When you are a dictator you don’t need to know.

really!

Who’s on 1st to start educating him? But, then, we’re all too old or too young for his perfect mindset.

Curious here: how much is tuition for a dedicated, well qualified student to attend Yale these days?

what is wrong with this picture?

The dog is black instead of white?!

But it’s pretty disturbing to hear someone who swore an oath to defend the Constitution continually demonstrate his total ignorance hatred of it.

just tryin’ to help…

Bush’s only motivation in life was to be a contrarian asshole. He graduated to mass murderer due to family connections. Anything outside of himself has no meaning. Like the constitution and other humans.

Real question. What tools does the Supreme Court have to enforce its decisions? The only thing I can remember is when they used the guard to integrate a school back in the beginning of the Movement. But that was hen Eisenhauer agreed with the decision.

I forget who said it, but “the Constitution is not a suicide pact”

And while I agree that Bush is an idiot, talking about National Security within the context of Supreme Court decisions is not a sign that someone lacks an understanding of the nature and function of Constitutional government.

But it’s all okay. Pelosi and Reid are keeping us from the nuisance of IMPEACHMENT. You know, we don’t need no stinkin’ impeachment. If Bush doesn’t like the Constitution of The United States of American, well, that’s his choice. He’s our fearless leader, dontcha know.

What’s even more disturbing is that it is not at all disturbing to Republics.

I appreciate that.

He’s our Commander in Chief! That’s English for “dictator”, you know.

evil,stupid isipid little cretin…….counting thedays till he leaves public life…loathsome twit

Shorter Junya: “Ignorance? That’s something I’m good at.”

In six months, the cretin in chief will be making travel plans for a one way trip to Crawford.

I find that thought comforting in tough times.

I am a ignorancarating mother fucker.

What is most disturbing is Bush.

“After the meeting, Manning prepares a five-page memo stamped “extremely sensitive,” in which he summarizes what was said at the meeting. And Manning writes that Bush and Blair expressed their doubts that any weapons of mass destruction would ever be found in Iraq, although two months later they went there because they said they had the weapons and we had to disarm them. But it gets much, much, much worse. Manning wrote that Bush was so worried, so upset, over the failure of the UN inspectors to find weapons of mass destruction, that he talked about three ways to, quote, “provoke a confrontation with Hussein,” one of which, Bush said, was to, quote, “fly U2 aircraft, reconnaissance aircraft, over Iraq, falsely painted in United Nations colors,” and Bush said if Hussein fires upon them, this will be a breach of UN resolutions and justify war.

So here we have George Bush telling the American people, telling the world, that Hussein was an imminent threat to the security of this country, so we had to strike first in self-defense, but behind closed doors, this very small man was talking about how to provoke Hussein into a war. The very last person in the world that someone acting in self-defense would try to provoke is a person who he’s in deathly fear of, the person who’s about to kill him. If George Bush actually believed that Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, which was the main reason he went to war, the very thought of provoking Hussein into a war obviously would never, ever, ever have entered his mind.”

Vincent Bugliosi on Democracy Now this morning:

http://www.democracynow.org/20…..ey_vincent

I had this flash yesterday that there are really two Supreme Courts – the one for the Goopers, with the usual suspects…and the one for the rest of us.

If you can excuse a partial OT…. just turned on tyne ‘puter and that was the first I learned about Tim Russert. Almost fell outta my chair. Then I came right here. What a shame; just a damn shame. I actually liked the guy. Us guys who got eduacated by Jesuits gotta stick together, ya know? What a shame.

Back on. That just makes my blood boil. Again. If you’re with me you care about America’s security. If you oppose me you’re dangerously naive. Asshoel. He should just shut the fuck up./ Nobody will give a shit if he doesn’t say another word again.

Gonna go read about Russert. Damn shame.

And that dissent was based upon their serious concerns about US national security.”

Thank to Bush.. our national security is now based on cluster bombing or locking up and torturing innocents (globally).. with no atty or fair trial. All on the national credit card.

Wonder how much better the rescue efforts would be right now in the Midwest if so much of the National Guard wasn’t unnecessarily in Iraq, fighting “Dick and Dubya’s Excellent Adventure.”

Didn’t you know that the function of the Supreme Court of the United States is to legitimize the pleasure of the Presidency? For the brethren to do otherwise must surely be considered treasonous… in which case the president should consider emulating what his model, Nero, did.. appoint his horse to it.

Nobody will give a shit if he doesn’t say another word again.

I would. It would make me very happy indeed.

forgot about that ….shiite

The idiot in chief will leave- the two idiots supreme that he put on the court may remain for thirty years or more…the smell of GW Clusterfuck will permeate the atmosphere of the republic for generations..

If McBush wins, we’ll get one or two more of these idiots..

This is a VERY serious election- and it ain’t gonna be a cake walk.

I talked to my 80 year old uncle today. He was a Hillary supporter but has decided to vote for McBush cause he can’t support Obama.

Polls show this thing within the margin of error..

Sure hope dems don’t declare “Mission Accomplished” prematurely. This is gonna be a war.

On point. So sad.

I’m still optimistic that Senator Obama will select Senator Clinton as his running mate, resolving this issue, and they’ll ride together to a dominating victory…

Want me to call your uncle and sweetly talk some sense into him? Jeez, I gotta work on my own 90 year old father. Fortunately his wife is on the correct side. I hope she keeps him thinking clearly.

Shouldn’t he be reserving a space at the Hague??

Yup. My hope is that it is Obama, but my gut has a huge doubt in it. I try to doubt the doubter, but it’s hard, knowing the media is controlled by corporations like GE.

It all depends on voting machines and what the corporations want.

And, Blue Texan, what’s the date and occasion of your awesome picture of our dear leader above?

I was ayin’ last night how I’m very concerned about this eklection. I think most of us are. Work on that uncle of yours. If you have to be nice, be nice. If you have to be nasty, be nasty. But you make a point abouty what may well be the most underanalyzed thing about candidates – their potential Supreme Court appionmjtemts. McCain will talk about appj nting people who dfon’t legislate from the bench and all that happy horseshit and we’ll get tghe vote they need to kill Roe. And more. If for no oter reason, this si why McCain can’t win. Those appointments will be around long, lonm aftyer he’s gone.

I’ve got a lady at work in her 70’s and she said she’s not voting. Wouldn’t vote for McShitForBrains but can’t vote for Obama. Won’t come right out and say it but colour is the issue. “I just don’t like him.” Sad.

Didn’t McSame already say that Scalito is his idol? That is more (!) than enough reason to vote Obama, despite whatever his problems may be (and, frankly, I don’t see many problems – but then I’m not an angry old white guy or gal.)

Yeah, but ask her, “Do you love your country?”

I’ve tried all those arguments. Sort of a bitter old lady and she’s made up her mind. That said, it’s five months until November. I got time.

A president McShrub would need younger blood around him, a sop to to the Fundie-right, and Monica Goodling needs a job. He should consider offering her a nomination to his court.

Gag!!!!

ok Keif just read shortride Liarmans condolence as the most ardent……………..Keif take a break

KO? He looks like he has been crying all day.

It ain’t just Presidunce Bu’ush who is constitutionally ignorant. Couple of thoughts I posted elsewhere today:

Legend In His Own Mind Scalia loves to elsewhere pontificate about being a constitutional “textualist,” which he differentiates semantically from that of being simply an Original Intent “strict constructionist,” i.e., meaning that, his job as he sees it, is simply to decide cases on the basis of what he determines that the words of the pertinent clause of the Constitution meant to the polity at large at the time of enactment (of course, we can assume that there was interpretative unanimity in the streets back then, right?)

So, consequently, his poignant whining about the imagined terrible upshot of this decision is — well — “out of his pay grade.” In two words, the ostensibly odious “Judicial Activism” he otherwise takes such irascible pains to impugn (i.e., basing your SCOTUS case affirmation or dissent on likely current sociopolitical consequences in lieu of original Constitutional imperative).

“Anthony” (as Bu’ush once called him), OTHERS are lawfully charged with tending to terror threat prevention/abatement concerns.

How this cat ever got his rep as this monumental intellectual/jurisprudential badass escapes me.
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I could go on and on citing instances where Scalia has dismissively ranted to the “hey, life is unfair, bad shit happens, get over it” and where he goes on to point out the constitutionally proper duties of other branches to right wrongs.

But, when it’s convenient, he drags out the lame “more Americans will die” canard.

I episodically watch the MSNBC “Lockup” series, and I am always struck by how we can routinely accord the panoply of constitutional due process to some of the worst human dreg monsters imaginable without the entire country going down in flames. But, NO-o-o-o-o-o-oo-o-ohhhh!! These swarthy cats in beards and skull caps and flip-flops are just SO unimaginably, unprecendentedly dangerous…

Why don’t we just summarily them all?

When you are a dictator you don’t need to know.

pretty well says it all

Have you heard of the Hague act?The american service members protection act?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A…..ection_Act

for keeeeeeeeeeerist sakes,Russert was an good fella fer sher,but he was Darths sock puppet,i think he was gonna turn on him publicly i believe

O/T, from a friend of a friend in Ireland

“We in Ireland can’t figure out why you people are even bothering to hold an election in the United States.

On one side, you have a lawyer, married to a lawyer, running against a lawyer who is married to a lawyer.

On the other side, you have a war hero married to a good-looking woman who owns a major beer distributorship.

What are you lads thinking over there?”

This is true but he was also their boss and friend. It is a good thing that they are upset. Shows they are humans.

Well stated, BobbyG. Carry on. Scalia is a bad joke.

you are very persuasive 707

yes ,im hoping they SEE THE POWER of speaking the truth,while they can

I happen to like laywers (y’all will, too, on the day you need some legal help) — but God love the Irish! They’ve got their priorities straight.

And, Blue Texan, what’s the date and occasion of your awesome picture of our dear leader above?

The beauty of words on paper and photographs on paper and film is that now and for all time people will see and hear George W. Bush and know what a piece of scum he really is. They stand in wonderment and what kind of crazy people put him in charge. And, they’ll laugh at us for being so stupid.

KO? He looks like he has been crying all day.

Chuck Todd does too.

i really like the guy..Chucky

I laugh at us, too, ‘cept when I burst into tears about what has been done to our country. If I have one beef with the Dems is that no Dem leader ever stepped up to bring the rest of us into the streets to stop this insanity.

Had never noticed before that poor Barney’s along for the ride in that photo.

Now there’s a dog I’d like to have a talk with over some beer or a couple of shots.

I wish I knew.

The dog is the more fit, intelligent organism in the picture. He actually looks a little embarrassed.

As who would not?

Imagine a President of the United States who is dumber than his own dog…..

Just think of it!

No more stupid Tim Russert assertions.

over some beer or and a couple of shots

well, there was that Reagan dude.

Hey, when you’re right, you’re right. And you’re right.

Must fly for now.

*clink*

They’ve never met Bud and Bud Light, I see. Otherwise they’d be backing the lawyers too.

What will mid-level federal agency employees do? The upper echelon of agency officers will have checked out early or, having resigned themselves to the fate of political appointees at transition time, have the next phase of their lives planned. The mid-level employees who are committed to career service will have to brief the next administration’s incoming agency leadership on what has been going on while trying not to incriminate themselves in any nonfeasance, misfeasance, or malfeasance. An anxious time will be had by many.

I posted that comment to the wrong thread, but hey, that’s one of the marvelous things tabbed browsing makes possible.

George W. Bush’s ignorance still has the ability to shock me:

Just doing his job – pushing the propaganda. Legal analysis is for lesser mortals.

It’s a paraphase of Justice Robert Jackson’s dissenting opinion in a case in which he would have restricted hate-speech to even willing audiences (his exact reference was to the Bill of Rights). It’s been used subsequently, but almost always as a contrast to the decision ultimately being made…illuistrating that the Constitution can protect individual rights while the government CAN protect its citizens without stripping them of their Constitutional protections.

It’s become a catch-phrase of Neo-Cons though, it seems.

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/c…..tcher.html

dumber than his own dog shit.

It seems Bush and I have something in common. I to have been dissappointed with supreme court decisions and strongly agreed witht he dessenters.

Matter of fact, I have had serious doubts of some of the Justices that got nominated and appointed to begin with.

This should have been a 9-0 vote not 5-4. By one vote reason and logic trumped fascism…….. Scalia is a dysfunctional!

The Constitution says that anyone in American control is entitled to habeus corpus. Clearly Guantanamo is under American control even if it is in Cuba. Bush and his legal authorities made a mistake when they thought they could sell the Guantanamo is in Cuba distinction. Had Bush put these people under Iraqi, Afghanastani, or other non-American control, our Constitution would not follow them, but you can’t have it both ways. If you want an American in charge, you must abide by American law. You will find that helpful if they ever come for you.

This was not a political decision, it was a legal one. Seven of the nine Supreme Court Justices were appointed by Republican conservative presidents. Of the five who upheld the habeus corpus right, Ginsberg and Breyer were appointed by Clinton, Kennedy by Reagan, Stevens by Ford and Souter by George H.W. Bush. Undeniably, Reagan, Ford and George H.W. Bush cannot be classified as liberal presidents, but I know for a fact that the presidents who appointed dissenters Scalia, Thomas, Roberts and Alito were all Republican conservative presidents. If the claim of politics has any merit, the only proof of legitimacy is that the four dissenters were all appointed by Republican conservative presidents.

Isn’t he scared of horses??

Sometimes the appointing president is surprised. Eisenhower regretted appointing Warren who he considered too liberal. GHW Bush regretted appointing Souter. I guess he remains glad he appointed Thomas. Looks like Roberts and Alito will not disappoint GW Bush. Way back in the days of “Archie and Mehitabel” (the spelling doesn’t look right) the typewriting cockroach who typed out “The Supreme Court follows the election returns”, the court was political more than legal. Courts follow precedent unless they don’t. We wouldn’t have the arguments we have over who’s to be judge, if the judge’s worldview didn’t matter.