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Topic: Newt, You Crazy Rascal, You!
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Randall
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posted December 28, 2011 12:39 PM
  
So, Newt says that as President he will send US Marshalls to pick up certain federal judges...and that he will ignore Supreme Court decisions that he doesn't like.IP: Logged |
jwhop
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posted December 28, 2011 02:21 PM
God, I wish Newt hadn't said that.I understand the general disgust with activist judges who seem to be able to find "new rights" never before found in 240+ years of American jurisprudence. I understand the general disgust with activist judges who can't read the Constitution and apply the laws according to Constitutional edicts. But, judges don't need to be summoned or hauled before Congress to "explain themselves". Newt's comments could have been and should have been short and succinct on the subject of activist judges. Newt DID NOT say the following but I wish he had. "Federal judges hold their offices during "good behavior". I would recommend federal judges brush up on the meaning of that phrase from Article III of the Constitution." "Re-writing or changing the wording of the Constitution by judicial fiat is not "good behavior". Usurping the legislative authority vested in the Congress by Article I by writing law from the court bench by judicial fiat is not "good behavior". "When federal judges outlaw school prayer by citing a "separation of church and state" dictum which is found no where in the Constitution while ignoring the second part of the "Establishment Clause" of the 1st Amendment, that's not "good behavior". "It is 535 members of Congress who decide what is or is not "good behavior" on the part of federal judges and the Constitutional remedy for those judges whose "behavior is not good" is a vote on a Bill of Impeachment in the US House of Representatives and a trial in the United States Senate".
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katatonic
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posted December 28, 2011 05:23 PM
yes it surely would be better if he kept that under wraps, wouldn't it?  better get on it, jwhop, and write him a letter telling him to stop exposing himself! IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted December 28, 2011 06:48 PM
I will happily vote for any GOP candidate to get Obama out of there. At least Newt will never bow to a Saudi king.------------------
"Never mentally imagine for another that which you would not want to experience for yourself, since the mental image you send out inevitably comes back to you." Rebecca Clark IP: Logged |
Ami Anne
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posted December 28, 2011 08:26 PM
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Originally posted by Randall:
I will happily vote for any GOP candidate to get Obama out of there. At least Newt will never bow to a Saudi king.
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jwhop
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posted December 28, 2011 09:38 PM
I understand what Newt was trying to say and why he was trying to say it. I do not disagree with Newt's primary point that there are activist federal judges who are out of control and must be reined in.I just wish he had made his point about federal judges in a way that didn't open him up to charges of intemperance and violation of the separation of powers doctrine by his political enemies...including those in the Republican establishment political class. Romney is their guy. I'm with Randall. O'Bomber has to go and any of the Republican candidates would be a gigantic upgrade in the Oval Office over O'Bomber.
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juniperb
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posted December 29, 2011 08:56 AM
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I just wish he had made his point about federal judges in a way that didn't open him up to charges of intemperance and violation of the separation of powers doctrine by his political enemies...including those in the Republican establishment political class.
You bet! But he said it and he ment it. It made him stand out like a sore thumb... just the script Romney would have written for Newt. But Newt being Newt, he just couldn`t keep his mouth shut and FOCUS . quote:
Newt DID NOT say the following but I wish he had.
Indeed!! but Newt isn`t known for mulling his words and his intentions become exposed quicker than many. ------------------
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ~Rumi~ IP: Logged |
katatonic
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posted December 29, 2011 06:21 PM
i guess who one bows to is the most important function of a president these days! it's all about "face" innit?pistols at dawn anyone? IP: Logged |
katatonic
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posted December 30, 2011 12:15 PM
it's interesting that when newt makes a statement like this it is completely forgivable because "he really didn't mean it the way it sounded" ... no bias around these here parts, no sirree!IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted December 30, 2011 01:17 PM
The leader of a sovereign nation doesn't bow to the king of another...unless you're clueless...which Obama is.IP: Logged |
jwhop
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posted December 31, 2011 10:48 AM
 "The leader of a sovereign nation doesn't bow to the king of another...unless you're clueless...which Obama is." IP: Logged |
shura
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posted December 31, 2011 05:58 PM
That's not necessarily true. Protocol of other nations often differs from our own. That said, I was disgusted with Obama's bow (he bowed to the Saudis, too, if you recall) but, in fairness, Nixon did the same. Gosh, I wonder what MacArthur did? As for Newt, he's a psycho. IP: Logged |
jwhop
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posted December 31, 2011 07:37 PM
"That said, I was disgusted with Obama's bow (he bowed to the Saudis, too, if you recall) but, in fairness, Nixon did the same."Yeah but Nixon resigned. Should we wait until next November and throw O'Bomber out or demand O'Bomber resign now? IP: Logged |
shura
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posted December 31, 2011 08:07 PM
He wasn't forced to resign in disgrace because he bowed to Hirohito, Jwhop. Come to think of it, didn't Eisenhower bow to somebody?Randall, are you prepared to say Ike and Tricky Dick are "clueless?" IP: Logged |
shura
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posted December 31, 2011 08:08 PM
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He wasn't forced to resign in disgrace because he bowed to Hirohito, Jwhop. Come to think of it, didn't Eisenhower bow to somebody?Randall, are you prepared to say Ike and Tricky Dick were "clueless?"
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jwhop
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posted December 31, 2011 09:05 PM
True shura!Nixon didn't resign for bowing. He resigned for attempting a cover-up of a 3rd rate burglary at the Watergate Hotel to get the list of hookers the DNC was hiring for the DNC convention. Let me remind you that no one died as a result of Nixon's sin. O'Bomber is juggling 2 much worse cover-ups presently. One involves running more than 2,000 guns into Mexico destined for Mexican drug cartels. More than 200 Mexican citizens have been killed...so far with these guns and at least one US Border Agent. The other cover-up involves laundering money by the administration for Mexican drug cartels...and passing the laundered cash back over the Mexican border. So, I ask again. Should we wait to throw O'Bomber out of the White House until next November...or demand he resign immediately?
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Randall
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posted January 01, 2012 01:51 AM
Nixon was pretty clueless if you ask me.------------------
"Never mentally imagine for another that which you would not want to experience for yourself, since the mental image you send out inevitably comes back to you." Rebecca Clark IP: Logged |
shura
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posted January 01, 2012 10:35 PM
what is with the double posts? and quoting myself? I assure you I am perfectly sober.Anyway ... I'm unfamiliar with the Mexican/Obama story, Jwhop. Nevertheless, we've been arming the Mexican drug cartels for quite some time. Feel like diving into the Bush familia's ties to the questionable end of Mexican politics  quote:
Nixon was pretty clueless if you ask me.
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Ami Anne
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posted January 01, 2012 10:44 PM
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Originally posted by jwhop:
True shura!Nixon didn't resign for bowing. He resigned for attempting a cover-up of a 3rd rate burglary at the Watergate Hotel to get the list of hookers the DNC was hiring for the DNC convention. Let me remind you that no one died as a result of Nixon's sin. O'Bomber is juggling 2 much worse cover-ups presently. One involves running more than 2,000 guns into Mexico destined for Mexican drug cartels. More than 200 Mexican citizens have been killed...so far with these guns and at least one US Border Agent. The other cover-up involves laundering money by the administration for Mexican drug cartels...and passing the laundered cash back over the Mexican border. So, I ask again. Should we wait to throw O'Bomber out of the White House until next November...or demand he resign immediately?
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jwhop
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posted January 02, 2012 11:38 AM
Haven't heard of O'Bomber's "Gun Running and Cartel Money Laundering Operations" shura?Have you been vacationing, off planet? 
http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum26/HTML/000845.html
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