By Robert Ringer

I can’t watch Geraldo too often … too much important stuff going on in the world to listen to nonsense. But now that he has boldly taken on Ann Coulter as a regular contributor, I try to tune in to catch her comments. It goes without saying that Geraldo isn’t going to make the same mistake with Coulter that he made with Michelle Malkin — assuming he doesn’t want to end up crouched over on the floor.

When Geraldo insisted that there is a Constitutional problem with Congress’s “defunding” of ACORN, Coulter responded with the obvious: There is nothing in the Constitution that gave Congress the right to fund ACORN in the first place!

Pointing out this self-evident fact may not sound like a big deal in our post-Constitutional era, but it is. I say that because it’s a reminder of the gradual desecration of the Constitution, along with the moral foundations of American culture, that has occurred over the past hundred years or so. Gross violations of the Constitution are now taken in stride by a population that has adopted the attitude of “That’s just the way things are today.”

Take healthcare, for example. I hope I’m wrong, but I believe we’re going to get government-run healthcare — in one form or another — even though a majority of Americans don’t want it. Sadly, conservatives seem to agree that we need “some kind of healthcare reform,” but no one is willing to define what they mean by “reform.”

The only reform that is necessary, or — at the risk of being passé — legal, is for the government to obey the Constitution and get completely out of the healthcare business. People should be able to buy whatever medical insurance they want from any insurer they choose — no state boundaries.

Constitutionally and morally speaking:

The government has no legal or moral right to be involved in healthcare.

The government has no legal or moral right to be involved in banking.

The government has no legal or moral right to be involved in the automobile business.

The government has no legal or moral right to be involved in education.

The government has no legal or moral right to be involved in funding “community organizers” — or any other groups — whether they do or don’t promote prostitution, tax evasion, or election fraud.

And the government certainly has no legal or moral right to be involved in redistributing wealth.

The 100-plus-year war to throw out the Constitution and repress the last vestiges of natural rights for all citizens is almost over. The journey has been a long and difficult one for American progressives, but from Theodore Roosevelt to BHO, the transition from a relatively free society to one in which an elite group of people rule over obedient serfs is almost complete.

As I have said so often, the only thing that can stop it is for conservatives and libertarians to take control of the House and Senate (assuming elections are still being held in 2010) and have the courage think and act in terms of repeal, rescind, revoke, and abolish — as opposed to merely moving to the left more slowly than the progressives who are now in power.

Which brings me back to ACORN. BHO outdid himself when he said, “Frankly, it’s not really something I’ve followed closely. I didn’t even know that ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal money.”

I doubt if even his media cheerleaders took him seriously. Trust me, BHO and his White House cronies are VERY nervous about the whole ACORN mess, and rest assured that they are talking about it night and day. After all, a real investigation would lead straight to BHO and the important role ACORN played in his rise to the top.

It will be interesting to see just how serious Congress is about investigating ACORN, and what ACORN does to reinvent itself in order to obfuscate the truth. In any event, it can always hire one of Cass Sunstein’s canine attorneys to argue its case: that it is unconstitutional not to give it another $8.5 billion of our tax dollars. Huh?

Hmm … now that I think about it, maybe it’s unconstitutional for the government not to fund e-letters. I’ll have to do some research on that one.

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