"Bush's" Budget

Devvy wonders where in the Constitution does the President derive the power to "submit" a budget to Congress.

The bottom line remains that our Constitutional Republic is broken and our elected officials play games and make deals with our money. As a result of the 17th Amendment, and the perpetuation of the myth that Americans have a "right" to vote for our federal officials, our nation is on a high speed collision course with bankruptcy.

Most of us are asleep at the wheel, more interested in gay "marriage" or the latest Hollywood divorce.

From her article:

• For the gimee-gimee crowd who believe their pet wants are covered under the "general welfare" clause of the Constitution, they should pay attention to the words by the man who wrote it, James Madison, also known as 'The Father of the Constitution' when he said: "With respect to the words 'general welfare,' I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers (enumerated in the Constitution) connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators."

What does Michelle Malkin think about Bush's budget, specifically that it only funds 10% of the 2000 Border Patrol agents that Bush had promised us? Go see for yourself...