{"id":10894,"date":"2011-08-15T14:23:25","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T18:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10894"},"modified":"2011-08-15T14:23:25","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T18:23:25","slug":"mother-jones-thinks-rick-perry-too-radical-for-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10894\/mother-jones-thinks-rick-perry-too-radical-for-tea-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother Jones Thinks Rick Perry Too Radical for Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s always nice when liberals deign to give advice to conservatives on whom should be admitted to the next Tea Party rally.\u00a0 Commenting on excerpted parts of Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry\u2019s book <em>Fed Up!<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2011\/08\/rick-perry-too-radical-even-tea-party\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Drum<\/a> of Mother Jones thinks Rick Perry is wrong to think that it\u2019s unconstitutional for the federal government to regulate banks, consumer financial choices, the environment, guns, civil rights, a minimum wage, and create programs like Medicare and Medicaid.<\/p>\n<p>At least Drum acknowledges that Perry makes certain exceptions for federal regulations on racial discrimination since that fulfills \u201cthe intent behind the passage of the Reconstruction Era amendments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What makes liberals like Drum gasp is the fact that Perry thinks that, as James Madison argued in <em>Federalist 45<\/em>, \u201cThe powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined.\u00a0 Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But if a secondary source won\u2019t cut it for Drum, here\u2019s the text of the Tenth Amendment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If they cared to, Drum and other liberals would look in vain to find an enumerated grant of power to the federal government to regulate the items on the list above.\u00a0 That\u2019s why they rely on activist judges to read into the Constitution federal powers that do not exist.<\/p>\n<p>The Tea Party \u2013 like Perry, Michele Bachmann, and other constitutional conservatives \u2013 know their Constitution and the meaning behind it.\u00a0 If liberals like Drum are aghast, it\u2019s only because a grassroots movement is forming to challenge nearly 80 years of unconstitutional jurisprudence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s always nice when liberals deign to give advice to conservatives on whom should be admitted to the next Tea Party rally.\u00a0 Commenting on excerpted parts of Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry\u2019s book Fed Up!, Kevin Drum of Mother Jones thinks Rick Perry is wrong to think that it\u2019s unconstitutional for the federal government to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[914,2959,928,1450,56,1490,739,2066,300,838,28,995],"class_list":["post-10894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-activist-judges","tag-conservative","tag-federal","tag-government","tag-james-madison","tag-liberal","tag-michele-bachmann","tag-regulation","tag-rick-perry","tag-tea-party","tag-u-s-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10894"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10898,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10894\/revisions\/10898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}