Mitch McConnell Outsourcing Everything, Including His Job

No, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) didn’t officially resign from the Senate.  He will still engage in all legislative activities that advance Obama’s agenda, such as Obamatrade, the highway trust fund bailout, Export-Import Bank, and reauthorizing No Child Left Behind.  But he did publicly outsource the last vestige of constitutional checks on the two unelected branches of government.  So what is the purpose of serving in the legislative branch of government other than to enrich your friends with pay-for-play favors? 

We already know that McConnell doesn’t believe in the congressional power of the purse under any circumstance – no matter how unlawful and harmful this Administration grows in its final two years.  Now he is surrendering every remaining legislative check on the Judiciary as well, and worse, he is openly welcoming the extremists in the Judicial Branch to serve as judge, jury, and executioner over religious liberty.  

McConnell builds up the straw-man option of a constitutional amendment only to knock it down by observing that it will never pass.

McConnell is one of those GOP leaders who would successfully secure the support of credulous and ineffective social conservatives groups for years by saying he was for traditional values.  Yet over the past decade he has remained stone silent in the face of the most unconstitutional assaults on natural law and religious liberty, including the assault on federalism, when his own hand-picked judge illegally tossed out his state’s marriage law. A law, which passed with the support of 75% of the people.  Now he is emphatically saying that the lawless Supreme Court decision, which is precluded by the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and precedent from several recent court cases, is the “law of the land.” He told Politico that they are out of legislative options and that it’s time to move on, presumably, to more important things…like reauthorizing No Child Left Behind.   

McConnell builds up the straw-man option of a constitutional amendment only to knock it down by observing that it will never pass.  But he refuses to even recognize the Article III powers that Congress has to strip the Supreme Court of its jurisdiction over these issues and to completely regulate and remake the lower courts.  These are initiatives that can pass with a GOP president the same way he plans to pass his K Street agenda.

But it gets worse.

While offering a parsimonious recognition of the need to protect religious liberty, McConnell outsources our most inherent founding rights to…you guessed it…the very same courts that don’t believe in them and are even ripping replicas of the Ten Commandments from state capitals as we speak.

“There’s the possibility of legislation, but I think most of this is going to be in the courts.” With these words, McConnell has just granted the courts the authority to regulate the very foundational inherent rights we celebrate this year in marking the 239^th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. 

Sadly, this is nothing new.  McConnell refused to nullify the D.C. anti-religious liberty laws, which he could have done with a simple-majority vote.  Yet, he says his hands are tied in responding to last week’s bloodless revolution.

Via: Conservative Review

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