re: #65 Obdicut

Get out there and follow it.

That’s a laugh.

Ever since Justice John Marshall opined and established judicial review, the Supreme Court has ruled on the constitutionality of statutes, and the meaning of the Constitution itself. 200+ years of jurisprudence suggests that the Constitution is anything but simple to understand and that the beauty of the Constitution is that it isn’t so cut and dry.

Heck, something like Art. 1, Sec. 8, Cl. 18 - which is the necessary and proper clause (that I think would justify pretty much any Congressional action for something like HCR) isn’t nearly that clear to these folks, who think that Congress didn’t have the power to impose HCR b/c it isn’t explicitly included in the Constitution.

Neither is funding the Air Force (the Army and Navy are specifically included), to name but one example, but I don’t think they’d have an issue with that. Well, maybe except to Rand Paul (who seems to have no problem dismantling the US nuclear weapons infrastructure too by calling for the elimination/massive cuts to the Dept. of Energy, which oversees the US nuclear infrastructure (nuclear weapons, processing/reprocessing, etc.).