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A lynch mob gathers: Part II
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| 10/22/03
| Thomas Sowell
Posted on 10/21/2003 10:28:45 PM PDT by kattracks
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posted on
10/21/2003 10:28:45 PM PDT
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
bttt
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posted on
10/21/2003 10:55:12 PM PDT
by
pogo101
To: kattracks
It is time for the whitehouse to go on the offensive with their judicial nominees, this is getting old, and the media is being as fair as they always are.
Time for Bush to cash in a little of that personal capital he has and get these judges confirmed and on the bench.
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posted on
10/21/2003 11:02:01 PM PDT
by
Ogmios
(Who is John Galt?)
To: kattracks
I watched and listened to most of the hearing yesterday. Her detractors (durbin, schumer, kennedy, etc.) have nothing on her. Based on her demeanor and temperament alone, she will be W's selection for the next vacancy on the Supreme Court. Mark my words.
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posted on
10/23/2003 3:20:35 AM PDT
by
leadpenny
To: Ogmios
It is time for the whitehouse to go on the offensive with their judicial nominees...It's past time for the Senate (R) leadership to take it to the wall. If "the swimmer" wants a filibuster, give it to him, but make it a real one.
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posted on
10/23/2003 3:39:12 AM PDT
by
Aeronaut
(In my humble opinion, the new expression for backing down from a fight should be called 'frenching')
To: kattracks
I caught some of the opening of this.
Talk about a full frontal slaughter by the dems.
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posted on
10/23/2003 3:49:51 AM PDT
by
OXENinFLA
To: ambrose; Long Cut
Why bother with carefully selecting judicial nominees? All we gotta do when we disagree with trial results is to make snap political judgments instead, based on the subjective pressure standards of the mob
du jour</>, just like in Europe. Evidence and adversarial proceedings? Who needs those when we have internet activism based on whever can make the most emotional and one sided appeal.Princess Diana is my new hero.
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posted on
10/23/2003 3:57:07 AM PDT
by
Chancellor Palpatine
(free Mumia-I haven't reviewed the evidence presented, but I have an opinion and pols better listen)
To: kattracks
Turn on C-span!.
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posted on
10/23/2003 4:05:20 AM PDT
by
OXENinFLA
To: OXENinFLA
Just did. Who is this Glen Ford?
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posted on
10/23/2003 4:07:46 AM PDT
by
leadpenny
To: leadpenny
It's the guy that runs Black commentatior.
To: OXENinFLA
To: leadpenny
To: leadpenny
This caller is an idiot!!!!
To: OXENinFLA
This is all going to blow up in their faces.
To: leadpenny
Are you hearing these callers?
Wwhat a bunch of leftists.
To: OXENinFLA
This woman is blaming the Republicans for what the Demcrats are doing. Kinda like "Help me before I kill again."
To: kattracks
the voting public would never have stood for such things as racial quotas or the creation of new "rights" for criminals out of thin air, if this had been done by elected officials. Tom Sowell hits another one out of the ball park.
Of course everything he says is obvious, but agendas die hard.
This particular idea resonated with me because it should remind us all that even legislators are not elected to indulge their private fantasies of what Constitutional Government means, nor to enjoy a puerile power trip.
Strip them of the title and they are all human beings as the rest of us are, many with the most bizarre quirks and character flaws.
Judgeships for life is a concept born in a simpler age, when certain rules and truths were assumed obvious, self-evident and eternal. That is no longer true.
Rules created during that simpler age have been exploited, twisted and degenerated to satisfy the darker side of our nature and the combination of that with egalitarianism has brought us to an impasse.
Rules must change. But how? and when?
The "why" should be obvious.
The rule by the qualified. Wish I knew the name. Oligarchy is not quite it. It must never be arbitrary. Most Americans should qualify. But there is a pressing need to make sure legislators and judges are not only sane, but also must meet a minimum level of intelligence, knowledge and common sense. We all know what that is but I see a long debate in the attempt to codify it.
No more planting flags on Mars, or conjuring up penumbras, judicial sophistry writ large.
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posted on
10/23/2003 4:59:41 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(40% of Californians are as dumb as a sack of rocks.)
To: Chancellor Palpatine
The system you currently live under was created by the mob du jour you keep referring to. Regardless of how stupid you may think the new law is, our system is setup that way. So regardless of how you may feel towards it until the FLSC or SCOTUS overturns it you have to live with it.
Whether you like it or not Terri Schiavo has a constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and the decision by the FL legislature who derived their powers from the consent of the governed saw to it.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
--Declaration of Independence
And the courts know their duty also.
In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.
--U.S. Constitution Article III
It aint my fault they had to sware to it.
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
-- U.S. Constitution Article VI
You dont agree with the system and thats fine, because I dont agree with it always either. Until the bugs are worked out its all weve got and me and you just have to live with it, but if you dont like it push to get it changed, it works (sometimes).
To: OXENinFLA
C-SPIN is a wholly owned subsidiary of the DNC.....
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posted on
10/23/2003 6:03:32 AM PDT
by
OldFriend
(DEMS INHABIT A PARALLEL UNIVERSE)
To: mtbrandon49
Had no idea Terri Schiavo was up for a federal judge-ship.
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posted on
10/23/2003 6:04:41 AM PDT
by
OldFriend
(DEMS INHABIT A PARALLEL UNIVERSE)
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