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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
25 posted on
12/16/2013 10:57:52 AM PST by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
If there is one thing History has taught us, it is that power corrupts. This inherent human problem is only exacerbated when a group of know-it-all elitists are the ones deciding who gets what power. History did not begin with FDR and it will not end with Obama. The US was wisely started with a desire for a limited government condign to the perpetuation of a nation of free men. We could have thrown it away for a thousand different reasons in the last 200 years, but we didn't. There is no reason to do so now.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
he is supposedly their house conservative
which is he is not
27 posted on
12/16/2013 11:05:59 AM PST by
GeronL
(Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
See North Korea, China, Zimbabwe, Cuba, Venezula.
29 posted on
12/16/2013 11:07:47 AM PST by
ealgeone
(obama, border)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
30 posted on
12/16/2013 11:13:31 AM PST by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Well, at least the trains will run on time (to the Gulag).
31 posted on
12/16/2013 11:13:38 AM PST by
ZOOKER
(Until further notice the /s is implied...)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
King George III wanted no more than that. Brooks wishes we had listed to the wise, old gentleman - and stopped those Tea Party Radicals in their tracks. :)
32 posted on
12/16/2013 11:13:41 AM PST by
Mr. Jeeves
(CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Why not, it works so well in Venezuela.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
What the nation needs is a much smaller government that understands it contributes nothing; is a parasite and/or leach that just steals money from its working citizens and businesses and gives it to freeloaders, with politicians being the biggest group of freeloaders.
36 posted on
12/16/2013 11:17:38 AM PST by
mulligan
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
We need retroactive birth control for david and his ilk.
40 posted on
12/16/2013 11:42:54 AM PST by
LibLieSlayer
(FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
David Brooks: What America needs now is a stronger presidency with unified authorityIndeed!
42 posted on
12/16/2013 11:56:13 AM PST by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Funny how David Brooks did not write this during George W. Bush’s Presidency. In other words, he favors a dictator, but only a dictator that suits him. I wonder if he knows that the dictator of his dreams is the one who would put him against the wall.
43 posted on
12/16/2013 11:57:00 AM PST by
henkster
(Communists never negotiate.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Maybe in their corner of the USA, but not in mine.
45 posted on
12/16/2013 12:02:22 PM PST by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I’m sure Brooks thought the same thing when Bush was president.
46 posted on
12/16/2013 12:18:25 PM PST by
Personal Responsibility
(Government: Slimy used car salesmen writing laws forcing you to buy their cars)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Let David Brooks repeat his theory when Cruz or Palin is president.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
52 posted on
12/16/2013 12:38:16 PM PST by
4Liberty
(Mr President 'If you Like your college transcripts...can we see them?')
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Impeachment File for the 2014 Impeachment of B. Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, a documented legal citizen of the Sovereign Nation of Indonesia.
55 posted on
12/16/2013 1:10:14 PM PST by
Graewoulf
(Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
57 posted on
12/16/2013 1:12:35 PM PST by
rdcbn
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
David Brooks: What America needs now is a stronger presidency with unified authority Incomplete. They forgot to add (or deliberately left out): "as long as he is a Democrat".
59 posted on
12/16/2013 1:53:48 PM PST by
jeffc
(The U.S. media are our enemy)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Brooks is soooo wrong.
In countries with a Prime Minister, they don’t have fixed terms. Instead, a failed vote of “No Confidence” in the Parliament can trigger a new election, which usually results in a different coalition. The government and the Chief Executive have more power, but it can be checked through a No Confidence vote.
Making the President a Caesar for a fixed four year term would be a big mistake. The Founders wisely sought to balance the need for executive power by giving the President enough time to settle in and work, but by structurally inhibiting his reach during that time. Brooks would remove that check.
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