tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post1541170652752696044..comments2023-10-24T11:23:31.580-04:00Comments on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: The Bully's PulpitWilliam A. Jacobsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16433685588536441422noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-26980913609427217792010-06-22T04:38:10.404-04:002010-06-22T04:38:10.404-04:00So Obama is not only illegally and cruelly forcing...So Obama is not only illegally and cruelly forcing BP to set aside $20 billion for compensation claims, he's also making a sleazy inside-the-beltway deal that nobody will be happier with than BP? Well then.<br /><br />I was also unaware that ObamaCare is going to cost in excess of $1 trillion per year, i.e. almost twice as much as all of Medicare. Citation please?Jim Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13876037300326941092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-35939564781586735822010-06-17T21:02:46.797-04:002010-06-17T21:02:46.797-04:00When you look back at the 2008 election, it easy t...When you look back at the 2008 election, it easy to see how "Hope and Change" was a much more palatable slogan than "Screw the Constitution, I'll do whatever I damn well please." How easily we were duped...<br /><br />That being said, nobody loves a witch hunt more than a bunch of idiots who are coming up for reelection in a few months. Lord help us.A. Dumashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08406276823221924014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-12435774708818492732010-06-17T19:56:58.671-04:002010-06-17T19:56:58.671-04:00"The Bully's Pulpit"
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I am..."The Bully's Pulpit"<br />=========<br /><br />I am pretty-darn-sure that this usage is the way Mr. Obama has understood the term "bully pulpit" all along. There seems to be a whole lot of "He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool--" in our dear Mr. Obama's case.A_Nonny_Mousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13599733730516661522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-81692292041322248772010-06-17T19:06:08.996-04:002010-06-17T19:06:08.996-04:00What bothers me is that not only is more power foc...What bothers me is that not only is more power focused in the Executive Branch, the FOX is now in charge of the billions for the Gulf Coast Chickens whose livelihoods stand in ruins. Who is overseeing the Pay Czar? What accountability is there? What is the application form for funds?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-77460721466524728772010-06-17T17:00:10.528-04:002010-06-17T17:00:10.528-04:00We are already living in a tyranny, if Obama can s...We are already living in a tyranny, if Obama can say "I will do the following", that action is not supported by law, and his own party will not stand against him.<br /><br />A tyranny is not just one willful man, but a large faction that says the law and constitution does not matter. If the populace is so stupid as to support or endure this lawlessness, then we have an established tyranny.<br /><br />This is asymmetrical warfare. The Democrats flout the law, then say "under the law, you can't do anything except vote us out". The desire for law and order among most people is used as a shield against any action to stop the lawbreaking of that group.<br /><br />Obama's and the Democrat's actions are not just allowing more destruction by oil in the Gulf. They are weakening the rule of law, or possibly are revealing that the law in our great country is a thin tissue, long hiding the arbitrary power of the government and the tyranny of Congress.<br /><br />It will be interesting to see if the productive people of the U.S. will be made slaves to onerous taxes and distributionist policies because they respect "the law". Or, will they conclude that "the law" is an instrument of oppression when it is wielded by people who selectively break it.Andrew_M_Garlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02855052302054611917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-5987177868405882482010-06-17T16:57:51.337-04:002010-06-17T16:57:51.337-04:00independent
Also the same Jamie Gorelick that col...independent<br /><br />Also the same Jamie Gorelick that collected millions of dollars ($26,466,834 to be exact) from Fannie Mae as part of the robbery of public money conducted by Obama buddy Franklin Raines (which arguably was one of the reasons for the recent financial crash). Jamie helped cover up the $10 Billion robbery.<br /><br />We are in the best of hands here...Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15067705499934991249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-50194088474555712492010-06-17T14:02:56.448-04:002010-06-17T14:02:56.448-04:00Isn't this the same Jamie Gorelick whose memo ...Isn't this the same Jamie Gorelick whose memo caused the non-sharing of security information right before 9/11 and then got to sit in judgement of herself on the 9/11 Commission? That Jamie Gorelick? (sarcasm implied)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-76128763144226931602010-06-17T13:22:54.519-04:002010-06-17T13:22:54.519-04:00I have read that the constitution of the USSR had ...I have read that the constitution of the USSR had freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and other things that gave the USSR the pretension of being a nation of laws created democratically.<br /><br />And then the apparatus ignored it. Which is much like how we treat the Constitution today. The spectacle of the DoJ operating as an arm of thug government and the President acting as godfather-in-chief shows how no piece of paper is a defense against actual or would-be tyrants. Individuals are required to stand against this corruption.<br /><br />Machiavelli wrote about this in Discourses:<br /><br />"Thus monarchy becomes tyranny; aristocracy degenerates into oligarchy; and the popular government lapses readily into licentiousness. So that a legislator who gives to a state which he founds, either of these three forms of government, constitutes it but for a brief time; for no precautions can prevent either one of the three that are reputed good, from degenerating into its opposite kind; so great are in these the attractions and resemblances between the good and the evil."<br /><br />By granting ever more power to the government we have made it possible for politicians to bribe constituents. Those politicians and their supporters can nothing at all about the greater good--only their self-interest. And they will follow their self-interest into disaster for all (e.g. Greece or California).Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15067705499934991249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-2545503437103982732010-06-17T11:55:10.628-04:002010-06-17T11:55:10.628-04:00There is another cautionary lesson in all of this ...There is another cautionary lesson in all of this and that is be careful what you wish for. "Due process" means lawyers. I am hearing many people defend Obama's diktat with the argument "due process is just another way of saying let's turn this over to the lawyers". That is factually correct but is not a valid defense for discarding the constitution. <br /><br />(And no, I am not a lawyer nor any way employed in the legal profession.)<br /><br />A free society is only possible when the consensus of society is formed around people of virtue. Government itself is a necessary evil because people are not angels. The further away people become from being angels, the more we rely on the law to defend us from the devil. Lawyers may be expensive, but you can't have due process without them. <br /><br />So if you support the constitution, don't fall for the cynical knee jerk argument that due process only delays solutions while making lawyers wealthy. The law is what protects us from the devil not politically expedient demagoguery.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-85894396317749932122010-06-17T11:03:05.475-04:002010-06-17T11:03:05.475-04:00I predict that a class action suit by BP shreholde...I predict that a class action suit by BP shreholders will invalidate the 20 billion dollar fund "agreement" ... any agreement made via coersion is hardly an "agreement"The Ghosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09554055593581812426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-84686468023240142262010-06-17T10:37:38.772-04:002010-06-17T10:37:38.772-04:00I teach a college level government class on Tuesda...I teach a college level government class on Tuesday evenings, and had just listened to the speech before my class began. When my students asked me about it, my response was that the president gave a lousy speech in which he abrogated the Constitution and declared himself dictator. <br /><br />Everybody laughed.<br /><br />But I got several emails the next morning from students who noted that I wasn't far off the mark.Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16164118803445903585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-58470671867726262142010-06-17T08:47:15.801-04:002010-06-17T08:47:15.801-04:00Thank you! That's exactly what I was thinking....Thank you! That's exactly what I was thinking. If this gets BP off the hook from any tort claims in civil court, they are getting off easy. And yet Obama and the Democrats who work so hard to demonize private industry (in public) have basically worked out a deal to benefit BP. The people getting screwed are the Gulf residents who have lost so much.MBShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07979783200645976482noreply@blogger.com