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To: dano1
But we had Supreme Court orders that told us we had to spend more money on education.

Okay. Add "coward" to the list of problems with Huckabee.

A real man would have said, "It's nice that a co-equal branch of government, the judiciary, wants more spending but I don't believe that mandating spending is part of the court's job description and so I therefore intend to ignore the Supreme Court."

18 posted on 11/02/2007 6:58:18 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard
A real man would have said, "It's nice that a co-equal branch of government, the judiciary, wants more spending but I don't believe that mandating spending is part of the court's job description and so I therefore intend to ignore the Supreme Court."

Has anyone done such a daring thing and gotten away with it since Andrew Jackson in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia? When the judiciary hands down a decision, we treat it with as much fear and awe as a divine revelation. The judiciary clearly merits its standing as greatest among the equal branches of government at least in terms of long-term policymaking. A consistent train of conservatives in the White House and the Senate, however, can mold even the most stubbornly liberal judiciary into a power that works for us sometimes.

46 posted on 11/02/2007 7:30:22 PM PDT by dufekin (Name the leader of our enemy: Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, terrorist dictator)
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