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To: drpix
Rather than attacking Reagan,

I'm not "attacking Reagan"....apparently I'm just trying to offend literal idiots like you.

I'm pointing out the hysterical vitriol of conservative purists.

Such as the difference between an XO like this and an act of congress.

The Boland Amendement was a duly passed Congressional law-of-the-land, signed by Reagan.

Sure it was a craven act of the Democrats to hold the Defense budget hostage, but that's balance of power.

Let's just not act like Democrats where we support extra-constitutional acts only if we agree with them.

313 posted on 08/20/2011 9:20:52 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: sam_paine
It is fitting that you bring up the Boland Amendments.

Some may question the wisdom of many of Reagan's actions, but unlike the Obama, none can question his patriotic motives. Whether he accepted 1) a tax increases in exchange for a triple the spending cuts, 2) a one time limited Amnesty in exchange for a real immigration enforcement to prevent future illegals, or 3) the "Democrat" Bowland Amendmant protecting Communist expansion in Central America for the sake of a vital defense bill being held hostage at a critical time in Reagan's strategy to end the cold war; each and every time he acted to protect America and its future. As for the Lefts charges against Reagan regarding the Bowland Amendment, how much different was Contra aid schemes to Roosevelt's "Destroyers for Bases" aid to England during the Neutrality Act days before WWII?

And you equate that with Obama's fiat Amnesty, which is, as everything he does, motivated by a desire to damage America and its future. If you seek to discuss Reagan's mistakes or missteps don't dare do it in defense of the Anti-American President!

To you and others Marquess of Queensberry referee to the Constitutionality of the acts of patriots, I here's what Thomas Jefferson said:

"A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means."

329 posted on 08/22/2011 6:58:12 AM PDT by drpix
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To: sam_paine
CORRECTION:

To you and others Marquess of Queensberry referee to the Constitutionality of the acts of patriots, I here's To you and others who play Marquess of Queensberry referee to the Constitutionality of the acts of patriots, here's what Thomas Jefferson said:

330 posted on 08/22/2011 7:02:47 AM PDT by drpix
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