I’m running behind this morning, so I’ll keep this short.
One of the constant drumbeats during the Bush years was the idea that the President and his administration were shredding the Constitution. Well this administration is above that. They wouldn’t dream of shredding the Constitution, they’re too busy just ignoring it.
Two quick examples.
As I read through the various news reports on GM’s CEO “resignation” I was floored and speechless. John Hinderaker echos my thoughts.
I’m not sure who is on Obama’s “team,” or why they are better qualified than GM management to figure out how to “succeed in this competitive global market.” Obama’s arrogance is best explained, one suspects, by an a priori conviction that government always knows best.
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I wasted a couple of hours today looking for the Automobile Repair Clause in the Constitution, but I couldn’t find it. Again, this intermingling of the state with private (or formerly private) enterprise is a sad echo of intellectual currents that swept through Europe in the 1930s. Resurrecting this sort of state “capitalism” can hardly be considered progress.
Then this morning I read about another power grab at Ace’s.
Basically, HR 875 sets up a MASSIVE new government bureaucracy called the Food Safety Administration, and compels anything known as a “food establishment” to register with the federal government (paying registration fees of course) and to submit to inspections that are at different intervals depending on the type of “food establishment” you are.
The (formerly) ubiquitous summer roadside vegetable stand appears to be both Category 3 and 5 “food establishments” since they sells “fresh produce in ready-to-eat raw form” and “stores, holds, or transports food products prior to delivery for retail sale”.
The explicit exclusions in Section 3 (13)(B) do not exclude roadside vegetable stands.
Section 3 (14) explicitly declares “any farm” (no matter what the size) to be a “FOOD PRODUCTION FACILITY”.
Section 406 is a real doozy which places the burden of proof on the small farmer or roadside stand operator to demonstrate that none of their goods were participants in interstate commerce (the basis for this whole thing appears to be the Commerce Clause)
One of the commenters there (Fish) had this (Cleaned for bR&E) to say:
I am trying to find the notation in the Constitution that gives the Supreme Commander and his lackeys the right to f*** over farmers, but to date, it eludes me.
I also liked this one:
How soon before Michelle Obama faces fines for the farm in back of the White House?
Heh.
The overreaching is unbelievable.
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