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Don't Expect the Supreme Court to Save You
Patriot's History of the United States ^ | 12/24/09 | LS

Posted on 12/24/2009 5:08:09 AM PST by LS

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To: LS

Obama and his fellow Communists in Congress have written illegal acts into the DeathCare bill. They’ve written in Senate “Rules” such as no Sentor is allowed to submit a bill that canels DeathCare.

These Communists fully beleive that they can do as they pelase and there is nothing you can or will do about it.


81 posted on 12/24/2009 8:02:57 AM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: SmokingJoe

“You are comparing two things that are not even close to being the same.

FDR was a socialist and gave us socialist programs. He gave us Social Security and other programs that are clearly unconstitutional. His programs cost the US in a continued depression that lasted for 10 years.


82 posted on 12/24/2009 8:07:37 AM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: CodeToad
Difference is, voters were not against those programs at the time.
0bamacare on the other hand, is adamantly opposed by most voters right now, by nearly 2:1.
BIG DIFFERENCE!
The only other bill in the history of this country, that voters were totally against, which the congress then forced on voters (by the same Democrats), was the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
The result?
Why, in the 1854-55 elections the Democrats got slaughtered. The Democrats went went from a 159-71 majority in the congress, to a stunning defeat in which they were turned into a minority of 83(Democrats)-108 (Republican) margin. That is a swing of a massive 76 seats against the Democrats.
After that, the Democrats didn't win a majority of House seats for the next 20 years!
The Democrats have just sewn the seeds for their own destruction, and they will live to bitterly regret this outrage.
83 posted on 12/24/2009 8:47:36 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: CodeToad
Difference is, voters were not against those programs at the time.
0bamacare on the other hand, is adamantly opposed by most voters right now, by nearly 2:1.
BIG DIFFERENCE!
The only other bill in the history of this country, that voters were totally against, which the congress then forced on voters (by the same Democrats), was the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
The result?
Why, in the 1854-55 elections the Democrats got slaughtered. The Democrats went went from a 159-71 majority in the congress, to a stunning defeat in which they were turned into a minority of 83(Democrats)-108 (Republican) margin. That is a swing of a massive 76 seats against the Democrats.
After that, the Democrats didn't win a majority of House seats for the next 20 years!
The Democrats have just sewn the seeds for their own destruction, and they will live to bitterly regret this outrage.
84 posted on 12/24/2009 8:47:43 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: verity
What makes you think that God cares about this?

It is all I have left.

But it would come a no surprise to me if God simply doesn't care. I go back to the most recurring theme in the Bible, that is, His people frequently turn their backs on Him. When this happens, bad things happen to the people. When the people turn back to God, things get better.

85 posted on 12/24/2009 9:03:30 AM PST by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: SmokingJoe
First, I have a very good sense of the "anger that is sweeping the country." I speak at one or two liberty groups a month.

Second, actually, FDR did saddle the country, in real dollars, with every bit as big a debt as Obama has. He tripled the national debt in less than seven years.

Third, FDR put into place goon squad agencies that literally told tailors how much they could charge to sew a pair of pants, and put one in jail for charging TOO LITTLE, and told kosher chicken sellers that they had to sell tainted or sick chickens to customers, even though they didn't want to and the customers (of course) objected. FDR blatantly tried to pack the Supreme Court, tried to impose a tax of 100% (yep, that's right) on everything over $500,000 income, and used the IRS to destroy anyone who didn't go along with the New Deal.

FDR was every bit as bad as Obama, except he didn't hate the U.S. per se the way Zero does.

86 posted on 12/24/2009 9:54:09 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: SmokingJoe
"A year from now, Pelosi and Reid will be shedding bitter tears. We will make sure of that."

A year from now they will be taking credit for the greatest socialist bill in human history, and there won't be a tear shed on their side anywhere. They have achieved their goal.

87 posted on 12/24/2009 9:55:35 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: WalterSkinner

NRA is a great comparison. They told tailors how much they HAD to charge to sew pants; told people they HAD to buy the first chicken in a pen that came by, or the seller would be shut down (the sellers finally won a Supreme Court battle). This will be the NRA applied to medicine.


88 posted on 12/24/2009 9:57:01 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: LS
A year from now they will be taking credit for the greatest socialist bill in human history, and there won't be a tear shed on their side anywhere

Yeah?
You mean like how Tom Daschle wasn't really bitter and shed bitter tears in private after his defeat and his loss of power as Majority Leader of the US Senate?
Dingy Harry Reid is going down in 2010.
Nancy Pelosi will lose her position as Speaker of the House after the Democrats get clobbered in the 2010 elections and Republicans take over the House.
I am yet to see any Democrats who lost such great power, and wasn't bitter about it. The last time the Democrats lost the majority in the House, they shed bitter tears. The last time a Democratic president left the White House, they were so bitter about it, they trashed the joint, and stole keys from the computer keyboards.
Recent history says you are talking nonsense.
89 posted on 12/24/2009 10:09:49 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: LS
Republicans, running on dismantling the health non-care system will be fighting both the image of taking health care away from granny AND “spending more money.”

This may not be true for several reasons.

1. If polls are to be believed that 85% of the public likes the health care that they have, then granny already has health care. 85% of the people will know who it is who is taking their health care away.

2. If news reports are to be believed that only 15 million (not 50 million) people have health care, and the rest are youths and people between jobs, then the people already have health care and will know who it is who is taking it away.

Let's not keep propping up that cannard that the Republicans will get blamed for everything every time as an excuse for just taking it and not fighting back.

-PJ

90 posted on 12/24/2009 10:10:36 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ("Comprehensive" reform bills only end up as incomprehensible messes.)
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To: SmokingJoe

“voters were not against those programs at the time.”

Are you sure about that? I recall my grandparents saying many were, that there was no Constitutional establishment for a welfare state. They were poor at the time but knew any penny given to the government was a penny from their pockets.


91 posted on 12/24/2009 10:15:05 AM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: LS
First, I have a very good sense of the “anger that is sweeping the country.”

I doubt it. Your piece doesn't even come close to addressing the anger and the energy and the determination to bring down 0bamma and his communist policies, that is sweeping the county right now.

Second, actually, FDR did saddle the country, in real dollars, with every bit as big a debt as Obama has. He tripled the national debt in less than seven years. “

# 1, FDR wasn't going cap in hand to beg the Chinese to lend him even more money, just so he can run his own country. Big difference.
# It's one thing to borrow money from Americans to run the goverment. It's an entirely different matter to go to potentially our biggest military enemies, cap in hand, time after time, to borrow money from them so we can run the government.
# 3. 0bama has already more than tripled the annual deficits in less than a year, with even more massive deficits to come. You are going to compare that to FDR tripling the national debt in 8 years?
# 4. The point is moot anyway, because while FDR's New Deal had the support of the public, 0bamcare is staunchly opposed by most Americans. That is the crucial point you are missing here.

Third, FDR put into place goon squad agencies that literally told tailors how much they could charge to sew a pair of pants, and put one in jail for “

Again, a government can take drastic action to deal with a perceived crisis, as long as the public is behind those actions.
For example, Bush was able to pass the Patriot Act after 9/11, because over 90% of the public was FOR whatever it took to crush Al Quaeda and Al Quaeda agents.
If Bush had even come close to trying to force a bill like the Patriot Act, WITHOUT 9/11 happening, most of the public would have been up in arms against it, and he would have been strictly a one term president, from public backlash against Bush being perceived m to be power drunk wannabe dictator, which is exactly the position 0bozo is in right now. There is absolute no crisis that demands draconian bills liken 0bamacre (80% of Americans are happy with their health care), and voters are incensed about 0bamacare, and they are gonna make 0bama and the Democrats pay a very HEAVY price in 2010.2012 for their arrogance, sleaze, corruption, and total disregard for what voters demand.

92 posted on 12/24/2009 10:32:31 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: CodeToad
Are you sure about that? “

Yes.

I recall my grandparents saying many were, that there was no Constitutional establishment for a welfare state. They were poor at the time but knew any penny given to the government was a penny from their pockets.”

Well, no less a person that Michael Barone, who knows more about US political history than any current analyst, has stated that the only other time, when the public was so adamantly against a bill, and the congress (Democrats) passed a bill against the wishes of most American voters was in 1854. I am sure that was before even your grandfather was grown up.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/reform_bill_likely_legacy_SejC2P2VSHtmAB1ZjygnnM

93 posted on 12/24/2009 10:37:59 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: Political Junkie Too
No one said not to fight back. I'm simply spreading a little realism around here. The Court will not save us. Simple majorities, even substantial majorities, will not save us.

And as for the notion that people like their health care, that may be true, but the change in the health care policies themselves don't come for several years.

94 posted on 12/24/2009 11:17:12 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: SmokingJoe

Like I was “talking nonsense” last year when I said this would pass? BWA HAHAHAHAH.


95 posted on 12/24/2009 11:18:02 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: LS
How do we shame the Court into doing the right thing?

You cited Kelo, well, we now have the benefit of hindsight to throw back in the Court's face that they were playing the same speculation game that New London was playing by saying that it was okay to take private property, not for more "efficient" use as you said, but for more profitable use by way of increased taxes.

New London was speculating on a future proposed business deal, and the Court accepted the premise of betting on the future as just as good as a government plan to build a road or school. It turned out that the business backed out of the deal and New London was left with an abandoned property that was sanctioned by the highest Court in the land.

How do we throw that back at the Court and admonish them to not make the same mistake twice?

-PJ

96 posted on 12/24/2009 11:24:57 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ("Comprehensive" reform bills only end up as incomprehensible messes.)
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To: LS
I don't recall you or anyone on here even talking about any Health care bill before the 2008 elections.
However, after the 2008 elections, and with a Democratic super majority in the Senate, I doubt if many people thought 0bozo’s health care wouldn't pass.
It's not exactly rocket science to predict that a filibuster proof majority would pass some piece of legislation.
97 posted on 12/24/2009 11:29:05 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: CodeToad

The American people would sell themselves into slavery if they thought they could make a buck. Lenin understood them better than our own “leaders”.


98 posted on 12/24/2009 11:35:32 AM PST by Theodore R.
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To: CodeToad

FDR — a socialist supported four times by Ronald Reagan.


99 posted on 12/24/2009 11:36:24 AM PST by Theodore R.
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To: Def Conservative

What is the absolute BEST congressional makeup we could hope for from the 2010 election?


100 posted on 12/24/2009 11:38:38 AM PST by Muzzle_em (Adopt a new furry best friend today! They have nothing but love to give.)
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