Judges, as a class, are society’s very own, very privileged caste: philosopher kings. And we should be happy to have them available to us, lest we find ourselves — in bipartisan fashion — unable to correctly and unequivocally express the consent of the governed.
The other branches of government are just dressing, at this point. Except for the imperial executive, should the court side with him. Which it does.
Incidentally, for those keeping score:
1) The courts will define marriage from here on out.
2) SCOTUS ruled government can force you to enter into a paid contract you don’t wish to enter into simply because you were born. It also ruled that a penalty is a tax if it needs it to be in order to turn you into a subject.
3) SCOTUS says only the federal government can make immigration policy. Unless you’re a sanctuary city or state, or want to give out ID cards to illegals so that they can enroll in welfare programs. Which is okay, somehow.
4) A Federal 3-judge panel ruled that, naturally, an act designed to protect the air and water against toxic pollutants can also be read as giving the EPA the power to regulate your exhalation.
5) The government can take your property if it shows a compelling interest in the public good. Like, for instance, they want to circumvent market value and force you out of your home so that they can sell the land to a developer to put up a shiny new shopping mall.
6) Marijuana? You can’t have that. But health care insurance? You must have that.
Somewhere in Heaven, brave men in three-cornered hats sit weeping. Or maybe sit just really really pissed off, such that they throw a hand-cobbled shoe at one of the big screens at the local Heaven pub.
What did they call that in ancient Rome? A triumverate or something similar?
Ernst, I need you here.
A triumvirate is three men. Which is about what the current nine-member SCOTUS could muster.
It was called the Senate, a purely advisory comittee made up of former magistrates and the descendants of former magistrates with no formal powers whatsoever, yet always deferred to. Like our Judiciary, it was coequal, although in this case, what it was coequal to was the state itself (The Senate and the People of Rome).
And by coequal, I mean more equal.
Thanks. I knew it was three men, but I couldn’t remember the particulars.
Mandatory health insurance that covers marijuana usage for programs in other States? Oh, you betcha.
I recall how when New Gingrich brought up judicial reform during the primaries, he was denounced as a “fascist” by some allegedly conservative pundits.
Even our own putative opinion-leaders are constitutionally illiterate. Pathetic.
Off topically, hey, check it, could be the light’s beginning to dawn on people.
most of these issues seem to derive from our having a cowardly mccain-like feckless congress what is incapable of tackling issues like those listed above with any amount of courage or intellectual honesty
Romney won’t exactly be a palliative I don’t think.
Why stop there?
It’s time
for squid™ pitch forks and tar. nothing says “judicial review” like squid™.
Romney at the Al Smith dinner is actually very funny. Who knew?
“In the spirit of Big Bird, the President’s remarks are brought to you tonight by the letter O and the number 16,000,000,000.”
strawman and big bird
sloe joe and the press
the preference cascade will continue
“I’ve already seen some of the headlines from tonight’s dinner. ‘Obama Embraced By Catholics’ and ‘Romney Dines With Rich People””
The crowd likes the Stormin’ Mormon.
“after the nice long nap I had in the first debate” was a good one. Barry’s getting off a bunch of good jokes there.
it is all about baracky
biden under the bus
The Doors – The End (1967)
$ to akin teach rove sumthing simple
His latest pitch to donors features Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, Karl Rove, and National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn (R-Texas) wearing photoshopped “Claire 2012? buttons.
“Do they want her to win?” says the pitch, in reference to incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.).
“Karl Rove’s groups, American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS, have combined to spend almost $4 million in Virginia, where virtually every poll has shown Democrat Tim Kaine leading, by as much as 7 points,” says the Akin mailer. “The NRSC and Rove’s groups have combined to spend an estimated $5.7 million in Wisconsin, where Democrat Tammy Baldwin continues to widen her lead against Republican Tommy Thompson, an early supporter of the individual mandate.”
“Meanwhile, none of them will invest a dime right here in Missouri, where the latest poll shows Todd LEADING Claire McCaskill
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Once you stop caring about being part of the cool set, or (perhaps at the same time) you step back from trying to destroy the cultural underpinnings of the West, you might just realize that “gay marriage” is an absurdity – a null set.
Then, when another one of these rulings comes down – yet another raw exercise of power which is antithetical to law – you realize that there is a lot of momentum behind the idea of forcing the American people to recognize an absurdity – to be compelled to say something is that isn’t.
Upon reflection, you see this same thread running through totalitarian regimes.
Al Smith Dinner Speech (10 mins)
Who’s Al Smith and why should I care?
OMG, he really is killing it.
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Seemed to me like Romney punched a bit harder than Obama.
Smith: “We recognize that you have some challenges this year,” Smith told Obama.“It’s never good when your opponent has produced more sons than you have jobs.”
– Waiting for the Progturds to scream raaaaaaacist! in 3…..2…..1
I’m starting to think this Romney fellow might go places.
Unless I’m mistaken, he was the first Catholic nominated for president by a major party — Democrats in (checks Wikipedia) 1928.
I’m starting to think this Romney fellow might go places.
This video needs wide exposure.
A thousand billion here, a thousand billion there and soon you’re talking real money.
Ha! I kid. We just print it when we need it.
Meanwhile: MSNBC’s O’Donnell Challenges Romney Son To Fight: “Take Your Best Shot”
That should be on Pay Per View.
As soon as I can get the abortion I have a right to, they can get as married as they want.
I’m starting to think this Romney fellow might go places.
I was about to say the same.
Dionne Warwick – Walk On By (Stereo)
Burt Bacharach thinks lizards are out to rear end him.
This Obama fellow isn’t very funny.
24/7 on bet
I’ll never fall in love again – Dionne Warwick
sorry just thinking that a little dionne in the “hood” might make a difference with @ mt chair
Over at HuffPoop the lede all afternoon and evening has been:
“COULD HE ?”
….With a pic of Romney, a decent one for a change, detailing how Romney has taken a lead in most electoral college polling for the first time. Of course suddenly polls are irrelevent and inaccurate and silly.
– The Progturds are going apeshit.
– Looks like the Lefty media has decided they better start conditioning their cult followers to avoid total meltdown when Jug ears bites it, plus they might be able to scare a few more of the adult teenagers into actually getting off their asses and votimg, moew that its not ‘glam’ and ‘coolies’ anymore with the pop-culture set.
(We brave the Leftist hive-mind swamps so you won’t have to)
mt chair day 10/23/2012
They better get used to him.
The New York Observer and the Orlando Sentinel, both lefty rags (the former is run by hipsters), have endorsed Romney.
Jews are breaking for him +4 right now, too.
a pw super exlusive tonite
nr, I love me some Dionne.
Oh, don’t mind us. Just us Catholics being all over the place, and selling our souls for a sub-prime steak diner.
*grumble*
Burt Bacharach thinks lizards are out to rear end him
Dionne Warwick I Say A Little Prayer 1967 Original Million Seller
here goof on this
Petula Clark – Downtown
statist with latex
What’s it all about, alfie?
Is it just for the moment we live?
What’s it all about when you sort it out, alfie?
Are we meant to take more than we give
Or are we meant to be kind?
And if only fools are kind, alfie,
Then I guess it’s wise to be cruel.
And if life belongs only to the strong, alfie,
What will you lend on an old golden rule?
As sure as I believe there’s a heaven above, alfie,
I know there’s something much more,
Something even non-believers can believe in.
I believe in love, alfie.
Without true love we just exist, alfie.
Until you find the love you’ve missed you’re nothing, alfie.
When you walk let your heart lead the way
And you’ll find love any day, alfie, alfie.
Unless I’m mistaken, he was the first Catholic nominated for president by a major party — Democrats in (checks Wikipedia) 1928.
Yep-per. He lost the Upper South to the GOP for the first time since Reconstruction. Dixie took some time to warm to beadsqueezers.
Bonus trivia: Smith despised the New Deal.
Somewhere in Heaven, brave men in three-cornered hats sit weeping.
They do not weep, nor gnash their teeth. They encourage the rest of us to stand up, and cheer us onward.