Democrats must "provide for the general Welfare."

This should be the Democrat's constitutional centerpiece, our badge of honor, leaving the lunacy of the Second Amendment to tea party Republicans:

To make his point Nichols wrote in the Nation:

One of his few clearly defined responsibilities, one of the few clearly defined responsibilities of any House member, is “to provide for the general Welfare.” They swear an oath to do so. And, barely hours into the new Congress, Ryan and his compatriots rejected that oath and a fundamental premise of the Constitution it supports.