2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHow Ignorant Is Freeper Jim Robinson???
Jim Robinson over at FR wrote; "blah, blah, blah, blah," responding to his latest crush, Ted Cruz and the funding for ACA.
He then quoted Federalist 58 as to why the House can defund and the appropriations clause... (I try to pay to much attention).
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3069725/posts?page=31#31
In The Federalist No. 58, James Madison described the centrality of the power of the purses role in the growth of representative government and its particular importance in the Constitutions governmental structure:
Of course he gave the corresponding link from the Heritage Foundation;
http://www.heritage.org/constitution/#!/articles/1/essays/67/appropriations-clause
But being a good American I know to take anything claimed by a Right Wing batshit wingnut with a grain of salt so I decided to confirm Federalist 58 and this is what I found;
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_58.html
What a dumbass!
By the way, he is having another leg amputated paid for by the government.
gopiscrap
(23,726 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,167 posts)That is all.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)Asking "how ignorant is Jim Robinson" is like asking "how dead is the Dead Sea?"
Joe Bacon
(5,163 posts)And just like his beloved Ayn as in Mine, he'll suck off the very government teat he allegedly abhors!
The Wizard
(12,536 posts)The federalist papers are not the law.