Comments on: Bailout or Socialist Takeover? http://illinoisconservative.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/bailout-or-socialist-takeover/ Illinois Conservative Action Network Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:51:59 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Fenton Burroughs http://illinoisconservative.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/bailout-or-socialist-takeover/#comment-205 Fenton Burroughs Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:29:29 +0000 http://illinoisconservative.wordpress.com/?p=119#comment-205 The Senate bill`s cost is now $850B to pay for the added Pork Barrel Spending. I called my Congressman and encouraged him to stick with his "NO" vote. The action by the Senate clearly illustrates that Congress has no idea that there is even a Constitution on a many levels. This vote was not just wrong, it was unethical, corrupt and unprofessional. For those lawyers in Congress, as officers of the court, they should be disbarred. More proof of ignorance of the Constitution was in last night`s debate, when Senator Biden, with 35 year of "experience" in public service, lambasted Vice President Cheney`s claim that the Vice President is a legislator. The fact is that as President of the Senate, the Vice President obviously has legislative power. Vice President Cheney actually used this power when a tie occurred in the Senate on December 21, 2005. Vice President Cheney`s vote affected the outcome which clearly demonstrated Constitutional legislative authority. Biden was dead wrong on this one. To go one step further, a careful reading of the Constitution reveals that the Vice President is not a explicitly a member of the executive branch either until the Vice President succeeds the President in a number of Constitutional circumstances. In short, if the President is in-country, alive and fully functional, the Vice President`s only Constitutional authority is President of the Senate. The Senate bill`s cost is now $850B to pay for the added Pork Barrel Spending. I called my Congressman and encouraged him to stick with his “NO” vote.

The action by the Senate clearly illustrates that Congress has no idea that there is even a Constitution on a many levels. This vote was not just wrong, it was unethical, corrupt and unprofessional. For those lawyers in Congress, as officers of the court, they should be disbarred.

More proof of ignorance of the Constitution was in last night`s debate, when Senator Biden, with 35 year of “experience” in public service, lambasted Vice President Cheney`s claim that the Vice President is a legislator.

The fact is that as President of the Senate, the Vice President obviously has legislative power. Vice President Cheney actually used this power when a tie occurred in the Senate on December 21, 2005. Vice President Cheney`s vote affected the outcome which clearly demonstrated Constitutional legislative authority. Biden was dead wrong on this one.

To go one step further, a careful reading of the Constitution reveals that the Vice President is not a explicitly a member of the executive branch either until the Vice President succeeds the President in a number of Constitutional circumstances. In short, if the President is in-country, alive and fully functional, the Vice President`s only Constitutional authority is President of the Senate.

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