Listen Up,
The election is over.
Time to govern now.
Those laws that are on the books?
You have to follow them.
All of them.
Not just the ones you decide are Constitutional.
I don't care what Glenn Beck told you, or what you read in the 5,000 year... whatever the hell it is.
You won some elections. You didn't re-invent government. You didn't hit some magic reset button.
Case in point, one of the TEA Party supported candidates who got elected Governor in New Mexico.
Governor Susana Martinez
She got a severe smackdown from that State's Supreme Court.
Read the entire story here.
Bottom line is this...
Those candidates that you got elected...
They work for us now.
They answer to us now.
Even those of us who didn't vote for them.
And those elected officials will obey the damn law just like any other elected officials.
The entire law, not just the "good parts".
This is one hell of a way to find out how badly you have been "educated" about how governing works. But if this is how you want to do it... one embarrassing and total defeat at a time... then go for it.
Some people who were your candidates are now our public servants.
And they will serve us. All of us.
And they will obey our laws doing so. All of our laws.
You aren't on the sidelines any more.
You are on the field.
Time to get in the game.
Get to governing.
Now.
ApexNerd
The election is over.
Time to govern now.
Those laws that are on the books?
You have to follow them.
All of them.
Not just the ones you decide are Constitutional.
I don't care what Glenn Beck told you, or what you read in the 5,000 year... whatever the hell it is.
You won some elections. You didn't re-invent government. You didn't hit some magic reset button.
Case in point, one of the TEA Party supported candidates who got elected Governor in New Mexico.
Governor Susana Martinez
She got a severe smackdown from that State's Supreme Court.
The New Mexico Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that new Tea Party Governor Susana Martinez violated the state constitution when she prevented New Mexico’s democratically-approved rule reducing carbon pollution from being published as codified state law.
Essentially their supreme court said “no one is above the law.”
The lawsuit was filed by the environmental nonprofit New Energy Economy, and reflects growing claims that Gov. Martinez tried to suppress the rule in an attempt to appease major carbon polluters who contributed heavily to her gubernatorial campaign, and that her suppression was arbitrary and illegal. Preventing its publication was not discretionary, the court ruled. According to eyewitnesses, it seemed as if this New Mexico Supreme Court ruling took just 30 minutes to decide.
Read the entire story here.
Bottom line is this...
Those candidates that you got elected...
They work for us now.
They answer to us now.
Even those of us who didn't vote for them.
And those elected officials will obey the damn law just like any other elected officials.
The entire law, not just the "good parts".
This is one hell of a way to find out how badly you have been "educated" about how governing works. But if this is how you want to do it... one embarrassing and total defeat at a time... then go for it.
Some people who were your candidates are now our public servants.
And they will serve us. All of us.
And they will obey our laws doing so. All of our laws.
You aren't on the sidelines any more.
You are on the field.
Time to get in the game.
Get to governing.
Now.
ApexNerd
What, do you think this is supposed to be a democracy or something? You must be one of those socialisty-type people we've been reading about...'cause all REAL Uh-mur-uh-cans know that we only have to follow the laws that Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh approve of. That's what the last elections showed us; we're clear on that!
ReplyDeleteAh yes - so true! Very good nerditorial.
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