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   believecommonsense said, 5 months ago

   oh, Pett, good job!! the most conservative members of the court practice their own brand of activism.

   Presidents get to appoint SC justices. Sotomayor is imminently qualified. Get over it.

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   Anthony 2816 said, 5 months ago

   I think all the justices should practice a strict constructionist approach to interpreting the Constitution, just like the righties want.

   That way we wouldn’t have to suffer through any judicial activism like “innocent until proven guilty”.

   And the 2nd amendment would allow only muzzle-loading single-shot pistols and muskets.

   That’s what you want, correct, righties?

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   Gary Kleppe said, 5 months ago

   If not for GOP judicial activism, George W. Bush never would’ve set foot in the White House.

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   Kylop said, 5 months ago

   The slope works well for the joke Pett is making. However I feel that the GOP increasingly doesn’t see it as a slope. They see it as a step function. One unquestioningly supports them or one is against them.

   It creates an interesting manipulation option. By endorsing something, anything, Obama guarantees the GOP will come out against it. Imagine Obama coming out in support of Rush, or Evangelical Christians, or greed.
   It would make what’s left of the GOP implode…wouldn’t it?

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   annamargaret1866 said, 5 months ago

   Anthony 2816, as I’m sure you know, the Constitution says “arms”, not guns. If it wouldn’t get me into trouble with Homeland Security, I’d say, tongue firmly in cheek, that I want my very own WMD.

   However, if we staying with what weapons existed back at the time the Constitution was written, we have to include knives. Cannons, did every homeowner have his or her own cannons???

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   tpenna said, 5 months ago

   Spot on, Pett!

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   M Kitt said, 5 months ago

   The GOP is great at pretense, they’re pretending that they have no agenda regarding the court nominations, that they’re actually the objective party in this debate. A little review shows that Alito publicly supported the concept of “Unitary Executive”, an executive branch unhindered/unregulated by other government entities in time of war, very convenient since W & Co. have proposed that Iraq is part of an “unending war against the terrorists that will last for many generations” according to Cheney. Alito’s appointment is likely butt-covering by an administration that doesn’t want to be investigated by independant council…….I propose that this constitutes an AGENDA.

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   Gary Kleppe said, 5 months ago

   “By endorsing something, anything, Obama guarantees the GOP will come out against it. Imagine Obama coming out in support of Rush, or Evangelical Christians, or greed.”

   Well, sometimes it works like that… it was interesting during the Clinton years to see GOP leaders and other right-wingers suddenly opposed to wars just because Clinton had started them.

   But with stuff like you list, they’d probably just declare that Obama doesn’t really support it, or he doesn’t support it to a sufficient degree. That’s how they’ve already reacted to his support for “preventative detention”, his taking single-payer health care off the table, his refusal to consider nationalizing the banks… the list goes on.