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I would have to go along with what LindaWyeth said: What? Republicans read? They know how to do that?
But no, I don't think that republicans should read the constitution. I just don't see what good it would do. I mean, they read the Bible, but the only parts they remember are the parts where God and/or the Israelites smite, smote, and smat people here, there, and everywhere, and of course they remember every word of the eye-for-an-eye stuff where if someone puts out one of your eyes, you put out at least one if not two of theirs. And their absolute favorite parts of the Bible are the ones where God says that He hates these people, those people, and the other people, and wants good Christians to kill all of them. As for the parts of the bible that talk about compassion, loving your neighbor, helping those who are less fortunate, and so on, well, republicans don't remember any of that. They like the hard-core part of the Bible that talks about how God hates abortion and wants abortion doctors murdered, even though there is not one word in the Bible about abortion or abortion doctors. And republicans like the part of the Bible that talks about how God delights in war- the bloodier the better, even though there isn't anything in the Bible about God loving war. But republicans don't so much like the part of the Bible where Jesus says, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."
Now that I think about it, looking at how republicans talk and behave, I would have to say they don't talk or act like Christians at all. They talk and behave exactly like radical, jihadist fundamentalist Muslim terrorists.
Say, do you think it's possible that the republicans are not Americans at all, but rather are Muslim spies, sent to corrupt America and turn us into a Muslim terrorist state? I wonder if John Boehner was actually born in Iraq. I mean, it kind of makes sense, because you know Boehner always has that orange color to his skin and it's well-known that when Muslims want to hide the dark color of their skin, they spray this orange paint on themselves. And I don't like to say this, but I also have my suspicions about Mitch McConnel, because I mean, where does he disappear to four times a day, every day? Some people think he goes to the men's room to smoke dope, but now I'm wondering whether what everyone says about him is true- whether he has a Muslim prayer rug in his office and those four times a day when he disappears, he's getting down on his knees facing Mecca and praying to Allah to destroy America. I don't like saying these things, because I like Mitch McConnel, but he really does look like a Muslim, and everyone knows he was always hanging out with Muslim terrorists when he was in college. It just makes you wonder...
Republicans refuse to study the Constitution of the United States. They say they love the founding fathers and the Constitution. Yet they want to change the Constitution to permit torture. If they liked the founding fathers so much does that me they are in favor of slavery too . . . many of them owned slaves. Does that mean they are against suffrage for women . . . our founding fathers did not give women the vote. It took eighty years longer to give women the right to vote than it took to eliminate slavery. Republicans do not read the Constitution . . . they only understand the second amendment and the tenth amendment. They are hypocrites.
Philip Henderson
tha's why next nov. we have to unite and defeat them
YES Con GOP' leadership' will do anything to win . And I mean anything . Voter supression The GOP -and their hacks have sent letters giving the wrong date & place to vote. They want to Gut EPA FDA Wants corps to be able to dump more toxic chemicals into our water . Thats a fact GOP does not simply point things out Since 2007 Palen Bachman GOP Beck Hannity Rove Dick Armey, Cheney , Rush & 800 con talk radio shows and giant GOP mouthpiece Fox have demonized , lied,smears and vowed to BREAK OBAMA . since day one Can we get real for a change ? Racism ? yes There is loads of that too. Yes Stimulous DID create jobs But Fox GOP just lied so often folks now but it as fact Obama DID save GM Chrysler - 1 mil jobs there, DID make more stem cells available, got Bin laden another Bushs failed mission among many. Passed Wall St - health reforms Good start in right direction Obama did take on all Bush Cheneys failures, lies, debt, greed, deregulation policies that favor wealth and hurt average worker. Now we need to end all wars and rebuild the USA
dear 1961 arnie,
I think you're misinterpreting the war powers act. read the wiki on it.
You might find it equally as frustrating the California Assembly Democrats and Sacramento City Council and Sac County officials (Democrats all) who have been fighting to NOT make public their spending records, union agreements, pension payouts and have had to be forced by (chuckling) left-leaning reporters at the Sacramento Bee to aire these records. This is not a us/them thing. We have a bi-partisan problem of overstepping legal and Constitutional bounds.
Its a Travesty that our con judges say 'Money is speech " and Corps are persons' I am ready to give up hope for politics to become less crooked / less corrupt. Lobbyists aka crooks, Goldmans Wall ST- Big oil, GOP Tea Baggers run our gov't / our economy / our courts. / our wars . Generals are wrong just as in Nam . They make a career of making war . War profiters will do anything to keep gravy train coming in. Each day brings more depressing news of how GOP plans to break Obama while taking US economy. with him. Voter supression, lies, nothing shames them. Rush had Cheney on. Rush was fawning over him & told Cheney what a 'Great man he is' I wanted to gag. Cheenys book is # 1 .All the GOP right wingers-Baggers rushed out to buy his work of fiction. Thom Is it to late to reclaim our power ? Has it went on way too long ? 1980 Reaganomics deregulation,amnesty , debt- Bush wars, lies, corp cuts, global crash Paulson 700 billion TARP joke on taxpayers. We paid 100 cents on dollar for their ' JUNK Mortgages' WE were scammed screwed, duped, sold down the river ..Yet no one takes any responsibility and corp news media does not press them to do so. Are they all in cahoots ? I think so
The president under the war powers act can declare war for 90 days with out congress the same was true with bush. he is comander and cheif
Read? They can read? How do they do on comprehension? Can they spell comprehension? As a small-town journalist, I have had to fight for my right to tape government meetings, believe it or not. And I find it very important to do so, because otherwise government officials complain about being misquoted or quoted out of context. By the way, I, too, carry a copy of the Constitution with me in my pocketbook -- courtesy of the ACLU.
I wonder if this Court finding supporting access to officials doing official business will apply to union officials in closed door meetings with elected officials such as , say, Obama and his #1 vistitor to the Oval Office? Or city council members, state legislators and federal level representatives as well, in their own closed door meetings? Or are they somehow immune? Am I misreading this finding?
And yet there's more.
Yes, yes there is a moral and ethical arguement to be made for supporting the helpless against the oppressive and brutal. Hell, the arguement can be made a lot broader to include supporting the vulnerable working class against the oppression of the corporations, and so forth and so on.
Yet my point is a little more cynical than that. Social Security and Medicare -- indeed universal health care -- have a purely economic basis for their value.
Republicans like to pretend that there is only one valid theory that explains economic activity, and this theory is their version of the so-called Free Market. But a real economist will tell you that economics has become a lot broader and more comprehensive than just this one vapid theory. There is network economics, and evolutionary economics, and other branches of economics that teach us that there are some kinds of economic transactions that do not depend on narrow, short-term profit to be valid. The generalities are too complex to go into here, but I can give a short version as it applies to Social Security.
WIthout Social Security, the aged and retired have two choices. Sometimes, not even that. Many can try to get by on whatever they have managed to save during their working years (and with wages as they are today, good luck with that). They can scrimp and scrounge, and maybe get by, maybe die of starvation or desease, but their spending will be severely limited. The other choice is to live with their children, and thus draw on their children's income for their support, leaving that much less for the children to spend on discresionary consumption.
This is the way it used to be in America. For most of us, old age meant irrelevance, dependence, and deprevation.
Then came not only Social Security, but also union-provided retirement incomes, and retirement and old age were transformed from a dark, gloomy period of life, into what were called the "golden years."
The difference was, with a decent income, the retired could live in decent conditions. They could be active. They -- and incidently their children -- had the money for discretionary goods like vacation trips, appliances, cars, and more. And that's not just good for them. It's good for all of us, for the entire economy.
Because the fact is, consumption by the working/middle class -- not the hoarding of vast wealth by the upper 5% -- is the key driver of our economy. As we have seen recently, when enough people lose their jobs, their savings, their prospects, and have nothing to spend, the entire economy goes belly up. When we are all better off, we are all better off.
If that sounds like socialism, it's only because the listener's hearing and understanding are so limited.
Money is not a thing, it's an action. What most call money, whether coins or paper in your drawer, or numbers in some account statement, is just the potential to spend. It is only, however, when we spend it that money becomes a real thing. It's called an economy, and we need to get it back.