Posted on 10/13/2013 3:48:38 AM PDT by IbJensen
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), who has been rumored as being considered to replace Janet Napolitano to head the Department of Homeland Security, used some very strange language earlier this week to characterize a sentiment for a clean resolution to end the government shutdown. She labeled it a form of “martial law.”
Yes, we have heard Ms. Lee say some whimsical and ridiculous things in her time in office, which I’m sure embarrass her fellow Texans, but this has to be one of the most ridiculous ones to date.
She pushed that the measure was bi-partisan, including Democrats and Republicans.
“It’s something called a continuing resolution, but it’s a bill that you put on the floor that has been passed already by Republicans and Democrats in the United States Senate….that we could vote on today,” Lee said.
“We have martial law — what that means — and my colleagues know what it means — is that you can put a bill on in just minutes,” she added.
What in the world does martial law have to do with a government spending bill? Is this implying that Congress can just willy nilly pass a law to do whatever they like, in any manner they like, constitutional or unconstitutional? I think Ms. Jackson better check her 6 if that is the case. I see truckers and vets coming to town who would disagree with her.
Darla Dawald writes:
The term “martial law” in a legislative context is somewhat obscure but it has been used before to define lawmakers’ ability to “fast track” bills without going through the usual congressional process.
However, Lee’s insistence that a Senate-approved resolution to fund the federal government be fast-tracked via “martial law” appears to conflict with Article I, Section 7, Clause I of the Constitution, which states, “All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives.”
This clause was included by the founders to ensure that decisions related to the power of the purse reside with the legislative body which is closest to the American people.
The last time martial law was mentioned by a member of Congress was back in 2008 when Rep. Brad Sherman revealed how lawmakers were threatened with “martial law in America” by then Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson if they rejected the TARP bailout package.
So I was right. As Darla points out, it is a means of dismissing the Constitutional process and the law in order to push whatever Congress wants, whether it is lawful or not. Sheila Jackson Lee is among the most lawless witches in Congress. She is among many socialists and communists on the House Oversight committee in the House of Representatives, and she is more than in favor of grabbing your guns and stealing your right to own them. Why should this surprise us that she would use such terminology? I’ll let the reader decide, but I have my own theories.
Beware, Ms. Jackson may have given a signal about what the Communists and socialists in the House, along with their comrade in the White House has planned.
That's about to happen now as word spreads that EBT cards are being declined. Expect to hear about starving people ... probably starting on the Sunday shows todays.
This moronic embarrassment to the Great State of Texas should
be careful what she wishes for!
This has got to be a joke!
Janet is stupid and vapid , Sheila is below that, waaaay below.
Both have somehow managed to break through the Peter Principle ceiling.
(What is the correct usage of 'peter' concerning either?)
I have a better suggestion that would get me banned.
Yeah, I remember this one. It’s where the, uh, the coyote sat his @$$ down in a slingshot then he strapped himself to an Acme rocket. Is that - is that what we’re doin’ here?
No, no, really, because it didn’t work out too well for the coyote, Harry.
There is not ONE nominee for anything nominated by Cupcake that is worth a tinker’s damn! They are all scumbags that belong in an asylum.
>>for Zimbabwe
We are the new Rhodesia, on our way to becoming the new Zimbabwe. SJL and BHO prove that every time they open their mouths.
Probably so
If the jacksons in the 911 on forward new heath care system can fin there way back from where I stays at.
No, please, no! Those idiots are a plague. It is immoral to engage in germ warfare!
SJL is just telling us what all the Dems really want: Obama
to be Dictator for Life.
She’s the only one stupid enough to be honest about it.
I thought martial law was the plan all along, and he was working up to the point when everything was “in place”; I figured it would be used during his re-election...stoopid AND leaked the plan...
That “lady” needs a brain implant.
It's my observation that most of the EBT card users could last a long, long time off their fat reserves. On the other hand, shutting off the EBT cards might be just what Obama ordered to get the riots started--and the pretext for martial law in place.
Excerpt from the online Free Dictionary:
Martial law is an extreme and rare measure used to control society during war or periods of civil unrest or chaos. According to the Supreme Court, the term martial law carries no precise meaning (Duncan v. Kahanamoku, 327 U.S. 304, 66 S. Ct. 606, 90 L. Ed. 688 [1946]). However, most declarations of martial law have some common features. Generally, the institution of martial law contemplates some use of military force. To a varying extent, depending on the martial law order, government military personnel have the authority to make and enforce civil and criminal laws. Certain civil liberties may be suspended, such as the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures, freedom of association, and freedom of movement. And the writ of Habeas Corpus may be suspended (this writ allows persons who are unlawfully imprisoned to gain freedom through a court proceeding).
Mao really did have a few good ideas; one was the idea of a re-education camp.
This is exactly the kind of person that I would send to a re-education camp, until either she fell over from doing actual work, like farming by hand, or could explain the meaning of each part of the Constitution.
where? cant implant a brain in solid bone.
Solid bone is not dense enough to describe her, Neutron star material is more accurate.
Agreed:
the density of Sheila Jackson Lee = A neutron star’s densidty..... so dense that one teaspoon (5 milliliters) of its material would have a mass over 5.5×1012 kg (that is 1100 tonnes per 1 nanolitre), about 900 times the mass of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
I think her brain cell must have fallen out of her nose
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