Posted on 02/11/2009 8:58:36 AM PST by Perdogg
They will lose seats due to population losses in the next census. They’re so desperate to hold on to power, they’ll destroy the nation to do it.
WOuldn’t this require a constitutional ammendment? I don’t think Congress can do this.
This was all planned before the election even took place! Now we know why all the Clintonistas were rehired! They have practice at ignoring laws, rules, the Constitution, etc. Lots of practice!
Do you have a link to either a transcript or video that backs up this claim? All I remember is Rush assuring us that he was more "conservative" than Gore. Hell... Stalin was more conservative than Gore. I have NEVER heard Rush try to assure us that Bush was "a" Conservative.
Feel free to provide the evidence to educate me and prove me wrong.
Thanks.
No frikin kidding! I knew the Rats would drive socialism, but the depth, breadth, and speed is incomprehensible! Just WOW!!!!
Remember Bill O on fox saying Obamunism would govern as a centrist and if he started pushing a far left socialist agenda - he'd be all over him? Yeah right - go get him Bill (I'm watching out for the folks) you big bleeping bleep bleep bleep!!!
A constitutional amendment was drawn up on this very subject in 1978, to give the District of Columbia congressional representation. It was ratified by far less than the 38 states required. It was passed by 2/3 of each house of Congress, but not enough states ratified it.
This is absurd. Back in 1978, people realized and accepted that a constitutional amendment was needed to accomplish what they are trying to do. But now, in 2009, the Obamaniacs figure that their Dem. majorities in Congress are enough.
How can this be? If it required an amendment in 1978, it still requires an amendment now, because the legal status of D.C. has not changed since then.
————Wonder why they even picked her?—————
Because they knew McCain couldn’t win. They thought her addition would be enough to appease the conservative base and get them on board. But when the results came in on the 4th and McCain lost, they had no further use of her.
That’s all it was right from the get go: a ploy.
The republican party has made it clear how it views conservatives. And because of that, many conservatives like myself have come to view the republican party in the exact same way.
A smart man once said “I didn’t leave the democrat party, they left me”. A few decades later, the republican party is making the exact same mistake.
———And now she’s the conservative front-runner for the 2012 race! That McCain, what a jerk!-—————
When people do something only because they want to like this(not because they are forced to) do they deserve credit. Yes, McCain is a jerk. Had he gotten his way, someone much more liberal would’ve been chosen. Pawlenty or Lieberman or some such idiocy.
I don't either. Not one. The polling data doesn't back it up one bit, either. It's pure "moderate" mythology.
“Will it without question provide a permanent Democratic addition? Absolutely; anyone saying this is not political is lying. But it is also the right thing to do.”
So your “feelings” override the Constitution then. Must be nice.
I guess the constitution has no meaning at all anymore.
can 2 Senators for D.C. be far behind...
I smell ‘Rats behind all this!
LOL!
The constitution has become a roadblock on the Obama highway. The Senate is just making a detour around that restrictive document.
The Constitution no longer exists. It is but a meaningless piece of paper.
Why limit it to 2?
If you are going to ignore the Constitution, why not just give blue states 4 Senators each and give the red states 1 Senator (with limited voting rights).
As Obama said.... "WE WON"!
The battle for the constitution has been lost.
And Rush is right, but it’s too bad the alternative was even worse. Looking back on it now, though, I kind of wish Algore had won the election. We could still have a GOP majority in the senate and house if he had.......
Easy, Trigger! LOL
As long as Americans are armed, nothing is “lost!”
No, I don't. I just recall that he mentioned at least several times on air during the primaries how conservative W was. I recall his telling of private conservations with prominent people who knew W personally, and that people would be surprised. Other Freepers have shared this recollection in other posts.
Your thinking of the 23rd ammendment. All that does is give DC electors even though it is not a state. It does not state that DC CANNOT apply for statehood. I’m just saying there is a way they can get senators and representatives while staying within the framework of the Constitution. The Dems are trying to ignore the Constitution and they really dont even have to do that. But they consider the Consitution irrelevant anyway so it doesn’t really surprise me.
see post 77.
Ping
Not constitutional.
Looks like it will pass.
As for "conservative" philosophy being the ruling issue among the majority here at FR; well, I really don't know what that means any more after the debacle of eight years that GWB logged. Does "conservative" mean shipping $$millions$$ to Africa to fight AIDs? Does it mean the creation and expansion of government with whole new agencies (i.e. Homeland Security)? Does it mean employing "limited warfare strategy" that Rumsfeld and Cheney said would work pre-surge in Iraq when they were certain the U.S. "would be welcomed as heroes"? Does it mean Harriet Myers was well qualified to be a justice on the Supreme Court before Samuel Alito was?
McCain might have been all wet on CFR (incidentally, HE WASN'T THE ONE WHO SIGNED IT INTO LAW), he definitely was wrong on amnesty for illegals (though McCain-Kennedy was being also pushed by GWB if you'll remember correctly), but he certainly didn't try to robe himself in a "compassionate conservative" hypocritical cloak and was there, warts and all, for everyone to see--Unlike the one who held the White House some 30 days ago and was the darling of Rush and Sean when it came to "conservative" labels!
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