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To: Kaslin

Barry, remind us again, how many unelected czars you have appointed over us to dictate policy? And who elected the EPA and the IRS and Kathleen Sebelius?


4 posted on 04/04/2012 5:30:06 AM PDT by silverleaf (Funny how all the people who are for abortion are already born)
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To: silverleaf

BOZO has to realize the Supreme Court is the Judicial Branch of our Gov’t, and he will not intimidate the Court. No way. He just can’t stand the fact that his BOZOCARE plan is going to be overturned.


30 posted on 04/04/2012 6:04:40 AM PDT by Spike the punch
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To: silverleaf
Obama finally got his chance to have the Supreme Court bring about the largest "redistribution" in American History. When it looks like it might not happen, all he can do Lash Out like the Community Organizer he really is.

Obama 2001:

"If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed people, so that now I would have the right to vote. I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order and as long as I could pay for it I’d be OK.

But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution, at least as it’s been interpreted, and the Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf.

And that hasn’t shifted and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change. In some ways we still suffer from that."

43 posted on 04/04/2012 6:24:31 AM PDT by radioone
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