Comments on: Congress becomes Madison’s “overbearing majority”

By: armchair pessimist

armchair pessimist — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 12:59:37 +0000

Like many here, I bet, I was at my local Tea Party last week. I walked around taking photos of the signs (my own sign will be a compilation-essay on youtube), and the funniest thought hit me. Know what we are? The new Bolsheviks! The Constitution is our Das Kapital. We study it; we teach it. We are coalescing into thousands of tiny cells; we spread the bacillus. True, we have no Lenin and will have to make due with the Founding Fathers, which is fine by me. And, most exquisite of all, we even have “czars” to overthrow, tons of them! Excuse me now, have to bone up on What Is To Be Done?….

By: njcommuter

njcommuter — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:13:43 +0000

It is sometimes good to emphasize the obvious: in all of human history, no other nation has received as much wisdom from its founding fathers and founding processes as the USA. More even than a great wonder of nature, we who hold it keep it not just for ourselves but for all of humanity. We abandon it at our peril and theirs.

By: The Anchoress | A First Things Blog

The Anchoress | A First Things Blog — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:02:39 +0000

[…] Neoneocon, who I don’t link to enough has some Madison for you and she and Krauthammer dare to say what the MSM will not, that Obama’s “successful […]

By: IgotBupkis

IgotBupkis — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 07:46:18 +0000

> Do readers here have a preferred edition of the Federalist Papers? I just use whatever version I find on the internet.

By: IgotBupkis

IgotBupkis — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 07:45:40 +0000

Good piece

By: jvermeer51

jvermeer51 — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 23:32:58 +0000

Do readers here have a preferred edition of the Federalist Papers?

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:58:04 +0000

I think what’s really great about this column is that in the pre-internet era there’s absolutely no way that a place like the Weekly Standard would let someone like you write a column for them. After all, you don’t have any credentials in the punditocracy class, you’re just a regular citizen like the rest of us — thankfully a thoughtful one.

By: Sergey

Sergey — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:34:43 +0000

It is hard to escape a vague feeling that things remorselessly spiral out of control to what Lenin called a “revolutionary situation”: when establishment can’t anymore rule as before, and masses do not want anymore live as before. We see a clash of the two kind of revolutionaries: Obama’s team, whose agenda is obviously so audacious that can’be named anything other, and Tea Party tax rebellion. It is a polite and so far non-violent rebellion, but its goal – to put government under people’s control – is very revolutionary by its essence, after half a century of government expansion in all spheres of public and private life. I expect some event which is called “A Black Swan”: largerly unexpected before it happened and almost unevitable in hindsight. The examples are: WWI, collapse of Soviet Union, global finantial crisis. This is only a vague feeling, of course: events of this type are, by definition, unpredictable.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:24:06 +0000

Upon closer look, the Constituting America website links to the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and Bill of Rights, but I don’t see the Federalist Papers linked there. My bad.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:18:14 +0000

Sergey and others: I had read about that 1854 bill before. In my opinion, although it approaches the HCR machinations and unpopularity, the current one eclipsed it in both those aspects. We don’t have polls from that time, of course. But we have them now. Let’s hope the fallout of HCR and the Obama administration doesn’t equal the fallout of Kansas/Nebraska, however.