Go Sheep Go

“The federal government, according to Democratic Rep. Pete Stark, can do anything it wants. If there are indeed no checks on the state’s power, as the congressman claims, then the state is a tyrant. Stark, who represents San Francisco’s East Bay area, let the left’s secret slip when he told constituents at a July 24 town-hall meeting in Hayward that he believes ‘there are very few constitutional limits that would prevent the federal government from rules that could affect your private life.’ His response came in reply to a constituent’s thoughtful question about the federal health care overhaul. … ‘How can this law be constitutional?’ she asked. ‘But more importantly than that, if they can do this, what can’t they?’ Stark, as arrogant, dismissive and evasive as always to the people he’s ‘served’ for 37 years, said that ‘the federal government can do most anything in this country.’ His opinion on government power is shocking enough. But even more surprising is that the congressman would be so forthcoming in a public forum. The political left, which is grounded in progressive ideology, has long worked to hide from the public its agenda to use the government to impose its will on the country. … In their core, progressives believe they have the answers to society’s problems and are eager to force them on the state’s subjects, even if doing so violates the natural rights that the Constitution guaranteed would be protected by a republican style of government. Stark is right: Washington has the power to do whatever it wants. But it doesn’t have the moral authority, either in constitutional law or in the realm of human decency. When it crosses into the dark region where it does most anything it wishes, it’s become a tyrant.” —Investor’s Business Daily
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