Posted on 09/08/2005 5:15:42 PM PDT by Happy2BMe
And what precisely would an Air National Guard Base such as Otis with an air superioriy mission do in hurricane relief?
Or what would the Air National Guard Base at Bradley International Airport with a ground strike mission do during hurricane relief? Or are you recommending we use A-10s to shoot looters?
"Or are you recommending we use A-10s to shoot looters?"
I did a few days ago.
I think you are confusing the role of who does what.
The BRAC has nothing to do with natural disasters / recovery.
How does a natural occurrence in nature - one kick ass hurricane - equate to "national security" ??
LVM
Yeah, no reason the Commander in Cheif should have final say over where we base troops. NO,the COURTS should be allowed to interject themselves into that too. Hard core originalist for the O'Conner vacancy Mr President. HARD CORE. If they fail, find an even tougher Son of a B and send THEM to the Senate. And again and again and again until we get SOME restoration of the rule of law in the Courts.
Frankly, I'd like to know where the hell the courts get the power to enjoin a Presidential advisory panel.
give bases to the states so they can form well regulated militia's problem solved.
To long the states have not provided for their own defense.
Problem solved.
It's just stunning to me that of all of them, the Bradley decision is the one holding things up. Last I knew (unless something changed later) the recommendation was that half of the Hogs would move to Westover, which is less than a half-hour drive up the road (but it's over the border in Massachusetts). Kind of hard to make a real national security argument about that kind of a change.
I figured some of the arguments about National Guard bases would get a longer court hearing, but I never would have guessed that would be the last one standing.
Actually I stand corrected...it was Barnes Field, not Westover (still only a half-hour away, but a slightly different windage).
Time to send all the damned lawyers and their MASTERS-in-black all down to the delta region for Gator Bait!
Maybe get something worthwhile out of that human garbage.
These tyranical judges have NO authority to do any of this and I don't know why Bush doesnt have the cojones to tell them to go to hell and stick with THEIR constitutional duties.
Reagan would have kicked ass and taken names.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
Ronald Reagan
I am glad he is not around to see what has become of his America.
And exactly what authority do the courts have over military bases and their closing (or the recommendation of such)?
I doubt whether Ruth Bader Ginsberg's decision is based on any point of constitutional law. Most likely she refused to act because it makes life more complicated for the hated Bush administration. Delay, stonewalling, delay are the weapons of the left when they lack a majority in congress.
Time to defund the NG -- convert everything back to Active Duty. Then let the states pay for their own Guards. Let these liberal governors explain that to their constituents -- well, we saved a few hundred jobs, but now we have to fork over another billion a year to pay for the Guard units.
NO IT DOESN'T WITHIN THIS CONTEXT
Objections are primarily political and community economics.
You are absolutely correct
Interesting concept
Break out the popcorn!
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I don't know whose comments would be more entertaining--Jesse Jacksoff's or Geraldo Rivera's.
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