Posted on 06/07/2013 11:05:32 AM PDT by Perseverando
[As interest in impeachment grows, I offer the following thoughts, reflecting my own ongoing efforts to help people think things through.]
Between right and wrong, the intended purpose of just government is to take the side of right. Given the finite nature of human power, the members of civil society may not always have the power to assure that it does so. Moreover, whatever the right intentions of people in the society at large, a government established in view of justice may nonetheless fall into the hands of people who do not take that view. When it pleases them, such people reject the choices prompted by conscience, in light of the Creators endowment of right. Because their choice to do so involves the defiance of good conscience, their abuses of power reflect the defection of their will from the Creators righteous endowment of their nature. How then can these abuses be attributed to His divine will rather than their own all too human willfulness?
What I have always admired about the American founders is the skill with which they devised and implemented a scheme for just government that offered people of goodwill the opportunity to do right or oppose wrong (i.e., exercise and/or stand upon their rights) whenever they summoned the courage and determination to do so. On account of their foresight, a few people, sometimes even only one person, can raise a standard to which people of goodwill repair. As long as the word right is fundamentally connected with righteousness, the doctrine of unalienable rights gives great support and encouragement to people willing to take a stand (as people quite literally did during the era of the founding; or the contention over slavery; or the various movements for equal civil/political rights.)
Tragically we have come to a time
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Sez Burt:
"But I no longer care about the end result. I want Obama to go through the process because he has it coming."
"If for no other reason than his unbearable arrogance, the schmuck should have to pay a penalty. For instance, when a White House reporter asked him to justify spying on the Associated Press, Obama said, Ive still got 60,000-plus troops in Afghanistan and I still have a bunch of intelligence officers around the world. No, sir, the United States has 60,000-plus troops in Afghanistan and a bunch of intelligence officers around the world."
I don't know why, but I thought Burt died a few years ago. Thank goodness he did not!
67 votes in the Senate, as presently chosen, is an impossibility.
Look, it's coming to a fight. When Nixon stood accused, the Republicans said, "We don't believe it, so we are going to make you prove it, but if you can, he's out". When Obama is accused of worse, the Democrats say, "Good, we're glad he did it, and if you think you can do anything about it, f*** you".
Peaceful coexistence with these people is impossible. We will never have 67 votes in the Senate without repealing XVII.
Keep your powder dry.
I know you’re right. I just like being optimistic.
You can wish in one hand...but our elected reps have no spine.
It matters not if the people have a fight like hell spirit when your speaker of the house does not.
You all go ahead and be confident Republicans will do something, especially Lindsey Graham and McCain. I won't hold my breath.
Boehner’s too busy swilling bourbon and sodas at The Palm to be bothered.
Nothing stays the same. Things will change, one way or another. Civilizations start, grow, decay and fall. Etc.
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