Posted on 05/30/2015 5:22:35 AM PDT by cotton1706
Everyone is innocent until proven guilty, blah blah blah. Now, having gotten that obligatory sentence out of the way, if Denny Hastert is guilty of molesting a young boy, that's simply terrible. But why do Mitch McConnell and John Boehner seem to be acting as though they might also be blackmailed?
Consider how Boehner and McConnell have given in to Obama on all of the following:
1) 100% of his budget requests.
2) Fully funding Obamacare without any restraints.
3) Fully funding Obama's illegal amnesty without any restraints.
4) Raising the debt ceiling repeatedly without any restraints.
5) Effectively giving away their treaty-deciding powers.
6) Refusing to set up select committees to investigate the abuse of powers of this administration.
Their actions are not the ones of leaders of an opposing political party, unless those leaders are somehow under the thumb of Obama. Which leads to thoughts of blackmail.
Matt Drudge thinks Boehner is being blackmailed based on NSA data about an alleged affair. Furthermore, Mark Levin implied that the reason Boehner is not investigating Benghazi is because he, Mark Levin, also believes that Boehner is being blackmailed.
What do you think? Do you think their behavior might be explained by blackmail? After all, it's not as though Boehner and McConnell have exactly been fighting Obama's policies all they can...or in any substantial degree, for that matter.
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Eligible is not equal to qualified. SCOTUS has opined Congress is not Constitutionally authorized to enlarge or abridge the rights of a U.S. citizen with respect to citizenship status. So, a Congressional vote to affirm a presidential candidate as qualified is not a vote to affirm the eligibility of the candidate.
The Constitution clearly states a President shall be a natural born citizen. A natural born citizens is a subset to a native born person which is seperate and distinct from a naturalized U.S. citizen. The Electoral College system was installed to prevent the American people and the States from electing an ineligible President. Electors may vote faithlessly, or not, to preserve and protect the Constitutional Republic. In Obama’s case, the Electors chose to elect President Obama while there were numerous individuals publicly complaining he was ineligible.
The US federal government is a servant of the people and the States. The US federal government is not Constitutionally authorized to prevent the will of the majority of the American people and the States. A naturalized citizen is qualified to be President if he/she receives a majority of the Electoral votes, but that does not equate to eligible.
The President is the US federal government’s chief executive officer. The President maintains the US Constitution and all other US law, treaties and executive orders in the Archives as evidence of law. An ineligible President breaks the chain of custody of evidence of law to void it. An ineligible President cannot maintain the Constitution while violating the Constitution.
The Articles of Confederation was repealed and replaced by the US Constitution. The Articles of Confederation required all states to ratify an amendment to the Articles of Confederation. Consequently, Article VII fo the US Constitution only required nine states to ratify the US Constitution and repeal the Articles of Confederation. The people can determine how and why their national government shall operate. Of course, those with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo will strongly resist.
You are missing the sequential order of events. The electors have nothing to do with qualifications of a candidate. Congress does not know who the President elect is until US Code 3 chapter 1 section 15. No person not declared President elect can be ineligible. That must happen between section 15 and section 19 where is states "if the President elect shall fail to qualify"
You are being disingenuous.
SECTION. 3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.
The fact that a President dies OR fails to qualify are two totally different situations listed in the language of our constitution. Hence the word OR
It is same uncommon sense that people use to ignore the words natural and or in the phrase "natural born citizen or a citizen..."
Alright then, dying or falling ill and being unable to perform the duties of the President are examples of the President-elect failing to qualify because he/she is unable to perform the duties of the President. Congress is not constitutionally authorized to enlarge or abridge the rights of any U.S. citizen with respect to citizenship status. See SCHNEIDER v. RUSK, 377 U.S. 163 (1964). (”While the rights of citizenship of the native born derive from [section] 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment and the rights of the naturalized citizen derive from satisfying, free of fraud, the requirements set by Congress, the latter, apart from the exception noted, “becomes a member of the society, possessing all the rights of a native citizen, and standing, in the view of the constitution, on the footing of a native. The constitution does not authorize Congress to enlarge or abridge those rights. The simple power of the national Legislature, is to prescribe a uniform rule of naturalization, and the exercise of this power exhausts it, so far as respects the individual.” Osborn v. Bank of United States, 9 Wheat. 738, 827. And see Luria v. United States, 231 U.S. 9, 22 ; United States v. MacIntosh, 283 U.S. 605, 624 ; Knauer v. United States, 328 U.S. 654, 658.”)
Interpreting the fact the Congress qualifies a President-elect as determining the President-elect is a natural born citizen is disingenuous in the light of Schneider v. Rusk. Congress does not have the authority to define a natural born citizen and does not have the authority to determine who is a natural born citizen and who is not a natural born citizen. All we know is that a naturalized citizen is not a natural born citizen.
I never said Congress defines NBC. There is no need to define it by law. See HERE
What the US Code does in the sections subsequent to section 15 before we get to section 20 is verify the qualifications as to Art II sec I that outlines what is required to be CIC. Section 20 uses this language "fails to qualify which clearly places the burden on the President elect to bring forth his or hes qualifications to show eligibility.
Half of Congress and SCOTUS have been showing signs of blackmail syndrome for years. The other half have been gleefully slapping them down ever since.
Was thinking the same thing. Et tu, Roberts.
Malta Money. Remember when he joked about the island being impregnable? Ha ha...joke’s on us.
Precedent has been set with respect to notification the US federal government has lost the sovereignty delegated to it by the people and the states. A complaint with allegations challenging the US federal government maintenance of its delegated powers is all that is required. A complaint filed in federal court and responded to by the DoJ is all that is necessary to notify the entire US federal government the President is ineligible.
All debts contracted and engagements entered into, before the adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.
Delegated authority by the people to the US federal government is withdrawn when the people elect an ineligible President. The ineligible President remains in office while the US federal government is removed. The US federal government is a servant of the people. For some oddball reason, many people believe their servants can’t be fired after a vote of the majority.
If it wasn’t Congress’ responsibility to determine a candidate’s eligibility, then they wouldn’t have had SR 511 for McCain. If it had been determined McCain was not eligible by NBC, he would not have been on the ballot. Congress knowingly failed in its duty to determine Obama’s eligibility. Congress broke the law and side stepped the US Constitution. Justice Thomas admitted SCOTUS did the same by stating they have “evaded” the NBC questions. All three branches have intentionally trampled the Constitution. Why? By who’s order? To what end? Who/what was to gain?
Here is the pertinent subsection of US code 3 chapter 1 section 19
In reading this it is clear that the President elect and Vice President elect need to "qualify." Now we can argue that this chapter does not spesifically spell out a process to "show us your papers" but then again the Constitution does state that only an NBC can qualify.
From what I can determine Congress has not followed this chapter to it's proper conclusion for some time and to do so now would not only embarrass Congress it would of seemed to be "racist" to all of sudden ask for "papers."
SR511 was purely political and only drew attention away from the real issue of Zippo's qualifications.
Of course, Congress has failed to follow through. Their excuse is to laugh at We, the People with the excuse that no one wants Biden as POTUS thinking that will shut us up. It has.
SR 511 shows precedence, Congressional powers and bias for the usurper. It also shows the Congressional Branch knows and understands the definition of NBC.
If Hastert got nailed as he did,it’s quite possible that Obama has some compromising pics of McConnell and Boehner romping with young male pages at the “HOMO HACIENDA”.
ROTFLMAO.
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