Damn the Constitution — Full Spend Ahead

National Review's Jonah Goldberg has (correctly) jumped on New York's first-term senior senator, Chuck Schumer, for advocating a new New Deal, suggesting that the senator should reread his high school civics book.

I hate to take issue with Mr. Goldberg, but if Schumer were to reread a high school civics book (assuming he ever read one in the first place) it would be a waste of time. For Democrats it's been for decades "What we can get away with," which is in no civics book.

As a new New Dealer, Schumer wants to get back to the FDR formula of "Tax and tax, spend and spend, and elect and elect," which of course means bigger government. Damn the Constitution, full spending ahead.

Schumer also wants to change "advise and consent" relative to judicial appointments to "advise and hold for philosophical ransom."

It would be comforting if we thought we could depend on congressional Republicans to stand in the breech, but many have turned to mush. Mike Reagan once said "They (the GOP) will get us to Communism one week later than the Democrats."

It will be up to us to give them all some backbone. Let's go over the heads of leadership to our own lawmakers. See below.

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