Posted on 05/18/2011 4:00:41 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
McCain To Seek To Filibuster Obama Nominee Who Says Constitution Grants Right to Welfare Wednesday, May 18, 2011 By Fred Lucas
(CNSNews.com) – The nomination by President Barack Obama of Goodwin Liu to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals should not come to the Senate floor for a vote on Thursday, according to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), whose spokesperson said the senator would “seek to filibuster the nomination.”
McCain is a leading member of the “Gang of 14,” which in a 2005 Senate deal preserved the filibuster in judicial nomination debates.
Goodwin Liu, among other controversial positions, has written that the Constitution grants the right to government-funded health insurance, child care, public transportation and job training.
Obama nominated Liu, an associate dean at the University of California-Berkley School of Law and former chairman of the liberal American Constitution Society, in February 2010. But Senate GOP threats of a filibuster last year stopped the nomination from coming to the floor after it twice passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on a party-line vote.
On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) filed a motion for cloture, which would cut off debate on the nomination and move it to the Senate floor for an up or down vote. The cloture vote could occur at noon on Thursday and needs 60 votes to pass.
But McCain believes the vote should be blocked.
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John gets one right.
Liberals who try to equate “promote the general welfare” with creating a welfare state, are as ignorant and offensive (on a legal level) as Fred Phelps saying that since the bible says to “burn faggots” it is referring to gay people.
bttt
The gutless rino should have done this with the last two supreme court nominees.
The Constitution is meaningless to everyone currently in the Senate...and McCain!? This is almost laughable.
If he wasn't such a gutless wonder and quisling, he'd have been making the last two Supreme Court nominations.
liberals think the constitution guarantees Americans the right to welfare and abortion but not the right to keep and bear arms. they’re a curse on this country.
What do you say to a lawyer with an IQ of 35?
“Good morning, Your Honor!”
There is no way in hell anyone can use a statement from the preamble to set law. The preamble is the general mission statement of the Constitution and holds no force of law. The articles define the law.
If this nomination were publicized to the sleeping sheep, it would crumble in minutes. Of course, the sleeping sheep are never informed of such things.
Sorry, I gotta call you on that. Sen Jim DeMint (R-SC) and some others would strongly disagree with you. And they've got the creds to do it.
Too true.
“John gets one right.”
Even a broken clock is right twice a day
This is good news, we’ll take a filibuster any way we can get it.
I hope you are right, maybe there IS an exception that proves the rule. Does he refuse to vote, or vote against, education bills due to their unconstitutionality? Or does he support Republican education bills?
granted. but my point is that even using the phrase “general welfare” shows an ignorance of language and the nuances of language as it was used centuries ago, just as the Phelps’s try to use modern interpretation of ancient language (and pitfalls of translation) to justify their hate.
Of course in both cases, they themselves may not be ignorant, but are counting on the ignorance of those they preach to.
There has been another press on by liberals and the teacher’s union to brainwash kids into thinking the Constitution guarantees a “Freedom from Want.” I saw that in the middle of an otherwise very patriotic Veteran’s Day celebration at my kid’s school. I would have been more concerned if i hadn’t heard the name of “God” spoken 5 times in the period of an hour.
If that’s the way they define general welfare then I think common defense means we should all have the same weapons as the military.
This nominee must be extremely bad if even McCain is going to filibuster the nomination.
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