Republicans Got Their Country Back... From Whom?

Republicans have been saying they want their country back, and as a fiscal conservative I keep wondering country back from Whom? With Mr. Boehner as speaker of the house, is the question answered? Did the republicans wrestle their country back from some outer-beings may be from the Moon or planet Mars? I had hoped the media had asked that question prior to November 2010.

Republicans rave against government and my question is they hate government so much why do they run for political office? Mr. John Boehner has been in congress for over eighteen years [18 yrs], Mr. Mitch McConnell about the same. Oh wait, they do not like government when the other party is in-charge, but they love the government when their party is in-charge, that is simple, why did the media not ask these questions, may be voters would be a little more informed about who they are selecting to represent them in congress.

The people who claim the sanctity of the US Constitution have either not read with understanding or they are just disingenuous about their understanding what is actually contained in the precious document. I will take the preamble to the constitution and Section 2 of Article 1: that delineates the Legislative Branch. The following quotes of parts of the US Constitution are taken from http://www.usconstitution.net/const.pdf and is used as basis for my arguments for this Blog.


"
Preamble  to the Constitution

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish
Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the
general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do
ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America

Article. I. - The Legislative Branch

Section 1 - The Legislature
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States,
which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

Section 2 - The House

The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year
by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the
Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State
Legislature.

No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five
Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when
elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.

(Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which
may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be
determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to
Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other 
Persons.) (The previous sentence in parentheses was modified by the 14th 
Amendment, section 2.)
....

The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall
have the sole Power of Impeachment.
”
For those who seem to claim love for the constitution but proclaim a dislike for government, I point you to the Preamble, the clearest statement of the establishment of self  Government of United States. It, therefore, is contradictory for the so-claimed haters of US government to publicly proclaim themselves as loving the Constitution as our sacred document, but these same people are always running to gain political control of the government they so profess to abhor. I call these people, who are mostly republicans, hypocrites running scams on unsuspecting supporters, true political connivers selling the US electorate short every chance they get.

The text excerpted from the constitution in bold face font above, is intentionally included to highlight what the constitution established for 'Free persons ... and three fifths of all other Persons', specifically persons of African descent [the enslaved]. Why is this important? The past election cycle we all witnessed a few African Americans in the forefront of the Tea Party movement, the likes of David Webb, Congressmen-elect Allen West, Tim Scott, and others, who professed to be strict constructionists, when it comes to the US Constitution, probably never read this section or did not understand its implications. Would they, being considered three-fifths of a person, really think the strict constructionists view of the Constitution, afforded them the rights, we take for granted today, because of subsequent amendments to the constitution? It is important to note that Mr. David Webb, on television used an expression that made me cringe and then made me laugh!


I para-phrase here: He [Mr. David Webb] said, we [USA government] should go back [restore] to the original interpretation, the original intent and text of the US Constitution, as was created by 'Our Fore-Fathers' [.. remember: 3/5-th of person for blacks, no vote for women,.. etc]! Wow !! This came from Tea Party leader David Webb, a black American [American of African descent]. Which of the fore-fathers was he referring to? Are they the ones who came to the USA in shackles and on slave ships? Or some other fore-fathers who live in the mind of Mr. Webb, obviously inaccessible to the rest of us? I wish the host of the television program had asked Mr. Webb these simple questions. By the way, Messrs. David Webb, Allen West, Tim Scott and Tea Party had their familiar chant, "We want our country back". I hope not back into slavery and 3/5-th of a person, since USA has come a long way with remarkable potential going forward, and some of us chant, "We want to keep our country going forward towards Liberty For All", with absolutely no pretenses!!

Furthermore, it is fascinating to me, how the same prominent republicans like, former congressman Richard "Dick" Armey, Tea Party organizer and major funder, who help run the USA into debts, deficits and economic despair, can turn around and create a fictitious outrage, and invent the pretext of concern for the direction of the country, and in turn proclaim their adherence to the US constitution, wait, the same Constitution that existed, when these impostors of truth, run the country. Whoa ..wow!! Well I have more to add in subsequent blogs, and I hope you the reader will chime in with comments....