Posted on 06/13/2011 4:49:56 AM PDT by newzjunkey
Broadcast on: CNN
Broadcast time: 8pm EDT/5pm PDT
The Candidates:
Michele Bachmann
Bachmann is serving her 3rd full term in the U.S. House. Founder of the House Tea Party Caucus, she earned a Master of Laws degree, worked as a tax attorney, and was a foster mother for 23 teenagers. She is a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Herman Cain
Cain is the former chief executive of Godfather's Pizza and former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. He lost the Georgia Republican primary for a U.S. Senate seat in 2004. He was recently the host of Atlanta-based radio show.
Newt Gingrich
Gingrich served as the 58th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. He represented Georgia's 6th congressional district as a Republican member from 1979 to 1999. He has a PhD in modern European history.
Ron Paul
Paul is serving his 11th full term in the U.S. House. He’s an obstetrician-gynecologist and was the Libertarian nominee for president in 1988. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for president in 2008
Tim Pawlenty
Pawlenty served two terms as governor of Minnesota, from 2002 to 2010. He served in the Minnesota House from 1992 until 2002. He is the son of a truck driver.
Mitt Romney
Romney was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts (2003 to 2007) and former CEO of Bain Capital, a private equity investment firm. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for president in 2008. He has an MBA (Harvard) and JD (Harvard Law).
Rick Santorum
Santorum served two terms in the U.S. House and two terms in the U.S. Senate. He became the Senate's third-ranking Republican in 2001. He was defeated for reelection in 2006.
You can respect my opinion or not, your choice. It is a fact based one and those facts stand alone without background.
But when any of these asshats come through here with the Sarah Quit crap, I will respond in kind. The voice and laugh remarks were an in-kind comments.
Must've been a Viking Kitty in the later pic.
Cheers!
I remembered it from a recent “doggie ping” thread, lol.
g_w
Thank you G_W!
I can agree with all of that.
Sarah Palin has been fully vetted.
With all the others, we are going to be learning more, and more than likely we already know the positive stuff about them.
Obamacare is 2,000 pages designed to spawn thousands of pages of ‘administrative law’, written by the executive branch.
Obama reelected = socialized medicine written into law by his HHS minions.
Conservative elected = socialized medicine repeal signed by the President.
Your creation of strawman arguments that lower the President to the level of a clerk is unbecoming and complicates that simple reality.
“EVEN IF IT MEANS OBAMA ANOTHER 4 YEARS”
Not heretical, just ... ah, dumb. There’s no excuse for a 2nd Obama term. NONE.
Let’s just find someone else to nominate, shall we?
Any panelist tonight would be a good President ... ANd would be a darn better President that that louse FDR.
The Constitution grants far fewer powers to the President than they appear to have granted themselves or that have been unconstitutionally delegated to them by congress.
The powers of the president are enumerated in the Constitution. The obligation to execute the laws passed by Congress is both an obligation and an enumerated power. The power to repeal laws or to make laws is not granted to the President.
As an executive he could make a determination that a law is so complicated that he cannot, in his exercise of presidential authority, execute the law faithfully and could exercise his authority to call an extraordinary session of congress and force them to stay in session until they re-write the law so that it is capable of being faithfully executed, or he could demand that if they could not so fix it that they repeal it.
As an aside, the problem with our immigration laws is that no president has ever seen fit to faithfully execute the immigration laws. They are quite adept at faithfully executing the tax laws on citizens, but they seem to look the other way when illegal immigrants cheat on their taxes and steal the identities of taxpayers.
If presidents actually took the oath of office seriously and actually enforced the laws and didn't exercise powers that exceed those enumerated in the Constitution, then I suspect that 2000 page bills that nobody read before voting would be a thing of the past.
Why all the words?
IT’S SIMPLE: President dont just execute laws, they sign them into law - or not.
1. GOP CONGRESS + GOP PRESIDENT WILL REPEAL OBAMACARE.
2. OBAMA WILL VETO REPEAL.
So OBVIOUSLY the fate of Obamacare depends on who is in the White House. Obamacare WILL be repealed if republicans are in charge.
Sorry for shouting but you are seriously lost in the weeds and missing the point.
Actually the Supreme Court is likely to shut it down before Congress acts.
But the fact remains that presidents are duty bound to enforce laws they don’t like.
Obama seems to be quite selective in the laws he chooses to enforce. That is a violation of his oath of office.
Agitprop? You have some bizarre ideas. Do you see flying saucers at night, too? Seriously, with all due respect, let’s just agree to disagree and move on....or are you the type that has to have the last word?
We need one with the energy and drive to be an anti-FDR.
What I did see was about 10 posts in a row, some in conversation with another, that were juvenile, superficial personal attacks on Michele Bachman.
It negated any serious criticism you may have had in her 'effectiveness as a legislator,' and IMO, put you on the same level as people who do the same thing to Sarah Palin.
She did well and is off to a good start as a serious candidate, and I, for one, will be watching her closely.
She's the real deal, and as one who went to the "Kill the Bill" rally in DC, I very much appreciated her leadership in the Tea Party cause.
Yes “fellow” is the odd word that doesn’t have a female equivalent. ;d
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