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Obama Regulatory Czar's Confirmation Held Up by Hunting Rights Proponent
FOXNews.com ^ | Tuesday, July 21, 2009 | By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos

Posted on 07/21/2009 7:36:07 PM PDT by metmom

WASHINGTON -- President Obama's nominee for "regulatory czar" has hit a new snag in his Senate confirmation process -- a "hold" by Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who's says he's not convinced that Harvard professor Cass Sunstein won't push a radical animal rights agenda, including new restrictions on agriculture and even hunting.

Senators are permitted "holds" to prevent a vote on a nominee from coming to the floor. They are often secretive and for very specific reasons.

"Sen. Cornyn finds numerous aspects of Mr. Sunstein's record troubling, specifically the fact that he wants to establish legal 'rights' for livestock, wildlife and pets, which would enable animals to file lawsuits in American courts," the Republican's spokesman, Kevin McLaughlin, said in a statement to FOXNews.com.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: animalrights; czar; hunting; loonytune; obama; sunstein
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To: bareford101

Cornyn is not a bad person believe it or not... Though I hate to see him go the way of the rest....

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21 posted on 07/21/2009 8:14:33 PM PDT by waterhill (I beg you listen to us, lest we hang your sorry asses....)
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To: metmom
There's room in this world for all God's creatures.

Right next to the meat and mashed potatoes.

22 posted on 07/21/2009 8:21:08 PM PDT by vrwc1
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To: vrwc1
Dang it! I messed up that joke.

It's supposed to say "Right next to the mashed potatoes and gravy."

23 posted on 07/21/2009 8:23:22 PM PDT by vrwc1
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68
“Senators are permitted “holds” to prevent a vote on a nominee from coming to the floor.”

I wish they had stopped Gary Locke. Commerce Secretary: America needs to pay for China’s emissions

24 posted on 07/21/2009 8:24:36 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Obama's multi- trillion dollar agenda would be a "man caused disaster")
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To: metmom

.... erm did I miss something somewhere. I thought “czars” weren’t confirmed by congress. When did we start confirming czars????


25 posted on 07/21/2009 8:37:28 PM PDT by Domandred (Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.. I am Jim Thompson.)
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To: metmom

I don’t think giving livestock rights is on the communist agenda. It very well could be on the agenda of someone bound and determined to destroy a society, however.


26 posted on 07/21/2009 8:46:28 PM PDT by randog (Tap into America!)
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To: randog

Same difference in that case.


27 posted on 07/21/2009 8:50:36 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

My problem with this whole Czar matter is the big ZERO has no right to appoint them in the first place. Where are all the REpublicans standing up and questioning the CZAR MOVEMENT?????


28 posted on 07/21/2009 9:12:20 PM PDT by pollywog (Psalm 91:4 ...staying cuddled Under His Wings)
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To: metmom

Obama shouldn’t have insulted those bitter clingers. Now he’ll never be rid of them until they’re rid of him.


29 posted on 07/21/2009 10:12:46 PM PDT by dr_who
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To: metmom
Sen. John Cornyn, "holds the confirmation" because he is concerned that Cass would push a radical animal rights agenda..

How about also having some concern for preserving free speech?! Cass intends to violate the First Amendment with the Government regulation of speech on the Internet.

That whole silly "freedom of speech" thing must be of no bother to the confirming Senators. But, hey, at least the animals won't have a radical agenda pushed on them. /sarc

30 posted on 07/21/2009 11:54:49 PM PDT by kara2008 (Government cannot be the solution when government is the problem)
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To: metmom; Markos33; Salamander
".....specifically the fact that he wants to establish legal 'rights' for livestock, wildlife and pets, which would enable animals to file lawsuits in American courts,"

I don't see the problem. The very first action should be a civil suit for wrongful death filed on behalf of the fly swatted by The Usurper two weeks ago.

It should be accompanied by a simultaneous criminal action for murder.
31 posted on 07/22/2009 12:02:36 AM PDT by shibumi (" ..... then we will fight in the shade.")
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To: metmom
Cornyn's spokesman said the senator will be happy when he gets direct assurances from Sunstein that he will not pursue an agenda akin to some of his past writings, particularly on the animal rights issue.

"Sen. Cornyn hasn't had a chance to speak with him yet, that's the reason for the hold," said McLaughlin. "He wants to have a chance to before moving forward."

This doesn't seem very reassuring. Saxby Chambliss dropped his objection after he got assurance in writing from Sunstein.

Will Cornyn go through the same theater and then drop his hold? After all, when was the last time a liberal lied?

32 posted on 07/22/2009 12:50:34 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: metmom

YES!
finally they are standing in Obama’s way over something.
But animal rights?
How about OUR rights???


33 posted on 07/22/2009 2:47:35 AM PDT by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: metmom
call these 'Tsars' what they really are...Obammy's Soviet Politburo
34 posted on 07/22/2009 3:24:11 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Hugin
I thought his “czars” didn’t have to be confirmed?

That's what I thought.

This assclown wants to allow animals to file lawsuits? Well there's a whole new segment of business for the trial lawyer's assn.

35 posted on 07/22/2009 5:55:17 AM PDT by webschooner (“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” Mahatma Gandh)
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To: metmom

SOOOOO, is this the Obama Administration’s tell that we are all going to be vegetarians. Does Milking cows constitute animal Abuse?


36 posted on 07/22/2009 11:14:33 AM PDT by Marty62
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To: Madame Dufarge

Yep, he has no backbone. He is terrified of the fixers and elites.


37 posted on 07/22/2009 11:16:32 AM PDT by Marty62
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To: metmom; All

Political Affairs Magazine, Marxist Thought Online
Book Review – The Second Bill of Rights, Cass R. Sunstein -.

..As the basis of this claim, Sunstein points to FDR’s state of the union address delivered in January of 1944. In this speech, FDR called for expanding both legally and culturally our concept of our basic rights. FDR challenged the American people to think beyond the rights listed in the Bill of Rights and include:

the right to a useful and remunerative job
the right to earn a living wage
the right of business owners to be free of unfair competition form monopoly capital
the right to adequate health care
the right to housing
the right to Social Security, social insurance, unemployment insurance
the right to a good education


38 posted on 07/22/2009 2:32:55 PM PDT by PghBaldy (http://www.blackfive.net/main/2009/06/president-obama-visits-wounded-troops.html)
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