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Between the "general welfare" and "elastic clause" the rest of the document is null and void to lefists. Oh wait, you could also include the commerce claus just to really broaden the scope.

Makes you wonder what power was left exactly to give to the people, and the States.

What part of "PROMOTE" the general welfare do they NOT understand? There is a chasm of of difference between "promoting" and "giving every effing thing we've all worked hard for to anybody who doesn't deserve it" concepts.

MAKE A STAND, PEOPLE! YOUR COUNTRY IS SLIPPING AWAY!

The words 'general welfare' are in the Preamble to the Constitution, so that means all Americans are entitled to welfare? Whose welfare?

Hmmm... Let's see what other words are in the Preamble that "all people should also be entitled to":

"Justice"
"Tranquility"
"defense"
"Blessings"
"Liberty"

Liberals have proven that the 'progressive' meaning of all of these terms is relative only to the lowest common denominator.

I could write a book about how silly liberals bend the meaning of these words (or ban some of them) to fit their power hungry agenda.

I interpret that power as to promote the general 'well being' of the relationships between the states. To be a fair referee when contentions arise. It isn't talking about The People.

Section 8 - Here's what Congress can do
Section 9 - Here's what Congress can't do
Section 10 - Here's what the States can't do

The context is the relationship between the national government and the states.

There is only one elected official whose constituency is The People of the States, that is the President. But even still The states selected the President.

Because it dealt very little with the People it had to be amended to define what the government or the states cannot do with respect to the individual.

So it is a bit of pretzel logic to interpret that phrase, appearing where it does in the structure, as a right to force the people to buy insurance.

In the democrat's mind we are a democracy of people though the word does not appear in the document but it does guarantee a republican form of government to the people of each state.

It's almost like a corporation. The board deals with managers, the managers deal with the employees.

I have two words for Senator Malarky, "B S"

I have another two words for the Senator come 2010:
You're Fired.

Poll results are coming in from all over the country and the news is bad for "progressives."

Several more months of the Cockroach-in-Chief and
Sarah Palin will begin to look like Joan of Arc.

The polls ARE encouraging right now. I just hope that this energy can continue to build over the coming months. People tend to treat this stuff like entertainment, so I hope this is actual, gut-level "save the U.S." patriotism at work and not a fad.

"With respect to the words general welfare, I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators." -James Madison

Liberals think those two words are a blank check (often literally) to do anything and everything they like. The men who wrote the Constitution never intended for those words to be used in the way they have been, but then they were men of common sense.

Rasmussen's daily poll is super late today. I wonder why? A freefall overnight from the KSM debacle, and they need to double check their numbers?

Anyway, that clown up there, if you go to Gradegov.com, you can see a whole lotta nasty mail from his constituents, even the Dems. Wow! A whole laundry list of bitter, angry complaints. When they write to him, they get a canned response from him: "I'm too busy to reply." His official congressional photo shows a toothy, gladhanding smarmy politician. Pack your bags.

Correction, he's up for re-election in 2014. Not. Much. Beloved.

It's "PROMOTE" not "PROVIDE" dick head. Did you even read the document you swore to uphold?

These 2 posts of mine (different psuedo name) try to explain how we got into the current Federal government powers overreach mess. Enjoy.
http://sayanythingblog.com/rmobile/entry/the_federal_governments_overreach_of_the_commerce_clause/
http://sayanythingblog.com/rmobile/entry/the_general_welfare_clause_-_the_other_side_of_the_federal_governments_over/

To libe`rals the constittution dont mean a thing unless it pertains to gay marrages or walking nude down main street

Reminds me of that Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. He came to the SC in the sixties, a LBJ affirmative Action appointee.

I could have made a valid case that I deserved as much consideration for a place on the SC bench as he did.

His most intelligent comment that he made about his tenure on the SC, "We will just do THE RIGHT THING and let the law catch up."
Amazing....

Once again proving we have always had and continue to have idiots in all branches of the federal government.

Reminds me of that Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. He came to the SC in the sixties, a LBJ affirmative Action appointee.

I could have made a valid case that I deserved as much cnsideration for a place on the SC bench as he did.

His most intelligent comment that he made about his tenure on the SC, "We will just do THE RIGHT THING and let the law catch up."
Amazing....

Once again proving we have always had and continue to have idiots in all branches of the federal government.

And then theres PROVIDE FOR THE COMMON DEFENSE