Posted on 02/15/2012 12:52:03 PM PST by Lazamataz
Here’s what I still can’t get my mind around - Obama must know that eventually a republican will become president. Whether it is next year, 4 years from now or 8 - any precedent a president sets now for an unconstitutional power drive can just as easily be done by a member of the opposition.
Why couldn’t a republican president seize liberal jornolistas as well as liberals in general and place them incommunicado in detention and labor camps while they await disposal - humane disposal, of course?
A republican president could just “up the ante” a little bit.
My question is relative to my own idea that this president acts like he’s going to be the last president.
Isn’t that weird?
Good catch, Laz. Thanks.
This is a full on, flat out assault on the First Amendment. No matter what the subterfuge, that is what it is, and anyone who argues differently only obfuscates the true issue, whether knowingly, (in most cases,) or unknowingly, (as in the case of making this either a health issue or a religious issue when it is neither.)
That concerns me, and I don't particularly care for Santorum.
Snuffleupagus totally wrecked his career with this move.
He’ll be marked down as a journ-whore for the rest of his life after coordinating this with Valerie J and Media Matters.
Thank you for the compliment, trisham. I hope this editorial gets in the hands of the nations’ radio-talkers, and even into the GOP-e’s hands.
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Not only an excellent analysis by Lazmataz (yes, Laz!) but good comments on the thread. This is an attack against the First Amendment primarily and I agree. It's a beat down on religious expression and freedom.
Why so surprised? ;^)
Au contraire, my friend. This is solid credential-building in the media, in its' current state.
They will love him for this, and they will run with the ofuscatory meme.
Provoke a confrontation, get a rise out of the victim, then blame the victim for it. That’s just another turn of the Alinsky cog. I think the Catholics are getting more sympathy than the administration figured on for this one, however, because it is abundantly clear it is not the Catholics who are forcing something on somebody here. It sounds more to me like an election LOSING issue for Obama. The stink may be difficult to purge by Election Day.
BINGO! They have admirably succeeded in making the Republicans seem like religious zealots .... fundamental zealots, of course. Oh the hemming ....oh the hawing ... oh the harrumphing. The Freeper who opined that all Santorum or whoever(were they actually honest-to-God Conservatives) had to say was
This is a phony issue. The Federal Government
has no place in Family Planning."
also gets the BINGO!
They may have screwed up. It remains to be seen. If this sort of information (in my editorial) circulates, they lose. If not, the media win and Obama gets a few points in the election.
Sure, if getting a Red Star on the commie-rat wall of shame is his goal.
If the GOP does NOT bring this issue out in full force, they are the fools.
Our house speaker is a do-nothing “go along to get along” jelly-spined RINO.
I be jesting and joshing, considering the ping list!
You’re a wonderful guy, Laz. And I mean that with all my heart.
Dear Laz,
You hit it. Nice job.
Alas, there is a lack of a back-Boehn, so to speak. However it is going to be a sure campaign issue for all the GOP presidential hopefuls — even Mitt.
A perfect example of why spinelessness aka cowardice is just as bad as being an outright enemy; if not worse. Like the coward in “Saving Private Ryan”. That’s why in wartime cowards like that were executed (weren’t they at one time?). That creep caused so many deaths, not out of siding with evil directly, but just out of cowardly weakness of heart.
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