Congress assails domain ruling (Pelosi compares court to God)

The Washington Times ^ | 1 July 05 | Charles Hurt

[SkyPilot]

Congress lashed out at the Supreme Court yesterday for expanding government powers of eminent domain and vowed to ban any federal funds for state and local governments that employ the new authority.

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In response, a bipartisan group of senators and House members joined yesterday in introducing legislation that will withhold federal funding from any state or local government that tries to use those expanded powers.

"The Supreme Court voted last week to undo private property rights and to empower governments to kick people out of their homes and give them to someone else because they feel like it," said House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Texas Republican. "No court that denies property rights will long respect and recognize other basic human rights."

The decision was particularly explosive amid speculation that one or more Supreme Court justices may retire in coming weeks. Republicans who already view the Supreme Court as power-hungry said the decision will rally Americans behind their effort to make the court more conservative.

"The only silver lining to the cloud of this decision is the possibility that this time the court has finally gone too far," Mr. DeLay said.

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, said she "would oppose any legislation that says that we would withhold funds for the enforcement of any decision of the Supreme Court, no matter how opposed I am to that decision."

She then added: "And I'm not saying that I'm opposed to this decision."

Arguing that Congress has no business interfering with the ruling unless it wants to amend the Constitution, Mrs. Pelosi said: "This is almost as if God has spoken."

[SkyPilot]

Incredible.

[demkicker]

Sounds like Pelosi is taking flip-flop lessons from John Kerry (the guy who went to Viet Nam)

[saveliberty]

:D She's laughable and not worth the effort.

[alpha-8-25-02]

C:\Program Files\America Online 7.0\download\witherspoon.htm

I WANT TO VOMIT!

WITHERSPOON WAS ONE OF THE ORIGINAL SIGNERS AND THE ONLY PASTOR.

HOW DO THESE PEOPLE GET ELECTED???????????

GODSPEED!

[stopem]

The Supreme Court voted last week to undo private property rights and to empower governments to kick people out of their homes and give them to someone else because they feel like it," said House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Texas Republican. "No court that denies property rights will long respect and recognize other basic human rights."

REPUBLICANS are against this ABUSE of power! I could care less what the dims say and I am not against this because dims are ALL Americans should be against this decision. Whats wrong with you people?

[SkyPilot]

Taken in context, one can better understand the panic and loathing Democrats have when they ponder nominations by President Bush to the Supreme Court.

According to Pelosi, the court is "god." Since she does not recognize the real Almighty God, she must believe in something else to govern her life and purpose for being.

If the court is finally brought back to earth by real justices and not "hyper legislators" from the bench, the Liberal world collapses.

[goldstategop]

Nancy Pelosi is a socialist. She believes you have a privilege to keep your property - as long as the government allows. And her views on the courts is that as long as they rule the way liberals want, they're sacrosanct. Her unctousness is enough to make one gag. This is not why the colonists shed blood, fortunes and their sacred honor to secure the independence of our country!

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[saveliberty]

I am confused as to what check and balance there is to the judiciary if they choose to violate the Public Use clause of the Fifth Amendment?

Congress has the power of the purse and can and has used funding to voice its dissent with the Executive Branch. Why is this a problem when applied to the Judiciary? If there are true checks and balances, the Court isn't exempt from an act of Congress any more than a President is.

[saveliberty]

James Madison wrote that anyone who confiscates your property does not respect your ideas.

[jos65]

Pelosi:

How did she get elected?
Why did she get elected?

One thing for sure: You can count on her to add humor(clueless) to a Dem news conference.

[PogySailor]

Why is it incredible? She has to be opposed to anything a Republican says.

Todays Democrat party has NO ideas. Their only principle appears to be 100% in opposition to anything Republicans say or do.

[saveliberty]

http://www.theagitator.com/archives/022207.php#022207

The Kelo Floodgates are open

[rbmillerjr]

In other news, Pelosi stated that this same worship of the Supreme Court extends back to the first GWBush election.

[Fighter@heart]

Whoa!! Are you trying to tell me kerry was in Nam?!! I had no idea, THIS IS THE FIRST I'VE HEARD ABOUT THIS!!! (LOL!!)

[alpha-8-25-02]

Acts 17:24
"God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands.

Acts 17:25
"Nor is He worshiped with men's hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things.

Acts 17:26
"And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings,

Acts 17:27
"so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;

Acts 17:28
"for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also His offspring.'
(NKJV)

PAUL AT MARS HILL!

THESE PEOPLE BAFFLE THE MIND!

GODSPEED!

[saveliberty]

http://tks.nationalreview.com/archives/068003.asp

NRO's Jim Geraghty has a great piece on Pelosi's endorsment of the Divine Right of Kings, er, Justices

[PogySailor]

Thanks for that link. Reading that shows her to be a bigger fool than I thought. She sees this as a "separation of Church and State" issue?

Good heavens!

[raybbr]

[SkyPilot]

Thanks for the appropriate verses.

Not too many years ago, mankind believed the earth was the center of the solar system (universe in past thinking). I always thought that this arrogant thinking reflected more on the selfish nature of man, and his wish to be "god", than an imperfect approach to science.

Psalm 95, 1-5 reminds us that it is God who deserves the praise.

O come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; Let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms. For the Lord is a great God, And a great King above all gods, In whose hand are the depths of the earth; The peaks of the mountains are His also. The sea is His, for it was He who made it; And His hands formed the dry land.

[School of Rational Thought]

I have yet to hear or read this.

The Kelo decision by the US Supreme Court is consistent with leftist political theory and practice. Isn't communism and socialism about redistribution? Isn't it the role of government to take from A and give to B by force?

The only difference in this situation is that the taking is to benefit the so-called wealthy or powerful.


Don't be fooled by leftists giving protest lip service; they are actually pleased with the decision as case precedent to future redistribution causes. "If we can take to benefit the rich why can't taking be for the benefit of the children"?

You will be hearing that in the future