Pat Oliphant for January 25, 2010

Silence one silence ALL.

it is the FULL employment advertsing move, UNIONS too will now have to sell themselves as functioning …

twas bad law all the way around, as both corps and unions created pac’s to go around that bad law.

now IF the media( that makes huge profits on elections…) were to offer $2.00 ads…then our present office holders would not need to spend 90% of their time on “fundraising” to pay for TV ads…..and we might elect STATESmens to guide these ukightedstates…. but Lord murdock of nooosecorp would not allow that, being all responsible to his royal shareholders…

Great drawing, though, isn’t it?! You could say it’s “right on the money.”

Atma, I agree fully.

They’ve also got five justices- is that Scalia running toward the tree?

And the worst part is that the people will not know about it…as if they have been aware all this time.

Canada is starting to sound nice this time of year…

Great toon, Oliphant. I think the congressman with the cigar is Limbaugh. They can now buy him a seat. H#ck, they can buy anybody a seat.

Concerning the Supreme Court decision, I don’t see any difference, really, what with CBS owning Simon & Schuster and SimonSpotlight publishing, Hearst (History Channel), Fox both have their claws in cable outlets-news, General Electric owns NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, Sci-Fi Channel, USA subsidiaries (consider that even Jeff Immelt, NBC ceo, is in the thick of Obama’s economic advisory board), Disney-ABC-Hyperion publishing, Turner-CNN-TEG, when he’s not purchasing bison, that is, I’d say that the corporate biggies have been disseminating their agendas with time and money, well-spent, long before this monumental decision. The whole scenario reminds me of this Ted Rall cartoon: http://rall.com/gallery2/v/Cartoons/11-9-09.jpg.html

We don’t live in a democracy. Capitalism is our form of government.

Wonder what they’ll pay me for MY vote?

And there are no “checks and balances” on the Supremes!

As I have said before, in a few years the GOP will say that Bush was one of the greatest presidents ever, and from their standpoint they will be right.

Who would have thought that of all the legacies, ruin economy, ravaged enviorment, delay of action on Global Warming, the 9/11 tragedy, two needless wars, the Patroit Act, that Bush left us that the most deadly and worse would be the Bush Court.

There is no appeal for a Supreme Court decision, it is now not just the Law but the Constitution.

And this is just the beginning of the opinions this Court will hand down – IF the Patroit Act comes before this Court it will be upheld, which means the Government can declare any Right guaranteed under the Constitution null and void for any reason the Government wants.

Where are the far right posters?

Scott? Scott’s sycophant, Puppy? ANandy? Charlie?

C’mon., tell us how foreign-owned corporations should have a greater say in our government than us mere mortals?

Ken: “There is no appeal for a Supreme Court decision”

Not true, Ken. The Congress can pass a law that overturns a Supreme Court decision.

Unless Republican sycophants like Lieberman block it.

d_legendary1: We thought Canada was looking good, too…until we realized we didn’t have enough money to live there. Would have to be a whole new way of life and since we’re both in our second whole-new-way-of-life as it is, that’d be pretty tough to deal with at our age. Sigh…

“Who would have thought that of all the legacies, ruin economy, ravaged enviorment, delay of action on Global Warming, the 9/11 tragedy, two needless wars, the Patroit Act, that Bush left us that the most deadly and worse would be the Bush Court.”

–As you have said before, and that’s why you are a bore, dear Ken, and analyzing your “phraseology”, I don’t think Bush was directly responsible for the 9/11 tragedy-legacy, as you so put it. Osama, wasn’t it, as memory serves? You know, that guy that looked like a dirty Santa Claus with bad kidneys.

Anthony “Not true, Ken. The Congress can pass a law that overturns a Supreme Court decision.

Unless Republican sycophants like Lieberman block it.”

What you wrote is not factual, Anthony. When the Supreme Court makes a ruling based on the Constitution Congress cannot override it. It requires a Constitutional amendment. See Roe v Wade.

“It is the duty of the intellectual class to commit suicide.” –Che Guevara.

“The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.” –Norman Mailer

This grave act of hoodwinkery reminds me of that “activist judges” sneer from the last admin.

Oh yeah….?

@Barbaratoo That’s why I’m trying to get a master’s degree. I want to be crooked just long enough to live there.

@Dr.Canuck I was pulling your chain. I know its colder than Mann Coulter’s heart out there.

Judges are also appointed for terms while on “good behavior” and CAN be impeached- it’s rarely happened, but possible.

Herb, they’re only activist judges when they don’t side with the Republican agenda.

Canuck and legendary; Come to the maritimes, then. My weather network widget and the thermometer out the window show 2 degrees celcius. That’s better than 25 below.

Great posts Cpt Jay. Don’t you just love it, the so called ‘Bush Court’ Of the last five nominees to the Supreme Court: 2 President Clinton 2 President Bush 1 President Obama er, friends on the left, do the math. You have to go further back to lay blame on President Reagan for instance. You KNOW what a right winger Sandra Day O’connor was! Comeon!

“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” -Benito Mussolini

Is this the kind of democracy we are trying to shove down the throath of the world? Who said Capitalism carries the seed of its own destructon? It is coming….. it is coming…. look for shelter!

Obama is the President of Big Business and Wall Street. Biz as usual.

When were they not for sale?

The Libs were out for eight (as president) and twelve (in control of congress) years and - when you combine their net worth - the Democrats have more money than the Republican congressmen put together.

I don’t know if that is true, Old, but if so: would that have been true if the Bush Republicans hadn’t behaved as they did?

Probably not young lady…they would be losing money in the private sector.

“Puppies” depiction is being far too nice. Think I’ll spend my money turning the Canadian cottage into a year-round abode before we have the best president money can buy – Palin.