Time to Consider an Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?

As I understand it, a reading of the U.S. Constitution (an updated version with more modern phrasings) will now be recited at the start of each new session of Congress, from 112th on forward. This reading being instituted by a House Resolution.  Furthermore, an additional resolution will now require that each newly introduced piece of legislation to cite the specific portion of the U.S. Constitution from which it draws its power of origination.  The point of the later being to prevent unconstitutional pieces of legislation, such as the "Healthcare Reform" law, from ever being signed in law in the first place.

Bravo, 112th Congress ... I'd say that you are off to a brilliant start!  I have to admit, I did rather enjoy seeing Nancy Peolosi reciting her part of the U.S. Constitution earlier today ... To me, it was rather like seeing a repentant parochial school girl who had just gotten caught cheating come clean.  So perhaps there is a modicum of justice in the world after all? 

Another reason for auplause: a "yeah or nay" vote  for the repeal of the "Healthcare Reform law" is on the agenda, in the House,  in the upcoming week.  Experts say it is unlikely that a similar vote will pass in the U.S. Senate -- although it should, if the elected officials in that chamber of the legislature have any hope of being re-elected to office --but I still keep hope.  I mean, if the totally unthinkable can happen ... with this nightmare piece of legislation being signed into law against the will (and strong oposition!!) of the American people in the first place ... then why can't the also unlikely scenario of a repeal vote passing in the Senate occur? 

If the above were to happen, that is that a repeal of the "Healthcare Reform" law were to pass in both the House as well as the Senate --despite what "experts" predict -- and such a bill were to make its way to President Obama for signature:  he would be a fool NOT to sign it into law! ... Because, does President Obama really want to be remembered throughout history as the President whose party so grossly violated their constitutional mandate, forcing into law a bill to which the American people were so adamently opposed?  I would hope not.

If the above scenario does not happen ... that is that is that a vote to repeal "Healthcare Reform" law passes in the U.S. House of Representatives, but not in the U.S. Senate ... then what are the American people supposed to do?  Just swallow this horrible pill and accept the socialization of the American healthcare system?  Standing by, helpless to act, as our healthcare system quality and available options decline, degrading the overall system, bit by bit,  as we have seen socialized medicine do in European countries such as England?  Not to mention the enormous cost of this snowball piece of legislation?  Should "We the people" patiently wait while the constitutionality of this "law" is hammered out in the U.S. courts, in a long and drawn out process that will likely take longer than two additional years (as it is highly unlikely that this matter will be "fast tracked' through the court system and make its way to the U.S. Suprem Court in a timely manner)?  I think NOT!!  In this case scenario, I say that "We the People" do not wait two additional years to get justice:  the damage that can be done in this timeframe is too great and I do not think that this damage can be averted by simply attempting to "defund" parts of the "Healthcare Reform" law. I say that we need to seriously consider the enactment of legislation that would create an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, whereby gross violations of legislative power (e.g., the passage into law of the "Healtcare Reform Act") can be redressed by a vote of the American people.

Perhaps it is fitting that I come to this epiphany ... a vocalization of this epiphany ... today, on the "Feast of the Epiphany"?


P.S.  Bill Oreilly ... I am disappointed in you.  You've tried so hard, for so long, to be in the "No Spin Zone" that you've apparently lost your momentum?  If you were truly "fair and balanced" you would have Mike Huckabee, spokesperson for the "Petition to Repeal Healthcare Reform Law", on your television show ("The Factor") before you threw in the towel on the likelihood of a timely success for the repeal of the "Healthcare Reform law."

Welcome to the Members of the 112th Session of Congress: You've got your work cut-out for you!!

(1/7/2010  I  have read over what I had written here the other day.  In looking back, I see that perhaps I come across as being completely intolerant of the liberal perspective and opinions on political issues. 

The latter is simply not the case. 

While I do consider myself to be an Independent with Conservative leanings, I am open to hearing and considering other points of view.  I realize that sometimes we just have "agree to disagree." 

That being said, our elected legislative representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives and  the U.S. Senate DO have to find a way to work together towards completing the tasks that they were sent to Washington D.C. to accomplish by the people that they represent.  Agree to disagree just won't cut it in Congress ... neither will strict aherence to party ideaology.  Furthermore, I firmly believe that liberals, conservatives, and everything in between ... Republicans, Independents and Democrats ...

... whatever our elected officials choose to call themselves ... 

they ALL need to be painfully aware that not only are they there to serve and represent the will of the American people, but that their mandate to do the latter comes expressly through the enumerated powers granted to them by United States Constitution and there is no "agree to disagree"

in this matter.  )

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Welcome to the members of the 112th session of the Congress of United States of America!

I am anxious to see what this session of Congress will be able to accomplish. Hopefully, the members of this 112th Session of Congress realize that this past election was a mandate from the American people for doing business differently this time around. Specifically, the American people are outraged that  "We the people" were completely ignored and the "Healthcare Reform Act" was passed into law against the will (strong opposition!!) of the American people. Further, the American people want smaller government ... mainly in terms of rampant spending, but also in terms of less government control and involvement in all aspects of our daily lives.

I am still dumbfounded that a bill -- the "Healthcare Reform Act" -- that the American people were so adamantly opposed to found its way into law?! I wonder what our Founding Fathers would say if they were here and had a voice today? I don't think that they could have predicted this outcome in their wildest, wildest dreams ... or rather, I should say: nightmares.  Perhaps, given this recent scenario of gross abuse of power by our elected officials, in 111th Congress, there does need to be an amendment to our U.S. Constitution whereby the American people would be given a vehicle for redress of such a blatant disregard for our Constitution and the will of the American people.

The one thing that the 111th Congress has taught me is that the primary difference between a "liberal" and a "conservative" is that the former have a profound disrespect for the Constitution of the United States of America.  Liberals now openly admit that they feel that our Constitution is an outdated document that should not dictate how our government does business (and I will post quotes to support this here shortly). 

Members of Congress take an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America when they are sworn into office and their failure to do so should be grounds for their immediate removal from office. Thus, I find it fitting that the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner, has called for a reading of our Constitution in the House Chamber tomorrow. I only hope that the words of our Constitution resonate in the minds and hearts of the members of the 112th session of Congress as they undertake the important tasks that they have at hand this session ... first and foremost being the dismantling of the "Healthcare Reform law".