"Guns kill people. They fly around harming children. That's why we need to ban them"
Posted on 05/28/2009 6:19:54 PM PDT by firebrand
Egads! She infringed upon my 2nd amendment rights by just existing.
I should have bought stock in firearm manufacturers before Obama was elected. (sigh. hindsight...)
I thought the 10th and 14th amendments did that.
I vote that the 16th ammendment doesn't apply in my state! How would THAT be Lord Zer0? Hey! I like judge SoSo's judicial philosophy.
Unless Republicans keep shedding light on these facts, Obama will be well on his way to packing the supreme court with marxists. But I don’t think an informed public would support this bitch if they knew what here agenda was.
The US constitution is a limit on federal power. The first draft of the first amendment was rejected because it was thought to be in conflict with the then established state churches, which the founders did not want to interfere with. Since Lincoln expanded the power of the central/federal government and displaced states rights, the equal protections clause has been abused, much like the commerce clause, to expand the reach of the federal government.
It is doubtful that Sohomeyer is a federalist. She is most likely trying to be clever and signal that when it comes to limiting the second amendment, it may be advantageous for the federal government to respect states rights.
"Guns kill people. They fly around harming children. That's why we need to ban them"
Nonsense. The division line is between 14A administrative status and the natural person of the pre-14A Constitution. And while "incorporation" is necessary for the former, the States are uniformly restricted by the pre-14A application of the Ninth & Tenth Amendments.
If they don’t have to obey the 2nd htey don’t have to obey ANY of them.
Let’s see them take the vote away from minorities and women. “We don’t have to obey those amendments either.” Now THAT would be fun to watch.
Obama has hung with Communists--Ayers, Frank Marshall Davis, and others; however, his form of govt. is more Fascist than Socialist or Communist at this point--Fascism allows for some private ownership but dictates policy--Socialism, Communism, and Fascism are all statist and support dictators.. He likens himself to FDR, Lincoln and others, but in truth he is more like Adolph than anyone we ever had.
Hitler was a community organizer who started a community based orgn.(brown shirts) who began by turning out the vote for him when he took advantage of the post WWI chaos. They later continued by knocking on doors, breaking windows, painting anti Jew slogans on buildings and signs, and generally frightening the populace. Later, they helped cart people away.
Sotomayor is not a towering brain, per many who have worked with her. So Bush 1 apointed her, but did not pick her. At the time, NY had a Repub and a Dem senator and the Dem Senator proposed her name. She had a good degree and was a minority woman. Her years on the bench have not been distinguished, and over half the opinions she wrote herself have been overturned by a higher court.
Repubs need to make the fight ideological and philosophical, not personal, although her snide statements about white men tells me she is racist.
Obama voted against John Roberts, who is a towering intellect. The Dems just could not get him to answer the eway they wanted.
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Obama & Co. thought they had the GOP in a corner on this nomination. Combine this with her racist comments and the Ricci v. Destefano decision. This might blow up in their faces. 27 Senate rats voted for concealed carry rights in national parks.
Forget the stock. Just get the hardware.
If state compliance with the 2nd Amendment is optional...then so is compliance with the 13th...
Stupid is as stupid does. I read that back in the 1800’s it was settled that the 10 amdts. DO apply to the states. Get yer head outa yer axx, lady.
"It is settled law, however, that the Second Amendment applies ... to limitations the federal government seeks to impose on this right. It is a limitation ... upon the power of Congress and the national government ... ."
Push this point hard enough, and her supporters should abandon her in droves.
Check! :-)
This is what the GOP is going to get every single time it panders to minorities. The Bush family set the standard for pandering to minorities and it has been disastrous for European-Americans. Pandering gives the gloss of respectablity to such racist anti-European groups as LaRacist/LaRaza. Pandering rewards incompetent ingrates like Colin Powell who are then compelled to prove their “street-cred” by trashing the very people who promoted them. The clueless elitists who run the GOP have no idea how pathetic their efforts appear to minorities. Instead of groveling for a few lousy votes, the GOP would have been better off keeping their integrity and being a party of principle that people could respect. Instead, the GOP chose to be pathetic groveling whiners.
The others pinged: check out the boldfaced paragraph in the original post. I posted this article from CNS even though most of the information had already appeared, because it pointed out the problem, and made me aware that Sotomayor's January decision might be the exact reason the Zero appointed her: He must want her on the Court precisely in case this comes up.
Her racism and sexism are getting all the attention, but this seems to me to be more important.
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