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Still with the racial quotas.
I fully expect Stephen Colbert to return to work in 2013 in high dudgeon: the most qualified applicant was, yet again, passed over because they had to give the job to a “minority.” Not much has changed in the Carolinas since Jesse Helms’ day, I guess.
Scott is an African-American, which makes his appointment a big deal, if you’re the shade of either John C. Calhoun or Strom Thurmond. He is also wingnuttier than DeMint ever thought of being, and DeMint thought of being pretty damned wingnutty.
Tim Scott thinks it’s an impeachable offense for the president to use any number of legal ways to discount the unconstitutional ‘debt ceiling.’ Even if he only lasts until the 2014 primary — dueling Sanfords, anyone? — he’ll be fun to watch. Alvin Greene should be so lucky!
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There’s always a use for that old Jesse Helms ‘racial quotas’ advertisement, thanks to today’s modern GOP.
I can’t quite figure out where utter loonies like this guy (who I’d never heard of before today), Allen West,and Herman Cain come from. Just weird.
Well, you know how some folks just want to join clubs that don’t want them…. it’s kinda like that. A form of narcissism. “Look at ME! Look at ME! I’m different; I’m better; I’m worthy.” Sad, really.
The debt ceiling is unconstitutional? Carney has said that Obama does not think that the 14th amendment means that—and, as we all know, Obama was not only a Harvard law school grad, but also a constitutional law lecturer (and mostly on racial issues, to which the 14th amendment was very pertinent) at one of the most prestigious universities in the nation.
Assuming that the President’s interpretation of the 14th amendment is correct, to which provision of the Constitution are you referring when you say that the debt ceiling is unconstitutional?
Or, if the issue is that you disagree with the President’s interpretation of the 14th amendment, please explain why.
Nikki Haley: Dingbat Extraordinaire and Governor of the S.C. Nervous Hospital.
Which begs the question: Just exactly how much comedy can a person take, anyway?
The funds have been appropriated by Congress and they can’t prevent them from being spent by any means — Nixon won a SCOTUS case about ‘impoundment’ of funds, which is what not raising the debt ceiling is. This is a relatively new law, introduced in the Gingrich Congress as another way to hamstring The Clenis, with no basis in law or constitutional theory.
If the funds have been appropriated, it is the Executive’s duty to spend them. If the debt ceiling interferes with that, it’s unconstitutional on its face.
Anyway, I don’t take the word of a ‘constitutional law professor’ who now, as President, finds a right to kill US citizens without trial, as determinative. King John gave that up when he signed the Magna Carta.