Dodd Discusses Financial Regulation Overhaul Efforts: Video

[Eighthman]

Dodd is some of the lowest form of scum that exists on the face of the earth.

[George]

Eighthman wrote:

Dodd is some of the lowest form of scum that exists on the face of the earth.

He is that with his buddies Pelosi , Frwank, and all the libs , treehuggers, socialists, communists, progressives, marxists, aclu members and save the muskrats groups ..

Maybe not the muskrats group I got carried away sorry...

[Bonhomme Richard]

I'm sorry but importment
Is Federal Government Running Roughshod Over Constitution?
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
This is a rush transcript from "Glenn Beck," November 10, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO, GUEST HOST: Last Saturday, at 11:00 in the evening, the House of Representatives voted by a five-vote margin to have the federal government manage the health care of everyone in America at a cost of over $1 trillion over the next 10 years.
For the first time in American history, if this bill becomes law, the feds will force you to buy insurance you might not want or may not need or cannot afford. If you don't purchase what the government tells you to buy, if you don't do so when they tell you to do it, if you don't buy just what they say is right for you, the government may fine you, prosecute you and even put you in jail.
Freedom of choice and control over your own body will be lost. The privacy of your communications and medical-making decisions with your physician will be gone. More of your hard-earned dollars will be at the disposal and tender mercies of federal bureaucrats.
It was not intended to be this way.
We elect the government. It works for us. How did it get so removed, so unbridled, so arrogant that it can tell us how to live our personal lives?
Evil rarely comes upon us all at once, and liberty is rarely lost in one stroke. It happens gradually, over the years and decades, and even centuries. A little stretch here, a cave-in there, powers are slowly taken from the states and the people — and before you know it, we have one big monster government that recognizes no restraints on its ability to tell us how to live. It claims the power to regulate any activity, tax any behavior and demand conformity to any standard it chooses.
In the next few weeks, I will be giving a public lecture on constitutional law here on the Fox News Channel, on the Fox Business Network, on FoxNews.com and on Fox Nation.
In anticipation of that, many of you have asked, "What can we do now about the loss of freedom?"
We can vote the bums out of their cushy federal offices. We can persuade the state governments to defy the feds in areas like health care where the Constitution gives the federal government zero authority. We can ask our state legislatures to threaten to amend the Constitution to abolish the income tax, to return the selection of U.S. senators to state legislatures and to nullify — to nullify — all the laws that Congress has written that are not based on the Constitution.

[Bonhomme Richard]

But there is one thing we can't do: Just sit back and take it.
Here's Kevin Gutzman. He's professor of American history at Western Connecticut State University and author of "The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution." And Thomas E. Woods, author of "Meltdown: A Free Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse."
They wrote a great book together called "Who Killed the Constitution? The Fate of American Liberty From World War I to George W. Bush."
Gentlemen, welcome to "The Glenn Beck Program."
Kevin, first to you: What is federalism? What is the concept of the states have some power and they gave a little bit of it away to the federal government, but somehow the government keeps taking more from them?
KEVIN GUTZMAN, AMERICAN HISTORY PROF., WESTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIV.: Well, the underlying theory of revolution was that people wanted local self-government through legislative elections. That was the procedure that the British government was denying to the American colonists and it led to the Declaration of Independence.
So, when the Federal Constitution was made — and note that it's called a federal, not a national Constitution — when the Federal Constitution was made, there was this idea that sovereign states were delegating some — few of their powers which they carefully spelled out in the Constitution to this new central government. And the great residual was being retained by the states so that people would still have control over most areas of their government's behavior through local legislative elections.
NAPOLITANO: Tom, how did the federal government get so big and so powerful? We wrote a Constitution that states in it pretty specifically the 17 unique discreet powers that the Constitution delegates to the federal government. Is that list even recognizable today if you compare it to the areas of human behavior that the federal government claims it can regulate?
THOMAS E. WOODS, AUTHOR, "MELTDOWN": No, they have made a joke out of it. In fact, in the 1990s, the solicitor general was asked, "Can you name me one area of American life that in your view the U.S. government would have no constitutional authority whatsoever to interfere with?" And he just stood there dumbfounded. He had no answer.
Thomas Jefferson warned us that if the federal government has a monopoly on determining what its powers are, we have no right to be surprised if it expands its powers over time. So, Jefferson told us in 1798 that what we need to do, if the federal government goes beyond those powers that was delegated, is to use the states. The states are not perfect, but they're what we have.
NAPOLITANO: Right.

[George]

Bonhomme Richard wrote:

But there is one thing we can't do: Just sit back and take it.
Here's Kevin Gutzman. He's professor of American history at Western Connecticut State University and author of "The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution." And Thomas E. Woods, author of "Meltdown: A Free Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse."
They wrote a great book together called "Who Killed the Constitution? The Fate of American Liberty From World War I to George W. Bush."
Gentlemen, welcome to "The Glenn Beck Program."
Kevin, first to you: What is federalism? What is the concept of the states have some power and they gave a little bit of it away to the federal government, but somehow the government keeps taking more from them?
KEVIN GUTZMAN, AMERICAN HISTORY PROF., WESTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIV.: Well, the underlying theory of revolution was that people wanted local self-government through legislative elections. That was the procedure that the British government was denying to the American colonists and it led to the Declaration of Independence.
So, when the Federal Constitution was made — and note that it's called a federal, not a national Constitution — when the Federal Constitution was made, there was this idea that sovereign states were delegating some — few of their powers which they carefully spelled out in the Constitution to this new central government. And the great residual was being retained by the states so that people would still have control over most areas of their government's behavior through local legislative elections.
NAPOLITANO: Tom, how did the federal government get so big and so powerful? We wrote a Constitution that states in it pretty specifically the 17 unique discreet powers that the Constitution delegates to the federal government. Is that list even recognizable today if you compare it to the areas of human behavior that the federal government claims it can regulate?
THOMAS E. WOODS, AUTHOR, "MELTDOWN": No, they have made a joke out of it. In fact, in the 1990s, the solicitor general was asked, "Can you name me one area of American life that in your view the U.S. government would have no constitutional authority whatsoever to interfere with?" And he just stood there dumbfounded. He had no answer.
Thomas Jefferson warned us that if the federal government has a monopoly on determining what its powers are, we have no right to be surprised if it expands its powers over time. So, Jefferson told us in 1798 that what we need to do, if the federal government goes beyond those powers that was delegated, is to use the states. The states are not perfect, but they're what we have.
NAPOLITANO: Right.

Great comments and report for us all thank you ...unfortunately the Obama supporters and other socialists don't understand this or any facts...

[Eighthman]

Dodd likes Muslims. He likes obama doesn't he.

[Eighthman]

This guy is Hardcore Retarded.

[Shoreliner]

Senator Dodd should not be allowed to leave his house at 53 Main Street East Haddam, CT.

Everything that Senator Dodd gets involved in results in a bad ending.

[Richard]

Dodd promised to reveal the loans he rec'd from the financial instituions he was monitoring with Barney... he has not done so ... this will show he got favoritism and thats against the law ...but Pelosi as CFL*..has not asked for any paperwork why ?

chief face lift

[Richard]

Shoreliner wrote:

Senator Dodd should not be allowed to leave his house at 53 Main Street East Haddam, CT.
Everything that Senator Dodd gets involved in results in a bad ending.

Would you allow Barney Frwank to visit him ?