re: "Take Your Bulbs and Stick 'Em"

Emperor Misha at The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler ("HQ of the Rottweiler Empire. An Affiliate of the VRWC.") was making good points right up until the talk about wading knee-deep in blood.

(Not cool.)

Money quote(s):

"(G)overnor Perry has, once again, told the fascist regime in DC to quit meddling"

What is it about Texas that her governors seem more presidential than those of other states?

"The point is that there is no Constitutional authority for the retards in the DC swamp to tell us which kind of bulb we want to purchase and, Constitutional issues aside, nobody has any fucking business interfering with consumer choice. If one choice is superior to the other, it will win out in the market place without any interference needed.

If it isn’t, then nobody has the right to force you to choose the inferior product."

The interstate commerce clause has been emanated and penumbra-ed unto death. At this point, you could probably get a majority of people in the country to vote in favor of deleting it from the Constitution (not that our system allows for such referenda, nor should it). It apparently takes the decades of legal training and judicial experience of our nine Supreme Court justices, not to mention that of generations of congressmen and such, to enable one to believe the expansive abuse of this clause is Constitutionally justified.

Because an ordinary U.S. citizen, relying solely upon their knowledge of the English language, middle school civics classes, and their own native common sense would never manage such a feat unassisted.