During this entire budgeting and continuing resolution process, there are two words that will never be put together. They are "constitutional," and "budget." Why? Because no one in Washington wants to be restrained by the Constitution when it comes to getting money, spending money, and especially spending money they don't have. Which is why we are some $20 trillion in for the National Debt. But it never had to be this way.
It's one thing to talk about the Constitution. It's quite another to actually live by it. The Supreme Court doesn't. They assumed judicial review, a power they were never supposed to have. Presidents have gotten us into wars that were never declared. And Congress has spent us into a debt from which we may never recover. But if we ever get serious about paying off the National Debt, it can be done. And the simple answer, as in most cases, is to look to the Constitution.
