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=lwztkndab&et=1104179445894&s=5959&e=001g5RC-Jjmk-ZYpR3sTaNCmZ9xkjsE97EcyPg123x8dFhIoLrY_IeybwgnO8sm3EmealhVLbLIuj4cPVKKGQnumvN1YxERzqD-agsAcWpy2RHSawbzMDXtiQ==> January 3, 2011 Reading Comprehension Never has the Constitution been read on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. And, boy, does our political situation show it. When the 112th Congress convenes this week, the law of the land -- the limited, enumerated powers granted to the federal government by "We the People" in this 223-year old document -- will for the first time be spoken aloud for all honorables to hear. It's a quick read, less than 5,000 words, and presumably cameras will be rolling, so we'll know if any elected representative sticks finger into ear during the recitation. A hat-tip to the Tea Party movement, this reading of the Constitution is a great way to remind our legislators that such a document actually exists. Even better, a new rule will be proposed requiring every piece of legislation to have affixed a citation "where in the Constitution Congress is empowered to enact such legislation." Sure, Washington pundits have mocked this newborn constitutionalism, crying "gimmick!" One history professor called it "entirely cosmetic." Tea Party activists are skeptical, too. As they should be. Neither reading the Constitution nor declaring the constitutional authority for legislation amounts to magic. 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