As Rodney Dangerfield once said, "The last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it....."
Posted on 12/30/2009 3:12:32 PM PST by LiveFreeOrDie2001
A Minnesota judge has ordered the state to reinstate money for a food program that Gov. Tim Pawlenty cut from the budget, saying he acted unconstitutionally.
Several people in the program for the poor sought an injunction to restore money while their court case proceeds
Ramsey County District Judge Kathleen Gearin granted their wish in an order on Wednesday. Her temporary restraining order keeps the money intact indefinitely.
The case stems from $2.7 billion in cuts the Republican governor announced this summer to balance the budget. He took the action using an executive power that allows the governor to trim spending on his own. He and the Democratic-controlled Legislature failed to agree on a budget.
An attorney for Pawlenty had argued that the state would have trouble paying its bills if the administration lost because others hit by cuts would see it as an invitation to file similar lawsuits.
Nah, she still has Hitlery eyes.
Perhaps the governor did exceed his authority?
If this were the federal level, would we want Obama to have full discretion on what costs to cut without congressional oversight?
I don’t like liberal judges and I don’t like spending but I really don’t like the executive branch to have anymore power than necessary.
Hmmm... I don't know you so I won't jump to any conclusions, but it's strange that you bring up busing in a thread about food program funding.
You nailed it. Will this Governor wimp out in the face of judicial usurpation like Mitt and Jeb did or will he stand up and tell the judge what to do with her decision.
As Rodney Dangerfield once said, "The last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it....."
I've got twenty on gutless wonder. Anyone wanna bet?
Excellent idea.
Let the loony left pay for these ridiculous programs with their own money instead of someone else's money for a change.
Good—better to continue feeding the revenues to the food program than to social program and regulatory meddlers. And best, the default will come sooner! Then...small government. ;-D
she’s the same dumbass who gave a gang member babydaddy
the “sentence” of parenting classes for this...
**Dad is enraged when son wears blue, a rival gang color**
http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/70587042.html?elr=KArks:DCiUoaW_eEO7UiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU
A St. Paul man who ripped a shirt off his 4-year-old stepson and hit the boy for wearing a rival gang’s color won’t have to serve any additional jail time but must take parenting classes before he has any contact with the boy.
Kenny T. Jackson, 30, pleaded guilty in September in Ramsey County District Court to malicious punishment of a child, a gross-misdemeanor.
At his sentencing hearing Tuesday, District Judge Kathleen Gearin stayed 279 days of a yearlong sentence and gave him credit for the 86 days he has spent in custody. The judge also put Jackson on probation for two years.
......another MN ‘tough on crime’ idiot libtard judge.
Tools such as the ability to furlough and the line item veto are going to become very important to all governors who have those tools. I think our president needs the ability to do both, at least impound funds (as Richard Nixon and those before him had) and also to furlough federal employees.
re: OH MAN what a picture
Well, if she ever decides to step down from the bench she has a career as the ‘before’ actress in the ads for constipation cures.
We already saw. He sat on his a$$ while ACORN stole the Senate election for Franken.
**“Budget offsets - from her paycheck - in its entirety - into the foodstamp program”
—Excellent idea.
Let the loony left pay for these ridiculous programs with their own money instead of someone else’s money for a change.
**Lead by example for once...(it’ll never happen). They are the definition of HYPOCRITES and THEIVES, through and through...
THIEVES
Sounds like you like bussing but I don’t know you so I won’t jump to any conclusions.
Perhaps Pawlenty can borrow a statement from Andrew Jackson: “Kathleen Gearin has made her decision, now let her enforce it!”
Her picture is almost as bad as Helen Thomas.
A side-side pic would be awful.........
Who will provide for these helpless people if the mean-spirited Republicans have their way?
Governor to judge should be...
IMPEACH YOUR ***
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