Saturday, October 8, 2011
Occupy Atlanta Silences Liberal Civil Rights Hero John Lewis!
Putting aside that a liberal civil rights hero gets silenced by this nutjob crowd, can someone please tell me what the hell is up with all of this crazy chanting?
The Tea Party rallies never came close to displaying the level of mental illness of these Occupy nutjobs around the country, yet the media went after the Tea Party at every opportunity they could treating them like they were the crazies. If the Tea Party ever acted in an even slightly similar fashion, including clashing with guards in front of public museums and more, to these wackos you can bet the media would be taking a drastically different approach in their reporting.
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Friday, October 7, 2011
John Boehner To DOJ: Defend DOMA Or We May Cut Funding
House Speaker John Boehner reiterated at the Value Voters Summiet that he is committed to the Defense of Marriage Act passed by Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton:
Tweet“We’re going to take the money away from the Justice Department, who’s supposed to enforce it, and we’ll use it to enforce the law,” Boehner told the conservative Value Voters Summit. …
Boehner is engaged in an ongoing dispute with Attorney General Eric Holder over his refusal to defend in court the Defense of Marriage Act. President Obama has taken the stance that the law is unconstitutional. While the Justice Department usually defends laws passed by Congress against legal challenges, the Obama administration has stopped defending DOMA while Democrats work to repeal the law.
In March, Boehner announced that if Obama wouldn’t defend DOMA, he would, hiring a private law firm to defend it on behalf of the House.
Rob Natelson: Obama Jobs Bill Defies Both The Constitution And The Supreme Court
Constitutional scholar Rob Natelson writes that "a section located deep in President Obama’s proposed 'American Jobs Act' would suspend part of the U.S. Constitution. The proposed law would violate not only the Constitution’s actual meaning, but even the watered-down version of the Constitution now applied by the U.S. Supreme Court." See http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2011/10/02/obama-jobs-bill-defies-both-the-constitution-and-the-supreme-court/ to read the full article exposing this blatant disregard for the United States Constitution. Tweet
Thursday, October 6, 2011
John Boehner: "Mr. President, why have you given up on the country and decided to campaign full-time?"
John Boehner on his own frustration with the president:
Tweet“Mr. President, why have you given up on the country and decided to campaign full-time?” Boehner asked at the Washington Ideas Forum, at the same time that the president was holding his own press conference at the White House. …
Working with the president has at times been frustrating, especially in efforts to come up with a “big deal” in budget and deficit negotiations, Boehner said.
“I can tell you I put every ounce of effort that I can to come up with some agreement,” he said. “I could never get the president to the point where he would say yes to real changes in entitlement programs.… It takes two to tango, and the president would never say yes.”
Senate Dems Led By Harry Reid Change Rules To Strip GOP Of Right To Offer Amendments After Cloture
The Hill calls it “shocking.”
TweetReid appealed a ruling from the chair that Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) does not need unanimous consent to force a vote on a motion to suspend the rules to consider amendments after cloture has already been approved.
The chair, which was occupied by Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska), ruled under the advice of the Senate parliamentarian that Republicans had the right to force a vote on a motion to suspend the rules and proceed to President Obama’s controversial jobs bill.
Republicans planned to use this right of the minority to embarrass Obama by showing that many Democrats do not support his jobs package as originally drafted. But Reid moved to kill their plan by appealing the chair’s ruling, triggering a vote.
The maneuver is arcane but momentous. If a simple majority of the Senate votes with Reid and strikes down the ruling, the chamber’s precedent will be changed through the unilateral action of one party.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Female Driver Sentenced To Lashing In Saudi Arabia
The Wall Street Journal Law Blog reports:
TweetClearly, the Saudi Arabian ban on women drivers that we mentioned yesterday is still very much in force.
Less than 48 hours after Saudi King Abdullah announced that women would be able to vote in local elections, a court in Jeddah sentenced a woman to 10 lashes for allegedly defying the Kingdom’s ban on female drivers, according to this item in WSJ’s “Driver’s Seat” blog.
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