Posted on 06/09/2014 9:42:57 AM PDT by Strategy
This isn't related to the core enumerated powers questions in Bond but struck me as sufficiently interesting that it was worth posting about separately. In his post about Bond, Mark Tushnet writes:
This isn't Justice Thomas's problem but James Madison's [but] Justice Thomas quotes Madison to the effect that treaty cannot "dismember the empire." Really? Suppose Vladimir Putin lets the United States know that he's going to bomb the bejeezus out of the "red" states of the United States unless we negotiate a treaty returning Alaska to Russia. Work out the scenario as you wish, but I doubt that it's a good constitutional design to require the U.S. government to take the negotiating position, "We're fine with giving up Alaska but unfortunately we can't do it, so bomb away."
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I guess the “O” administration would employ their default mode... bluster THEN surrender.
All these years we thought he was from Kenya...now we learn he really was from France!
Somewhat unrelated but I did just see this on Twitter.
Russian Su-27 Flanker suspected to manouver under radar deep in Finnish aerospace. http://www.iltasanomat.fi/kotimaa/art-1288698939171.html … (Finnish news)
Somebody will have to translate.
Amazing that Russia, as gigantic as it still is, at one time had huge Alaska.
I guess we’ll get back under the next Republican administration.
The lefty author is obviously a surrender monkey.
Obama will refuse to negotiate and bless the destruction of 'Red States'.
THEN when Russia has finished, Obama will surrender Alaska.
If Putin merely asks for Alaska instead of threatening to bomb Red States, Obama will surrender Alaska and claim that the life of every American was at risk if he did not surrender it.
We go to war!
The Constitution provides for the common defense, not the partial abandonment.
Alaska was sold by Russia, it was not taken.
Leave it to the anti-American WP to attempt to legitimize Russian claim to US territory.
“...he will be a traitor and a saboteur”.
Describes liberals perfectly.
Or Cuba over Florida?
Ummm, we've got an out-of-control President who thinks he's a dictator and an Attorney General who feels his job is to build cases against Obama's political opponents.
There's enough real problems on the plate...
The Russians used to have a claim on San Francisco, too. I say we give it to 'em.
“I guess we’ll get back under the next Republican administration.”
Assuming there is one.
Better pray this doesn’t happen with Obummer in power.
Putin knows he has the “flexibility” for at least two more years to bust a move with little to no resistance from Obama. From Putin’s perspective, why not?
They say timing is everything. Right now its clearly in Putin’s favor.
The Constitution provides for the common defense, not the partial abandonment.
But The One has a pen and a phone. He don’t need no steenkin constitution.
Technically the land deal done with Seward in the late 1800’s was done with the Russian Monarchy and not the Glorious Communist Party of der People and is therefore invalid in “Bergdahl Barry’s” little commie pinko mind so all Putin has to do is ask and Alaska can go back to being a Russian Province.
I am sure they could probably justify giving it back as correcting the horrible “American Colonialism” that occured when we “unfairly swindled the Russians” out of it buy paying below market value for it...
Maybe all those border chilfdren they are bussing in can take back the Gadsten purchase too.....
Do we still have the receipt?
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