SPALDING: A 'Capitol' crime

I'm not sure why Mr. Spalding is so upset. Isn't the Capitol Visitor Center precisely what David Brooks, Bill Kristol and the rest of The Weekly Standard crowd called for. Isn't this the kind of grand monument building that the federal government should be engaged in as a part of "National Greatness" conservatism. Ok, so it's not as great as they would have hoped for, but what did they expect? Oh, I see: it would have been ok if the building had been designed and the displays written by someone on their team. In other words, neocons and liberals just quibble over details. A principled conservative would have opposed the creation of this project all together.

"A principled conservative would have opposed the creation of this project all together." Peter that's all that needs to be said. What a waste of money.

SPALDING: A 'Capitol' Crime 12/3/08 Mr. Spalding has the silly idea that because the Constitution enabled the U.S. to become the greatest country on earth, and because as soon as our Congresses and presidents began ignoring it, the country started sliding down the slippery slope, the lesson is that we should treasure constitutional government all the more. But the supercapitalists who own and operate our government want an intrusive socialist government (which they will own) to run this country, because that can make them richer quicker; and they want the U.S. to be part of a socialist global-government (which they will partly own). If you don't believe me, read the (Rockefellers') CFR publication, "Foreign Affairs," for awhile: it is the Bible of the Beltway, and that is what it preaches. Therefore, the Demopublican Congresses and presidents have been working as hard as they could to attain those goals. In addition, the Republican party is still in the grip of the neoconservatives, a group of Trotskyite Marxists who finally realized that Leninism wouldn't work, so they adopted Antonio Gramsci's individualist-Marxist tactics instead--while wrapping themselves in the American flag. The only sizeable group in America that wants to preserve America at its best, by preserving constitutional government, is Middle America--the Red State conservatives; and at present, they are completely powerless politically.

As Americans we should all aspire to greatness. Since greatness, by definition, is hard to achieve, we should be thankful we have Congress that can simply pass a law mandating it.

Ignorance of the Constitution will be the Achilles heel of our Republic. We and our children are pretty much the products of a deficient educational system that fails to teach that the Constitution by its definition is supposed to be a limit on what government can do. Instead, Congress itself and most of the intelligentsia want the Constitution be a free ticket for whatever fancy strikes the mood of the elite at the time --- gun control, the Fairness Doctrine, gay marriage, abuse of eminent domain --- you name it. This is part of the reason we have overreaching politicians and judicial tyrants. Most people just look at that, and assume that's allowed, that's the way it always has been, and that't the way it always shall be. It is outrageous, but not surprising, given that most politicians are lawyers, that they would erect a temple to their ability to bastardize the Constitution to suit their unconstitutional goals.