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« Reply #105 on: July 28, 2009, 10:00:17 pm »

            By a vote of 83 to 13 the Oklahoma House of Representatives passes a state sovereignty resolution, resolving “That the State of Oklahoma hereby claims sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States,” and advising the federal government to “…cease and desist, effectively immediately, mandates that are beyond the scope of these constitutionally delegated powers.” Observers predict the resolution will also pass in the Oklahoma Senate and will be signed by the governor, even though he is a Democrat. If additional states pass such measures, the act of state defiance may place pressure on Obama, Pelosi, and Reid to roll back their plans for expanding federal power to unprecedented levels. [1381]

            Montana becomes the 21st state to introduce a sovereignty resolution (along with Arizona, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, Nevada, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington). The Montana resolution ends with:  “(22) That if any act of Congress becomes law or if an Executive Order or Judicial Order is put into force related to the reservations expressed in this resolution, Montana’s ‘Compact With the United States’ is breached and all powers previously delegated to the United States by the federal Constitution and Bill of Rights revert to the states individually. (23) That any future government of the United States shall require ratification of three-fourths of the states seeking to form a government and shall not be binding upon any state not seeking to form a government. (24) That the Secretary of State send copies of this resolution to the President of the United States and to each member of the United States Congress.” [1387, 1388, 1454, 1575]

            Carroll D. Childers, Major General (retired), becomes a plaintiff in the Orly Taitz lawsuit that challenges Obama’s eligibility to serve as president. [1416]

            On February 24, Obama addresses a joint session of Congress where he outlines his domestic and foreign policy plans. When Obama remarks that he asked for the stimulus bill “not because I believe in bigger government—I don’t,” there are quiet titters but most in the audience are too polite to laugh aloud. When Obama says, “Now, I’m proud that we passed a recovery plan free of earmarks,” many in the chamber roar with laughter. Obama’s speech provides a broad outline of a considerably larger government, but without providing details, prompting criticisms of a “stirring speech with no substance.” The next day Ben Willis of VDM Institutional Brokerage remarks, “Evidently the people on Wall Street are not as joyful as Ms. Pelosi was yesterday jumping up 60 times (to applaud),” and “There was nothing in it (the speech). Wall Street hates uncertainty. We keep being told by this administration ‘it’s coming, we’re gonna give you the details, we’re gonna give you the details,’ and when they don’t come we demonstrate our disappointment by taking the stocks lower.” [1391, 1439, 1554]

            In Obama’s address, he states his administration has “…begun to go line by line through the federal budget in order to eliminate wasteful and ineffective programs” and says, “we have already identified $2 trillion in savings over the next decade.” The Washington Post quickly follows up on the unlikely figure and learns that the $2 trillion “saved” amount was not really “saved.” It was arrived at by including more than $1 trillion in tax hikes, and from assuming first that Iraq expenditures would continue until 2019 and then considering that money “saved” by deciding troops would not, in fact, remain until 2019. (Using that logic, Obama could plan a $10 trillion mission to land a man on Mars and then “save” that $10 trillion by immediately canceling the project.) In other words, Obama did not identify $2 trillion in savings by eliminating programs; he lied. [1524, 1559]

            In his speech Obama states, “…our economy did not fall into decline overnight,” and then makes the incredible charge that the recession was caused by a failure to find new sources of energy, the cost of health care, and inadequate schools—when the recession was the result of a bursting housing bubble, reckless spending, unsound investments in mortgage-backed securities, house-flippers, naïve homebuyers, and incredibly unsound decisions by the Federal Reserve Board. Obama improperly identifies his three “pet” causes of the recession only to justify his desire to spend trillions of tax dollars in those areas and to further his radical political agenda. [1560]

            Although many media commentators, as expected, give Obama’s speech high marks, few, if any, ask the key questions posed by economist and author Thomas Sowell: “How much will it cost?” “Who pays for it?” and “Will it work?” [1413]

            After Obama’s address, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal gives the Republican response. As Jindal approaches his microphone, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews mockingly moans “Oh God,” while others laugh in the background. [1392]

            Alarmed by the massive federal spending and the waste-filled stimulus bill, Senator James DeMint (R-NC) tells the Augusta Chronicle, “I would think it’s time to start thinking about peaceful demonstrations”, and calls the stimulus bill the worst legislation since the adoption of the federal income tax. “Freedom is in our hands; it always has been. We’ve entrusted it to people in Washington, and increasingly they have picked our pockets and pulled power from us. We’re just going to have to take it back.” Aware that Congress won’t stop spending unless it hears from the voters, DeMint states “It’s just whether or not the American people are going to stand up and say enough is enough. It’s the people’s government, and the people are going to have to take it back. They can do it with their voices and with their votes—and they may have to do it with their legs. People are going to have to show that they’re not going to take it anymore.” He observes that legislators might think twice “…if they had several hundred people standing outside one of their state offices asking, ‘What in the world are you thinking?’” [1358, 2043]
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