[cripplecreek]

Amash.



Michigan legislative action thread

[Da Coyote]

The Republican party is dead, dead, dead.

To repeat for those who refuse to see the future: (apologies, Monty Python & gang)

The GOP is no more! It has ceased to be! Its expired and gone to meet its maker! Its stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! Its metabolic processes are now ‘istory! Its off the twig! Its kicked the bucket, its shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-PARTY!!

[Bogey78O]

Proof that were it not for deep pockets, the elites would be out.

[rktman]

“I’m an Arab-American, and he has the audacity to say I’m Al Qaeda’s best friend in Congress. That’s pretty disgusting,” Amash said in a post-speech interview with Fox 17. Ding, ding, ding, ding. Even if he’s a tea party candidate, he loses any measure of respect from me the second he hyphenated his status. If you ain’t “AMERICAN” period, then don’t talk to me about anything. I’m and AMERICAN. Not a “Dutch-American” or “Welsh-American”. Stop hyphenating yourselves.

[DouglasKC]

Amash is uber conservative. Stinking Hoekstra used to be this way but he sold out and got out while the getting was good.

[Ohioan]

Actually, what the penchant of business class Republicans to condemn others for refusing to appropriate money for unconstitutional measures, demonstrates, is a form of myopia, which renders them incapable of seeing the full context of issues. One can easily see that it is stupid to imagine a duty to vote for what one has sworn not to do--not to undermine the Constitution. Yet the hand-wringers over the possibility of a "Government shut down," persist in their hand-wringing.

The answer to this looney-tunes myopia, is a clear, direct & repeated, enunciation of the principles involve3d. The Constitution is not some vague, confusing document. The confusion arises in people simply looking at individual clauses, out of context of the whole. Read in context, it is very clear to anyone of ordinary intelligence, that it was never intended to authorize a Federal takeover of local medicine, the relationships between doctor & patient; nor ever intended to interfere in anyway with State & local control of questions pertaining to the health of the diverse communities across the sub-continent.

We need to educate the public better. The fact that 43% of Republicans in an affluent district, would support a candidate who takes a completely stupid position on so important a subject, reflects our failure to do a better job of educating.

For more on the fallacy of broad implied powers in Washington, see Implied Powers? Clear Limitations.

William Flax

[eleni121]

Fantastic!

[GeronL]

Just wait until Mitch McConnell and his buds undermine the Amash campaign. They will try.

[Baynative]

AT LAST some straight talk!!

Politicians who win campaigns, no matter how dirty, will almost always kiss and make up with their political opponents in their election-night speeches.

Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.), of course, is not your average politician.

After defeating a Chamber of Commerce-backed candidate in his primary by 14 percentage points on Tuesday, the Ron Paul ally set about settling a few scores.

Former congressman Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), who backed challenger Brian Ellis? "You are a disgrace. And I'm glad we could hand you one more loss before you fade into total obscurity and irrelevance." (Hoekstra lost the state's 2012 Senate race -- and in the 2010 gubernatorial primary.)

Ellis? "You owe my family and this community an apology for your disgusting, despicable smear campaign. You had the audacity to try and call me today after running a campaign that was called the nastiest in the country. I ran for office to stop people like you."