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Democrats say the strangest things! (quotes from the candidates' debate)
C-SPAN/Volokh Conspiracy ^ | 6/23/03 | xm177e2

Posted on 06/23/2003 5:53:02 PM PDT by xm177e2

As President of the United States, I will make affirmative action the watch word of the administration... If the Supreme Court goes in the other direction, if the Supreme Court goes in a direction of failing to understand this nation has such a distance to go on matters of affirmative action, then what I will do as President of the United States is to write a series of executive orders that will enshrine affirmative in housing, in education, in every area of our economy..."--Dennis Kucinich

"When I'm president, we'll do executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day"--Richard A. "Dick" Gephardt

"we gotta take the pharmaceutical companies out of health care"--Dennis Kucinich

You can watch it all on the video here, they share with us these pearls of wisdom 43, 45, and 49 minutes into the video.

From the always-interesting Volokh Conspiracy (where I found two of the quotes):

Do we really want a President who thinks that the President has the power to overcome "any wrong thing the Supreme Court does" using an Executive order? I know lots of people think various actions of the Bush Administration are unconstitutional; I too disagree with some of the Administration's positions, for instance on the alleged power to detain all unlawful combatants (including U.S. citizens captured on U.S. soil) with no judicial review. I hope the Supreme Court agrees, and decides against the Administration. But I'm pretty confident that if the Supreme Court does so decide, this Administration will comply with the Supreme Court's order.

Gephardt and Kucinich are promising that they'll flout those orders. Seems to me that they should be taken to task for this, and severely.



TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: healthcare; hillarycare; socializedmedicine
These are really, really weird people.
1 posted on 06/23/2003 5:53:03 PM PDT by xm177e2
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To: xm177e2
eXOs to override the Supreme Court? Glad they believe in checks and balances and the US Constitution.
2 posted on 06/23/2003 5:56:16 PM PDT by xrp
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To: xm177e2
These people , like Hillary, are really, really power hungry.
3 posted on 06/23/2003 5:58:13 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
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To: xm177e2
Great Orators of the Democratic Party

"One man with courage makes a majority."--Andrew Jackson


"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."--Franklin Roosevelt


"The buck stops here."--Harry Truman


"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."--John Kennedy


"We knew there weren't any weapons of mass destruction. That was a fraud. I've been a mayor of a city, and I understand where the weapons are, Mr. Bush. You come to urban America. We'll show you weapons of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. And joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction. And lying to the American people is a weapon of mass destruction."--Dennis Kucinich
4 posted on 06/23/2003 5:58:14 PM PDT by friendly
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To: xm177e2
I watch this disaster over the weekend. Anybody who watched it should have had the HELL scared out of them.
5 posted on 06/23/2003 5:59:06 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: friendly
Stalinist Presidential candidates are definitely weapons of mass destruction.
6 posted on 06/23/2003 6:00:37 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
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To: friendly
Kucinich is a boob, isn't he?
7 posted on 06/23/2003 6:02:07 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE.)
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To: xm177e2
"we gotta take the pharmaceutical companies out of health care"--Dennis Kucinich

And why not? The liberals are taking DOCTORS out of health care and replacing them with trial lawyers -- with predictable results.

8 posted on 06/23/2003 6:03:20 PM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (Lurking since 1997!)
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After reading the Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action at Michigan's law school and statements from the "leading Democratic presidential contenders" this past weekend, I am more concerned about the direction our country is headed than ever before.
9 posted on 06/23/2003 6:05:48 PM PDT by caisson71
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I would think that winning an election would be impossible after making a comment like that. All your opponent would have to do is rerun the video tape.
10 posted on 06/23/2003 6:06:27 PM PDT by DannyTN (Note left on my door by a pack of neighborhood dogs.)
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To: Rennes Templar; okie01
ALL of these bottom of the barrel scraping lunatics say equally moronic, nay even psychotic, ramblings. The media completely ignores the endless verbal vomitus. Instead they call Bush "stupid."
11 posted on 06/23/2003 6:12:16 PM PDT by friendly
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I have a philosophical question: Constitutionally, aren't the three branches of Government co-equal? What if a President opted to ignore a SCOTUS ruling via Executive Order? Would the Congress be obligated to take action to "break the tie?" Is there a precedent for such maneuvers?

Liberals are getting scarier every day: they have tried to legislate social engineering from the judicial bench, from the Congress, by Treaty, by regulation, and now -- by common declaration of these Presidential candidates -- by simple fiat. In the world of the Liberal, only the 'ends' matter -- the means are irrelevant. The Law is thus also irrelevant.

12 posted on 06/23/2003 6:22:02 PM PDT by alancarp (SItting Senators ought not cash in while under the public trust)
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To: xrp
"When I'm president, we'll do executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day"--Richard A. "Dick" Gephardt

YIKES!

13 posted on 06/23/2003 6:28:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin (Socialism is slavery.)
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To: alancarp
What if a President opted to ignore a SCOTUS ruling via Executive Order?



All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void. - Marbury vs, Madison, 5 US (2 Cranch) 137, 174, 176 (1803)

The problem we have now is what that the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial all ignore the Constitution. The fact that we keep voting them back in doesn't help.
14 posted on 06/23/2003 6:33:58 PM PDT by steve50 (I don't know about being with "us", but I'm with the Constitution)
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To: xm177e2
Affirmative action; When I'm president; When I’m president; EO’s not justice my friends is what these bozos are promising. Childish and wishful thinking is what we’re getting from all this tired old rhetoric. Not one of them stands for or even mentions the United States Constitution and those laws, they are really pathetic in fact they are right down embarrassing to clear and intelligent thinking Americans. These professional politicians are no longer a part of the country; they are a part of a place called Washington, D.C. a tawdry, catty, manipulative, back-scratching city that might as well be on Mars. America is missing in some parts of the country and it breaks my heart.
15 posted on 06/23/2003 7:08:27 PM PDT by yoe (W)
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To: alancarp
I have a philosophical question: Constitutionally, aren't the three branches of Government co-equal? What if a President opted to ignore a SCOTUS ruling via Executive Order? Would the Congress be obligated to take action to "break the tie?" Is there a precedent for such maneuvers?

Well, here's precedent of a sort. The Supreme Court declared unconstitutional President Andrew Jackson's plan to uproot various Indian tribes and send them out west (the "Trail of Tears"). Jackson's reply: "The Supreme Court has made its decision. Now let them enforce it." He then proceded to move the Indians anyway.

With some of the Court decisions that have come down the line, I don't know whether to be relieved or frightened.

16 posted on 06/23/2003 7:59:46 PM PDT by NovemberCharlie
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To: okie01
Kucinich is a boob, isn't he?

Yeah, he's real presidential material, hah?

17 posted on 06/24/2003 1:30:58 AM PDT by Bullish
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