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[Kurt Buff]

On 9/19/07, Ken Meyer <kmeyer at blarg.net> wrote:
> Kurt --
>
> Thanks for the interesting reference.  Haven't seen your by-line here
> before.  Probably my inattentiveness, but glad to have smoked you out.

I don't post often, but I've been on the list for quite a while. I
want to say almost 10 years, but my memory isn't accurate enough to
say that with confidence.

> Reading the article was kind of a "yea! boo!" exercise for me, but it is
> clearly written from a very Conservative viewpoint -- and I don't mean what
> currently passes for Conservative in DC.

The term you might be thinking of is Anti-Federalist. :)

> But I think that it makes my point that, whatever the Constitution really
> says in the context of 210 or so years later, the premise that Glenn
> advances about the theoretical application of the Constitution to unfunded
> mandates is totally "inoperative" as a practical matter today.

I wouldn't say inoperative, given that UMRA is at least given a nod
once in a while, and given that there is still some recognition that
pay-as-you-go legislation is a good thing, but it's definitely on the
floor and unable to get up.


Kurt