Third Reich comes to mind.
Caddell further cementing his position as the Last Sane Democrat.
I don’t get the qualifier ‘semi-political’.
"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty also: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them." - Thomas Jefferson
Remember that bold statement as representing the underlying, and essential, principle of America's Declaration of Independence!
Then, as you think about John F. Kennedy today, remember these words from him:
“The same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe, the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.” - (John F. Kennedy - 1961 Inaugural)
Pat, when, and how, did your Party's leadership wander so far away from that essential, underlying principle of liberty?
Patrick Caddell. The last principled democrat on earth?
Pat Caddell has almost made up for giving us Carter.
The truth of the matter is the legislative branch is now irrelevant. That fundamental change obama promised has arrived. I still can’t understand how he has so many people on his side. Even if it’s NSA blackkmail it would mean thousands of people helping him. It has to be evil plain and simple.
The Rat idiots have no boundaries on either their tyranny or their will to control.
They will abide by nothing less than that legal remedy, and they may even disregard that, leaving only one option.
Let me remind you that we here on FR have know this for a LONG TIME.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2173300/posts
See Post #23:
“Welcome to New Kenya”
“Where the law of the jungle has replace the Law of the Land”
23 posted on Wed 28 Jan 2009 06:42:31 AM CST by Texas Fossil
Agree with a small addition to your listing of characteristics redundant as it may seem.
I am trying hard to find where the founds required 60 votes. I really am. We wanted the Republicans to do this when they had the Senate and were pissed off when McCain caused the Republicans to chicken out.
Yes, we can be a Marxist tyranny!
WE HAVE PASSED THE POINT. WE ARE A COMMUNISTS RULED NATION.
Come on Pat, there is no law that says the Senate must honor a filibuster. Its a tradition not law.
Each house makes it own rules, controlled by majority.
Power grab yes, illegal no
America's Constitution set the rules and limits for such power-thirsty individuals who might combine with others of their stripe to undermine "the People's" Constitution.
Below are the words of James Madison:
"Of the Declaration of Rights by the Assembly of France, Madison said: "The three first articles are the base of Liberty, as well individual as national; nor can any country be called free whose government does not take its beginning from the principles they contain, and continue to preserve them pure; and the whole of the Declaration of Rights is of more value to the world, and will do more good, than all the laws and statutes that have yet been promulgated. "As it was impossible to separate the military events which took place in America from the principles of the American Revolution, the publication of those events in France necessarily connected themselves with the principles which produced them. Many of the facts were in themselves principles; such as the declaration of American Independence, "While the Declaration of Rights was before the National Assembly some of its members remarked that if a declaration of rights were published it should be accompanied by a Declaration of Duties. The observation discovered a mind that reflected, and it only erred by not reflecting far enough. A Declaration of Rights is, by reciprocity, a Declaration of Duties also. Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.
"However true, therefore, it may be, that the judicial department, is, in all questions submitted to it by the forms of the Constitution, to decide in the last resort, this resort must necessarily be deemed the last in relation to the authorities of the other departments of the government; not in relation to the rights of the parties to the constitutional compact, from which the judicial as well as the other departments hold their delegated trusts. On any other hypothesis, the delegation of judicial power would annul the authority delegating it; and the concurrence of this department with the others in usurped powers, might subvert for ever, and beyond the possible reach of any rightful remedy, the very Constitution which all were instituted to preserve.
"The truth declared in the resolution being established, the expediency of making the declaration at the present day, may safely be left to the temperate consideration and candid judgment of the American public. It will be remembered that a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles, is solemnly enjoined by most of the state constitutions, and particularly by our own, as a necessary safeguard against the danger of degeneracy to which republics are liable, as well as other governments, though in a less degree than others. And a fair comparison of the political doctrines not unfrequent at the present day, with those which characterized the epoch of our revolution, and which form the basis of our republican constitutions, will best determine whether the declaratory recurrence here made to those principles, ought to be viewed as unseasonable and improper, or as a vigilant discharge of an important duty. The authority of constitutions over governments, and of the sovereignty of the people over constitutions, are truths which are at all times necessary to be kept in mind; and at no time perhaps more necessary than at the present." - James Madison
So our nation has been hanging by a thread for 200 years by “a rule”?
Republicans wont bring everything to a halt because as guilty as Democrats are of bullying whoever is in their path to get their way, Republicans are just as guilty of putting themselves first, before the people. Their damaging tactics are different but not less damaging.
They only care about political posturing. They think the nuclear option will only enhance their chances in 2014 therefore they just stand back and watch saying “Look what a bully Reid/Obama is”. To hell with the fact that the Democrats are taking over more of America with each move, Republicans are as guilty of putting their power over the people as Democrats.
