It’s the same argument I have with extreme anti-abortion activists. “Why don’t we spend more time on abstinence and less time once the horse is out of the barn?” I get the same silence when I ask that, that Rob Wittman gets when he proposes legislation like this one.

For once we have a non-lawyer, with a real degree, with real intelligence and ability in our government. Don’t make our shining star look like he’s in league with the rest of the Communists on this one issue Mr. Watson, it’s unbecoming of your abilities as a writer and thinker.

In the Kentucky Resolutions, written by Thomas Jefferson, said “Resolved. That the Constitution of the United States, having delegated to Congress a power to punish treason, counterfeiting, and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the law of nations, and no other crimes whatsoever; “

This is what Jefferson said about the general welfare clause.” It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States, and, as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please.”

He also wrote. “On every question of construction carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed”

I beleive it would fall under the “general welfare” clause.

It really sucks that someone actually expects a national politician to follow the United States Constitution, a document that they swore to support and defend. Perish the thought!

..And since when did I have constituents?