Justice Thomas’ dire prediction

Razormouth.com ^ | 12/26/03 | Jim Babka

[RockyMtnMan]

How do you do that? How many presidential candidates or legislators did you nominate in the last election? You can't change it from the inside if the same old cronies pick for you. If you continue to croon "change it from the inside" and don't actually change it what then?

Complaciency and apathy is alive and well in America and the GOP/DNC knows it.

[Urbane_Guerilla]

I realize this is heresy on FR ... but the Pubs are the chief endangerment to our liberty. They also happen to be the best hope for our liberty. Interesting and vital how it will turn out.

[rhema]

So, just to be clear, where in favor of judicial activism in this case, right?

If "activism" means reining in the benighted, self-serving excesses of a body who's just circumscribed our First Amendment liberties with a clearly unconstitutional legislative constraint, so be it.

[CyberAnt]

Which only proves to me that Jesus is at the door .. possibly turning the handle.

[SuziQ]

You can't, my friends, vote for a party that routinely stabs you, their base supporters, in the back time after time after time and then profess surprise at the outcome.

So who are YOU gonna vote for, the Democrats who we KNOW will push into law homosexual marriage, partial birth abortion, 'hate crimes' legislation, etc.? The Republicans may not have done what we like, but I KNOW htey've stemmed the tide of some of the more egregious legislation. They're being stymied in the Senate by the RINOs who need to be defeated, and replaced by more conservative Senators. Now that we have our rallying points, we are responsible for making sure that there are conservative candidates who will run against Democrats and their RINO conterparts. Only by doing that will we ever have the hope of defeating the liberal slant of the courts by putting in place conservative legislators who will allow truly conservative justices to be appointed, and who will pass new laws which will buttress our points of view.

[mrsmith]

Bad example, the FR ad would not be affected by the law since it was in a newspaper and not a broadcast medium.

Maybe it's a good sign that I can't think of an example of such a nonpartisan broadcast ad that would have been mistakenly proscribed by this law?

Yes, perhaps it can be revisited before any great damage is down.

[Mulder]

Show me in the constitution where the founding fathers mentioned broadcast.

It's covered by the 1st amendment, which enumerates the Right of the people to petition the government.

Anyway, the Constitution doesn't have to say it.

This is covered by the 9th amendment which states that if the Constitution doesn't delegate a power to the federal government, that power belongs to the people.

[Quix]

And some really believe the Anti-Christ world leader is not waiting in the wings????

Sigh.

[Mulder]

Re #36...

Very insightful.. thanks for posting it!

I hope you decide to stick around here, and don't get run off by the bootlicking contigent.

[ovrtaxt]

The war has been prosecuted brilliantly, with the exception of Bush's shabby treatment of Israel. The tax cuts were a pittance, a penny in the hand of a peasant boy from the hand of Rockefeller, given before a crowd to prove his generosity.

With those exceptions, what's the difference? PLEASE tell us.

If Jefferson and Madison were alive today, they would be publicly executing incumbent politicians in the streets of DC.

[ovrtaxt]

Have you thought that maybe the GOP has already been changed from the inside? Where is Reagan? Where is the Contract With America? Where is limited government?

Where is the party we once knew?

[mercy]

Well, the second ammendment is still hanging by a thread. Perhaps it is time to make use of it cause I'm sure it's next.

[Mr. Mojo]

Where is the party we once knew?

Aside from the tax breaks and our aggressive miltary action against enemies that plan to destroy us, it's pretty much nowhere to be found.

[ovrtaxt]

See post 70 for my opinion of the tax cut.

[Old Professer]

The past tense of lead is spelled, led.

[ModernDayCato]

I was an advertising executive until I retired in my mid 30s four years ago, so I understand what you're saying.

BUT...flyover country is a lot smarter than your average ad exec, and I'm convinced that while Joe 6 pack watches the country dip into the sh-tter, he is also going to get it out.

In the meantime you're STILL wasting your time on this forum...they all WANT to be lead to the slaughter.

[Mr. Mojo]

The tax cut was far less than I would've like as well (I'd like to see a 5% flat tax on income and the abolition of the estate, payroll, and marriage tax ...among others), but it's the best we could've hoped for under the circumstances. I'm not one of those "all or nothing" guys. I'd prefer a little tax break to no tax break at all. Just like I'd prefer Bush to Gore or any other Democratic (except perhaps Zell Miller). And that's why I'm voting for him. He's far from ideal, but he's better than the alternative.

[Old Professer]

The difference between whores and politicians is that whores don't have access to your wallet.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

After reading you and your "GOOD OL' BOY" rants, I still say, "They who complain the most, do the least...."

You have the gall to consider yourselves patriots, when all you do is NIT-PICK and whine, yet I doubt you have made very little actual effort to contribute anything else to our cause but rhetoric! In fact, I can't tell the difference between you or the anti-war weenies over at DU.

Where I come from, we take jerks like yourselves and give them article 15s, section 8s or Dishonorable Discharges for insubordination.

Let me remind you, we are at WAR. In a time of war we support our Commander in Chief, we do not ridicule him or disrespect him. Because when we do, we threaten to defeat ourselves from within.

Before you advertise what is wrong with this great country, try living some where else instead. You really do not understand just how good you really have it here.

Or, perhaps you should join up with me and my Brothers and help fight for this country! But by listening to your sickening attitudes and the crap you spew, I would have second thoughts about trusting any one of you to cover my perimeter.

[ovrtaxt]

Read your Constitution and get back to me.

I recognize the points you make, and I agree with them. But I am talking about the foundations of our liberty. Yes, I recognize that we have foreign enemies, and it's of paramount importance that we defeat them. But you have given your oath of service to defeat all enemies, foreign and domestic.

And I realize that we still have it good compared to the rest of the planet, but try comparing yourself to an American in 1810. How free are you?

I support the Commander in Chief, but his domestic policies are farther left than his father. Sad.