In a truly amazing piece, E.J.Dionne is out with an explanation of how the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution both were intended by the founders to form the base for a strong centralized national government. He gets this from the list of grievances of the colonists against the crown that is set forth in those documents. According to Dionne, the Tea Party gets is wrong because taxes as such were not even on the list; the issue was taxation without representation, not tax levels. Only an unthinking flack like Dionne could actually say these things and mean them.
First, the Tea Party folks do not claim that US independence came about in a debate concerning tax rates. Dionne is using the favorite Obama tacktic of creating a straw man to then destroy it. Obama does it much more skillfully, however. Dionne cannot point to any Tea Party literature that calims that the issue of tax rates was even considered at the time of the Declaration of Independence.
Second and more important, we have a clear example of the type of government that the founders envisioned. That example is the first fifty years of the country. At that time, the founders actually carried out the type of government that had been established. They had no question what they had meant in documents since they both formed the government and wrote the documents. Simply put, there was no strong centralized national government at any time during those years. The federal government concerned itself with national defense, trade and the post office. But that, of course, does not fit into the current progressive narrative, so rather than looking at the actual facts, Dionne tries to get the result he wants from distorting the Declaration of Independence. It is too important a document for that to happen. Let's remember our history and let's use this day to celebrate America.
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