Once Upon a Time in America (Barf Alert!!!)

Townhall.com ^ | May 16, 2019 | Judge Andrew Napolitano

[jospehm20]

Apparently he is still butthurt President Trump blew him off.

[Diogenesis]

this is a sour-grape projection by a judge-wannabe.

[caver]

Judge Nappy is a real jerk.

[neverevergiveup]

Ironically, the Clintons and Obama did more to concentrate power in the Presidency than any modern Presidents. Further, the Founding Fathers did not recognize that the media would become partisan propagandists who could unbalance the balance of powers and undermine true representation of the people.

[HotHunt]

Bitter man who didn't get chosen by Trump for a SC justice.

Instead of taking it like a real man, he has devolved into a blathering idiot, taking potshots at Trump every chance he gets.

Makes himself look more pathetic every time he opens his mouth nowadays.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Trump is wrong again. First, the tariffs are collected at the border and are initially paid directly by the Chinese seller, not the Chinese government. The seller then passes the tariff cost on to American consumers, who purchase the goods on which the tariffs have been imposed. The tariff is actually a sales tax, which will increase by 25% the cost of any product purchased in America that originated in China.

Trump is wrong short term, 200% right long term. Economic studies include game theory.

Short term, yes, tariffs load the consumer. Longer term, they weigh against predatory behavior and capture of strategic industries. If the Chinese government targets semiconductors, and takes losses for a few years doing so, are we willing to give them a dominant position there? Or in commercial planes? That's what this is about.

[grobdriver]

Congress wrote the laws, the president enforced them, whether he agreed with them or not

And then along came Obama and Holder...

[Grampa Dave]

This overused stinking Nappy is a left wing snitch bitch as described below: Dispatch From Cop Planet The American Conservative ^ | 05-12-2019 | Rod Dreher Posted on 5/15/2019, 4:18:46 PM by NRx The woke world is a world of snitches, informants, rats. Go to any space concerned with social justice and what will you find? Endless surveillance. Everybody is to be judged. Everyone is under suspicion. Everything you say is to be selcoured, picked over, analyzed for any possible offense. Everyone’s a detective in the Division of Problematics, and they walk the beat 24/7. You search and search for someone Bad doing Bad Things, finding ways to indict writers and artists and ordinary people for something, anything. That movie that got popular? Give me a few hours and 800 words. I’ll get you your indictments. That’s what liberalism is, now — the search for baddies doing bad things, like little offense archaeologists, digging deeper and deeper to find out who’s Good and who’s Bad. I wonder why people run away from establishment progressivism in droves. (Excerpt) Read more at theamericanconservative.com ...

[gibsonguy]

I love how this Rat throws in “My late friend Justice Antonin Scalia”, a failed attempt to lend credibility to the BS he is spewing. I wish FNC would limit him to Shemp’s time and I could easily avoid him.

[A_Former_Democrat]

The way he’s turncoated, I suspect he’d be another snake like JP Stevens or Davey Sewer

[JLAGRAYFOX]

If Fox News (FNC & FBN) had any brains at all...they would dump the sick minded Judge who has now rendered himself totally useless. Also Chris Wallace, Neil Cavuto, Shepard Smith & Juan Williams needed to be sent to the unemployment line forever!!!

[Rashputin]

Tell us about the “Constitutional norms” the FBI, CIA, DoJ, an illegally established Special Prosecutor, and both the sitting President and Vice President were adhering to when they committed blatantly illegal acts in order to try and get their mentally ill preferred candidate elected then when failing that stage an illegal removal of a legitimately elected President, Judge.

Or do you only care about bad mouthing Trump and don't actually give a damn about "Constitutional norms"?

[dfwgator]

The idea is to get closer to the ideal of mythical “Free Trade”, but Free Trade is something we’ve never had. Tariffs are a useful tool to get concessions and leverage in order to get a fairer deal on trade in the long run.

[TakebackGOP]

This judge just wants to be loved by the liberal media. Where was he on Obama’s Eligibility?

[John S Mosby]

Butt boy napolitano was NEVER friends with Antonin Scalia-— maybe he dreams of it as a “paisan”. Scalia had distinct views about rump humpers/humpees. Nappie needs to shut the hell up— he’s beyond his depth. Especially to assess the Civil War as being “a discrete exception” to Constitutional norms!

Whaaaaa? off the rails bat crap looney.

[Alberta's Child]

Andrew Napolitano has a point here, but he's directing his criticism at the wrong target.

President Trump -- along with many (maybe all) of his predecessors -- are exercising this "abuse" of executive power under the terms of Federal statutes that were passed by Congress and signed into law.

Rather than pen an anti-Trump screed like this, Napolitano should explain all of this in detail and tell Congress to do its damn job.

And just to demonstrate that I am politically unbiased here, I said the same thing right here on FR during the Obama administration in almost every case where Obama was criticized for using "unconstitutional executive orders" to impose his political agenda on the nation.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Of course.

We take some pain, they take some pain, hopefully it works out to a deal we’ll like better than the current situation.

In reverse, the Chinese subsidize strategic industries, see that there’s a labor cost advantage by holding down wages, etc.,

A key idea of free trade is that governments are out of the picture, so that comparative advantage is determined “honestly” (for lack of a better word).

[rjsimmon]

First, the tariffs are collected at the border and are initially paid directly by the Chinese seller, not the Chinese government.

Which is subsidized by the ChiCom government. Judge Nap, you are totally illiterate when it comes to international trade.

[FlipWilson]

There is literally nobody I know in the legal profession that considers this guy a legal authority or expert.

He was not respected in his firm and got a judgeship in NJ through influence (like everyone). He is neither a distinguished legal scholar nor a judge with enough cred to get appointed beyond the District Court level or Magistrate, if at all.