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SidneyCarton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:08 PM Original message |
Out of idle curiosity, does anyone actually read the Constitution anymore? |
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TheWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:12 PM Response to Original message |
1. What that quaint piece of Goddamn Paper with a buncha rules on it? |
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SidneyCarton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:15 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. I took a PoliSci class a few years ago dealing with Congress. |
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TheWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 05:25 PM Response to Reply #4 |
54. And maybe that's why in the end the dumbed down, can't be bothered to read or focus, or THINK past a |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:12 PM Response to Original message |
2. The desperate and overreaching stupid solution to a complex problem is scary as hell |
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SidneyCarton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:16 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Some days I think that many here only wanted a Left-wing version of Bush. |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:53 PM Response to Reply #6 |
17. See my post at 15. If Obama was going to let Congress prepare the bill, |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:14 PM Response to Original message |
3. The Constitution means what the SCOTUS says it means. Little point in reading it |
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SidneyCarton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:36 PM Response to Reply #3 |
13. Considering the ideological makeup of the current court... |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:40 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. I will answer that question with the most fundamental legal quesiton: cui bono? |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:16 PM Response to Original message |
5. What page is Executive Ordered Telecom Spying on? |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:23 PM Response to Original message |
7. What makes you think you understand constitutionality? |
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SidneyCarton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:36 PM Response to Reply #7 |
12. I know enough to know that totally bypassing one branch of the government |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:48 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. My point is: Where is your controlling case law? |
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SidneyCarton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:57 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Do you honestly think Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, et. al. will back this? |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 04:36 PM Response to Reply #16 |
45. Clinton v. City of New York |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-10-09 01:28 AM Response to Reply #45 |
57. Thank you! |
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knixphan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:26 PM Response to Original message |
8. I carry one like DK. |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:29 PM Response to Original message |
9. i agree with you on all counts but where did this come from? |
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SidneyCarton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:34 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. There is a thread that is fantasizing about his doing this in his speech tonight. |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 04:38 PM Response to Reply #9 |
47. yes there is and even worse is it had 60 recs at one point. |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:32 PM Response to Original message |
10. Nope, we stopped using the constitution on 9/12/2001. |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:47 PM Response to Original message |
15. No one believes that Obama could just order Medicare for all. |
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SidneyCarton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:58 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. There is a thread with 50+ recs that advocates precisely what you argue |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 02:04 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. I do agree that Obama could have gotten the support in Congress |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 02:06 PM Response to Reply #21 |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 02:29 PM Response to Reply #22 |
26. Not this crap again.... |
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SidneyCarton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 02:37 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Indeed they can. |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 03:24 PM Response to Reply #27 |
31. And yet you compared a fellow DUer to Limbaugh. |
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SidneyCarton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 03:58 PM Response to Reply #31 |
37. I said that there was a seat next to Mr. Limbaugh |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 04:37 PM Response to Reply #37 |
46. And you can sit between Adolf Hitler and Pol Pot. |
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SidneyCarton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 04:50 PM Response to Reply #46 |
49. Fair enough, as a historian, I admit that the opportunity to sit between two "monsters" |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 04:58 PM Response to Reply #49 |
51. Ah, disingenuity at its finest! Never admit to a mistake! |
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SidneyCarton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 05:09 PM Response to Reply #51 |
52. I make mistakes quite often, not putting you on ignore three posts ago may have been one. |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 05:22 PM Response to Reply #52 |
53. See? Not so hard, was it? Awfully dramatic, but not that painful. |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 03:30 PM Response to Reply #19 |
32. Never, never make the mistake |
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Davis_X_Machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 01:59 PM Response to Reply #15 |
20. "No one believes that Obama could just order Medicare for all." |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 03:32 PM Response to Reply #20 |
33. Why not? |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 04:49 PM Response to Reply #33 |
48. I think you are missing the point. |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 06:28 PM Response to Reply #48 |
55. Ahhh....... |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 04:26 PM Response to Reply #15 |
41. If Obama had hired you on as advisor, this might be relevant |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 04:31 PM Response to Reply #15 |
43. You might want to look again. n/t |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 02:10 PM Response to Original message |
23. Here's your chance |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
24. Every 4th of July, I read the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 02:23 PM Response to Original message |
25. Got a copy I carry with me. nt |
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RoccoR5955 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 03:03 PM Response to Original message |
28. I carry a copy of the US Constitution AND the Declaration of Independance |
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Pangolin2 (560 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 04:22 PM Response to Reply #28 |
40. Could I get your approval to keep my replica flag on my Toyota Tacoma |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 04:51 PM Response to Reply #28 |
50. You bought my flag? Somehow I didn't get the check. Please resend a check for $285,000 and I will |
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RoccoR5955 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 03:05 PM Response to Original message |
29. The only way to get what we want is to take it to the streets! |
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Xenotime (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 03:06 PM Response to Original message |
30. It's a document of negative liberties. |
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Rosco T. (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 03:34 PM Response to Original message |
34. SIMPLE solution to that issue you are overlooking.... |
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onenote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 03:56 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. actually, no |
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SidneyCarton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 04:00 PM Response to Reply #34 |
39. And when Congress shitcans the President's proposal? |
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Snotcicles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 03:39 PM Response to Original message |
35. To answer your question, They read, The Constit while it's on it's way to their rectum. nt |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
38. That was pointed out several times in the original thread. |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 04:28 PM Response to Original message |
42. Boosh and Darth counted on the fact most Americans know little about it |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 04:34 PM Response to Original message |
44. Some do. Most don't. |
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katty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-09-09 07:26 PM Response to Original message |
56. i have it - and refer to it on my phone |
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