[JohnHuang2]

Wednesday, February 25, 2004

Quote of the Day by LadyX

[NYer]

While the idiocy underway at San Francisco city hall exposes the moral rot in America, it also reveals how we are losing the republic that was our patrimony. Our forefathers overthrew a rule of kings. But we have meekly submitted to a rule of judges.

It's an election year. Vote these people out of office, before they take that freedom away from us too.

Catholic Ping - let me know if you want on/off this list

[Cowboy Bob]

Yet, seeing the smug certitude of Newsom, and the befuddlement of the authorities, there is no doubt who is winning the culture war and who will prevail if Middle America does not find leaders of greater fiber.

Smug is right! I feel like smacking the B*stard every time I see him.

I hope the rest of America feels the same way I do. Maybe Mayor Newsom will do more to help re-elect Bush then anything the Republicans can do!

[not-an-ostrich]

Historically, taking to the streets seems to work much better than voting because the masses embrace what they see and hear. If Americans care enough about the issue they will publically rally in view of Congress. Thus invalidating what the media is showing and condoning. I'm sick of ABC, etc showing gay and lesbians kissing, holding hands, and marrying right before I eat my dinner.

[wgeorge2001]

"What is happening here in America is an end run around democracy by an elite that believes its superior morality places it above the law. First, the Left engages in defiance and disobedience of a law it detests, then it goes judge-shopping to find some jurist-ideologue who will agree and overturn the law. And thus does the minority rule America."

This is the heart of the matter. My question is, will American's and conservative Christians stand against this inrush of evil against us and our children or will we sit and watch as the butchers of America destroy our constitutional privileges using renegade justices and foolish children (politician's) to bring in anarchy and even civil war to America?

[buridan]

Buchanan's wrong about "history's first recess appointment" to the Supreme Court. There have been several -- including Earl Warren and William Brennan.

[.30Carbine]

Read later.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Interesting article.

[Aquinasfan]

Yet, seeing the smug certitude of Newsom, and the befuddlement of the authorities, there is no doubt who is winning the culture war and who will prevail if Middle America does not find leaders of greater fiber. We live in an age, wrote the poet Yeats, when "the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity."

It's not like God isn't sending us prophets. He sent us Alan Keyes, and we rejected him.

[RogerFGay]

The issue was quickly shaped by extremists and it's going to be a very tough fight to get to all the vital details. I'm glad to see people speaking out about some of the basics, but I'm afraid it's going to shape into a simple extremist battle while the undiscovered solutions will be just that --- undiscovered.

An Alternative to the Federal Marriage Amendment

Why I oppose the federal marriage amendment

[Moby Grape]

It has been sometime since I could offer up "dittos" to Pat, but this is one time he has hit the nail on the head.

[Zack Nguyen]

Should Daschle, Kennedy and Co. deny Bush a vote on his first Supreme Court nominee...

This will only happen if Bush allows it to happen. If he really, really wants his Supreme Court nomination voted on and confirmed, he can make it happen.

[Revolting cat!]

the smug certitude

Just in case you were wondering what that might mean, there are two posters right on this thread to demonstrate it for you!

[ZULU]

The Courts and Judges are TOTALLY out of control. He's right here. Unless the Legislatures and Executives, Federal and State, grow some backbone, the Republic is lost.

We might as well eliminate the Constitutions - Federal and State and the Legislators and have the Courts run the Country directly, like little kinglets.

The Gay Marriage issue is only a single symptom. Activist Courts and the incestuous relationship between attorneys in the legislture and executive and the Courts is the REAL disease.

[DMZFrank]

The marriage amendment should not be necessary. These actions by SF's mayor and the Massachutsetts judiciary are lawless and unconstitutional. We simply cannot amend the constitution every time the left decides to disregard it. We need to hold these officials accountable through impeachment, recall, nullification, interposition and arrest where necessary.

I am so seek of this endless deference to judicial tyranny.

When oh when will some elected executive officer in some state or federal capacity, in fulfilling his constitutional duty to honestly interpet the constitution (federal or state) just disregard the unconstitutional rulings of any court and dare the legislature to impeach him for it? When will some legislature impeach just ONE judge for an unconstitutional ruling?

To say that the courts have the final word on the constitutionality of a law NO MATTER WHAT THEY RULE is to say that the system of checks and balances envisioned by the founders does not exist any more.

Alan Keyes gave the best summation of this issue that I've heard yet. He said that every branch of government has a duty to honestly interpret the constitution. If the president honestly feels the courts make an unconstitutional and lawless ruling, then the president should disregard that ruling and refuse to enforce the provisions that he felt were blatantly unconstitutional. If the Congress felt the president was wrong in this decision, then it was their duty to impeach him for it. If the electorate felt that the Congress was wrong for impeaching the president or the failure to impeach him, they can remove them at the next election, as well as the president for any presidential actions that they considered wrongful.

Lest anyone consider this formula has a recipe for chaos, then I submit to you there is no chaos worse than an unchecked oligarchic Judiciary. We are not living under the rule of law when judges make law up to suit their whims has they engage in objective based adjudication.