Congressional Favorability at 24-Year Low
Is it possible that the people have had enough of being robbed, lied to, and manipulated? The natives are clearly restless:
Americans are extremely displeased with Congress, and there are already some signs that this could take a toll on the Democrats in the 2010 midterm elections. Currently, 37% express a favorable opinion of Congress, while 52% hold an unfavorable view. Positive opinions of Congress have declined by 13 points since April and are now at one of their lowest points in more than two decades of Pew Research Center surveys.
It's possible this healthy trend could be sidetracked by a clever Republican PR campaign firing up the voters to "Throw the rascals in!" at the next election. But the old ways of gulling the public aren't working the way they used to, as events in Texas and elsewhere strongly suggest.
Instead of hiring another gang of lying thieves, let's fire DC. How? Start by clicking here.
more at memeorandum
posted by Old Rebel @ Wednesday, September 02, 2009
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The pity of this is that the framers of the Constitution, the Jeffersonians in particular, wanted the Congress, not the President or the Supreme Court, to be the "first branch", -- lawmaker, war-maker, policy-maker --, the Senate taking the lead in foreign policy, the House in fiscal. So also were intended the state legislatures, which would elect Federal Senators and choose the Electors of the Electoral College, and thus choose the President. The President himself would carry out the Congress' policy and enforce the Congress' laws. His veto was modeled on the Roman tribunes' veto -- with legislation he could do nothing and stop everything. The Supreme Court, when the Constitution or the laws were unclear, was to study the ratification debates and the debate on a law in the Congress and so to determine the Congress' will.
Consider Vanvitti's original design for the royal palace in Caserta: http://www.reggiadicaserta.beniculturali.it/guida_reggia/Xenglish/complesso/2100fs.htm -- complete with the dome. Remind you of something? Yes, the Capitol and most of the states' capitols. The big difference: Caserta's palace is the residence of an absolutist executive king; the capitols were to replace him as the house not of the executive but of the legislature, presidents and governors sidelined in a less glorious residence down the street, and the original Supreme Court chamber in the Capitol's basement.
Consider also how Caserta turned out: http://www.chauffeurs-italy.com/italian-city/19/campania/CASERTA%20-%20CASERTA%20PALACE . The king ran out of money for the dome. But does it remind you of something? Yes, a building for a vast army of bureaucrats -- one of the first such buildings, with the King not in the center of the building over the bureaucracy, as at Versailles, but simply the royal Bureaucrat-in-Chief. Today Caserta is copied in the "Federal Triangle" in DC, in executive buildings in every state, and "Federal Buildings" in most of our cities. The German Italian Command surrendered to the Allied Powers at Caserta in 1945, perhaps because to the American commander the palace reminded him of the Pentagon.
(For more on the Caserta Palace, Wikipedia article will do for a start. The Mall and the Reflecting Pool in DC were also copies of Caserta.)
Sid,
Yes, Lincoln totally perverted the Republic of Republics the Founders established.
Interesting point on Caserta! That's worthy of an article some day.
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