Saving our liberties

I'm thrilled with the outcome of last night's House vote to restore the Tennessee State Constitution as 'the law of the land' in our state. The passage of SJR127 has taken a lot of time and warriors like the diminutive-in-stature-only Bobbie Patray of Tennessee Eagle Forum are owed an unpayable debt of gratitude. The checks and balances necessary to protect our rights and liberties to govern ourselves are on their way to being restored. The judicial branch usurped their authority. Last night the legislative branch said 'back off'.

This from Bobbie Patray's account of last evening:

[Rep. Bill Dunn (R-Knoxville) ] even got in a comment about the current debate on judges: "Obviously the courts and how we select them or how we should elect them is an issue before us now. And if we continue to go where the people have no say who sits on the Supreme Court, then we're going to be right back in the posture of instead of the people controlling their Constitution, the courts will..."

He's right. We've got a legal system that thinks they know better than citizens who should be our judges. Those judges, when given half a chance, will make laws over us. It won't take long and the judicial will completely emasculate the legislative and we'll be out of the picture completely.

The left is hopping mad. Spitting mad. You'll get a nasty shower just reading the posts on the Internet. They feel betrayed by Democrat legislators who dared crossed them. This is a huge wake up call for them. Oh, they've got 21 solid votes (and one squishy one) but they are finally realizing that the Naifeh regime, which unfairly kept this issue off the House floor for a vote, really isn't in charge any more.

Is it too much to hope that some point, after they cool down, they'll realize that the greater issue of who gets to make the laws as Rep. Debra Maggart (R-Hendersonville) mentioned is essential to maintaining freedom in America? That's the choice they should be most concerned about. If maintaining freedom and a balanced government is important then last night was a huge victory.

Thanks for not reading

I wasn't happy with Congress for not reading the porkulus bill but I'm all smiles this time. Seems the Omnibus Spending Bill could have used a good reading too. From CNS news (via Lucianne.com):

On Wednesday, only two days after he lifted President Bush’s executive order banning federal funding of stem cell research that requires the destruction of human embryos, President Barack Obama signed a law that explicilty bans federal funding of any "research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death."

According to the article this is now the law of the land until Sept. 30th when the fiscal year ends.

Just about the time I was thinking no one was in charge in Washington DC it turns out God, himself, has got his hands on the wheel.