Posted on 06/17/2012 3:06:18 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
"This is how great republics die"
-- George Washington"Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths?"
The Constitution of the United States, which all officers of government, in every branch, must swear to support, is crystal clear that Congress has the exclusive constitutional grant of power to establish immigration and naturalization standards.
"The Congress shall have Power...To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization..." Article 1, Section 8:
Also, the Constitution absolutely requires that the United States protect each of the States from Invasion.
"The United States...shall protect each of them [the States] against Invasion..." Article 4, Section 4:
Barack Obama's actions this week in, by executive decree, granting certain classes of illegal invaders of our country a de facto amnesty are an obvious usurpation of that exclusive congressional power, AND they are a gross dereliction of one of the primary imperative duties of the Commander-in-Chief.
If a president were acting to check a lawless law passed by a lawless Congress; in other words, if he was standing firmly against a Congress or Court that had clearly breached their own constitutional limits; I would support actions by the chief executive to stop them. His oath would require that he do so.
But that is obviously not the case here.
I applaud the actions of my congressman, Steve King, in launching a court challenge to this illegitimate Obama policy. The third branch of government, the judiciary, should immediately join with the legislative branch to check the executive's lawlessness.
However, this is a perfect case to illustrate why Congress was also given the impeachment power. If they cared at all for their own oaths to support the Constitution; if they cared about the survival of the rule of law in this country, if they cared for our territorial integrity and sovereignty, they would immediately impeach this usurper and remove him from office at once.
To be frank though, experience tells me that they will not do so. Obama Democrats have no regard for the Constitution or their oaths, and Romney Repubublicans have no principles or spine.
This is how great republics die.
Yes, I know of no other conservative candidate. Goode is the only one from one of the nation-wide parties, CP. Who is the other you’re thinking of — Johnson? Can’t go with libertarians; they are pro-choice.
So you’re not acknowledging this thread, the poster of this thread, or his many supporters here in FR?
They don’t exist?
They are potted plants?
They are not conservatives?
It just goes to what I was saying, that conservatives have a very hard time uniting.
We failed to unite behind a single anti-Romney candidate in the primaries and now those conservatives who refuse to support Romney also refuse to unite behind a single non-Romney alternative.
It’s both amazing and depressing.
Sorry. You’re mistaken. The only party I was involved with until 2008 was the GOP. And Keyes was a Republican until then as well.
Coincidentally, I knew Al Capp who was the cartoonist and creator of Little Abner. He was originally from my hometown of New Haven, CT, and was about 40 years older than I. For several years, I used to drive him from his home in Cambridge, MA, (a stone's throw from Harvard with the scars to prove it as Al used to say) to his apartment in NYC and vice versa.
May God bless you and yours!
God bless you and yours.
Apparently, Lakeshark’s mind decomposed badly in the meantime along with any semblance of principles. Now any old POS under the GOP label will do.
C. S. Lewis was a close friend of J. R. R. Tolkien and would have been familiar with Tolkien’s take on dwarves because early drafts of LOR were read to Lewis’s Oxford Literary Club: The Inklings. To the extent that they may differ, I’ll take my stand with Tolkien.
If true, how sad for Miss Sarah. After her elbows recover from the nuclear arm-twisting by the GOP-E, her loyalists will forgive her for the great woman that she is. The morally spaghetti-spined Romney pom pom girls will NEVER be forgiven.
Hint: It's an archetype, a small group that can't listen, can't hear anything but their own silly notions of purity, self righteousness all the while fighting to put an evil tyrant back on the throne while thinking they are "pure".
This is sounding very familiar.......
U mean I don’t acknowledge a freeper who hangs out a shingle and says he’s running for the presidency? That is no different than if I did. Gary Johnson was a governor of a state. Virgil Goode was a many term congressman.
Tom might be a nice guy but tell me his credentials.
See #150.
I don’t know. I don’t support any of the fringe candidates. I’m just making the observation that the conservative protest vote can’t unite behind a single protest candidate.
On this subject you and I are in complete agreement.
Have you seen this?
Eric Holder’s Contempt Didn’t Start Last Week [Elian Gonzalez kidnapping for Castro]
Exactly. You don’t have a clue who he is. Neither do I.
At this point there is only one experienced, known conservative in the race, Goode. There is only one experienced, known libertarian, Johnson.
“In the race.” - yeah, sure.
Duncan Hunters, all.
This nation would be one heck of a lot better off if duncan hunter had gotten traction and won and any knowledgeable conservative knows it.
I agree with you. I liked Duncan Hunter in 2008 and I still like him today.
But I knew what you didn’t. There would never be a President Hunter, as there will never be a president from the other little Hunters.
We don’t know about other Hunters, but we do know about the elder one. The reason he lost was funding more than anything. It sure wasn’t his conservatism.
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