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And They Said Bush Was Clueless
The American Thinker ^ | May 27, 2009 | Christopher Chantrill

Posted on 05/27/2009 2:34:51 AM PDT by Scanian

The President mentioned the Rule of Law in a speech last week. At the National Archives about his policies on terrorism, he said:

From Europe to the Pacific, we've been the nation that has shut down torture chambers and replaced tyranny with the rule of law.

But the previous week the administration blew off the Rule of Law in the Chrysler bankruptcy. It stiffed the senior secured creditors in favor of a junior creditor, a labor union. That's probably unconstitutional, because the US Constitution calls for "uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States." You can see why the founding fathers might think uniform bankruptcy laws were a good thing. It would provide protection for creditors, never the most popular people in society, against a politically favored special interest like a labor union.

If you are not going to favor secured creditors over a politically powerful interest, why bother having laws, or a Rule of Law at all? Just let the unpopular people go to the wall. Tell them to hire a politician next time

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; bush

1 posted on 05/27/2009 2:34:51 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: Scanian

A different scenario but another recent and identical breach of the rule of law and the 14th Amendment was the announcement that Cuban-Americans but no one else would be granted the right to visit Cuba and to exercise other priveleges that all other Americans cannot.

Aside from the issue that most of us have no desire to visit Cuba, isn’t this an egregious and untenable violation of the Rule Of Law?

It’s literally no different than announcing that “Only Italian-Americans can buy red cars.”


2 posted on 05/27/2009 2:57:48 AM PDT by angkor
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To: Scanian

Considering that all these bailouts are themselves unconstitutional, it should be of no surprise that any of the actions following them are, as well, unconstitutional.


3 posted on 05/27/2009 3:03:08 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: Scanian

“And these are the people that called President Bush clueless!”

To imply that the liberals in charge are clueless implies that they are well intentioned but incompetent. I don’t think Obama is surprised and unhappy with the way things are going.

He is able to talk like an liberal and give an occasional nod to conservative principles but his actions are pure hard line Marxist radical.

There may be a lot of clueless people who put Obama and crew in power but the current leadership is far from clueless. They willingly serve the dark side.


4 posted on 05/27/2009 4:13:21 AM PDT by UnChained
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To: Scanian

bump


5 posted on 05/27/2009 5:01:58 AM PDT by lowbridge (It's not that liberals are ignorant, it's that they know so much that isn't so - Ronald Reagan)
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