Posted on 06/21/2014 6:13:59 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
“agenda” in the conventional sense used to be something you could quantify...
These days it is more accurate to state that these events fit into a pre-ordained “narrative” that passes for news and information...
The progressive “narrative” created and propagandized on every conceivable issue, or incident, in the modern 24 hour news cycle spotlight, has a pre-ordained social and political outcome...
The “narrative” supports the “agenda”...And the agenda is no big secret anymore...
Pick an issue...
Tea Party...(narrative) Racist, political opposition, right-wing terrorist, gridlock, shutdown, republican party split...
shooting incidents...gun control, ammo restrictions, assault rifle bans, gun buy backs, NRA terrorists, right-wing terrorist, candle light vigils, sadness, repeal he second amendment...
war in Iraq/Afghanistan...Bush’s fault...
Abortion...women’s rights, war on women, right wing terrorist...
I could go on and on, like you, and many others on issues...
Our arguments and solutions fall upon deaf ears...
So, what’s next???
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not getting on your case at all...I’m just pushing the envelope back a little further...
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Can you give me the short version?
With Nazi Germany, it took a world war to get rid of a lawless thug regime. And that was only after he invaded the sovereignty of other nations, because his own nation gave him a signed blank check and he first made laws that legalized his crimes before he did them. Sounds really familiar about now.
Maybe Egypt is what will save America, if she’s going to be saved. The Egyptians had the sense to see an enemy combatant in their place of leadership and throw out the bum and put him on trial.
It's for the Egyptians to overthrow their government periodically because there are no Social Security checks to get in the way. The citizens of this country have effectively been neutered by the creature comforts bestowed upon them by their own masters. Otto von Bismarck laid out the road map for this back in the 1870s in Germany.
My advice is to load up on popcorn and enjoy the show.
Will is Obama’s biggest cheerleader when it comes to law b remaking amnesty and uninformed immigration laws.
When Will gets his head on straight maybe we might start listening to him.
Meanwhile, maybe Will can take in some of those border crashing alien children into his $2 million home in the illegal alien free Chevy Chase neighborhood he lives in, free from the mess he so lovingly supports.
However, if he were to do so, then impeachment would come into play -- with undeniable justification.
George Will needs to understand: Obama is - metaphorically - a "black street gang member" dressed in an expensive suit.
Obama and his IRS, Homeland, and EPA fellow gang members show no respect for the law. Obama's actions against our systems of democracy are deliberate... and criminal. He's a disgrace.
George Will has been more GOPe than conservative in recent years but he’s right on the money with this piece.
That's he reason I enjoy reading Will. It's fun to bump into a word one hasn't used or hasn't read for a couple of years. And it's a refreshing change from the Key of C drivel we're exposed to from the journalists. The misuse of words is ubiquitous, not to mention the misspellings and typos.
I do enjoy Mark Twain as well, even if he had an penchant for prepubescent girls.
I agree. Yet how is a soldier able to not be at the mercy of the government? A sailor deployed in the Pacific was told by a judge that he will lose his daughter and/or be arrested for child abandonment if he doesn’t appear at a hearing in Michigan in 2 days. There is no way to get him there by then. He was given custody of his daughter after Child Protective Services took the child away from the mother for child abuse. He was on deployment so his current wife is taking care of the daughter, trying to hold everything together. And now he’s likely to be thrown in jail because the military can’t or won’t jump however high this hot-shot judge in Michigan says they have to jump. Why having his wife care for the daughter is any different than a parent putting a child in daycare all day, I don’t know. But how was this guy supposed to anticipate this mess when he signed up for the military?
I was listening to my Mom and Dad describing the Depression in their farming community. People literally survived off of the eggs and milk they could sell in exchange for other staples. And it was enough. Neighbors helped each other out. They knew who the drunks were and helped take care of the kids and missus, knowing they had no provider.
Right now property taxes alone would destroy every one of those families that pulled together then.
We’re in a huge mess. It’s taken a lot of years to get America this vulnerable. We all should have seen it coming yet here we are.
What’s the reset button?
Since the whole basis of 'Demism' is a rejection of morals and the elevation of emotionalism, the question is irrelevant.
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The lawless thugs in Congress can deny ANY justification. I managed to watch about 3 minutes of the IRS hearing yesterday before having to shut it off because it so infuriated me.
Some of the people in Congress should be put in a zoo so people could watch how animals behave. They have devolved beyond the point where they can/will recognize even BLATANT justification.
There’s no longer any such thing as “undeniable”. The concept doesn’t exist any more, because we’ve become a miserable post-modern mess where people make up their own realities every day as if truth doesn’t exist.
That's an easy one. You don't enlist in the armed forces for a nation whose government sends you halfway around the world where the U.S. has no sovereignty. Some of the best military units in the history of this country were the ones who answered to a local militia leader instead of a Federal government in Washington. I'll include the Green Mountain Boys of Vermont, Daniel Morgan's Virginia riflemen, the militia of Francis "the Swamp Fox" Morgan, and the Texas Rangers in that group. One of the defining characteristics of these groups is that most of them didn't give a damn who the colonial governor, the president, or the king was -- because they didn't answer to any of them.
This country was built by people who overthrew their own government when things got out of hand. Everything you've posted here is an inconsequential sob-story in comparison to that.
The only thing he should be established for is the position of ex-Speaker of the House.
FDR was finally brought to heel by the conservative southern Democrats whose support he needed during WWII. Thomas Fleming describes some of this in his ‘The New Dealer’s War’.
Thank you.
Would illegally adopting a child be impeachment material? Or changing one’s decision because they were threatened with exposure of illegally adopting a child?
How about Kagan falsifying information in previous judicial actions for Bill Clinton (that was her who did that, wasn’t it?)? I think that was in Stenberg v Carhart, where Kagan changed what the AMA said and submitted it to the judge. Am I remembering that right?
But I keep forgetting: conviction will never happen because it’s all just politics and DC is all about politicians covering other politician’s behinds. As long as the people are the ones who get the shaft, everybody goes along and gets along...
If people didn’t sign up for the US military they would be drafted. That’s how my Dad ended up on the front lines of Korea.
We wouldn’t be in places we didn’t belong if we actually obeyed the War Powers Act. WWII was the last military action where we actually declared war - lawfully, by a vote of Congress. So why haven’t we had to obey the law to declare war? Because nobody has standing to sue over the illegality of combat operations absent a declaration of war.
We have it pounded into us, over and over again, that the worst thing in the world would be to rebel against the government. We’re all supposed to accept whatever the system does. The only moral way to resist the government is through legal means, and if there aren’t any legal means then we’re just supposed to be good little people and don’t do anything rash.
It’s totally opposite what founded this country. The idea is that it’s NEVER right to fight. Literally fight. With guns.
As long as the government knows we have no will to fight, they will go as far as they can, knowing there is no real accountability, if there is no means for legal accountability to happen.
Maybe the question the nation needs to ask and answer is “WHEN is it not only OK but actually a moral imperative to fight with guns?” Maybe our failure to deal with that question has put our country in danger by making the politicians feel untouchable.
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