Congress Goes Back to Write an Unconstitutional Law – OPINION
February 12, 2010
Let me start the discussion by saying that if a law is unconstitutional, then writing another one just like it will be unconstitutional as well. What they need to do, if they are serious, is change the constitution! Take out the first amendment and be done with it.
I am sick of Democrat lawmakers and their heavy handedness. They passed laws that limited the ability for corporations to fight back and send campaign contributions to candidates who support the free market and big business. McCain-Feingold was the crown jewel of that effort, and in one Supreme Court Ruling all that was wiped away. After all, if corporations have to live by the laws being passed, shouldn’t they have the right to influence who gets elected to write those laws? After all, unions are nothing more than big corporations with special interests, and they get to contribute to influence elections.
Besides, the Supremes are hardly all conservatives. In fact, one could make the argument that the court is more liberal leaning than conservative. Yet once again liberals are grousing that the court they once supported is “off the reservation on this one”. Liberal lawmakers want to have it they way they want to have it. Let me divert the discussion for one moment to give an example.
When we had heat waves, droughts and little snowfall, it was caused by global warming. Now that we are having excessively cold weather and massive blizzards in places that have seen little snow over the last couple of decades, it is being caused by the same global warming. Huh? They want it both ways. Liberalism is much like dealing with a spoiled child.
Back to the topic. Congress passes laws that affect businesses, mostly to their detriment, and recently the high court said laws prohibiting them from contributing to campaigns was unconstitutional and an assault on free speech. So what does Congress do? As I am writing this, Democrat lawmakers are on C-SPAN doing a press release about how they are passing this new law to protect us from the evil corporations (the ones that hire people)… a law whose essence has already been found unconstitutional. Talk about arrogance! The only way to successfully make it constitutional would be to… change the constitution!!!
My gut tells me they will pass it as quickly as possible so it takes effect before the 2010 election where Democrats already stand to lose big. They hope this law will stanch the bleeding and cause them to not lose as many seats. Then once passed, it could take years to find its way back to the Supreme Court where their expectation is the court will have changed dynamics. Regardless, whether it’s upheld or struck down at a later date, it’s irrelevant as long as it gets enacted before the election; that is the objective.
The people should be outraged. Here we are in the middle of a recession and massive job losses. What do our best and brightest come up with in the middle of that global warming snow blizzard? Their idea of a jobs bill was to extend unemployment benefits so they can say, “Okay, jobs problem fixed. No, let’s not fix the economy so businesses will start hiring again. Let’s just print and borrow more money to pay the extended jobless claims.” Now with the the jobs problem fixed, what’s next? Campaign contributions? Give me a break!
- FedUpEditor
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