tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post5863143604621735075..comments2024-03-29T05:01:52.320-05:00Comments on Althouse: "It's pretty [expletive suppressed] hard to find that in the Constitution."Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-59680603289305565632016-02-18T20:38:19.099-06:002016-02-18T20:38:19.099-06:00DNFTT.DNFTT.Kirk Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05921711310191924997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-12559107115187724412016-02-17T22:28:13.361-06:002016-02-17T22:28:13.361-06:00Susan Sup--Well, your chosen group of "histor...Susan Sup--Well, your chosen group of "historians" has sure bucked up about George W. Bush, so maybe they will about Obama, too. I know in the Soviet Union, the old folks used to fondly remember that strong leader, Stalin. "If only Stalin knew," they would say, "he never would have allowed the Ukraine to starve." Their parents used to say the same thing about the Czar. I think old folks buck up about everyone, and then they die. <br />So, I won't take your bet, because I reject the idea that I am accountable to any group to attest the validity of my basic observation about Obama: he doesn't like the job, he doesn't understand the job, and he is not very good at the job. <br />I am glad you think he is great, but I have no idea why you do, other than you just like the fellow--he makes you feel good, and he makes you feel good about yourself because you like him. You should try to get to know a guy who writes for the New York Times named David Brooks. He likes Obama too--particularly his elegant pants crease. Good luck to you. I hope you don't need it.Amadeus 48 https://www.blogger.com/profile/15907486643353591432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-28554919097093756172016-02-17T20:55:34.180-06:002016-02-17T20:55:34.180-06:00Now Obama is having a hissy fit and won't atte...Now Obama is having a hissy fit and won't attend Scalia's funeral.<br /><br />He surely is of the lowest class.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11635784352780834494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-18281981055822068522016-02-17T20:51:45.320-06:002016-02-17T20:51:45.320-06:00I too think President Obama is a great president. ...I too think President Obama is a great president. I think it will take 20-30 years for that view to take general hold but I suspect that it will. <br /><br />Obama has done more to create interest in liberalism and elect liberal politicians than anyone else. His attacks on the Constitution have brought that document to light with many people reading it now for the first time to find out what it says. <br /><br />If you were the Koch brothers and you could spend a billion dollars promoting liberalism, how could you be any more successful than President Obama has been?<br /><br />Note for the folks from Rio Linda: I use liberal synchronously with classical liberal, minarchist or libertarian. <br /><br />John HenryJohn Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05059334464714085746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-60232072823330240122016-02-17T20:44:36.340-06:002016-02-17T20:44:36.340-06:00Blogger dbp said...
It may be pretty fucking hard ...Blogger dbp said...<br /><i>It may be pretty fucking hard for President (constitutional law professor) Obama</i><br /><br /><br />I really wish people would stop saying that. He was <b>NOT</b> a professor of any kind. He was an adjunct. A part time teacher of 1-2 classes per year. <br /><br />Why do people keep calling him a professor?<br /><br />I am beginning to think they do it on purpose just to drive me nuts.<br /><br />John HenryJohn Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05059334464714085746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-31532319731331058412016-02-17T18:41:29.734-06:002016-02-17T18:41:29.734-06:00Churchill was a winner and hence a historian.
Oba...Churchill was a winner and hence a historian.<br /><br />Obama is a whiner and hence not.<br /><br />Sure sure he's made Leftist history, very successful in terms of trillions of dollars of graft and corruption spent with Bush to foot the bill.<br /><br />And his GOP congress.Guildofcannonballshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10352588747567045751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-60087922800830710332016-02-17T17:48:19.274-06:002016-02-17T17:48:19.274-06:00Obama can nominate and the Republicans can show hi...Obama can nominate and the Republicans can show his nominee the same courtesy the Democrats extended to Bork.JMLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14459452642637722342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-82420811478768232102016-02-17T16:52:48.600-06:002016-02-17T16:52:48.600-06:00Amadeus 48 et al: as far as historians leaning lef...Amadeus 48 et al: as far as historians leaning left goes, you are being too scholarly and fancy. The real historians in a society are the old men and women in coffee shops. They will be able to give us a fair opinion of Obama in five years. To settle the bet we can pull a state name out of a hat, and then a town. We'll send someone in to the most popular coffee shop to ask seniors "Was Obama a good or bad president?" So simple. So definitive.<br />If I am correct, they will have had to evolve because they hate him at the moment. And yet, I am confident I am right.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14343928197618958695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-4318254975484122402016-02-17T16:43:57.452-06:002016-02-17T16:43:57.452-06:00The first rule of constitutional law is that there...The first rule of constitutional law is that there is a penumbra for that which is subject to adequate supporting leverage. Obama as the current leader of the pro-choice cult should know this better than anyone else. Perhaps he lacks leverage following his liberal departures and progressive excursions from normal, science, peace, etc. in pursuit of his goals.n.nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04252447117532342957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-25194379835401591032016-02-17T15:28:50.229-06:002016-02-17T15:28:50.229-06:00It's hard for him to find but I don't have...It's hard for him to find but I don't have much trouble. Probably because he is such a proponent of a literal and restrictive reading of the document.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17424384180201600935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-76731358168670928302016-02-17T14:54:08.937-06:002016-02-17T14:54:08.937-06:00Original Mike said...
Nobody worth their salt is ...Original Mike said...<br /><br /><i>Nobody worth their salt is going to accept the nomination.</i><br /><br />Nobody worth their salt would ever be considered by Obama.Ignorance is Blisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02338942311894099159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-44193155734833735642016-02-17T14:12:08.612-06:002016-02-17T14:12:08.612-06:00who the frak would put their life on hold for a ye... <i>who the frak would put their life on hold for a year and potentially be ripped to shreds in full view of the public, all for absolutely nothing, for absolutely no chance of confirmation? who would do that?"</i><br /><br />People dedicated to politics which is a material percentage of the high level lawyers in the country. Whoever does it gets an opulent retirement funded by speaking engagements at the least and perhaps a high profile job in the new administration. Plus if the person causes a hearing meltdown which credibly hands the election to the Dems they become a Hero to the Party which includes a lifetime exemption from sexual assault and corruption accusations. Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09159859859522615418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-21856002618733736232016-02-17T12:58:26.477-06:002016-02-17T12:58:26.477-06:00"It’s hard enough to find someone willing to ...<i> "It’s hard enough to find someone willing to go through the confirmation process when they have a shot at being confirmed, but who the frak would put their life on hold for a year and potentially be ripped to shreds in full view of the public, all for absolutely nothing, for absolutely no chance of confirmation? who would do that?"</i><br /><br />Eric Holder? But yeah, I'm of the same mind. Nobody worth their salt is going to accept the nomination.Original Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01714345479248980398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-92074696819794836412016-02-17T12:16:06.556-06:002016-02-17T12:16:06.556-06:00I think the Senate should require itself to take o...I think the Senate should require itself to take only a "limited" time to hold a vote on Obama's nominee. And ask Sonny Bono and Disney to define "limited".Fred Drinkwaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01619653106362906811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-66600238639285480052016-02-17T11:46:22.766-06:002016-02-17T11:46:22.766-06:00There is also 1940, 1956 (when Eisenhower made a r...There is also 1940, 1956 (when Eisenhower made a recess appointment in October) 1968 - when it was stalled aand then an ethics violation was found on the part of Abe Fortas and he out and out resigned from the court on Erev Yom Kippur, and then they mention anthony Kennedy. although that started in 1987.<br /><br />To go back to Hpover's nomiation of Benjamin Cardozo to replace Oliver Wendell Holmes, you have to specify a president where it tutned out it was the last year of his term)<br /><br />Of course in 1932, it was before the Supreme Court got controversial (there was no New Deal legislation yet) and also before the time when they used to confuct exhaustive ethics investigations of Supreme Court nominees (which stated in 1968-69)<br />Sammy Finkelmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05105012664741556033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-64673959840446995292016-02-17T11:46:09.257-06:002016-02-17T11:46:09.257-06:00Tell me why do people keep on saying it has been 8...Tell me why do people keep on saying it has been 80 years since a Justice to the Supreme Court was named and confirmed in an election year?<br /><br />How many years is it since 1932?<br /><br />Is it 80, or is it 84?<br /><br />Ted Cruz again is saying 80 years.<br /><br />(Sammy Finkelmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05105012664741556033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-15504934277431088322016-02-17T11:45:13.530-06:002016-02-17T11:45:13.530-06:00Reporter discussion from the other day:
Reporter:...Reporter discussion from the other day:<br /><br />Reporter: And lastly, as long as we’re doing this in a row, how do you respond to Republican criticism that you and other Democrats in your administration who were in the Senate at the time tried to filibuster Judge Alito in 2006?<br /><br />Obama: [embarrassingly long period of silence and stammering] You know, look. I think what’s fair to say is that how judicial nominations have evolved over time, uh…. is not… historically the fault of any single party. This has become just one more extension of politics. And, there are times when folks are in the Senate and they’re thinking, as I just described, primarily about, is this going to cause me problems in a primary? Is this going to cause me problems with supporters of mine? And so people take strategic decisions. I understand that. Um, but, what is also true is Justice Alito’s on the bench right now.<br /><br><br />But he tried to filibuster Alito. So we are left with fact that when he was senator he tried to block the nomination. And didn't succeeed, only because he coudlnt' get enough votes.<br />Repubs CAN get enough votes. Why is it wrong to block the nomination. We should give Obama credit for FAILING to block the nominee as if it were a moral principle against blocking a nominee?jr565https://www.blogger.com/profile/06250384040393259866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-46244620521505759752016-02-17T11:36:24.398-06:002016-02-17T11:36:24.398-06:00So, lets talk about Miguel Estrada. Or Priscilla O...So, lets talk about Miguel Estrada. Or Priscilla Owen. Or robert Bork. Dems dont really have a leg to stand on here. jr565https://www.blogger.com/profile/06250384040393259866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-65293735818736897502016-02-17T11:28:54.788-06:002016-02-17T11:28:54.788-06:00Well, he's right, isn't he? The GOP's ...<b>Well, he's right, isn't he? The GOP's claims that Presidents shouldn't make Supreme Court appointments in the last year of their term, or that "the people" should have a say in an intervening election, are, while not without some antecedents, flimsy and contrived.</b><br /><br />If Dems hate those rules, they shouldn't have propagated them.damikeschttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133230009952160269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-72535548501207663082016-02-17T11:26:51.222-06:002016-02-17T11:26:51.222-06:00"There are some who believe that the presiden..."There are some who believe that the president, having won the election, should have complete authority to appoint his nominee…that once you get beyond intellect and personal character, there should be no further question as to whether the judge should be confirmed. I disagree with this view."<br />Who said that? Oh yeah, Barack Obama. When he voted to filibuster Alito.jr565https://www.blogger.com/profile/06250384040393259866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-1734901622178516122016-02-17T11:05:39.949-06:002016-02-17T11:05:39.949-06:00Who gives a shit about historians?
Exactly why I ...<i>Who gives a shit about historians?</i><br /><br />Exactly why I am certain she is not a Republican. History is very important, the opinion of left-leaning academic historians? Not so much.tim in vermonthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06547980465313241972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-55301148274296690802016-02-17T10:57:28.402-06:002016-02-17T10:57:28.402-06:00That was the weed talking.That was the weed talking.Curious Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14440726941494085334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-28831245366354353362016-02-17T10:54:37.883-06:002016-02-17T10:54:37.883-06:00The President continually uses the "Strawman&...The President continually uses the "Strawman" argument when he speaks. It's dishonest and pathetic. <br /><br />Nobody on Planet Earth argues that the Constitution prevents him from nominating someone to the absent seat or, more drastically, making a recess appointment.<br /><br />He can appoint, and the Senate can reject.<br /><br />The question is whether he should do so during an election season.<br /><br />Bay Area Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08342949066248487677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-74821512274314626852016-02-17T10:52:30.754-06:002016-02-17T10:52:30.754-06:00He's an anti-American asshole who has governed...He's an anti-American asshole who has governed like a tyrant and a deceitful motherfucker, and he should be opposed at every turn. averagejoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10547697889115432019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-29206934082792730412016-02-17T10:41:36.648-06:002016-02-17T10:41:36.648-06:00"I'll bet historians agree with me: $100?..."I'll bet historians agree with me: $100? :-)"<br /><br />Who gives a shit about historians? Known Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15029003649395214104noreply@blogger.com