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Obama -- and FDR -- set Precedent for Trump's One-Man Rule
Townhall.com ^ | January 7, 2016 | Jonah Goldberg

Posted on 01/07/2016 5:08:13 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 01/07/2016 5:08:13 AM PST by Kaslin
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Poor Jonah. I think he is starting to realize, Jeb ain’t gonna be president, so now he must do all he can to elect Hillary.
Sad to watch pundits, I liked stumble so bad.


2 posted on 01/07/2016 5:11:57 AM PST by Tupelo (Honest men go to Washington, but honest men do not stay in Washington.)
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3 posted on 01/07/2016 5:12:36 AM PST by DoughtyOne ((It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.))
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How many Supreme Court justices will be replaced over the next 16 years of the Trump and Cruz administrations?


4 posted on 01/07/2016 5:13:59 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (With Trump & Cruz, America can't lose!)
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I wasn’t aware Trump ever one man ruled anyone or plans to.

Get over it Jonah. We have been one man destroyed by Bushs, Clintons and Obama for far too long now.

What has happened is a result of years of failed and anti American citizen policies. Failure should not be rewarded with victory.

The party is over.


5 posted on 01/07/2016 5:17:47 AM PST by dforest
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To: Kaslin

Republicans like to accuse Trump of being what Obama is. Somehow it takes the focus off of the fact that they, GOP, have been complicit in the president’s lawlessness every step of the way.

People don’t back Trump because they want a dictator, they back Trump because they are tired of being pushed around by an out of control government. And they see quite rightly that GOP has been Obama’s rubber-stamp, cheerfully signing off on Obama’s decrees.

Sorry, Jonah, Trump isn’t Obama. GOP is Obama. Obama couldn’t exist without GOP complicity.


6 posted on 01/07/2016 5:18:12 AM PST by marron
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Really sad and pathetic ad hominen attack

There is nothing “Post Constitutional” about Trump. Past time the DC Bubble heads learn even the most basic facts about Immigration and Law. Nothing Trump has purposed is out side CURRENT law.

7 posted on 01/07/2016 5:19:15 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: Cowboy Bob

I think it’s a huge stretch to say Trump would operate outside of the constitution. He gives bombastic speeches and definitely has over the top rhetoric but, he’s just launching the first salvo in a negotiation for his positions. In the end, he’ll work out a deal with congress that is both reasonable and legal on all matters of import (although undoing any executive action by Obama really is just a matter of writing a new executive action. That’s how executive actions work). In any case, the Donald is just starting from an extreme position....that’s what negotiators do.


8 posted on 01/07/2016 5:20:53 AM PST by Mustangman (The GOP)
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To: marron; DoughtyOne; nopardons; Amntn; MinuteGal; flaglady47; Duchess47; hoosiermama

Excellent post/rebuttal to the Trump disdaining Goldberg and Townhall....needs repeating....

Republicans like to accuse Trump of being what Obama is. Somehow it takes the focus off of the fact that they, GOP, have been complicit in the president’s lawlessness every step of the way.

People don’t back Trump because they want a dictator, they back Trump because they are tired of being pushed around by an out of control government. And they see quite rightly that GOP has been Obama’s rubber-stamp, cheerfully signing off on Obama’s decrees.

Sorry, Jonah, Trump isn’t Obama. GOP is Obama. Obama couldn’t exist without GOP complicity.


9 posted on 01/07/2016 5:22:46 AM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: Tupelo

No Hillary will only be elected if people you will sit at home if they they don’t like the republican nominee. That is why that arrogant POS was reelected. The only way we can make sure that she is not elected, is to unite and stand behind the nominee. Not sit the general election out, or write in some third party member in, who has 0 chances of winning the election


10 posted on 01/07/2016 5:24:40 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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Two statements about Trump made by Goldberg that are puzzling:

“If he believes something is worth doing, he says he will do it.He makes little effort to explain how he will get Congress to agree”

How does that make him different from any other presidential candidate in the nation’s history, and do politicians usually get down into the weeds of policy implementation/agreement with Congress during a campaign when no one knows what Congress will even look like? No candidate in our nation’s history has chosen to diminish himself by avowing: “I will do thus and such if I am permitted to do thus and such by Congress.” You talk about a stand-up guy, action oriented guy. That would make Lindsay Graham look like Alexander the Great.

And this gem:

“It seems a sure bet that a President Trump would follow FDR’s — and Obama’s — example in doing whatever he could get away with.”

That is the description of every president we have ever had, except George Washington. Goldberg just chooses to smear it with repulsive examples.


11 posted on 01/07/2016 5:26:45 AM PST by odawg
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Nor could Obama exist without massive numbers of “conservatives” sitting home or voting for someone other that the Republican candidate twice. Which BTW this is the same action being urged once again:

“Here he comes ...totalitarian Socialist Bernie Saunders, the next President of the place formerly known as the USA”

He’s the man who will mobilize “true” conservatives to vote finally ... of course, voting under a totalitarian rule means only one party, if that, so what these people imagine ...?


12 posted on 01/07/2016 5:40:00 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Jane Long

I think back to 2008 & 2012 and for the life of me, I can’t remember 1% of the panic about the prospect for an Obama presidency as I see for the prospect of a Trump presidency.

One guy was pro America and one was decidedly anti America.

One guy was a proven leader and the other wasn’t.

One guy had remarkable proven abilities and accomplishments. The other had nothing to point to. Nothing!

So who did these yahoos line up against?

There is something VERY strange going on here.

Is it his race?

Is it his pro America stance?

Is it his actual ability that scares them?

Why is there almost universal panic about the Trump candidacy other than the U. S. Citizens who love him?

Are there that many diehard globalists out there?

Strange days...

Well, they’re coming to an end assholes!


13 posted on 01/07/2016 5:46:40 AM PST by DoughtyOne ((It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.))
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To: marron

Well said!


14 posted on 01/07/2016 5:48:34 AM PST by Lopeover (2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States)
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To: MNJohnnie

Thank you for posting this!


15 posted on 01/07/2016 5:50:32 AM PST by Lopeover (2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States)
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To: Kaslin

Are you seriously saying, “Vote Republican because they are Republican?” Shudder!!
Not to worry, I will vote, but I sure as hell ain’t gonna vote for any open border, quasi-socialist GOPe candidate. After all, there will be others on the ballot. Libertarian party, Constitutional Party for starters.


16 posted on 01/07/2016 5:54:02 AM PST by Tupelo (Honest men go to Washington, but honest men do not stay in Washington.)
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To: DoughtyOne

It’s strange....we’ve been fighting the GOPe for years, since they’re complicit in 0’s destructive agenda....and, here we have folks fighting Trump - the one guy who is taking it to 0/GOPe - being treated worse than 0bie.


17 posted on 01/07/2016 5:56:11 AM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: DoughtyOne

Simple. For the 1st time in decades the Establishment face the prospect of a President they do not control.


18 posted on 01/07/2016 6:08:26 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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and it is an America where trust in the nation's elites, whose skills are credentialed but unproven, are at historic lows."

Those skills are non existent, not unproven.

19 posted on 01/07/2016 6:09:03 AM PST by pgkdan (But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Tupelo

Jonah has been throwing a temper tantrum and peeing his pants over Trump for six months now. His spiel is getting a little tiresome.


20 posted on 01/07/2016 6:11:23 AM PST by pgkdan (But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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