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Romney Stumbles

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Seems The One (Okay, The Other One) is having some trouble.  Let me tell you why:

[pullquote]”I have already implemented your program, and ten years down the road, I can tell you now–it simply does not work.”[/pullquote]Mitt Romney had a golden opportunity to seize the nomination and skewer the president.  In my opinion, all he needed to do was cast off his illegitimate offspring, RomneyCare.  He should have said that he used the laboratory of democracy called Massachusetts, with its rich history of political innovation, to see once and for all if a large role for government can improve critical services in health care.  He would have been in a unique position to assail the president on ObamaCare.  ”I have already implemented your program, and ten years down … Continue reading →

Supreme Court On Trial

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This pivotal case before the Supreme Court is a bridgehead for a conservative restoration of government.  Our government is required by law to be run according to the Constitution, not according to the counter-Constitutional wishes and dreams of progressive Supreme Court Justices.  The question is, upon which shore will this bridgehead be located?

  • If ObamaCare is upheld, then the Supreme Court demonstrates itself sufficiently unmoored by generations of complicated precedent from the plain meaning of the Constitution that it no longer has the moral authority to interpret the document.
  • If ObamaCare is struck (stricken?) down by the Court, then the full function and trend of the government stands accused of the same problem, but by the Supreme Court rather than just by the supposed “rabble” of the … Continue reading →

Legal Question

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[pullquote]Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) called the CLASS Act “a Ponzi scheme of the first order” — WaPo 2009[/pullquote]If a law is made under fraudulent circumstances, is it a law?  I realize that this is ridiculously vague, and I just happen to have an example in mind — ObamaCare.  It is my understanding that (let me be brief) the Slaughter rule was not invoked because budget-neutral reconciliation offered a way to pass the bill piecemeal, but only with the addition of the CLASS Act.  Well, the CLASS Act fell away long ago, and nobody was suroprised–it was always doomed to fail, an accounting trick designed to make the bill eligible for reconciliation rather than committee work on new bills.  Or something.

I realize that the … Continue reading →

Prediction: Obamacare Mandate Slapped Down 7-2

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The real question is whether or not the Court will “sever” the provision from the rest of the law.  I predict a robust smackdown of the mandate itself, combined with a weasel-worded upholding of the rest of the law with a shoddily justified severance.  I predict that the court will decline to comment on whether a law passed through reconciliation with the aid of a fraudulent neutral accounting is a law at all.  Honk if you know what I’m talking about.

Communist Fonda to play Nancy Reagan (not for long)

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Jane Fonda, communist traitor, is slated to play Nancy Reagan in yet another progressive crapfest from the capital of degradation Hollywood.   Google’s first hit on this sorry story is from Vogue (go figure), with the headline calling Nancy Reagan a “conservative icon”.  Newsflash, Vogue, and the rest of you goose-stepping, poo-flinging progressive commie trolls:

We never viewed Nancy Reagan as a conservative icon; we have always viewed her as the loving and devoted wife of the President we love.  That makes her one of us for better or for worse, through thick and thin, no matter what.  Nancy Reagan is good people, like family, and we will never let you take her.

 

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JetBlue, Madmen, Passengers, and the TSA

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Just would like to point out that once again, passengers have taken care of business in the air.  Not only has the TSA never stopped a real threat, they never will.  They sit back and spin yarns about deterring attacks, but the TSA’s ratio of sexual-assaults-to-maniacs-subdued is not encouraging when compared to that of passengers in general.

We are over ten years into the DHS experiment, which was designed to tear down the Gorelick Wall, and at great expense.  Not only is it a complete failure, with the Wall back up and functioning (bureaucratic personal paranoia beats duty to protect a faceless public again), but Gorelick herself now serves as an advisor to Obama’s Pentagon.  And for all the money spent to fail, the DHS actually refuses … Continue reading →

The Problem With Ricochet.com

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[pullquote]posts incessantly about politics in Turkey[/pullquote]The problem is a particular editor, and much to her potential horror, I have sprinkled this post “liberally” with some salty vocabulary.  She’s an editor, and for all I know, she bankrolled the whole Ricochet.com operation.  So maybe it’s hers and the rest of us can just go fuck ourselves.  For some reason, she posts incessantly about politics in Turkey where she lives, and wants us all to know that they are not a threat; just misunderstood… by… well us, apparently.  I live in Japan, but I don’t think Ricochet.com is where to bang on about it.  Now she seems like a nice enough person, but the fight in which we are currently engaged is a battle against nice-enough people whose notion of … Continue reading →