{"id":2759,"date":"2012-01-25T16:29:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T23:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/25\/history-repeats\/"},"modified":"2012-01-25T16:32:29","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T23:32:29","slug":"history-repeats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/history-repeats\/","title":{"rendered":"History repeats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hitler told the Reichstag<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures&#8230;The number of cases in which an internal necessity exists for having recourse to such a law is in itself a limited one.&#8221;<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He also promised an end to unemployment and pledged to promote peace with France, Great Britain and the Soviet Union. But in order to do all this, Hitler said, he first needed the Enabling Act.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Enabling Act, Article 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the procedure prescribed by the constitution, laws of the Reich may also be enacted by the government of the Reich.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Enabling Act, Article 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Laws enacted by the government of the Reich may deviate from the constitution as long as they do not affect the institutions of the Reichstag and the Reichsrat.\u00a0 The rights of the President remain undisturbed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Barak Obama, State of the Union, 1-24-2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some of what\u2019s broken has to do with the way Congress does its business these days.\u00a0 A simple majority is no longer enough to get anything -\u2013 even routine business \u2013- passed through the Senate.\u00a0 (Applause.)\u00a0 Neither party has been blameless in these tactics.\u00a0 Now both parties should put an end to it.\u00a0 (Applause.)\u00a0 For starters, I ask the Senate to pass a simple rule that all judicial and public service nominations receive a simple up or down vote within 90 days.\u00a0 (Applause.)<\/p>\n<p>The executive branch also needs to change.\u00a0 Too often, it\u2019s inefficient, outdated and remote.\u00a0 (Applause.)\u00a0 That\u2019s why I\u2019ve asked this Congress to grant me the authority to consolidate the federal bureaucracy, so that our government is leaner, quicker, and more responsive to the needs of the American people.\u00a0 (Applause.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hitler told the Reichstag &#8220;The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures&#8230;The number of cases in which an internal necessity exists for having recourse to such a law is in itself a limited one.&#8221; He also promised an end to unemployment and pledged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52,80,51,75,54,26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-brown-shirt-tactics","7":"category-fascism","8":"category-growing-government","9":"category-national-socialism","10":"category-obama","11":"category-totalitarianism","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}