“He and I call ourselves the Ben Franklin Caucus,” said Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon)… [More]
So, Giffords-endorsee Ron likens himself to a champion of liberty who endorsed “an improvement, in the use of Small Armes, wherein a common small arm, may be maid to discharge eight balls one after another, in eight, five or three seconds of time”…?
Why… “the Framers could have never imagined…”
As someone who has been hopeful for your political career from early on, I urge you to be careful who you ally yourself with, Sen. Paul. Some of us get and share your concerns about doing an end run around Congress. Now, by vocally opposing it and forming an alliance with the Marxists, it’s on you to explain how all the things enacted by ther Uniparty that Trump is undoing were within their legitimate Constitutionally-delegated powers to impose in the first place, and whether or not your libertarian-minded principles are leading you –and all of us –down a chute where a horrible ending is planned.
All one needs do is look at this MSN article to realize the Democrats are using you.
If you really want to see things go “extra-Constitutional,” keep siding with those backing normal Americans into a corner. We’re at the “VLLA SELLA” stage, and you ought to know that. Its time to choose a chair.
“the Framers could have never imagined…”
I think it is self evident that the Framers could imagine quite a bit. After all, they imagined a new paradigm of self governance and used it to shape a republic that is approaching its 250th year.
If we were to find any shortcomings in what they could imagine, it would be in the general decline in the quality and motivation of people attracted to government service.
But then again, there had to be a reason why some of them insisted that the founding documents establishing their newly formed government include a bill of rights that protected and enhanced Jefferson’s prose in the Declaration of Independence.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.”
Seven years after imagining a people’s duty to throw off a malignant government, they pulled it off. They fought their way out from under the rule of a government backed by the best military the planet had seen up to that point.
And six years after they did, they adopted language to insure that their descendants could do it again when it inevitably became necessary to do so.
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
It seems to me that one of the problems we face today is a shortage of politicians with the imagination to understand what the Founders, in fact, did imagine all those years ago.