I haven’t got all the way through the video yet, but did Newt even literally say “Government branches should rule 2 out of 3”—or did the media just misleadingly paraphrase his position that way?
If so, why are Freepers falling all over themselves to drink media kool-aid on this? Heh.
Alright, here’s what Newt actually said:
“Here’s the key — it’s always two out of three. If the president and the congress say the court is wrong, in the end the court would lose. If the congress and the court say the president is wrong, in the end the president would lose. And if the president and the court agreed, the congress loses. The founding fathers designed the constitution very specifically in a Montesquieu spirit of the laws to have a balance of power not to have a dictatorship by any one of the three branches.”
There was no ‘should’ in his argument. Notice how that changes the entire nature of the argument.