Posted on 02/25/2011 1:36:45 PM PST by Red Badger
IMO if Newt has said this, it’s because there was a backroom concensus for him to say it.
If you’re going to wait for a “good media environment”, you and everyone else reading FR will die of old age.
A good media environment has to be created by fighting the commie bastards.
Obama continually puts himself on the other side of the law if he believes he can get away with it. Obama continually makes the case for his impeachment.
Thanks for the info I was going by my memory, such as it is, of what someone on radio said. Whoever it was also referred to Ted Olson as SG having to defend McCain-Feingold although he personally no doubt found the law offensive, if not unconstitutional.
The point being, the SG is supposed to defend laws passed/signed, regardless of what the AG or SG thinks of it.
Did you notice they (DOJ) also have dropped their defense of Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and others? DOJ is being treated like a private law firm that can pick and choose its clients and cases. I don’t THINK that’s its role.
If they start the impeachment process, they need to make a long, long list.
Might as well include the non-eligible part too.
Better watch your step, more people might start to realize you’re an 0bama toadying suckup troll.
I'm pretty sure not any sooner than people realize you're a brain-dead, toothless, retard moron.
Now, run along along. Adults are talking here.
Well, what they think of it personally, yes. But, we're talking about policy sent down from the Executive. If the AG doesn't like the policy of non-defense, he can quit. The same goes for the SG. And, if the President says the law will be defended, and the SG or AG have a problem with it, again, they can quit.
But, as I mentioned to another poster, current Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, while working in GHW Bush's SG office, was the DoJ attorney who filed the brief (at the direction of Bush and the AG) declining to defend the government in Metro Broadcasting v. FCC. More can be read on that case here.
I would add that it is extraordinarily unusual to not defend a law. In the nearly 30 years I have been a lawyer, I can only think of three instances (besides DOMA) when it's happened, although I suppose there could be more that I'm unaware of.
No kidding. This one is going nowhere fast.
“Does Newt actually think this PC country would impeach the first real black president?”
The current president is descended from the Africans who enslaved and sold the other Africans. His support is not universal, not even in what he considers his own community. Look at November of 2010.
And Gingrich is in a better position than most to know whereof he speaks on impeachment, then.
“There’s a problem... “
I paused on those two words in the preview to post, then went with erring on the side of optimism. The whole world can see for themselves what Democrats are about when an impeachment from the House comes before them to decide - there are far more Senators from their party up for election in 2012.
Plenty of Democrats have been switching to Republican as it is now anyway.
You’re funny! Everyone except a few people who haven’t run into you much know what you are.
You wish that, I’m sure.
“If you’re going to wait for a “good media environment”, you and everyone else reading FR will die of old age.
A good media environment has to be created by fighting the commie bastards.”
That’s the truth. Nobody ever said it was going to be easy, but who just does the things that are easy?
It would be more against our Constitution to defend a law that is Unconstitutional.
Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
The only reason we’re in this fix is because too many are cowards.
Note my tagline.
Out, out! Damn spot!......
“I thin you will be disappointed, because if they were going to do anything on Obamacare they would have done it already”
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You might be right but I hope you’re not. I think The SCOTUS is letting it go the normal process of working its way through the lower Fed and appellate courts.
Biden would at least be our kind of crazy.
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