Posted on 10/13/2014 9:22:47 AM PDT by jazusamo
Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill once said, "All politics is local." That may have been true in Tip O'Neill's day, but some elections are decisively on national issues — and the Congressional elections this year are overwhelmingly national, just as the elections of 1860 were dominated by one national issue, namely slavery.
In 1860, some abolitionists split the anti-slavery vote by running their own candidate — who had no chance of winning — instead of supporting Abraham Lincoln, who was not pure enough for some abolitionists. Lincoln got just 40 percent of the vote, though that turned out to be enough to win in a crowded field.
But what a gamble with the fate of millions of human beings held as slaves! And for what? Symbolic political purity?
This year as well, there are third-party candidates complicating elections that can decide the fate of this nation for years to come. No candidate that irresponsible deserves any vote. With all the cross-currents of political controversies raging today, what is the overriding national issue that makes this year's Congressional elections so crucial?
That issue is whether, despite all the lawless edicts of President Obama, threatening one-man rule, we can still salvage enough of the Constitution to remain a free, democratic nation.
Barack Obama will be on his way out in two years but, if he can appoint enough federal judges who share his contempt for the Constitution's limits on federal government power in general, and presidential powers in particular, then the United States of America can continue on the path to becoming another banana republic, even after Obama has left the White House.
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It’s not the subject of his column but the local/national schism is now the primary problem in the courts.
Time after time we see cloistered federal judges overturning the will of millions of people. Naturally, the rulings are the usual liberal madness but the problem of usurping power and invalidating the ballot box exists regardless of the issue.
We are living in a judicial dictatorship.
Which is why I’ve said repeatedly that we can’t rely on the courts to follow the law.
It’s too bad that blacks idolize smooth talking, air headed, Bo-Jangle charlatans like Obama and Jesse Jackson instead of rational, learned, intelligent men like Thomas Sowell amd Walter E. Williams.
Read the part of Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address where he speaks of the jeopardy of the Supreme Court as an “Eminent Tribunal”.
I'd say it's more of an administrative dictatorship, which the courts usually agree to. Both are a problem. Our lives are run by regulation, but when some laws are passed by popular vote that aren't completely PC, the judiciary is there to nullify them (gay marriage, voter ID).
A good article on "Administrative Law" can be found in this month's Imprimis from Hillsdale Univ
I am so sick of the two party system, I think that there should be an option that is “None of the Above”. And if
Non of the Above” gets 33% or more both parties would have to toss out their candidates and pick new ones for a run off...
A large part of the problem is that we, the victims of this scam, meekly accept that the rulings of a branch of the federal government are valid in cases involving the limits of the powers of....the federal government. Decisions on limits of federal power should be made by the state judiciaries (maybe a panel made up of rotating members of state supreme courts or something like that).
Yes. The legislative branch is primarily a dog & pony show for the masses.
A black swan event such as ebola outbreak in Central America causing a tsunami of diseased peasants would (will?) eliminate even the facade that the US is still a republic. We would have an acknowledged takeover by the administrative branch. i.e. declared or de facto martial law.
While the influx of diseased illegals we are seeing now is awful, an ebola caused wave would be like a “b” apocalypse movie. Beyond the imagination of the average low information American.
You would do yourself and the rest of us a favor by waking up to reality and voting Republican. The ranks can be purged after we gain a solid majority. Without that majority, the next few Supreme Court justices will seal the fate of our country.
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You would do yourself and the rest of us a favor by waking up to reality and voting Republican. The ranks can be purged after we gain a solid majority. Without that majority, the next few Supreme Court justices will seal the fate of our country.
Umm, I did vote for Romney, I had to use a clothespin on my nose, but I did...
Because I was in purple state of colorado, not that it did any damned good...
What I am proposing is a “VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE”
Did you even read my post you RINO party hack?
Well, for one thing, they are old.
Another, they are low-key. They are not heavily in the public eye.
And last, they don’t say the things their race wants to hear.
Bottom line, we find out it isn’t really about race, but about ideology. Black trash want stuff for nothing, even if it is minimal, so commie ideology is what they will pick.
They will always pick a lily-white commie over a real 100% black freedom-lover.
There should not be party announcements on ballots.
I don’t mind parties, per se, but knowing them is what makes people pick them without knowing anything else about the politico.
How asinine it was when that judge struck down this very principle a few years ago in that southern town, I think in the carolinas.
[ There should not be party announcements on ballots. ]
NAILED IT!
Well said and stick to your guns. These GOPe lovers always sing the same song and after 20 years it becomes a tiring tune. Their strategy will keep the Banana Republicans in power for another 20 years.
The GOPe and Democrats won’t be satisfied until they control all campaign money and have impoverished conservatives into silence. They have and will use every means possible to do that unless we overthrow that leadership now.
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