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  1. He has already demonstrated his respect for the court, during the SOTU address.

    He won’t care. Neither will Holder or Jarrett or Podesta.

    Neither will his acolytes in the press.

  2. Rush brought up something today. He pointed out that there was another ruling, 5 – 4, that has some pretty shocking implications. If I understand it correctly, the gist of it is that if a president flouts the Constitution often enough in a particular way, and the Congress doesn’t object strenuously enough, the president’s actions will become “constitutional” by default.

    Did I just see a huge old barn door swing wide open?

  3. I believe that Reid’s termination of the filibuster will be his signature action.

    It’s actually set the groundwork for rolling back Big Government.

    At all times prior (since 1933) the Conservatives have never had the super majority in the Senate and the control of the government. So, whatever had been passed to expand Big Government was impossible to roll back. Every attempt was crushed by the filibuster.

    &&&

    We are entering shallow seas.

    At any point ahead, the ship of state could be grounded.

    I would expect to see wholesale changes in Federal priorities under the pressure of the crisis to come.

    As Maliki how fast they can break.

  4. Bev, I’d like the hear an answer to that question myself. With intellectual property, rights holders can lose protections for their marks if they don’t vigorously attempt to defend them against illegal use. Similar laws exist in other areas of commercial law, I believe. But just how would Congress defend its powers when, for instance, in many instances it doesn’t have standing to sue the executive? Is a heated Congressional hearing or press conference sufficient or sternly worded letter? I can’t believe the founders would have intended that commonplace turf wars be settled, in each case, through impeachment proceedings. And could a Congress and White House controlled by a single party then willingly conspire to cede most of its powers to a dictatorial executive simply by not challenging any of the executive’s actions? That doesn’t sound right to me, but … not much sounds right to me these days, but it happens anyway.

  5. The unions are a way for the executive to create an independent funding source, via money laundering, that Congress cannot stop or regulate. Without Congress’ power of the purse and without the SC’s Constitution, the Executive branch becomes the most powerful in war time.

  6. When the donks lose the senate in November, Reid will just unilaterally reinstate the filibuster before January.

  7. Ah, I just clicked Bev’s link. So it seems the majority is saying that executives have gotten away with these fast and loose sorts of recess appointments for centuries (since the founding), so the fast and loose practices are now “tradition” and thus, can be judicially blessed with a few modifications. Not great, but less alarming than enabling one president to take adverse possession of powers ceded by a few ineffectual legislatures.

  8. “if Republicans get control of the Senate in 2014 and then the presidency in 2016, the Democrats may regret the end of the filibuster for appointments.”

    Not to worry, the fix is in.

    The GOP is doing all it can to pass amnesty for 11-33 million undocumented democrats and if they manage to pass it before the November elections, conservatives are going to have a hard time seeing the purpose to voting for RINOs.

    But the ‘cherry on top’ is widespread voter fraud. Turns out that;
    6.9 million multiple voters in 28 states, report finds

    “Some 6.9 million Americans are registered to vote in two or more states, according to a report obtained by Watchdog.org.

    “Our nation’s voter rolls are a mess,” says Catherine Engelbrecht, president of the election-watch group True The Vote.

    [harassed by six FBI domestic terrorism inquiries, an IRS visit, two IRS business audits, two IRS personal audits, and inspections of her equipment manufacturing company by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), the U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Texas environmental quality officials… not to mention illegal collusion between the IRS and Rep Elijah Cummings]

    “Sensible approaches to roll maintenance are fought tooth and nail by radical special interests who can use the duplicity in the system to their advantage,” she said.

    The latest interstate voter cross check tallied 6,951,484 overlapping voter registrations, and they’re just the tip of the iceberg.

    The cross-check program involves only 28 states and does not include the three largest: California, Texas and Florida.”

  9. Geoffrey Britain:

    I will go on record as saying I will be very surprised if they pass amnesty before November. That’s not to say it couldn’t happen; it could. But I do not think it will happen.

    What might happen is that they might pass a “first step” which will involve securing the border. And the Senate won’t pass it, so it will go nowhere.

    What I fear is that Obama will finesse them by passing amnesty by executive order. See this and also this. That is the threat: do it, or Obama will go it alone.

    He is out of control, and he and the Democrats see their chance to bypass the legislative process entirely and get what they want: their foolproof, permanent majority. They’re playing a very different game from the usual one.

  10. neo,

    That’s a very plausible scenario and one the GOP might covertly cooperate with, as it would put all the political heat for amnesty on Obama.

    At what point do Obama’s edicts and proclamations become a de facto ‘soft’ dictatorship? If voting is reduced to an outright, undeniable farce, what allegiance do we owe our former government? When majority rule becomes the tyranny of the majority, upon what basis can the claim that the American Republic still exists be made?

    Clearly that tipping point is not yet here but I fear we are getting perilously close to it. The ‘very different game’ Obama and the Democrats are playing has the potential to effectively destroy our nation’s social contract and if that happens, all bets are off.

  11. IMO BHO made a big mistake in encouraging hordes of diseased children and MS-13 gangbangers to crash the border. The House will never go for the “comprehensive” senate bill. Even the speaker knows that will not fly. Heck, California and Massachusetts towns don’t want to accept these children and dangerous teenagers in their towns.

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