A Response to Making Amendments (Previous Post)

Comment by Thom:

I’m not generally in favor of the Andrew Jackson way of dealing with the Supreme Court but there is no practical check on the Court through the amendment process as some have suggested here. A 5 to 4 ruling is trivial in comparison to the effort to get two thirds of Congress and three fourth of the State legislatures to agree on anything. Both Congress and State Legislatures are accountable for their decisions; the Court is not in any practical sense. When the Court makes rulings on precedent or references existing laws and bypasses the enumerated limits placed on each branch by doing so it has essentially gone “rogue” and it has done that numerous times over the last 50-60 years without a single amendment or Congressional response to that. If the Court won’t honor the existing enumerated Constitution with decades to 150 years of tradition and practice to back that up what makes anyone here think amending the Constitution would change that practice?

Each of us to varying degrees lead tempered lives because we are to varying degrees held accountable for important things and decisions in our own lives. The essence of the three branches and checks and balances on each was to impart some sense of accountability on the government as a whole. The Court has no such accountability mechanism in practice. Jackson famously told the Court of his time to stuff it and if they didn’t like that command their army to do something about it. I don’t remember the specifics or who was in the right from a constitutional prospective but no one came and arrested Jackson as a result. TR couldn’t get the money he wanted to sail the navy around the world from Congress so he ordered it to sail and go until Congress found the money or they ran out of fuel. They got the fuel. The merits of these individual cases are not important but the back and forth and check on the power of each branch is. Our Supreme Court is “rouge”. The cumulative damage done by this over the decades out shadows the narrower rulings the four existing conservative justices try to maintain.

If the Court rules King Obamacare constitutional, there will be civil unrest or worse. Most people can sense when the façade of a Republic is stripped away for all to see. I wouldn’t want to be in Justice Kennedy’s shoes if he has any sense of what this last nail in the coffin of the Constitution will invoke. The Court ruled in 1866 that several of the things Lincoln did during the war were unconstitutional. A pointless gesture if there ever was one. Serfdom is just around the corner for many if the Court does not restore the Republic.

He invokes Andrew Jackson. Gotta love that!

The Gunslinger

Food for Thought

I didn't cook it, I just serve it here as a public service:

We have certainly centralized from the Federal system originally envisioned by the Framers. But I don't think one can completely blame the Court for that. The nation made a deliberate decision in the wake of the calamatous Civil War to change our institutions from a more decentralized union of States to a national Republic. That was the clear import of the Amendments enacted to the Constitution in the Antebellum period. The 13th through 15th Amendments took away the states' powers to deny any of their citizens rights that were viewed as "national" rights; the 16th gave broad new taxation powers to the national government; the 17th specifically removed from state legislatures the power to name Senators, who would be more indebted to state interests. All of these were deliberate efforts to forge a unified national government.

One can bemoan the trend, but it's hard to blame on the Court. In its further defense, the current Court has been moving steadily toward an envigoration of state power vis-a-vis the federal government, but the antebellum amendments will prove a check on returning the balance to its original design.

This is important because the SCOTUS will either affirm our individual rights against a tyrannical government, or consign us to servitude, depending on how they rule on Obamacare and the "individual mandage" Because, if the Federal Government can make you buy medical coverage, they can pretty much make you do anything.

Will we have Freedom Affirmed or will we have Revolution? I think those are the only rational alternatives. I don't know about you, but for me, slavery is not an option.

The Gunslinger

Just Sayin'

Elena Kagan

Aren't lesbians becoming just a little over-represented on the Supreme Court at this point?

I mean, they're like 2% of the population...and will soon hold 22% of the SCOTUS seats?

Seriously, people...

Straight women do not HULK. (Have you SEEN Sotomayor walk?)

Straight women in their positions wear makeup and have good hair(dressers).

Straight women in their positions have Clothing Stylists:

Straight women in their positions do not wear sensible shoes with tiny heels before age 75 

—unless they have been injured.  

And straight women DO NOT SIT like this in business settings.

Did I mention Hair?

Straight women in their positions do not wear ill-fitting, short-sleeve suit jackets for SCOTUS interviews. 

 (Did I mention hair and makeup?)

Straight Women in their position do not wear oddly inappropriate jewelry that suits neither the occasion nor their features. (See above for dangly earrings with a "suit".)

See below for delicate feminine pearl earrings on Kagan.

And can I just say....a New Yorker, who's also a Jew, who's also Gay, who's also been educated at Harvard: 

What are the chances we have anything but a FLAMING PROGRESSIVE on our hands here, people?

While, in spite of the inane "more inclusive, more representative, more reflective" rambling of 'Bama the Bombast,  there will be six Catholics and three Jews on a nine person bench...while 70% of the country is Protestant Christian.

Anyone wondering why Protestants don't rate being included, represented and reflected?

Yeah, me neither.

The Gunslinger
(East Coast Elites, meet iconoclast Wolf)

More Crap from the Hulking Hag

MY BAD! THIS IS NOT TRUE! IT IS A SATIRE SITE!
And I did not do due diligence—I believed it. Shame on me. (And shame on 'them' for being so extreme, that it would even occur to me it was true.)

The picture, however, is real....and my grooming advice stands.

I'm not removing it, because I posted it. And....well....it's funny.

The (embarrassed) Gunslinger


God...they will say ANYTHING...no matter how it conflicts with published, proven facts and reality as we know it.

In spite of everything, I'm still surprised by the pure chutzpah of these people.

This Hag and her supporters are lying to our faces, knowing that we know it, and don't even care. This is the statement that Sødie-Mayer is attempting to suggest was "taken out of context"

In the speech delivered to the San Juan chapter of NOW, Sotomayor said, “I want to be perfectly clear about this next comment so that there is no mistaking my words to mean something other than what they plainly say: the time has come to end white male oppression by castrating every white male until they are no longer dominant in Western culture. That means forcible removal of their testicles. I realize the brutality of my comment, and I don’t know how to say it more clearly.”

Except for the link, what follows, I stand by:

I don't think "context" means what they think it means.

To them, "taking something out of context" means "discovering something they don't want you to discover."

Here's the story.

And just for the record, would it hurt her to wash her hair, apply a little makeup, stop wearing blazers with short sleeves (ugh!), and stand up straight? She bears a striking resemblance to someone named Igor.

I know, that doesn't make her a bad judge. She's already that. But, no sense in being utterly unattractive in the bargain. It's not necessary to look like the dough-boy because you're on the bench.

New Flash for Feminists: People don't take unkempt, greasy looking women more seriously than well-groomed ones.

The Gunslinger

The Hulking Boob, Søtie-mayer

I was not going to comment on this hag, because there's really no point. She's getting confirmed, whether she's a space alien, an illegal alien, a vampire or a spawn of Satan.

I hate wasting my limited time.

But seriously, this bitch is completely out of control, and I can't help myself.

She's not sure whether you have a right to defend yourself.

Our new Supreme Court Justice isn't sure whether you should are legally required to just stand there passively and die when someone attacks you.

I don't want to say the Common Sense is dead in America. But it certainly moribund in Washington.

And apparently this La Raza thug believes that the 2nd Amendment "only applies to the Federal Government". So, if every state denied people the "right to keep and bear arms" that would be okay, as long as the Federal Government didn't.

So, the 2nd Amendment means nothing, and guarantees nothing. Does she think the same of the First amendment? Can the States close down newspapers they don't like, and censor movies, and ban music...as long as the Federal Government doesn't do it?

Can the States criminalize homosexuality? Charge Puerto Ricans a poll tax? Re-institute segregation based on race? Would it be okay, as long as the Federal Government doesn't do it?

Can States impose cruel and unusual punishment, arrest people without cause, search without warrants, force people to testify against themselves?

Or is it just that pesky SECOND AMENDMENT that the States can violate?

How can this racist harridan get away with this shit?

The Gunslinger
Enemy of the Imperial State that hasn't yet decided whether you have the right to defend yourself against violent attack.

Voodoo and the Zømbies

I guess when you're not a Christian country anymore, defending Voodoo is perfectly natural.

You know, the people that kill chickens....

Yeah, I know, Santeria "experts" will tell you it's not Voodoo.

You can believe them if you want. The difference is so tiny..it's hardly worthy of notice.

I warned you about the ZØmbies....didn't I?

Didn't I?

The Gunslinger

QUEEN FOR A DAY

According to Zerø's description, Sodie-Mayer should be on Queen for a Day rather than the Supreme Court.

She had a Hard Damn Life.

Justice Clarence Thomas didn't, you understand.

They hate him.

He's just one of those clueless White Men.

...oh....wait.

The Gunslinger

Sodie-Mayer

I'm listening to the Campaign Speech...er...the nomination speech by Zerø of the Puerto Rican Woman he has chosen as his Supreme Court nominee.

And almost every single word coming out of his mouth is a LIE.

He claims to care about the Constitution. LIE
He claims to care about rule of law. LIE
He claims to care about dispassionate adherence to both. LIE
He claims that this woman cares about them too. LIE
He claims that this woman is a deep thinker. LIE
He claims that this woman will be a fair judge for all the people. LIE

He of course neglected to mention that she's racist & sexist; that she considers Latino Women due to the "richness of their experience" more likely than White Men to arrive a better judicial decisions.

He neglected to mention that she is known in legal circles as a bully, a sloppy legal thinker, more interested in legislating from the bench than being true to the Constitution—and a egotist who loves the sound of her own voice—in spite of her inferior understanding of the law.

He neglected to mention that she is a Tribal Primitive who believes Group Identity trumps all other qualities or characteristics or issues in a persons life or circumstance, or the actual facts of their case.

He neglected to mention that she's ruled discrimination against White People perfectly legitimate and Affirmative Action to be fair and constitutional.

He neglected to mention that she will indulge her biases instead of following the Constitution...and has done so repeatedly while on the bench in her current capacity—and that she is known for it.

He neglected to mention —as she laughingly admitted in a speech— that she considers it the business of the courts to "make policy".

And he also neglected to mention that she has no real qualifications for the job except that she's a brown-skinned person who is not a man.

Honestly, it was all I could do to listen to the whole thing. I kept hyperventilating. He's got "audacity" does our Souf-Side Messiah. Blinding, breathtaking, spectacular audacity.

I'm actually surprised that he wasn't struck by lightning.

The Gunslinger