Category Archives: big government

Autopen machines are unconstitutional

“the president would use an autopen machine that holds a pen and signs his actual signature [on the renewed Patriot Act]. ” the White House said.

Article 1, Section 7 of the United States says: “If he approve he shall sign it…” regarding the “Legislative Process”.  Clearly the Constitution intends the President to sign a bill, not have a machine sign Bills. Anything else is unconstitutional.

Yet another example where expediency has trumped the Constitution.  Opinions to the contrary are useful to mask the issue and create confusion.  The Constitution is clear here and treating it otherwise is disingenuous at best, and treasonous at worst.

This discussion is ignoring the problems with the Patriot Act itself.

Update 5/28: The rational that the President “authorized” it means that ANYONE could sign bills for the President if he “authorized” it.  A dog’s muddy footprint would work if it was authorized presumably.  What exactly is required to “authorize”?  A verbal statement – what about someone faking his voice?  A wink – or was that a twitch?  Something signed – oh wait, that is what we’re talking about?

The signature of the President IS the authorization for a Bill and it makes no sense to authorize the authorization. Just stating that makes it obvious how crazy the entire idea is.

As an attorney, all the legal memorandums that have been rolled out trying to justify the action are nothing more than ex post facto attempts to justify the autopen.

When President Obama comes home, he should sign the Bill in person and never use the autopen again.  The use of the autopen is a farce.

 

Remember:

The signature of the President IS the authorization for a Bill and it makes no sense to authorize the authorization.

Racist Democrat Jim Clyburn plays the race card

[T]he president’s problems are in large measure because of the color of his skin.  – Jim Clyburn, May, 25, 2011

Rep. Clyburn needs to understand that just because he is a racist and judges people based on the color of their skin, it doesn’t mean that most people do.  In fact most people don’t care about your skin color.  Get over it, the “racism” card could have played 40 or 50 years ago, but not any more.  Let’s look at his comment:

1. President Obama is elected, and then the racism starts?  Give it up, that is crazy.

2. According to the President, he is half-white, and felt like he was coming home to Ireland.  But so what.  President Obama’s skin color does not matter.  Or is Rep Clyburn embracing the “one drop” theory from two centuries ago?  One would hope he was more knowledgable and intelligent than that.

Most of President Obama’s critics base their criticism on policy.  There are few who are old-fashioned dinosaurs like Rep. Clyburn who believe that the color of someone’s skin is at all relevant, but most people realized how stupid that was decades ago.

Skin color is irrelevant just as eye color and hair color are.  The racist is the one hiding behind skin color to avoid legitimate criticism.

Is this “The New Civility” at work again?  When you can’t counter an argument you rely on scaring people and playing the race card.

It is great to note though that not a single member of the democrat controlled Senate voted for the Obama Budget proposal this year.  Are Obama’s troubles in the Senate due to the “color of his skin”?

“Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn’t even get out of committee.” ~ F. Lee Bailey

“Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn’t even get out of committee.” ~ F. Lee Bailey

 

True and sad.  For the last 90 years those in charge have betrayed the founding principals of the United States.

Of the 300 million Arabs in the Middle East and North Africa, only Israel’s Arab citizens enjoy real democratic rights.

“Of the 300 million Arabs in the Middle East and North Africa, only Israel’s Arab citizens
enjoy real democratic rights. Now, I want you to stop for a second and think about that.
Of those 300 million Arabs, less than one-half of 1 percent are truly free and they’re all
citizens of Israel. This startling fact reveals a basic truth: Israel is not what is wrong with
about the Middle East; Israel is what is right about the Middle East.”
~ Benjamin Netanyahu to joint session of the United States Congress, May 23, 2011

Californians already labor under sales-tax rates usually reserved for states without income taxes

“Californians already labor under sales-tax rates usually reserved for states without income taxes (at8.25% [9.25% in L.A. County], the nation’s highest) and sharply progressive income-tax rates usually reserved for states without sales taxes (the state’s top rate is 10.55%, and it doesn’t allow you to deduct your federal taxes, as some states with income taxes do).”

“California’s four most influential Democrats are [Jerry] Brown, U.S. Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who are 73, 77, 70 and 71, respectively: ‘No other state’s political ruling class is as gray, a terrific irony for youth-worshipping California.’ [State senate leader Bob] Dutton and other relatively anonymous Republican legislators can, by being constructively obdurate (“no”), shake the foundations of reactionary liberalism — the regulatory state that seemed so right in the septuagenarians’ formative years, a half-century ago.”

George Will

D.C. Police Abuse Man in Wheelchair

D.C. Police Abuse Man in Wheelchair by throwing him to the ground and then they leave him there. Where they afraid he’d run? Talk about out of control. Again these are not police officers, but pigs and should be fired.

The D.C. police issued a statement that included stating that “the patron resisted arrest which resulted in him falling out of his wheelchair.” Now if you watch the video, you will clearly see the police are lying, they guy did not “fall out” of his wheelchair, he was thrown out of the wheelchair.

Philadelphia Police, disgrace to the badge

If you listen to even the first 15 minutes of this tape you will hear the Philadelphia Police talk to a citizen like they are masters.  The Philadelphia Police involved in this should be fired and arrested.  They are a disgrace to the uniform.  There is no excuse for the police to threaten and hold a citizen at gunpoint while the citizen is performing a legal activity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-vUYeJXSrA

I am rarely disgusted by the police but these “officers” are the definition of the word “fascist.”  Disgraces to the badge, acting like common thugs, common criminals.  It is no surprise but the police here are unable to speak English without cursing. They make a mockery of their motto of “honor, service, and integrity” – they showed none of them.

The government always says that ignorance of the law is no excuse, that goes doubly when you are supposed to be enforcing it. Exercise your rights or lose them.

You can read more here:

http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/stossel/blog/2011/05/16/philly-police-harass-threaten-shoot-man-legally-carrying-gun

[Health care being a right] means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery. – Rand Paul

SEN. RAND PAUL (R-KY): “With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have realize what that implies. It’s not an abstraction. I’m a physician. That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery.”  May 12, 2011