DUMBER
Posted on 07/01/2005 3:57:10 AM PDT by 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."
(Excerpt) Read more at insider.washingtontimes.com ...
Cut off Pelosi's finger and she'll be unable to spout such nonsense.
Did you mean "blech" as in "That's disgusting."?
Or did you mean 'bleach" as in "Now I need to clean my screen."?
;^)
Nancy Pelosi, one of the leaders of the Democrat party, agrees with the seizure of land for private interests.
It makes sense, though: Communists have always stolen what they want.
Please, please, please, let Nancy Pelosi lead the defense of this insane ruling....
I won't be satisfied till we have 300 seats in the House and 70 in the Senate. If Nancy gets us there, more power to her....
Is it no wonder that San Francisco is one of the few cities in the country that is experiencing a population decline.
Agreed. This is a common-man issue; in other words, even Joe Sixpack can understand when his house is in danger of being stolen.
Problem is, only DeLay (and a few others) are railing against it. Where's Bush???
Your question is a perfectly good one. Congress has the power of the purse and withhold funds, it's in Article I.
even more dumb than Box-o-Rox and thats saying something. This lady ought to be fully exposed for her stupid contempt of anything that smacks of conservative thought.
DUMBER
No surprise.
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"Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the likely new minority leader in the House of Representatives, serves on the executive committee of the socialist-leaning Progressive Caucus, a bloc of about 60 votes or nearly 30 percent of the minority vote in the lower chamber...
"The Democratic Socialists of America's chief organizing goal is to work within the Democratic Party and remove the stigma attached to "socialism" in the eyes of most Americans."
http://www.handguncontrolinc.org/pelosi1.htm
Afraid someone will propose putting up an amusment park on a certain ranch near Crawford, Texas?
It would infer that she sees the liberal activist judiciary as her house of worship, I think.
The government authority can already seize those three million dollar house that sit on a toral of six acres, and build a new jail. Now, they can seize the land and turn it over to five black guys to build a golf driving range/ The dems should love this stuff. Look at the incentive it give them to regain power. They always been for the abolition of private property, well, other peoples' private property. Some of the old socialists must be delighted. Beware of the words of any dem on this subject!!!
:) Thank you!
Pelosi - da fangpi.
How about seizing Bab's oceanfront estate in Malibu and putting up a few thousand timeshare units? That will get the two California RAT princesses to take notice
We will learn a costly lesson, that is if we don't attempt to work WITH < cough > Democrats on this issue, erosion of Americans' right to property and liberty will exponentially increase.
Huh!
The appointment of liberal judges by polititians from both sides of the aisle has resulted in this decision. Only at the ballot box(the voters)can we eliminate these mistakes.
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