Rudy Presses Suit (The candidate, as mayor, was a perpetual plaintiff.)

National Review Online ^ | 11-28-07 | Kate O'Beirne

[TitansAFC]

---"Conservatives can only hope that President Giuliani — if such is our fate — can be counted on to appoint judges who would throw Plaintiff Giuliani out of court."---

And we can hope that President Hillary gets baptized in the late Jerry Falwell's church and begins a new life championing the Pro-Life movement. Both are equally stupid hopes.

[TitansAFC]

The “Stop Rudy” ping list!

E-mail/ping me if you want on/off the list! SPREAD THE WORD!!!

[ElkGroveDan]

As mayor of New York City, he launched lawsuits that sought liberal rulings to punish gun manufacturers and to overturn legislation on immigration, welfare reform, and taxes. When elected legislatures made laws with which he disagreed, this Giuliani thought it was a judge’s responsibility to legislate from the bench.

ZING! That's gotta hurt.

[ValerieTexas]

I press suits, too, and men’s new shirts. It’s part of our customer service at Men’s Wearhouse.

[fantom]

Stop Rudy ? Good luck with that one..

[Reagan Man]

>>>>>When elected legislatures made laws with which he disagreed, this Giuliani thought it was a judge’s responsibility to legislate from the bench.

The sure mark of an authoritarian and opportunist.

[dashing doofus]

A preview of what a Julie Annie presidency would be like, from a 1998 Daily News article (I lived in NY at the time):

Mayor Giuliani is poised to launch a major crackdown on a habit many New Yorkers consider their inalienable right: jaywalking.

Giuliani yesterday hinted that tomorrow's State of the City address will include a plan to increase the $2 fine now levied on those who cross at the wrong place or the wrong time.

Pedestrians howled in anger and frustration at the plan, which comes weeks after the city placed sidewalk barricades to block key midtown intersections to walkers.

But Giuliani showed little sign of backing down and launched an impromptu lecture about jaywalking's evils.

"Jaywalking is a very dangerous thing," he said

Got laws??

[TitansAFC]

-—”Stop Rudy ? Good luck with that one..”-—

Hey....if we don’t stop the Liberals, who will?

[Alberta's Child]

If this nation could have learned one lesson from the Clinton administration, it would be this:

NEVER ELECT LAWYERS TO SERVE IN AN EXECUTIVE CAPACITY -- ANYWHERE.

This article is a perfect illustration of why this ought to be the case. The scathing Biblical admonition against lawyers also summed up the problem perfectly.

"Woe to you lawyers also, because you load men with burdens which they cannot bear, and you yourselves touch not the packs with one of your fingers." -- Luke 11:46

[Alberta's Child]

You work at Men’s Wearhouse? I’d love to hear myself on one of those “George Zimmer voice mail” commercials!

[Fred]

Rooty will have to pass a law that stops him from suing anything that moves.

[Fred]

ping

please add, BTW - what is the big story drudge is going to drop today on the Rudster

[Alberta's Child]

Ironically, Giuliani's anti-jaywalking measures were among the legitimate applications of government authority in the City of New York.

As a civil engineer with a thorough understanding of traffic operations, I'd have no problem if a municipal government started tossing jaywalkers in jail. In a city like New York they are enormous pains in the @ss, and pose serious impediments to vehicular traffic and safety concerns for themselves and others.

[penowa]

---"Conservatives can only hope that President Giuliani — if such is our fate — can be counted on to appoint judges who would throw Plaintiff Giuliani out of court."---

And we can hope that President Hillary gets baptized in the late Jerry Falwell's church and begins a new life championing the Pro-Life movement. Both are equally stupid hopes.

And we can wish that Soros has an even bigger conversion than Hillary and makes certain that both his sock puppets, Rudy and Hillary, carry out his latest orders to follow the Constitution to the letter and appoint SC Justices who will do likewise.

Wish in one hand, s--t in the other, and see which one gets filled up first.

[dashing doofus]

Good I left then. ;-).

The pedestrians wouldn't even fit on the sidewalks outside of Penn Station during rush hour. You had to walk on the streets. But there were plenty of crazy pedestrians, for sure. I just see the image of barricaded sidewalks and strict fines for j-walking as emblematic of Julie Annie's authoritarian overreach.

Maybe I should post the gum-spitting penalties he proposed?

[TitansAFC]

Added. Thanks for joining the cause!

I think it looks to be that Rudy and his team are going to get busted for spending massively. One of the constant whispering campaigns done by Team Rudy has been that he “hasn’t had to spend any money, but look where he is!”

What we’ll see, I suspect, is that Rudy has gone through nearly all of his raised cash for the Primary, and that his burn rate is much, much higher than his team wanted the public to know.

I suspect we’ll all get to see that he has been spending - a lot - and still falling slowly in the polls and tanking in the early Primary states. Get ready for some massive spinning coming from team Rudy.

[massgopguy]

You can’t run for POTUS in baggy pants.

[dashing doofus]

Hillary would look awful in skin tights, though.

[jubail]

Anything written by Kate Obierne should be ignored. She is pathetic. She allowed herself to be continually insulted by the other panelists on Capital Gang but stayed on to collect her paycheck. She is a truly pathetic fool.

[Alberta's Child]

There might be a couple of different issues here. The anti-jaywalking initiative I remembered was specifically aimed at eliminating traffic congestion at some key locations in midtown Manhattan -- by prohibiting people from crossing at the intersections (this is what the barriers were for) and forcing them to use new signalized mid-block crossings instead. This eliminated the vehicle/pedestrian conflicts at those busy intersections and helped reduce congestion by allowing cars to turn freely at the intersections without having to stop for pedestrians.

This is an effective way to improve the flow of traffic at busy intersections, and the "pedestrian group representatives" who complained about it were basically just professional malcontents.