Because people like him think they now better than our founders and have gotten WAY too far off course. Why do these people think we have a constitution???? So they can spit on it and decide what’s best for America themselves??
What pompous jackasses. Goodbye and good riddance to all those who deny and mock the constitution like Bob Bennett does!

“Well, I’m not quite ready to go that far in my conservative views.”

To weight heavily the idea of making a change or proposing an amendment I must agree the authority behind federal legislation must be tied to the Constitution. Maybe an amendment to the constitution with this as well as repeals for the 16th and 17th.

There is no reasoning with the establishment Republicans, because if they ever give you an audience, they’d lecture you instead of listening to you. To hell with Bob Bennett and his ilk. The Party is better off without them.

Orrin Hatch: Take note.

Bennett was referring to. For instance as far as I can recall–not a constitutional scholar–the question of the Federal government owning milion upon millions of square miles of land was not addressed in our constitution. I think of the federal government owning all that land in Alaska plus th federal government has reserved for itself all the resources that exists in US territory but beyond a mile or two of state land.

There may be a few other areas that constitutional scholars can agree or disagree on.

I certainly agree that when you look at commerce-housing-banking-agriculture-energy-education we have had a huge mission creep in DC where so many things our founding fathers did not conceive have become the norm in DC.

It echos what Rush Limbaugh has said about the blue-bloods running the GOP, that they are ashamed of conservatives and embarrassed that they have to associate with us. They wish we would ‘go away’ and let them play footsie with the Democrats and enjoy the lures of the beltway world.
Bennett just proved that he deserved to get bounced by that one statement.
Hey Bob, if it isn’t in the Constitution as being a power that is yours then it likely isn’t yours and belongs to the states. My God.. what schools did you attend???
Good riddance to you, bub.
Now if we could only remove the cancer called McCain from the Republican ranks just think what we might be able to do.

I was somewhat amazed that Bennett lost.. but after seeing that line.. Not so much anymore.

Thanks for putting it out here. It explains much.

**** THIS ****

is why I am not longer a Republican, but a independent libertarian.

BOTH parties are against the Constitution, BOTH parties are pro-totalitarian-federal-government, BOTH parties care more about their own power than liberty.

Republicans are useless and pretty much complicit in allowing the destruction of the country, and Democrats are plain evil. This does not bode well for the future of the US.

Disrespecting that silly old Constitution Thingy is NOT the new killing it! 1/2 of The Tea Party’s mission is to take out garbage Republicans.

That guy is history. Let us move on.

A so-called Conservative said, regarding adherence to the Constitution, ‘Well, I’m not quite ready to go that far in my conservative views.’ To the people of Utah I say, ‘Thank you!’ Thank you for ridding the Senate of a clueless bonehead who is a disgrace to the party.
At a time when the Democrats are placing the Constitution in the bottom of their birdcage, such go-along-to-get-along pols as Bennet are, quite frankly, a danger to the Republic. I hope that, now that he is returning to private life, Bennet will have an epiphany, and see what his compliance and complacency have done to the country he took an oath to defend.

Despite the MSM’s attempts to spin this as plain anti-incumbancy rage, I would note that some incumbants, like my own Senator TOM COBURN, are doing just fine in this election year.

On both sides of the aisle, we are confronted by people who think they know a better way than that set forth in the US Constitution.

But even their most eloquent spokesman, in the privacy of his own home, surrounded by likeminded individuals could never put into words exactly how they hope to bring about this quantum leap. It is a metaphysical matter. They just know — or more to the point Feel — it is what Good people Should do.

So it comes back to the central question of Philosophy: what is the Good?

Bennett’s mindset and actions epitomize too much of the current core GOP Congress mindset. As far as I’m concerned, Bennett’s mindset and actions should be discussed often because the current GOP Congress still doesn’t get it!!

Bennett is the prime example of an incumbent Republican that needs to be removed from office. The GOP core that refuse to fight for the Constitution…AS WRITTEN….needs to be immediately ejected.

A few of the many examples of not fighting for the Constitution could be:
-Allowing Kagan to be nominated
-Not endorsing full REPEAL (King version) of Obamacare.
-Not putting Holder on trial for every decision he has made – dismissing Black Panther Case would be a good start.
-Not fighting Government takeover of internet and news media (oops they already took over the news media.)
-Not fighting the next “financial takeover (deform) of business,” IE next fight against Capitalism and increase of Union / ACORN slush fund.
-Not fighting against amnesty for illegals and not fighting to secure the border.

If you need a further example of for what kinds of things a poor GOP incumbent would support, just ask yourself this….would Bennnett or the Maine Trigger Sisters or Charlie Crist support it?

If the answer is yes, that they would support it, or that they wouldn’t fight those who support it intensively, then that fits the profile of a legislator that needs to be ejected. Unfortunately, right now the GOP has many that fit much of the Bennett mold and they don’t seem to have any intention of shifting.

So unless a MASSIVE shift in the current GOP mindset takes place, especially in the Senate, it looks like EJECT, EJECT, EJECT.

Americans are ignorant about our history. We’ve been misled and deceived. Our educational system and the media have distorted the truth about this nation’s history and they have slandered the Founding Fathers.

Many Americans have never read the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence or the Bill of Rights. MOST Americans have never read any of the other of the writings of our Founding Fathers.

Here’s a few links to get folks started…
Declaration of Independence: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html
U.S. Constitution: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html
Bill of Rights: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html
George Washington’s Thanksgiving Day Proclamation: http://www.wallbuilders.com/LIBissuesArticles.asp?id=3584