{"id":44021,"date":"2014-07-31T11:07:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T17:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/31\/on-the-gross-devaluation-of-tyrant.html"},"modified":"2014-08-03T16:49:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T22:49:57","slug":"on-the-gross-devaluation-of-tyrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/31\/on-the-gross-devaluation-of-tyrant.html","title":{"rendered":"On the gross devaluation of "tyrant""},"content":{"rendered":"
The Founders debated mightily whether even the crimes of George III against the Colonies deserved the dread word "tyrant." \u00a0The House of Representatives has now made it synonymous with "a poop-head we don't like."<\/p>\n

'Yesterday, on a party line vote, the House of Representatives, John Boehner presiding, determined that it would sue the president of the United States. The cause of action was that the president overstepped his authority by delaying the individual mandate required by the Affordable Care Act, a course of action which Republicans in this same House previously begged him to follow in the enactment of a law this same House has voted futilely to repeal over 50 times. In doing so, the members of the House majority argued that the president had become a tyrant for doing what Republicans wanted him to do in the first place. Thus are both Jefferson and Locke transformed into characters in a rhetorical Punch and Judy show. And thus is the most important question of the founding period of the country turned into a pop quiz for lightweights and fools.'<\/i>\ufeff<\/div>\n

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\n In 1776, in order to support his claims that all men were created equal, and that they were endowed with inalienable rights, and that only to secure these rights were governments established, Thomas Jefferson needed to file a brief on behalf of the n…\n <\/p>\n

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The Founders debated mightily whether even the crimes of George III against the Colonies deserved the dread word "tyrant." \u00a0The House of Representatives has now made it synonymous with "a poop-head we don't like." 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