Open Letter to Outgoing Republican Senators

© ignoranceorapathy.com 11/07/2008
Open letter to all outgoing Republican U.S. Senators.

With the loss of the White House, more seats in the House and the Senate our nation faces what could be perilous if not radical socialist times. It therefore would be in the best interest of the nation if you Republican Senators who have lost your seats make one last effort on the part of our republic.

Philabuster the Senate!

Stop all proceedings in the Senate including the Electoral College process until the Senate brings to the floor votes on all of George W. Bushes Judicial appointments. Last I knew there are approximately 150 federal benches awaiting judges that the Senate has not voted on.

Follow up:

Hold court in the Senate until these judgeships have been voted on, that will reduce the number that Obama has the chance to fill. The Senate has a constitutional obligation to give advice and consent to presidential appointments, they must be made to do it.

This action will endear the now unemployed senators to the heart of the recently disenfranchised conservatives in our nation. It will also pump new life into an effort to retake the party back from the country club blue blood moderates that cost us so dearly in this election.

There will be a charge led by real conservatives to take back the Republican Party from these so-called moderates (i.e. liberals in a red dress) and it will take leadership. You outgoing senators have nothing to loose now, and everything to gain. It is your chance to be on the forefront of the greatest resurgence of American values since 1865.

After January 20th 2009 it would be wise for you to join with local grass roots conservative republicans to stand against in the Supreme Court if required any and all socialist redistribution legislation that may be signed into law.

Nowhere in our constitution is there granted to either the legislative or the executive branch the authority of benevolence. (see James Madison January 10th 1794)

http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/AmericanIdeal/aspects/limited_gov_treaty.htm

…stated his hope that some way could be devised for their relief other than a grant of financial aid by Congress because, he stated, this would be beyond the authority of Congress under the Constitution. The newspaper's summary of his remarks is, in part:

". . . the government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects--it is not like the state governments whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the [Federal] government; it would puzzle him to lay his finger on any part of the constitution which would authorise the government to interpose in this business . . . He concluded his remarks by saying, that tho' he was of opinion that the relief contemplated could not be granted in the way proposed . . ." [because in violation of the Constitution, yet a constitutional way might be found.]
His remarks as reported in another newspaper, The Philadelphia Gazette and Universal Daily Advertiser, of January 14, 1794, were used later as the basis for the official report in the Annals of Congress---due to lack of an official reporter in that period--and were to the same general effect, in part as follows:

"Mr. Madison . . . was afraid of establishing a dangerous precedent, which might hereafter be perverted to the countenance of purposes, very different from those of charity. He acknowledged, for his own part, that he could not undertake to lay his finger on that article in the Federal Constitution, which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents. And if once they broke the line laid down before them [in the Constitution], for the direction of their conduct, it was impossible to say, to what lengths they might go, or to what extremities this practice might be carried."

Taking these actions would reinforce the checks and balances system established in our constitution and it would restore some faith and confidence in the leadership of the Republican Party.

As true conservatives our hands have been tied in recent years and it is once again time to assert ourselves, we must reclaim the heritage and intention of our founders. As the words of our Declaration of Independence ring as true today as they did in 1776...

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Thank you for your service to our nation.

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