The second Obama term
As close as anyone will ever get to repealing Obamacare ... which also has to be conflated with something else because the party that sponsored the bill is hopelessly adrift without leadership, direction, or a plan to get the White House back anytime in the next five decades.
The bill would also cut federal funding for Planned Parenthood.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
"If this Congress is serious about winning this war ... you should finally authorize the use of military force," Obama said Tuesday during the State of the Union address.
Is Obama serious with this? How do people still defend him?
This fucker has been giving speeches since ISIS first come into view about how he won't send troops over and blah, blah, blah, yet in last night's speech he throws Congress under the bus for his inaction?
There was a time when I really believed he thought he was doing what was best for this country based on his political beliefs. I completely disagreed, but I thought his heart was in the right place. I think now he's just trying to cover his ass.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
WSJ unamused with speech.
His signature “achievements”—we’re thinking here of ObamaCare and the Iran deal—were won by bullying doubters in his own party, shutting the other party out entirely, and, crucially, ignoring overwhelming public opposition. He’d have accomplished a lot more had the country been on his side, but had the country been on his side, there would be no need for fundamental transformation.
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FDR’s bouncy, feisty smile, Reagan’s geniality, Clinton’s one-of-the-boys grin, W’s good-natured earnestness are part of history; and Obama’s real “legacy” (aside from worldwide crisis) is that bitter sneer. His rudeness to political opponents has made a rotten political climate much worse.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Supreme Court deals with immigration.
More deficit.
More deficit.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Interesting. The fact that Congress makes the laws and the President enforces them is itself a form of check and balance. If the President doesn't agree with a law and elects not to enforce it that should be a legit thing that can happen.Malcolm wrote:Supreme Court deals with immigration.
However it's limited to choosing non-action over action. A President can't go and actively make things happen that are counter to what the law requires, so in that sense he's gone too far. He can choose not to enforce deportment, but he can't go giving out citizenship all willy-nilly.
"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
Article II of the Constitution sets out the duties of the president. It includes the requirement that the president “shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”
Then what does it mean to "execute" a law?
“Law-enforcement discretion does not confer the distinct power to deem unlawful conduct as lawful,” Keller added.
Is omission of enforcement tantamount to declaring something lawful?
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Is omission of enforcement tantamount to declaring something lawful?
I think no. Not from a legalistic standpoint, anyway.
I think the court will find that it's legit for a President to choose not to enforce as a check and balance. But the real danger is what that means in terms of Equal Protection under the 14th. Someone who is or has been prosecuted under a a law that is currently not being enforced can make a case for selective enforcement, which is illegal under the 14th.
So if he's going to elect not to enforce he has to make sure it's universal, not selective.
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"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
The jokes almost write themselves.
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Maher seemed both angry and dumbfounded that the President has not consented to prior invitations from the show.
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
“Sean Penn can get an interview with El Chapo, but I can’t get the President who talks to the lady with green lips,” Maher said, the latter reference to Obama’s live-streamed chat with Youtube celebrity GloZell Green, known for her outrageous lipstick choices.
That lady with the green lips has four times more viewers than you, Bill. Maybe if you had those sort of numbers someone would care.
"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
Oh, according to Wikipedia he peaked at 1.4 million viewers in August 2012. But that could be old info. I retract the "four times" but still assert that he's being pretty dismissive of someone who his fancy slickly-produced show is just on par with.
"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
Well, I'm sure the #s are pliable. 4 million could be on any platform for any # of days, versus 1.4M first-run showing, or some crap.TPRJones wrote:Oh, according to Wikipedia he peaked at 1.4 million viewers in August 2012. But that could be old info. I retract the "four times" but still assert that he's being pretty dismissive of someone who his fancy slickly-produced show is just on par with.
It's not me, it's someone else.