Posted on 02/17/2010 9:33:55 AM PST by buzzyboop
Edited on 02/17/2010 9:40:35 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
A former federal prosecutor from western Pennsylvania is running for Congress.
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I hope Mary Beth has better luck than Melissa Hart had.
What’s her position on gun rights?
THAT determines support from me for ANY candidate.
No likey me guns?? No getty me vote...
Jason Altmire, one of Polosi’s Poodles?
She oversaw the program that got Tommy Chong thrown in jail.
Overall, she has quite the resume....for a Pitt law grad.
I haven’t lived in Pittsburgh forever, but she was the one who brought charges against Cyril Wecht.
She is going to be attacked relentlessly over the next few months. This will be a fun election.
She's reasonably good on guns. Not a grabber and open to persuasion.
The reason this country is in such a mess is there are too many lawyers turned politician. It is undeniable that most lawyers are greedy, unethical and liars. I will not vote for any lawyer who runs for a senate or house position.
Lawyers are taught that there is no “truth”—only what a clevor lawyer can get away with.
"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die. But the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world." Winston Churchill, 1899
If there is a Second Revolution,
here's a suggestion on where to start:
“She’s reasonably good on guns. Not a grabber and open to persuasion.”
Do you have anything to support that?
I have had only one conversation with her and it was just after 9/11 when she and others were explaining Homeland Security and the PATRIOT Act. Afterwards, I spoke to her about the 2nd and she brought up the nuclear weapons argument. I asked about ‘letters of marque and reprisal’. She had never heard the phrase and didn’t know what it was about. It may be outdated but to be totally unaware of it leads me to believe that she never even read the Constitution so I doubt that she has given it much thought.
There is another candidate in the race. Keith Rothfus seems to be more aware and more conservative. At this point, I am leaning his way but have not committed. He is also a lawyer and served in the Bush administration.
Judge, Sir, of my surprise when I found that a very great proportion of the assembly (a majority, I believe, of the members who attended) was composed of practitioners in the law. It was composed, not of distinguished magistrates, who had given pledges to their country of their science, prudence, and integrity; not of leading advocates, the glory of the bar; not of renowned professors in universities; — but for the far greater part, as it must in such a number, of the inferior, unlearned, mechanical, merely instrumental members of the profession. There were distinguished exceptions, but the general composition was of obscure provincial advocates, of stewards of petty local jurisdictions, country attornies, notaries, and the whole train of the ministers of municipal litigation, the fomenters and conductors of the petty war of village vexation. From the moment I read the list, I saw distinctly, and very nearly as it has happened, all that was to follow.The use of the term "natural landed interest of the country" in our age is probably best understood as those with property who are employed and pay taxes.The degree of estimation in which any profession is held becomes the standard of the estimation in which the professors hold themselves. Whatever the personal merits of many individual lawyers might have been, and in many it was undoubtedly very considerable, in that military kingdom no part of the profession had been much regarded except the highest of all, who often united to their professional offices great family splendor, and were invested with great power and authority. These certainly were highly respected, and even with no small degree of awe. The next rank was not much esteemed; the mechanical part was in a very low degree of repute.
Whenever the supreme authority is vested in a body so composed, it must evidently produce the consequences of supreme authority placed in the hands of men not taught habitually to respect themselves, who had no previous fortune in character at stake, who could not be expected to bear with moderation, or to conduct with discretion, a power which they themselves, more than any others, must be surprised to find in their hands. Who could flatter himself that these men, suddenly and, as it were, by enchantment snatched from the humblest rank of subordination, would not be intoxicated with their unprepared greatness? Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention and laborious, low, unprofitable chicane? Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understand but too well? It was not an event depending on chance or contingency. It was inevitable; it was necessary; it was planted in the nature of things. They must join (if their capacity did not permit them to lead) in any project which could procure to them a litigious constitution; which could lay open to them those innumerable lucrative jobs which follow in the train of all great convulsions and revolutions in the state, and particularly in all great and violent permutations of property. Was it to be expected that they would attend to the stability of property, whose existence had always depended upon whatever rendered property questionable, ambiguous, and insecure? Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation, but their disposition and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs, must remain the same.
Well! but these men were to be tempered and restrained by other descriptions, of more sober and more enlarged understandings. Were they then to be awed by the supereminent authority and awful dignity of a handful of country clowns who have seats in that assembly, some of whom are said not to be able to read and write, and by not a greater number of traders who, though somewhat more instructed and more conspicuous in the order of society, had never known anything beyond their counting house? No! Both these descriptions were more formed to be overborne and swayed by the intrigues and artifices of lawyers than to become their counterpoise. With such a dangerous disproportion, the whole must needs be governed by them. To the faculty of law was joined a pretty considerable proportion of the faculty of medicine. This faculty had not, any more than that of the law, possessed in France its just estimation. Its professors, therefore, must have the qualities of men not habituated to sentiments of dignity. But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sickbeds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators. Then came the dealers in stocks and funds, who must be eager, at any expense, to change their ideal paper wealth for the more solid substance of land. To these were joined men of other descriptions, from whom as little knowledge of, or attention to, the interests of a great state was to be expected, and as little regard to the stability of any institution; men formed to be instruments, not controls. Such in general was the composition of the Tiers Etat in the National Assembly, in which was scarcely to be perceived the slightest traces of what we call the natural landed interest of the country.
Churchill would be jailed by his own countrymen if he were alive today (and there were Brits in his own day that wished that fate upon him). I’m surprised the muslims and the dhimmis in England haven’t demanded the retroactive revocation of his Knighthood, the destruction of all monuments in his honour, and the destruction of his tomb. My how England has fallen from its once lofty perch. Pity.
It’s coming, give it a little bit of time.
“She’s reasonably good on guns. Not a grabber and open to persuasion...”
There is no “Reasonably good on guns”. One either SUPPORTs my Constitutional right or one does not.
There is no middle ground on this for me - if a politician does not understand that I have the absolute, complete, and total right to protect my family, my liberty, my property and my life, then I do NOT want them having ANY power over those precious gifts that God gave me.
“...Open to persuausion” is code for “no principles to stand on”. That to me means she can be persuaded from the enemy’s side as well.
Thank you. You said it better and more directly than I.
The enemy comes in many forms, but the WORST is the “moderate” who can be “persuaded.” Because we are so desperate (it seems) to automatically trust these professional vipers if they even REMOTELY agree with us (like Kirstin Hildebrand in NY for example) that we elect them, and then are surprised when they turn out to be exactly who they are.
Benedict Arnold was “persuaded”. So was Vidkun Quisling. And Judas.
I’m tired of politicians who can be persuaded. They either stand WITH us, or against us.
Union leader upset at Altmire’s “betrayal” by voting against Obamacare; is considering independent run for Congress.
Even without a liberal pro-labor Democrat running as an independent, Buchanan has an excellent chance of beating Altmire; if this guy runs as an independent and gets 10%, Altmire would have no chance.
I do salute Altmire’s vote against ObamaCare. I wish a few more had followed his example.
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