{"id":188151,"date":"2010-12-01T22:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T03:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/01\/"},"modified":"2010-12-01T22:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T03:11:00","slug":"188151","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/01\/188151\/","title":{"rendered":"<facepalm>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img69.imageshack.us\/img69\/6200\/kodosthumbnail9152196.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"300\" \/>Never doubt the ability of Democrats to completely f%$# up the basic business of government.  Remember the food safety bill that the Senate recently passed?  Well it&#8217;s &lt;a href=&#8221; \/&gt;unconstitutional because it is a revenue bill that originated in the Senate, when the Constitution explicitly requires all revenue bills to originate in the house:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>In what amounts to an epic constitutionality #fail, Senate Democrats may have blown their chances to see their food safety bill signed into law.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. constitution requires that any revenue-raising bill must originate in the House of Representatives. To honor this provision, the Senate often finds a discarded old House bill, strips it bare, and uses it as a &#8220;shell&#8221; and passes it back to the House.<\/p>\n<p>They somehow forgot to do that this time.<\/p>\n<p>Now House and Senate Democratic leaders are scrambling to figure out some procedural hocus-pocus that will allow them each to pass identical pieces of legislation before they leave for the holidays. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So our choice today is between the forces of evil and the gang that can&#8217;t shoot straight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never doubt the ability of Democrats to completely f%$# up the basic business of government. Remember the food safety bill that the Senate recently passed? Well it&#8217;s &lt;a href=&#8221; \/&gt;unconstitutional because it is a revenue bill that originated in the Senate, when the Constitution explicitly requires all revenue bills to originate in the house: In &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1012,1020,985,1216,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-food","category-legislation","category-regulation","category-safety","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}