Posted on 04/12/2010 3:32:16 AM PDT by ICAB9USA
On ABCs This Week, when retired ABC newsman Sam Donaldson recommended that President Barack Obama nominate, to replace Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, someone who is going to stand up for the principles on the left, if you will that he believes in, Cokie Roberts jumped in: Im not so sure he is so far to the left. Donaldson agreed: Well, Im not sure either.
Minutes later, Roberts contended the efforts of state attorneys general, to get a federal court to rule unconstitutional ObamaCares requirement every citizen get health insurance, reminded her of the nullification which led to the Civil War:
You have these fourteen states attorneys general saying that they want to have the court overturn the recently passed health care law. I must say, I was just with my grand kids at Fort Sumter, and the notion of nullification made me extremely nervous because it was, of course, the first step toward the Civil War.
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What a cookey screwball...
My son met Donaldson and said he is the most arrogant rude self obsorbed individual he had ever met. He was at the GOP convention in Philadelphia attending a small private party hosted for Nancy Reagan. Bush and Barbara there, and other dignitaries. But my son was astounded the degree of arrogance in Donalson, which goes off the map he said.
Civil wars are most often chaotic cluster f***s.
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By that definition, I know which one we are headed towards.
You “Betcha” Cokie, this is war. If You keep stealing my hard earned dollars to feed a fat pig who sleeps half the day while collecting welfare you better expect a violent reaction. Only a moron would stand for this.
We agree....,
The welfare hogs that are leaching off of our work are in desperate need of a kick in the @$$.
Oddly there is still an ammunition shortage, it’s like people keep picking up a box or 2 when they see it.
I’ve been having good luck stopping by Bass Pro & Cabela’s.
I even found a good brick of subsonic .22. That was the first ammo to disappear.
Cokie Boggs Roberts is the society-girl daughter of Hale and Lindy Boggs, both of whom represented the Louisiana 2CD for many, many years -- about 40 years+, I think.
Hale disappeared in a light aircraft in Alaska in the early 60's, and Lindy ran for and got his seat.
She walked the liberal-Democratic line for years, carrying water for her majority-black district until the black ministers came for her about 8-10 years ago and delivered the news: "It's time for one of our own."
Wonder if either Lindy or Cokie learned anything from that?
Lindy Boggs - In 1997, President Bill Clinton appointed her official U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, a position she held until 2001.
She is the widow of former House Majority Leader Hale Boggs, and the mother of three children: Cokie Roberts (a television news commentator), Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr., (a prominent lobbyist), and the late Barbara Boggs Sigmund, a mayor of Princeton, New Jersey, and a candidate in the 1982 New Jersey Democratic senatorial primary election.
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After Brown v. Board of Education he (Hale Boggs) signed the Southern Manifesto condemning desegregation in the 1950s and opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
In April 1971 he (Hale Boggs) made a speech on the floor of the House, strongly attacking FBI Director J Edgar Hoover, and the whole of the FBI. This led to a conversation between then President Richard Nixon and the Republican Minority Leader Gerald Ford in which Nixon said he could no longer take counsel from Boggs as a senior member of Congress. In the recording of this call, Nixon is heard to ask Ford to arrange for the House delegation to include an alternative to Boggs. Ford speculates that Boggs is on pills as well as alcohol.
The sh*t just may be hitting the fan soon,
(But, that is the plan.)
Right on ....
lol
She and her husband Steve are rotten opinion column writers too.
I may be very wrong, but my understanding of the Nullification issue dates back to 1828, not 1854.
..it’s sorta like, “if the shoe fits”, you know...?
LoL!
“Then the Civil war was more of a revolution then a Civil war? What do you call it when the feds declare war on half the populace?”
Are you talking about the American “Civil War?” That conflict was misnamed. It was not a civil war, but rather was a war for Southern Independence. When the feds declare war on any of its citizens, it is called tyranny.
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