A Left-Right coalition for property

http://jewishworldreview.com/ ^ | Rich Lowry

[manny613]

Rep. Maxine Waters probably won't take her place among the great economists Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman as a conservative hero. Actually, she never will. But the famously fire-breathing left-wing congresswoman from Los Angeles has emerged in recent weeks as one of the nation's most outspoken defenders of property rights. "Government should be in the business of protecting private property," she told me in an interview, sounding every bit a member of the free-market group The Club for Growth. "Private property is precious in America."

[fishbabe]

democrats understand they can't win on this issue...They can't extol the virtues of what the lefties on the supreme court said about private property..All democrats agree with the court,they just can't win elections by being honest about it...

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Property rights ping.

[konaice]

Actually, on DU there was a great deal of dispair that their favorite Court members voted for this, and that it was opposed by the Bush adminstration as well as conservitive court members.

I don't think this issue is dear to Democrats at all.

Alabama beat everyone else to the punch, signing a new law today to prevent such take-overs.

We will see which states follow, and which stated don't need to follow because their constitutions already secured the right to property.

[PizzaDriver]

But too many of these new "State Laws" play the "Blighted Area" game. If City Hall wants to declare 1/2 their City to be Blighted, that's Okay.
Once so "designated", the old "grab & sell rules" come back. "New Construction", in a "Blighted AREA", is automatically "Blighted" {unless City Hall grants a Specific Exemption}!

In Omaha,NE; Everything "East Of 72nd Street" was/is labeled as Blighted. That happened over 10 years ago. The Designation is Permanent, only City Hall can repeal it.

Warren Buffett's home has been "Blighted", for all that time. His home, like Mine, has Doubled in "tax valuation" since the Designation. But it is still "Blighted".

Replacing the "One Step Grab", with a "Two Step Grab", won't protect our Homes from City Hall! I don't want "greedy officials" to expect donations; before "revisiting" the Blighted Designation ON MY HOME, or on Yours!

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, that ping just ricocheted around and busted my lamp. Pay up. ;')

The SCOTUS ruling in favor of expropriation turned the US of A into Cuba (minus the bearded dictator, and cigars, and sugar cane).

[Savage Beast]

Go, Maxine! You champion the nullification of this odious decision and you'll find a base of support broader and more powerful than anything you could possiby imagine.

All right, everybody! Let's hear it for Maxine!!!

As far as I'm concerned, this is NUMBER ONE on the American agenda. Anyone who FAILS TO CHAMPION its nullification--be he/she Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, or Whatever--is to be thrown out of office--pronto! This is non-negotiable!

Give 'em hell, Maxine!

Furthermore! All of the Supreme Court Justices who decided in favor of this odious decision should be impeached!

[sergeantdave]

The only people openly praising Kelo are the Marxists at the New York Times and a few paid-off local government hacks.

Even the old socialist Maxine Waters can smell a dead skunk in the middle of the road.

This would be a good time to impeach 5 so-called justices on the supreme court. Then we'll see which communists and fascists come out from under the rock to defend Kelo.

[Sam Cree]

Once the Left gets on the property rights bandwagon, they've taken a huge step away from leftism. Away from the foundation of the core of their beliefs. I think it can be partially explained by the general contradiction in traditional liberal vs traditional leftist principals, something that most "liberals" never completely think through.

Meanwhile, I don't think W has had anything to say on the eminent domain fiasco, Republicans continue a leftward morph. All very weird.