Posted on 12/22/2009 6:38:39 PM PST by TornadoAlley3
Okay, let’s keep the pressure on - especially Nelson. The governor and people of Nebraska are really giving it to him. Let’s add fuel to the fire! Let him know we are not only sick of the corruption of which he is chief benefactor, but we will also be cheering for the Cornhuskers to lose big to the Arizona Wildcats in their upcoming bowl game!
Nelson
bennelson.senate.gov
Phone: (402) 441-4600
Fax: (202) 228-0012
Webb
http://webb.senate.gov
Phone: 202-224-4024
Fax: 202-228-6363
Landrieu
http://landrieu.senate.gov
Phone: (202)224-5824
Fax:(202) 224-9735
Lincoln
http://lincoln.senate.gov
(202) 224-4843
Fax (202) 228-1371
Bayh
http://bayh.senate.gov
Phone: (202) 224-5623
Fax: (202) 228-1377
Lieberman
http://lieberman.senate.gov
Phone: 202.224.4041
Fax: 202.224.9750
Oklahoma, you are awesome...
Bravo OK.
The second amendment doesn't guarantee jack diddly. Its meaning is under threat at any time. The right to rebel is not guaranteed. That's a right you don't ask permission to excercise.
SOONER BUMP
We should send this to Ms Mcmorris-Rodgers and ask that she do the same.
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Tornado Alley Bump!!!
(and I never saw a tornado in person during my time in Okalhoma...
age 6 months to about 30 years of age...But many passed by me
but it was after dark!!!)
Now if they would just remove the mandates that have been put on insurance companies requiring them to cover all sorts of stuff that many people don’t want or need, then we would see some real progress in improving health care and making insurance more affordable.
If you're prepared to accept the decision of a branch of the feral government that the actions of...the feral government, are Constitutional. I'll bet a lot of people, and states, are not so prepared.
Federalism ping, y’all.
Prepared or not, short of a constitutional recourse, they have no LEGAL recourse. They can rebel. Or they can call a convention. Actually, they ought to call a convention. That would be the “proper” thing to do. Rebellion, technically, should be a last resort, and unless you’ve called a Constitutional Convention, you have not exhausted your legal options.
It had been insisted upon by those who were called anti-federalists, that this form of government consolidated the union; .... Those who were called anti-federalists at that time, complained that they were in favor of a federal government, and the others were in favor of a National one; the federalists were for ratifying the constitution as it stood, and the others did not until amendments were made [the Bill of Rights].Their names then ought not to have been distinguished by federalists and anti-federalists, but rats and anti-rats.”
Elbridge Gerry
Not sure about SS specifically, but when several consecutive decisions seemed to indicate that several justices could at least spell "Constitution", FDR, being the Democrat, communist spawn of Satan who would likely have molested little boys if he hadn't had polio, became alarmed. He then started making noises about expanding SCOTUS to 12 justices ("packing"), and the nine suddenly discovered the constitutionality of the New Deal (spit).
Now, believing in stare decisis every bit as much as your typical liberal, I'm all in favor of fixing those decisions at the earliest opportunity.
If the voters of Oklahoma have to "still pay the federal taxes" despite the will of the people, then that is taxation without representation.
The states can demand that the U.S. government abide by the constitution--as it was written and intended. If the feds refuse, the states can and should secede.
That's hilarious. Re: stare decisis, considering Scalia wrote a majority opinion not so long ago affirming Wickard v Fillburn (new deal era commerce clause), I seriously doubt we will see the new deal overturned.
Huck, you seem pretty comfortable in your role as a wet blanket. I would submit it’s more of a cop out taking the low road than it is to actually offer some solutions of your own. What would you like to see happen?
Perhaps "rebellion lite": just ignore them and don't participate. See how bad the feds want to make an issue of it and what they're willing to do to enforce it.
Yeah, Scalia shows some disturbing statist and nationalist tendencies. If he's an "originalist", he's certainly one who sees through a conservative/authoritarian lens. Not sure why he's the darling of the right to the extent that he is. I'd take two more Thomases over eight more Scalias.
later
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