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| 7.62mm Crusader |
I fired off a thank you to Mitch. | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
That's how Pocahontas votes "no." Squaw no speakum. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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Karma, Precedent, and the Nuclear Option The Democrats reap what they sowed with Harry Reid’s court-packing. By Charles Krauthammer — April 6, 2017 For euphemism, dissimulation, and outright hypocrisy, there is nothing quite as entertaining as the periodic Senate dust-ups over Supreme Court appointments and the filibuster. The arguments for and against the filibuster are so well known to both parties as to be practically memorized. Both nonetheless argue their case with great shows of passion and conviction. Then shamelessly switch sides — and scripts — depending on the ideology of the nominee. Everyone appeals to high principle, when everyone knows these fights are about raw power. When Democrat Harry Reid had the majority in the Senate and Barack Obama in the White House, he abolished the filibuster in 2013 for sub–Supreme Court judicial appointments in order to pack three liberal judges onto the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Bad karma, bad precedent, he was warned. Republicans would one day be in charge. That day is here and Republicans have just stopped a Democratic filibuster of Neil Gorsuch by extending the Reid Rule to the Supreme Court. To be sure, there are reasoned arguments to be offered on both sides of the filibuster question. It is true that the need for a supermajority does encourage compromise and coalition building. But given the contemporary state of hyperpolarization — the liberal Republicans and conservative Democrats of 40 years ago are long gone — the supermajority requirement today merely guarantees inaction, which, in turn, amplifies the current popular disgust with politics in general and Congress in particular. In my view, that makes paring back the vastly overused filibuster, on balance, a good thing. Moreover, killing the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations (the so-called nuclear option) yields two gratifications: It allows a superb young conservative jurist to ascend to the seat once held by Antonin Scalia. And it constitutes condign punishment for the reckless arrogance of Reid and his erstwhile Democratic majority. A major reason these fights over Supreme Court nominations have become so bitter and unseemly is the stakes — the political stakes. The Supreme Court has become more than ever a superlegislature. From abortion to gay marriage, it has appropriated to itself the final word. It rules — and the normal democratic impulses, expressed through the elected branches, are henceforth stifled. Why have we had almost half a century of massive street demonstrations over abortion? Because the ballot box is not available. The court has spoken, and the question is supposedly settled for all time. This transfer of legislative authority has suited American liberalism rather well. When you command the allegiance of 20 to 25 percent of the population (as measured by Gallup), you know that whatever control you will have of the elected branches will be fleeting (2009–10, for example). So how do you turn the political order in your direction? Capture the courts. They are what banks were to Willie Sutton. They are where you go for the right political outcomes. Note how practically every argument at the Gorsuch hearings was about political outcomes. Where would he come out on abortion? Gay marriage? The Democrats pretended this was about principle, e.g., the sanctity of precedent. But everyone knows which precedents they selectively cherish: Roe v. Wade and, more recently, Obergefell v. Hodges. RELATED: The Dumbest Filibuster Liberalism does not want to admit that the Court has become its last reliable instrument for achieving its political objectives. So liberals have created a great philosophical superstructure to justify their freewheeling, freestyle constitutional interpretation. They present themselves as defenders of a “living Constitution,” under which the role of the Court is to reflect the evolving norms of society. With its finger on the pulse of the people, the Court turns contemporary culture into constitutional law. But this is nonsense. In a democracy, what better embodiment of evolving norms can there be than elected representatives? By what logic are the norms of a vast and variegated people better reflected in nine appointed lawyers produced by exactly three law schools? If anything, the purpose of a constitutional court such as ours is to enforce old norms that have preserved both our vitality and our liberty for 230 years. How? By providing a rugged, reliable frame within which the political churnings of each generation take place. The Gorsuch nomination is a bitter setback to the liberal project of using the courts to ratchet leftward the law and society. However, Gorsuch’s appointment simply preserves the Court’s ideological balance of power. Wait for the next nomination. Having gratuitously forfeited the filibuster, Democrats will be facing the loss of the Court for a generation. Condign punishment indeed. http://www.nationalreview.com/...tion-filibuster-gone "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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Happily Retired |
About damn time!!!! Reports I have seen say that there very well may be 2, maybe even 3 more appointments Trump will make over the next eight years. Oh yeah! .....never marry a woman who is mean to your waitress. | |||
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Drill Here, Drill Now |
Wikipedia already has Gorsuch on the SCOTUS page.  However, it is a little premature as he hasn't been sworn in yet.Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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| Happily Retired |
I just heard McCain scolding the republicans for going "nuclear" saying..."that is not how it is supposed to work". How the hell does this idiot keep getting elected? .....never marry a woman who is mean to your waitress. | |||
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A belated Happy Birthday to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who turned 84 last month. Happy Birthday, Ruthie! Ruthie? We'll have cake later. She's napping just now. | |||
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AP is reporting that Gorsuch will be sworn in by Chief Justice Roberts on Monday at 9AM and later in the day the 2nd one at the WH. Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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I am ecstatic. I can think of few things more important to the future of America than this resolution to our Supreme Court vacancy issue. I think Gorsuch will make an outstanding Justice, and I couldn't be happier that the process is complete and that he will don the robes next week. Hot damn! | |||
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because they can't find a person with a high level of ethics thats wants to debase themselves and run as a republican here the man is an embarassment [B] Against ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money |
I'm not always a Mitch McConnell fan... BUT, today: You DA MAN, Mitch! Bask in the glow. Get used to winning. It's a good feeling, right, my man? "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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| The Main Thing Is Not To Get Excited |
Well then, tell us John; How is it supposed to work? Are you to prostrate yourself before the assembled libs and apologize until they throw you a crumb? Do you consider yourself dogs body to Chuckie and Pocahantus because that's all you deserve? Do you believe the whispers of your beltway cocktail party 'friends' who tell you 'this isn't who we are'? Whatever. Thank you for your service sir, now GTFO! _______________________ | |||
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A great day for America! | |||
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delicately calloused |
I'll bet Buzzy is wishing she had retired two years ago... Swing low, sweet chariot. You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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It is about time the Republicans turned on the Democrats using some of the same dirty tactics the Democrats have used. John McCain need to retire. _________________________ "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain | |||
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Info Guru |
For anyone who was reluctant to vote for Trump, here is your vindication. This result will likely have repercussions for decades to come and the alternative to Trump having been elected is chilling to contemplate. “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams | |||
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Just need to jump in real quick and say, "Booya!" Alright, now back on the ski lift... ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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Rock On!! | |||
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