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There's no government like no government.Bumper sticker, seen in Berkeley, CA
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Hillary Clinton's most impressive gift: the ability to persuade rational people to pony up to $300K/speech http://t.co/cjRQrmkPLX
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 12, 2014
Thumbs DOWN: Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats vote for a Constitutional Amendment to Gut the First Amendment http://t.co/snrYtkbnyy
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 12, 2014
Obama's meddlesome foreign policy has unintended consequences: US-backed Syria resistance hooks up with ISIS http://t.co/k4Em1ob2Hy
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) July 12, 2014
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The Presidential Hall of Shame: FDR
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| (This is a play on progressives' challenge to libertarians: But (w/o govt) who will build the roads?) Via Steve Urciolo on FB |
#4. “Man of the people” FDR was a really a friend of the big corporations.Do you think it's an accident that "Progressive" Democrats in Congress and the White House are pushing hard for Export-Import Bank renewal, disingenuously pushing it as a pro-jobs measure?
FDR created the modern corporatist state that liberals (claim to) hate, by encouraging businesses to form cartels in order to squash their competition. The passage of the National Recovery Act compelled industries to form “code authorities,” and gave them the ability to regulate things such as quality, wages, prices and distribution channels. They were modeled after fascist Italy’s “corporatives,” which engaged in the same type of anti-competitive business practices. In fact, corporatism is widely known as a form of fascism.
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(Reason). Possible grounds for John Boehner's lawsuit against Barack Obama include: the President's failure to "faithfully [execute] the laws when it comes to a range of issues, including his health care law, energy regulations, foreign policy and education."
From the Heritage Foundations' Guide to the Constitution's article on the Take Care clause: [T]he President possesses wide discretion in deciding how and even when to enforce laws. He also has a range of interpretive discretion in deciding the meaning of laws he must execute. http://www.heritage.org/constitutio
This is all sarcasm, right? Surely you guys aren't retarded enough to believe discretion allows the President to unilaterally rewrite the law in a politically convenient, corrupt way?
Ronald- I do believe that discretion allows the president to make changes if he/she sees fit for national interest. I'm against government wait and this HoR seems to fail and lack understanding of cost of human capital- which the private sector understands. Useless votes that won't pass and lawsuits that challenge a discretionary topic is frivolous and a waste of our money. I am not about cracking the door further enabling greater judicial power. This is a waste of money.
No--that's lawmaking, not managerial discretion. Managerial discretion is something like postponing a due date because of a freak snowstorm or shifting dollars in an operational budget--not substantive policy. What this fascist is doing is unconstitutional.
(Tom Woods). Ralph Nader mentions me favorably in his new book. Now if only I could get his people to book him on my show.
I've heard him give a couple of talks on his book, one of them I think via Cato Institute. He's pretty much of a leftist whom wants to co-opt the right, but, for instance, he ranted on Citizens United and the familiar corporations aren't people talking points. You know, these guys don't get the picture that its government's size, power, and resources that attract the parasites; the real democracy plays out in the market, where consumers decide where to voluntarily spend their dollars.
But we have a telling point out currently; the poster child for corporate welfare, the Export-Import Bank, is coming up for renewal. If just half the "Progressive" Democrats opposed it, the bank would be dead. But it looks like the "Progressives" are talking it up as a jobs program; there's even a rumor Tea Party hero Tim Scott is coming out for it, no doubt because of that new Boeing plant. So, I see this as a litmus test: Dems are all hat, no cattle when it comes to corporate welfare. McCarthy has come out against it, Boehner has refused to endorse it. If "Progressives" put their votes where their mouths are, this should be dead in the House. Otherwise the "Progressive" Dems/establishment GOP corrupt alliance will win the day.
(LFC). Support the troops! Which troops? Who cares: They're all good!
Talk about unintended consequences of meddlesome foreign policy: Obama helps build a terror organization even Al Qaeda rejects as too extreme.
(IPI). The Illinois Supreme Court recently ruled that retiree health insurance benefits are protected by the pension protection clause of the Illinois Constitution.
The ruling will make it difficult to reform retiree health benefits and to reduce the debt associated with them. The state has $56 billion in unfunded retiree health insurance debt, and local governments are facing an $11 billion hole.
I asked this question before, and IPI didn't answer: I'm all for the 401K reform, but you are talking about something that will pay off in maybe 40-50 years from now. How are you going to fund the grandfathered pensioners is the rub....
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I want to know by what legal sorcery does a future government have to pay down on funding gaps from prior legislatures? If that's legal, then under what obligation does the government have to fund any liability? Where were the union lawsuits when government was taking funding holidays? Did they honestly believe top-heavy government costs weren't a drag on economic growth and government would make up past funding problems with magical pixie dust?
(Libertarian Republic). Woman Attacks Pro-Life Activists: “No uterus…no right to talk about it!” "Racist! Sexist! Privilege!" (NSFW) http://bit.ly/1qrzivI
Fascist. She only has the right to talk about her own uterus, and I suspect this is an issue she'll never have to worry about.
(Drudge Report). CLAIM: Deportation agency will be broke by mid-September...
This is Big Government By Extortion as usual. You want to bet the parasites will suddenly find the money when they realize election day is 2 months away and realize this crisis doesn't help them politically?
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Anne Murray, "I Just Fall In Love With You"
