Posted on 11/15/2016 7:02:07 PM PST by Olog-hai
You and me both, brother.
It’s no longer “our time is going to come”. We stand within the City Upon a Hill.
Honestly, I think we need to concentrate on that more than concentrating on those that would bring us down.
We won. It was a hard battle. It’s been years.
But it’s ours.
Let’s take it. Ignore those fighting for scraps in the background.
;)
Noticing all these hands across the aisle speeches/comments tend to come with a back handed slap.
Just to assure you and everyone else...because it’s been a long 8 years and I totally understand.
Obama won on a whim. Something I consider divine intervention, because we needed another Carter in order to have another Reagan.
Our opposition now is this. A bunch of screaming angry 4 year olds upset because they didn’t get their cookie before nap time.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/video-morons-react-to-trump-winning.html
Laugh. Enjoy. Be merry.
We have NO RIVALS.
Where’s the sarc tag?
A NATION in despair? The NATION that voted for Trump?
Hee hee. I would say it was more tongue-in-cheek than sarcasm. I actually agree with her in this one rare instance, even though you don`t need to be a wise Latina to figure out that fretting over Trump`s election is foolish. Common sense will do.
oolish
Isn’t this some kind of violation of some kind of code or something for a Supreme to venture forth like this?
To me it’s kind of scary, since the way they are situated, they are indeed “supreme”, and the scope and interpretaion of “law” has become malleable.
If I understand, Jefferson was conerned about certain DECISIONS, as you say. Here we have a Supreme entering the public fray in free discourse, which is entirely outside the scope of her charter. To me, this does not bode well.
In denying the right they usurp of exclusively explaining the constitution, I go further than you do, if I understand rightly your quotation from the Federalist, of an opinion that “the judiciary is the last resort in relation to the other departments of the government, but not in relation to the rights of the parties to the compact under which the judiciary is derived.”Whatever about Jefferson’s opinion may be correct or incorrect, he was certainly prescient.
If this opinion be sound, then indeed is our constitution a complete felo de se (suicide pact). For intending to establish three departments, coordinate and independent, that they might check and balance one another, it has given, according to this opinion, to one of them alone, the right to prescribe rules for the government of the others, and to that one too, which is unelected by and independent of the nation. […]
The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please. It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent is absolute also; in theory only, at first, while the spirit of the people is up, but in practice, as fast as that relaxes. Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law. …
I certainly agree with you. But further than that, when can you recall a Supreme Court Justice making public comments on current events, such as Sotomayer is doing? To me it is shocking, and it is something beyond the events that Jefferson commented upon, as far as I can see.
Yes they would just get Cruz out of that chamber.
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