Justice Scalia's Untimely Death Should Wake Up Congress

Townhall.com ^ | February 13, 2016 | Phyllis Schlafly

[LegendHasIt]

I dunno. I kinda like them asleep.

When they are awake the only thing on their mind is trying to screw us.

[Kaslin]

What can congress do if it does not have the power to override the vetoes. You realize it takes 2/3 to get it done. Sure we have the majority but not enough to make it easy, thanks to dingy Harry Reid and Mitch McDonnell’s failure to change the rule when he became majority leader.

[henkster]

That's exactly the problem with the ruling in Youngstown Sheet & Tube: it forces Congress to act as a supermajority to restrain an unlawful president. Since the Court is unlikely to sustain a suit by Congress against the President (it's a political question reserved to Congress under Articles I and II), their only alternative is to have the states sue as their surrogates, as they have in United States v. Texas, which is pending before the Court, or West Virginia v. EPA, which is pending before the D.C. Circuit.

Our current gridlock has been deliberately engineered by Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi (but mostly Reid). He creates the impasse in Congress, and then the President says: "I am acting because Congress has failed to act." But the above statement is problematic for the Rule of Law because it does not complete the thought. The complete thought is: "I am acting because Congress has failed to act the way I want it to.

And that is the epitaph for the Rule of Law.

[Arthur McGowan]

Schlafly has been supremely intellectually lazy when it comes to an Article V Convention. She has merely dusted off some columns from 45 years ago, when the Left WERE advocating a Constitutional Convention.

The mere fact that she uses the phrase “Constitutional Convention” when nobody is proposing a Constitutional Convention, is telling.

[Robert DeLong]

We've just not heard of them yet.

LOL, do you always contradict yourself in the very next sentence? If we haven't heard of them yet how can you be sure they exist?

I hope you're correct, I really do. The only place in America where that would even have a possibility of being true, would be graduates of Hillsdale College. They probability of them coming from an Ivy League college is almost impossible to imagine, though sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Miracles also do happen.

I like your positive thinking and hope you are referring to yourself.

[Elsie]

LOL, do you always contradict yourself in the very next sentence? If we haven't heard of them yet how can you be sure they exist?

I'm contradictory?

HMMMmmm...

How can we be sure they do NOT exist; if we've not checked every person on earth?

[Elsie]

The only place in America where that would even have a possibility of being true, would be graduates of Hillsdale College.

Oh???

She didn't graduate from there, but, my grandson's paternal grandmother works there.

He; BTW; is in his first year at West Point.

[Robert DeLong]

How can we be sure they do NOT exist; if we've not checked every person on earth?

Well until that is done, we can't be sure. But you stated definitively that they do exist.

But really this is not worth an argument. I made a comment based upon my opinion, in recognition of extreme uniqueness to both Phyllis Schlafly and Justice Scalia. If you thought my intent was to insult, I apologize. You refuted my opinion without providing proof and I called you on it as a way for you to provide proof your opinion is correct.

I sincerely hope there are others like them, and you are correct. I'm willing to consider whomever you have in mind that share their uniqueness in your opinion. I myself don't see any on the horizon though.

[Robert DeLong]

Ah yes, I did overlook out Military Academies. My bad. I was thinking private institutions of higher education. I stand humbly corrected.

God Bless your grandson., and thank him for me for being one of the citizens willing to step up to protect this country.

[Elsie]

You refuted my opinion without providing proof

True.

But I refuted your opinion BECAUSE you provided no proof.

[Elsie]

I'm willing to consider whomever you have in mind that share their uniqueness in your opinion.

Oh; I've none of my own to put forward. I was merely trying to point out how ABSOLUTE statements tend to make me a bit, shall we say, argumentive.

Not so much about the CONTENT of the statement; but the structure of it.

I think we are pretty much in agreement here over the lack of visibility of the 7,000 held in reserve.

Romans 11:2-4
Know you not what the scripture saith of Elias; how he calleth on God against Israel?
3 Lord, they have slain thy prophets, they have dug down thy altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
4 But what saith the divine answer to him? I have left me seven thousand men, that have not bowed their knees to Baal.

[Da Bilge Troll]

Aside from a Convention, how do we make changes that are permanent? What is left of the Reagan legacy, for instance?

[Robert DeLong]

Really it is a common saying meant not to be a definitive statement but rather a statement of respect.

But honestly your response back made you as guilty of bad "structure" as well, for you definitively stated yes. Not maybe, not perhaps, but yes.

Unless there is a quick transformation in America back to God, or if no transformation is necessary because the majority are believers and rise up and make their voices heard loud and clear, he may not give us access to those in reserve.

We have become a corrupt and immoral nation who has clearly turned it's back to God, so why should we expect his help as a nation? Each person must now make their own decision for their own salvation. I hold little hope that God is with us as a nation.

[Elsie]

But honestly your response back made you as guilty of bad "structure" as well, for you definitively stated yes.

I sure did!

I only need to find ONE to make my statement provable.

You; on the other hand...

I'm a dope for this thing called hope...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeyrDFEqhm8

[Elsie]

We have become a corrupt and immoral nation who has clearly turned it's back to God, so why should we expect his help as a nation?

Amen!

Are you still killing your unborn?

-- GOD

 

[Robert DeLong]

I only need to find ONE to make my statement provable.

I'll wait, LOL.

I on the other hand (since you didn't finish, I will graciously fill in the remainder) only have to wait for you to disprove me, making me current the one who is right. For one cannot prove a negative, thus the onus is on you, LOL.

I wish I could share in your optimism, but it just sets one up for a big disappointment when reality sets in. If the reality doesn't unfold as I see it happening then great joy is realized. I guess it's safe to say I'm a pessimist of the nth degree. 8>(

[Elsie]

All I can add is that this world is not my home; I’m justa passin’ thru.

The odds are I’ll die of something before the Lord returns for His own.

I can only wait to find out.

[Yulee]

Since we stopped looking to the Word of God as the basis and authority for our laws and statues, we have found ourselves drifting far from our shared Judeo-Christian roots. These roots, once strong, have been degraded by our educational, judicial, and media institutions.

Universities in the late 60’s and early 70’s started us down this slippery slope. These institutes of higher learning pressed the idea, that we should look to ourselves and not God's Word, or any authority within our nation, for our ideals and actions.

Remember their rallying call of “The Media is the Message”. They infiltrated the media, the judicial, the legislative, and the churches, to change them from the inside, profoundly. While ignoring authority, once in power, they always demand top down authority, and expect those below to follow their orders. An example is the the current President's Executive Orders.

Like sleeper cells,they moved quietly, into positions of power, helping those of like mind along the way. All the time looking, not at God's Word for their authority, and the ideals expressed in the Constitution, but to the ideals expressed by socialism. Once in power they had the ability to twist these institution to their will. Power from the top down, not from the citizens up.

Out of this came the Hippie Movement, drug nation, pro-abortion, anti-death penalty, and the sexual revolution, with its ultimate aim of legitimizing anything that the Word of God calls an sin, or an abomination.

This was all aimed at the ultimate destruction of our Constitutional Republic. The seeds were planted by those who looked to socialism and all the other isms, for their inspiration. At all times these movements used the rights guaranteed by the Constitution, to pervert the original intent of each amendment, and the clear meaning of the words contained therein.

All the while demanding free speech and legitimacy for their causes, their ultimate goals was the destruction of our Constitutional Republic which guarantees these freedoms.

We have seen the destruction of one of the two major political parties, and its conversion from the Democratic-Republican Party (its original name) to a Socialist-Democrat Party. Even their main spokesperson can't tell you the difference between the Democrat Party and Socialism, as expressed by Bernie Sanders.

Unfortunately we have two enemies, not only at the gates, but within the gates. Those who hold socialism as their highest ideal have demanded open borders, which in turn bring those, intent upon our destruction, within. They demand more centralized power for an Imperial Presidency, which both feel they control.

Each of these enemies swear their allegiance to ideals anathema to our Constitution. Sharia Law and the ideals of Socialism both call for a fundamental change to our laws and the destruction of of nation. Each group thinks that once our Constitutional Republic is destroyed, they will gain ultimate power. Each has a past history of death and destruction in their wake.

Radical Islamist look to Iran as an example of what happens when socialist and Muslim extremist join together to destroy a nation. The Mullahs gained power, and destroyed the socialist. Socialist believe that because we are not a Muslim nation, they will have power. Both lead to anarchy and death.

Hopefully we have time to avoid the path each of these enemies has plotted for our nation. We need to restore our American Republic, close the borders, expel those illegal aliens intent upon our destruction, and restore the original intent of our Constitution.

Our founding fathers gave us, the citizens of the United States, the right to hold a Convention of States. The Convention of States is not a Constitutional Convention, like that held in Philadelphia to write the Constitution.

A Convention of States is a way, guaranteed under the Constitution, for we the citizens of the United States, to amend the Constitution directly. This is one of the checks built into the Constitution, that allows us to avoid an Imperial Presidency, and a Judicial Branch that writes, rather than interprets law.

We find ourselves in this condition, because the President chooses a nominee, not based on their impartiality and fidelity to the Constitution, but on the basis of continuing the degrading of our Republic.

Again, there is one solution, and that is a Convention of States.

Restore Our American Republic

Restore
Our
American
Republic

ROAR

[glennaro]

Well, perhaps you could consider the combination of Roberts (2/3) and Kennedy (1/3) as the third vote ...?