Posted on 11/24/2011 11:29:28 AM PST by JOHN W K
We are only a nation of laws when the lawmakers want us to be. Gov’t first passes so many laws that anybody can be in violation at any given time. The gov’t can decide when they want to enforce a law, but we can’t decide when we want to obey a law. Far too many immigration laws just aren’t enforced.
Yeah! Screw Newt!
...and Cain for those women he allegedly abused. The media woiuld never outright lie.
Principal first, even if it means 4 mores years of Obama and the death of our republic.
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I didn’t make any reference to Newt.
Gingrich is not a federalist. He believes he is smart enough to have all the answers and he tries to push them from the top down every chance he gets.
He also does not believe in the strict constructionist interpretation of the constitution. His shilling for Harriet Miers should tell you all you need to know about his future judicial appointments.
“He also does not believe in the strict constructionist interpretation of the constitution. His shilling for Harriet Miers should tell you all you need to know about his future judicial appointments.”
Oh, please.
“It’s very clear to me from talking with people in the White House that the president personally believes that Harriet Miers is very smart, works very hard, and is very conservative,” Gingrich said.
Never met with her. Gingrich was relying on his discussions with others he trusted. Presumably, his own picks would not be second hand. And he was not involved in the vetting process. But you knew that. Who was this from Rubin, The Compost’s George Will?
He endorsed Bush’s choice, not his choice. A little truth and critical thinking might go a long way while we are determined to turn over every rock to kill one of our own.
Hey GOP ... Newt is DAMAGED goods. Stop backing that loser or we are going to wind up with 4 more years of Zero
An otherwise president who gives us Amnesty is no better than electing Obama and a Democrat Congress. The results will be delayed by a couple of years but they will be the same, that is a one party Democrat/socialist state with micromanagement powers that would be the envy of the old Russian Communists.
An otherwise conservative president who gives us Amnesty is no better than electing Obama and a Democrat Congress. The results will be delayed by a couple of years but they will be the same, that is a one party Democrat/socialist state with micromanagement powers that would be the envy of the old Russian Communists.
We are definitely more a nation of lawyers than of laws.
Damn straight.
Newt has lost three votes in this household.
N O A M N E S T Y
Why would anyone want to reward criminals? This is like saying, well, your father robbed a bank, stole $500,000 and used that money to buy a house. But we won’t make you give the money back because it will hurt your family. So keep the house that was bought with stolen money. For the children.
Ginrich has always ignored the constitution.
To people like him, the constitution is a mere inconvenience.
Newt may be your own, but he is not “our own”
He has raped and bludgeoned us through his entire career.
“He has raped and bludgeoned us through his entire career.”
Hahahaha...smells of desperation, that crap does.
Why did the writer jump over “import persons”?
He is not ignoring the Constitution — the Constitution has already been ignored. He’s just trying to pick up the pieces. His plan is an effort at culling the herd.
My only proviso is: no ifs, ands or buts, fix the border first. Then we can afford to get humane.
Inhumane is continuing what we’re doing.
The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.
I am somewhat concerned that you would cite the above provision of our Constitution when the provision in question was addressed by Mr. Madison in Federalist No. 42 and he specifically explains its intention is ” to prohibit, after the year 1808, the importation of slaves, and to lay an intermediate duty of ten dollars per head, as a discouragement to such importations.”
The irrefutable fact is, the provision you cite was never intended by its authors, nor the States when ratifying the Constitution, to remotely suggest that immigration was to be regulated by the federal government.
JWK
"On every question of construction [of the Constitution], carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed."--Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, June 12, 1823, The Complete Jefferson, p. 322.
And HOW MANY OF THESE WERE KILLED BY THOSE WHO WERE ILLEGALLY FROM LATIN AMERICA AND ELSEWHERE ON OUR AMERICAN SOIL FOR OVER 10, 15, MAYBE 20 YEARS??!!
This is unsustainable. This is an invasion. There are countless graves and grieving American families to prove it. How DARE YOU SIR!?
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