Reply #10: They don't want to move it back though. [View All]

[davepc]

The Neoconservative movement may hate the New Deal, but they love the Federalist powers that FDR accumulated for himself, and love the power given to the executive by the abdication of Congress role in our government.

Globalized American fascism cant exist under our Constitution as written. As written the power is too decentralized, spread out among the states and the people, and the executive too limited by a strong Congress to do what they want to do.

Republics don't make for good Empires. Julius Cesar figured that out. Got killed for it.

Neoconservatives all about re-interpreting the Constitution to mean what THEY want it to mean, but what they want it to mean isn't what Jefferson or Hamilton or Washington or Franklin wanted it to mean.

Just look at Scalias recent defense of the Commerce Clause as justification for the War on (some) Drugs and the usurping of Medical Marijuana laws passed by the people of certain states.

Nothing "strict" about that judgment.