<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><img src="cid:4D5111A7-AA0A-4DED-B1E9-9530BD72DA5B" alt="image.jpeg" id="4D5111A7-AA0A-4DED-B1E9-9530BD72DA5B" width="640" height="349"></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-mE0hUh0sE" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-mE0hUh0sE</a><br><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">SCHOOL THE HOUSE ROCK</span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s4"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s4">(Sing along . . . )<br></span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">"Hey, Tea Party House members: This one's for you!</span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">You dress up like a Founding Father</span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">So you might think you'd bother</span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">To read the Constitution in your pocket</span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">But you need some schooling, so let's rock it!</span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">There are three branches</span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">Three</span><span class="s3"> branches of government</span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">Three branches of government</span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">Like the three corners of your hat</span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">That should make it easier for you to remember.</span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">There's the legislative branch - that would be you</span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">The Executive Branch - that's ... You-Know-Who</span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">And</span><span class="s3"> then there's the branch that you call the </span><span class="s3">Ju</span><span class="s3">...</span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">Diciary</span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">And that's necessary for the</span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">Checks and balances</span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">Checks and balances among the three branches</span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">Three branches of government</span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">Like the three corners of your hat</span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">With me so far?</span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">Now, you can pass a bill, and when you do</span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">It's signed into law by you-know-who</span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">Or vetoed, and then it comes back to you</span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">And you might override it,</span><span class="s3"> </span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">But once it's been decided it's a law</span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">Yes, it's the law of the land, and all the negotiations and compromises have happened already.</span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">Now you may say the law's "Unconstitutional"</span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">Then the Constitution tells us the </span><span class="s3">solution'll</span><span class="s3"> be</span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">To</span><span class="s3"> take the question of its constitutionality</span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">To the Supreme Court to decide it's ultimate legality</span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">Now you can repeal a law, unless you try 42 times and you don't have the votes. But you can't find a law unconstitutional; that power belongs to the Judicial Branch. And withholding funding from a law you don't like is, in effect, vetoing that law. And funding only certain parts of the law is an attempt to exercise a line-item veto. You don't have the power to veto; that power belongs to the Executive Branch. So, if the Legislative Branch - that's you - usurps the power to determine constitutionality and the veto power, what's really being vetoed is the Rule of Law. And what's really being compromised is the Constitution.</span><span class="s3">Still with me?</span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">So you can pass a bill, and when you do</span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">If you cry "Boo </span><span class="s3">hoo</span><span class="s3">, it's </span><span class="s3">unconstitu</span><span class="s3">...</span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">tional</span><span class="s3">," then try to veto it, well here's a clue:</span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">Your hat only has one point</span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">That's the School the House Rock</span><span class="s3"> </span><span class="s4"><br></span><span class="s3">That's the School the House Rock</span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">------------------------------------<br></span><br><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Seeya at the Wingding on June 6th, Moscow, because . . .</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>