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Pay No Attention to that Constitution Behind the Curtain!

President OBAMA!, our lord and savior, said we shouldn't concern ourselves with "the procedural issues" with respect to the health care vote.

Really? "Procedural issues" such as the Rules of the Senate, made pursuant to Article I of the Constitution, which requires a cloture vote? "Procedural issues" such as the Constitutional requirement that both houses of Congress pass the same bill, and no Slaughter solution or "deem and pass"?

Is the President suggesting that We The People shouldn't be concerned with the Constitution? He should submit his resignation, or be impeached, for failure to defend the Constitution.

This is bordering on treason, Mr. Obama.

Articles of Impeachment

Articles of Impeachment must be drafted for anyone who endorses the so-called Slaughter Solution, Deem and Pass, or any other method of legislating around the Constitution. Enough is enough. End the bullshit.

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Deem and Pass Part II

Can the next President be "deemed and passed" as well? Why bother voting?

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Deem and Pass?

Who do these people think they are? 

Pelosi and her mob want to pass a trillion+ health care bill without voting on it.  I'm not exaggerating. 

Since the House may not have the votes to pass the Senate bill, they're considering ways around that technicality of voting.Talk about the will of the people being trampled. 

Hey Washington - I deem my taxes paid.  No need for me to file a return, right?

My favorite quote is that 'deem and pass' is "more insider," according to Pelosi.  More insider?  Are you kidding me?  That seems to go against everything that she promised in 2006, and that Obama promised in 2008.  Not that this is surprising. 

To me, a legislator who considers this acceptable should be impeached (at the very least) and run out of the country on an inflatable raft to Haiti, so they can enjoy that nation and all it has to offer.

From the Washington Post: After laying the groundwork for a decisive vote this week on the Senate's health-care bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Monday that she might attempt to pass the measure without having members vote on it. 

Instead, Pelosi (D-Calif.) would rely on a procedural sleight of hand: The House would vote on a more popular package of fixes to the Senate bill; under the House rule for that vote, passage would signify that lawmakers "deem" the health-care bill to be passed. 

The tactic -- known as a "self-executing rule" or a "deem and pass" -- has been commonly used, although never to pass legislation as momentous as the $875 billion health-care bill. It is one of three options that Pelosi said she is considering for a late-week House vote, but she added that she prefers it because it would politically protect lawmakers who are reluctant to publicly support the measure.

"It's more insider and process-oriented than most people want to know," the speaker said in a roundtable discussion with bloggers Monday. "But I like it," she said, "because people don't have to vote on the Senate bill."

Who is John Galt?

John Galt, the hero from Ayn Rand's masterpiece, Atlas Shrugged, is the name that will be placed on my Census 2010 form.

Who else is with me?

Al Sharpton's Double-Standard

Al Sharpton called for "due process" for Governor Paterson during this investigation for perjury and violation of ethics laws with respect to the Yankees World Series tickets that he received, as well as abuse of power in the investigation of his former aid who assaulted his girlfriend.



Strange. I didn't hear Sharpton calling for "due process" for the cops accused of raping Tawana Brawley, nor the countless other times Sharpton has played judge, jury and executioner.



What's the double-standard, I wonder? Hmmmm...

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What Kind of Idiot Bulldozes His Home?

Apparently, Terry Hoskins does...click the link to see a video of the man bulldozing his home.   Below is my take on this issue.

Hoskins claims that the house is worth $350,000 and is owed $160,000 on his note.  If that was true, he would have been able to sell the house for a profit.  If he couldn't sell it for $350,000, it's not worth $350,000!

He says he had an offer for $170,000, which would have satisfied the note, but the evil bank turned it down, saying they could get more at auction.  The bank is probably right; don't forget, the bank owns the home, by virtue of the lien called the mortgage, which this guy signed.  A deal is a deal.  What happened to honoring contracts?  Is there any evidence that the bank did something wrong?  I didn't see any in that article.  If the bank engaged in predatory, unfair, unethical or illegal practices, that would be a different story.  Most likely, this guy decided not to pay his note.  The bank then foreclosed.  That's the deal.

Now, this fool decides he's going to bulldoze his home, in some sort of scorched earth maneuver.  Congratulations - now, instead of owing the bank $160,000, you're going to owe the amount that they would have gotten at auction! 

Read the fine print of your note and mortgage - you promised not to do anything to damage the premises.  Instead of using a legal maneuver to delay the foreclosure sale, and sell it to recover as much money as possible, this guy decided to destroy something he didn't own...brilliant!

Contract law is such a basic element of society.  If we do not honor our contracts, society is in trouble.  Contract law is so important that our Founding Fathers put the following in the Constitution:

No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility. [emphasis added].

An honorable person lives up to his end of the bargain, or, if he does not, must accept the consequences for the breach, which would be to turn the asset (house) over to the bank.  Congratulations, Terry - you now owe the bank some serious cash.   Maybe you'll get some book deal with a nice advance, which you can use to pay off what you bulldozed.

 

With All Due Respect to Executive Powers...

Let's say, in a perfect world, I'm in charge of teaching our elected officials how they are supposed to perform their duties...The first thing I'd tell a President, such as OBAMA! or G.W. Bush, is that the Executive Order is not to be used to abrogate Congressional or Judicial Authority!  We The People do not elect an all-pwerful dictator for four years.

The President is an executive, similar to a CEO, who is to act on the authority granted to him by Congress.  As we all used to learn back in school, the Congress makes the laws, the President and Executive Branch enforces the laws; and the Judiciary interprets the laws.  All of the branches must operate within the Constitution.  These are the rules that We The People set down.  The People are the sovereign of the Federal Government, not the states, not the cities, not Obama, not Bush, not Clinton.

Now, when someone comes along like President Barack OBAMA! and says "with all due respect to separation of powers..." what he is really saying is, "Piss off, Justices Alito, Thomas, Scalia, Kennedy and Roberts; I want something done my way and to hell with your interpretation, even if my way is unconstitutional."

To hell with the Constitution, right?  Am I overreaction?  Hardly.  OBAMA! is making plans to use executive orders to advance his priorities in energy, fiscal and environmental areas, according to The New York Times .  Where are the checks and balances? 

“We are reviewing a list of presidential executive orders and directives to get the job done across a front of issues,” said Rahm Emmanuel the White House chief of staff.  That's a big F-U to the people - they can't get their legistlation through Congress, so they'll just do it themselves.

I didn't see that in the Constitution.

Bill Clinton Hospitalized

Best wishes to 42...thank God we have such a great private health care system...

SILENCE, TEBOW!

A typical leftist maneuver - rather than counter someone's rational belief with an argument based on facts and reason, they move to silence speech.  It's a good thing that CBS (shockingly) had the good sense to run the Tim and Pam Tebow ad for Focusonthefamily.com. 

If the far left is so opposed to the Tebows' beliefs, they should articulate why their position is superior, or more morally sound...unless that's not possible...

As radio host Michael Savage has so eloquently put it in the past, what happened to the true, classical liberal who would say "I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend your right to say it to the death"?

Now, the mantra of the neo-liberal is "shut up and do as we say."

In truth, the Libertarian is the classical liberal and today's neo-liberal is some derivative of a Marxist/Trotskyite/Statist.