The End Runners
In our current society there are those among us who believe they can determine the meaning and truth of any idea by its practical consequence. Rules that oppose any plan to solve temporary, popular needs/wants are to be bypassed by any means. In the last decade in order to solve congressional over-spending Congress gave the President the temporary power to veto items in any its legislation. The problem is is that Congress had no power to grant such power; a power left to the supposedly sovereign States to grant. It took several letters to explain to my two Representatives of their errors: Sensenbrenner insisted the line-veto was sun-setted and Petri had finally agreed I was correct but the need to do it was faster than amending. Obviously, elected and unelected political elite see the U.S. Constitution as obstructing their expediency.
Mitt Romney was the only GOP presidential candidate not to say the Congress must pass some form of a war resolution before the President may go to war. [by the way, in cases of immediate danger the War Power Act allows Congress to delay its resolution by 60-90 days while the President instantly goes to war. It is a cold-war era measure.] Romney said he would consult with his attorneys if he needed congressional approval. HUH? Will his attorneys tell him there are other ways, more expedient means for a desire of a practical consequence? That sounded a bit of an end run around the Constitution to me! In the last debate, St. Petersburg, Romney criticized the former mayor of NYC for opposing the 1996 line-item veto as unconstitutional. [it was not sent by Congress to the States for passage thus the Supreme Court correctly stuck it down; it was a no-brainer.] Romney by these two clear examples is an end runner — he has fallen for the Washington disease of pragmatism. A Romney Presidency will be full-employment for lawyers who will successfully challenge his every move.
Now, I am not just picking on Mitt Romney as the only end runner. All the Republicans including Paul have fallen for looking for fast-track means to solve problems; it is a matter of degree of their end running. The Democrats are end runners around the Constitution by the very fact they are socialists. As socialists the Constitution stands in the way for their Utopian managed democracy.
It isn’t just in politics the false god of end running has appeared. Moral relativism is prepuced on society. We are awaiting for Romney to do a Kennedyesque speech on Thursday. Will Romney declare he takes no advise from Salt Lake City (home of his Mormon church) as Kennedy did in 1960 that John the XXIII (leader of J. Kennedy’s church then) wouldn’t advise him. I do hope Romney doesn’t rule out that his church leaders shan’t advise him totally as Kennedy did. Kennedy had needed to be reminded, it appears that nobody did, that his God forbid killing and adultery.
