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How Obama Denied Conservative Judges a Vote
Front Page ^ | February 19, 2016 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 02/18/2016 11:08:40 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

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1 posted on 02/18/2016 11:08:41 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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2 posted on 02/18/2016 11:13:21 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, those senile senators Grassly, Hatch, Conyers and McConnell are planning to approve an Obama appointee to SCOTUS, defying their constituents and urinating on Scalia’s corpse, to please this Leninist monster.


3 posted on 02/18/2016 11:17:50 PM PST by ZULU (If you support Stokes or Obama, you are too stupid to own a gun.)
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To: ZULU

Yep...


4 posted on 02/18/2016 11:20:19 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: ZULU

“....That $100,000 gift from Trump to the Boehner-allied super PAC was twice as big as his next-biggest contributions. [Trump’s] given $50,000 .. to Karl Rove’s American Crossroads (2010) [and $50,000 to] the pro-Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) Kentuckians for Strong Leadership (2013)...

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2015/08/when-it-comes-to-contributions-trump-doesnt-play-in-the-big-leagues/

And then Trump gave McConnell’s PAC another $10,000 in Nov 2014.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mz-m0P3kd7kiWFGuJ3SNpzjwd8znn4wpbvldTJ9RCUQ/edit?pref=2&pli=1#gid=0


5 posted on 02/18/2016 11:38:06 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Was Trump a politician back then?
No?

I didn’t think so.

Which is why he has sense enough not to accept money from super pacs. He understands how to buy influence.

Trump has talked quite a bit about that.


6 posted on 02/18/2016 11:50:43 PM PST by PrairieLady2
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To: PrairieLady2

It’s telling to me how Trump’s fans carve out a special world for him. A world where he’s elevated and protected against any discussion or criticism for the political associations and alliances he’s had for years, yet everyone else is fair game.

Trump’s been involved in politics for a very long time - he cannot hide behind “businessman.”

But that can’t be looked at or vetted because for Trump to be what you want him to be, an “outsider” and champion against “special interests,” you must ignore those facts.


7 posted on 02/18/2016 11:59:28 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Trump is the other side of the obama coin. If trump is president, the grand experiment called the United States of America is finished, in disgrace.


8 posted on 02/19/2016 12:28:23 AM PST by exnavy (good gun control: two hands, one shot, one kill.)
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To: exnavy
Trump is a make believe person - a salesman with manufactured, targeted "principles."

Trump: ["Art of the Deal"]: The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people's fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That's why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular.

I call it truthful hyperbole. It's an innocent form of exaggeration - and a very effective form of promotion. - Source

9 posted on 02/19/2016 12:35:50 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Envy is the great leveler of life’s playing field. It is then the spirit of poneros that fuels and empowers socialism and its’ ever-destructive, death-wishing green-eyed revolutionaries like Marx, Stalin, Lenin, Alinsky, Obama, Loretta Lynch, etc. ad nauseum.


10 posted on 02/19/2016 12:46:30 AM PST by spirited irish
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; Tolik

Nailed it!

(where is Tolik, the past keeper of the Nailed It ping list?)


11 posted on 02/19/2016 12:53:51 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Hey, Donald, keep an even keel, will ya?)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The article was about Obpla and the SC, there was no need to twist it into a slam Trump.

This coming from a 100% Cruz voter BTW


12 posted on 02/19/2016 1:03:42 AM PST by Undecided 2012
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To: spirited irish
I've posted/linked this piece over the years but your comment made me think of it again. I see a lot of parallels to the mindset we're witnessing in both camps this election [the whole piece is worth reading]

June 2000, David Horowitz:

Hillary Clinton and "The Third Way" How America's First Lady of the Left Has Bamboozled Liberals and Conservatives Alike

".........[His supporters] see Clinton clearly as a flawed and often repellent human being. They see him as a lecher, a liar and a man who would destroy an innocent person in order to advance his own career. (This is, in fact, the climactic drama of the text). Yet through all the sordidness and lying, the personal ruthlessness and disorder, the idealistic missionaries faithfully follow and serve the leader.

They do it not because they are themselves corrupted through material rewards. The prospect of fame is not even what drives them. Think only of Harold Ickes, personally betrayed and brutally cast aside by Clinton, who nonetheless refused to turn on him, even after the betrayal. Instead, Ickes kept his own counsel and protected Clinton, biding his time and waiting for Hillary. Then joined her staff to manage her Senate campaign.

The idealistic missionaries in this true tale bite their tongues and betray their principles, rather than betray him. They do so because in Bill Clinton they see a necessary vehicle of their noble ambition and uplifting dreams. He, too, cares about social justice, about poor people and blacks (or so he makes them believe). They will serve him and lie for him and destroy for him, because he is the vessel of their hope.

Because Bill Clinton "cares," he is the vital connection to the power they need to accomplish the redemption. Because the keys to the state are within Clinton's grasp, he becomes in their eyes the only prospect for advancing the progressive cause. Therefore, they will sacrifice anything and everything-principle, friends, country-to make him succeed.

But Bill Clinton is not like those who worship him, corrupting himself and others for a higher cause. Unlike them, he betrays principles because he has none. He will even betray his country, but without the slightest need to betray it for something else-for an idea, a party, or a cause. He is a narcissist who sacrifices principle for power because his vision is so filled with himself that he cannot tell the difference.

But the idealists who serve him-the Stephanopoulos's, the Ickes's, the feminists, the progressives and Hillary Clinton-can tell the difference. Their cynicism flows from the very perception they have of right and wrong. They do it for higher ends. They do it for the progressive faith. They do it because they see themselves as having the power to redeem the world from evil. It is that terrifyingly exalted ambition that fuels their spiritual arrogance and justifies their sordid and, if necessary, criminal means.

And that is why they hate conservatives. They hate you because you are killers of their dream. Because you are defenders of a Constitution that thwarts their cause. They hate you because your "reactionary" commitment to individual rights, to a single standard and to a neutral and limited state obstructs their progressive designs. They hate you because you are believers in property and its rights as the cornerstones of prosperity and human freedom; because you do not see the market economy as a mere instrument for acquiring personal wealth and political war chests, to be overcome in the end by bureaucratic schemes.

Conservatives who think progressives are misinformed idealists will forever be blind-sided by the malice of the left-by the cynicism of those who pride themselves on principle, by the viciousness of those who champion sensitivity, by the intolerance of those who call themselves liberal, and by the ruthless disregard for the well-being of the downtrodden by those who preen themselves as social saints.".......

13 posted on 02/19/2016 1:09:41 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

We’re missing the problem. Since when did “we the people” give the Supreme Court so much power?


14 posted on 02/19/2016 1:11:39 AM PST by reggi
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To: Undecided 2012

Please take a minute and notice why I posted it.

Support for McConnell is used to discredit others’ conservatism, so why should Trump’s support for McConnell, Boehner and Rove be offensive and off limits?


15 posted on 02/19/2016 1:14:00 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: reggi
Feb 13, 2016: Ted Cruz's proposal to end lifetime tenure for justices likely to get scrutiny after Scalia's death

WASHINGTON - Ted Cruz has long proposed, as part of his presidential campaign, ending lifetime tenure for all Supreme Court justices.

Cruz proposed a constitutional amendment last June after the Supreme Court ruled to uphold the Affordable Care Act and legalize same-sex marriage nationwide, saying the court had become a source of "judicial tyranny."

Such ideas are likely to become a prominent part of the presidential campaign now that Justice Antonin Scalia has died, leaving a vacancy on the court during an election year.

"The court's hubris and thirst for power have reached unprecedented levels," wrote Cruz in the National Review [June 26, 2015], quoting Scalia multiple times. "And that calls for meaningful action, lest Congress be guilty of acquiescing to this assault on the rule of law."

Supreme Court justices currently serve for life after they are nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate, in part to shield them from popular opinion and to allow the judiciary to act as a check on other branches of government.

Cruz would require justices to appear on the ballot for retention elections every eight years "beginning with the second national election after his or her appointment," he wrote. If any justice failed to win both a majority of all voters and majorities in at least 25 states, the proposal would have stripped them of their seat and barred them from future Supreme Court terms.

The proposal was criticized from both sides of the aisle for its potential to politicize the bench, including within a Judiciary subcommittee chaired by Cruz.".....

16 posted on 02/19/2016 1:23:12 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: spirited irish

Nothing re: the issues. Really adds a dimension of diversion, redirection, etc, etc.


17 posted on 02/19/2016 1:26:09 AM PST by pilgrim
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Hillary Clinton: Racism Behind GOP Push to Block Obama Supreme Court Nominee

"Hillary Clinton broke out in a vicious coughing fit about two-thirds of the way through a speech she gave in Harlem on Tuesday.

As she struggled to get it under control, first with water and then eventually a cough drop, Clinton riffed, "Too much to say," as the crowded auditorium at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture cheered her on.

Clinton, speaking to an incredibly supportive audience in her home state, suggested that Republican opposition to President Obama's plan to appoint a Supreme Court justice to take the late Antonin Scalia's seat is predicated on the inherent racism that has made Obama the enemy for the past seven years of his administration.

"That's in keeping with what we've heard all along, isn't it? Many Republicans talk in coded, racial language about takers and losers. They demonize President Obama and encourage the ugliest impulses of the paranoid fringe. This kind of hatred and bigotry has no place in our politics or our country."....

18 posted on 02/19/2016 2:00:59 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

You would think our side would have raised this issue already visibly to the media and get ahead of the pressure to fold. What does it tell us that they haven’t?

They are blackmailed.


19 posted on 02/19/2016 2:33:30 AM PST by CincyRichieRich (Build the freakin' wall and hold against commie SCOTUS nominees.)
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To: CincyRichieRich

There was A LOT of screaming about Obama’s tactics - there are so many it’s hard to recall.

More on the Court:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420409/ted-cruz-supreme-court-constitutional-amendment


20 posted on 02/19/2016 2:48:13 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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