Political Loathsomeness
politics, nanny state, constitution, government, congress, freedom, legislation, public policy
April 9, 2008, by Walter E. Williams
The Enumerated Powers Act currently has 44 co-sponsors in the House. In the Senate, it has never had a single co-sponsor, and that's a Senate that includes our three presidential aspirants. The question one might ask is why would Sens. Obama, Clinton and McCain have a distaste for, and fail to support, a measure binding them to what the Constitution actually permits?