by Smitty
Shall not eight years of the personal pronoun pumping pipsqueak have been enough? The price of Her Majesty’s election, despite being the least suitable person since Barack Obama, may become apparent:
While at a rally in Decorah, Iowa, on Tuesday, a reporter asked Clinton what she thought about nominating President Obama to the highest court.
“Wow, what a great idea, nobody has ever suggested that to me,” Clinton said.
Ho Lee Focaccia with turkey, avocado and mayonnaise, Batman. If the thought of listening to that anti-Constitutional jackwagon on the SCOTUS bench, getting paid to lift his leg against all we hold dear until he decides he’s bored and retires, isn’t enough to galvanize conservatives into action (and I mean more than mere blog posts) then I daresay we deserve the abuse.
It’s clear that our country is mismanaged by a homo bureaucratus infestation, where the motto is “fail upward”, but enough is enough.
via Instapundit
LOL – homo bureaucratus infestation
At this point, how could Barry be worse than the Honorable A$$ Clown, “Justice” John Roberts? I’d bet that in a private conversation over a vodka martini, Scalia would agree.
I just started coughing up blood when I used the word “justice” in the same sentence as “John Roberts”, who, from what I’ve seen, appears to report directly to Baal…uh, Barry! I meant Barry. Sorry, Freudian slip.
I think he would fit right it with the Clown Show that is SCOTUS these days [and which he helped, in part, to create].
Go for it, Hillaria!
No. He’s not Taft.
Then again, if Trump wins and appoints Ted Cruz to the Supreme Court?
Depends who he replaces. The good news about Barry is he is lazy, but the bad news is that only means he would have his progressive eunuch clerks do all his work for him.
If Trump wins this country is gone forever. Trump will lie, cheat and say anything to get what he wants. Anyone who calls themselves a conservative and supports Trump needs to re-evaluate if they really are conservative. Cruz would both be an excellent president and member of the SCOTUS.
Cruz is not a natural born US citizen. That he (and you, I’ll wager) does not *care* that the Constitution explicitly forbids him being president (just as it does Obama and Rubio and Jindal), indicates to me just how much he would respect the Constitution were he to #OccupyResoluteDesk
I’m not ideologically conservative. I’m Jacksonian: culturally American.
…These DemoCommies must be defeated one by one ASAP.!
I doubt that the Clinton machine especially wants to see Obama on SCOTUS. I also doubt he’ll be confirmed by the Senate. I see no reason to worry about this until it happens.
It wouldn’t be good, but it wouldn’t be the end of the country. It would just be another lesson for the base about making unwise decisions.
Apparently, it’s a lesson they need.
Cruz is a natural born US citizen. You are either an unhinged birther or a liar. Go take some Thorazine.
You mean appoint to the SC a man who has never been a working attorney, who has not taught law in nearly 40 years, and who has been disbarred? It sometime seems as if contemporary prog-trash politics begins and ends with an upraised middle finger.
Oops, nominating BO is being discussed. All right, a man who spent a grand total of 3 or 4 years as a working attorney (prorating part-time and seasonal employments), spent about five years as a teacher prorating), published not one scholarly article though drawing a paycheck from the University of Chicago for 12 years, eschewed clerkships in order to write a memoir, and allowed his law license to lapse 14 years ago.
You know, at least the nomination of BO would be in keeping with the man’s entire career, from his hiring at the University of Chicago (outside normal channels and procedures, if what’s been in the papers is true), his employment at the University of Chicago (requiring no publication or university service and consisting largely of teaching boutique courses (” & the law”)), his receipt of a nomination to contest for a U.S. Senate seat (after 8 undistinguished years in the state legislature), his nomination to contest for the presidency, his Nobel Prize…
Ha ha. Orrin Hatch and Charles Grassley would work for his confirmation. Wastes of space, the both of them.
The last one of these characters I encountered told me he’d ‘taught’ ‘the subject’ ‘for thirty years’ and that ‘natural born’ requires jus soli and jus sanguinis. Of course, he did not refer me to any scholarly publications and posted as ‘anonymous’. Think about the logic of his rubbish: the only people who would qualify as ‘natural born’ would be lineal descendants of someone present here in 1788.
We have a satisfactory understanding of the contemporaneous use of the term from the legislation of the 1st Congress.
It also defies political logic, since it would make children of US soldiers born overseas non-citizens; a group that must number in the tens of thousands. Who thinks that makes sense?
Uncle Sam: “Thanks for your service, soldier! Now bend over so I can f*ck you in the ass!”
Not likely, I think.
(just as it does Obama and Rubio and Jindal),
Obama, Rubio, and Jindal were all born in the United States of parents lawfully present, none of whom were employed in the diplomatic service. Obama’s mother was a U.S. citizen from birth. You don’t know what you’re talking about and need to quit making an ass of yourself.
My father was born abroad of American parents (one of whom was born in Genesee County, N.Y. and the other of whom was born in Monroe County, N.Y.) He never had to be subject to naturalization. He applied for and received passports multiple times and was in the Air Force for four years.
And your response shows that you are an unhinged liar.
“It also defies political logic, since it would make children of US soldiers born overseas non-citizens …”
Which comment proves that:
1) you have no idea what you’re talking about;
2) you have no intention of understanding the truth of the matter,
That’s because *where* a person is born has nothing at all to do with whether he is a natural born US citizen.
You father was natural born US citizen because *his* father was a US citizen at the time of your father’s birth.
“Obama, Rubio, and Jindal were all born in the United States of parents lawfully present …”
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Quite beside the point of whether they are natural born US citizens.
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And, while you bring up the assertion, neither you nor I nor anyone else has any reason to believe that Obama was born on US soil — and let me emphasize again, being a natural born US citizen is not a matter of being born on US soil.
And, in fact, his *wife* has stated at least twice in public venues that he was born in Kenya. And allow me to repeat: whether he was born in Kenya, as he himself once claimed, or in Hawaii, as he now claims, has nothing to do with whether he is a natural born US citizen. But, it does have to do with his intellectual honesty.
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“You don’t know what you’re talking about and need to quit making an ass of yourself.”
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In truth, *you* don’t know what you’re talking about. Moreover, I can predict with a high degree of certainty that you don’t *want* to know the truth of the matter.
Please, enlighten me. I just love learning new things.
How would this apply to Cruz, and not to service members overseas?
But your father wasn’t running against Trump, so…
In this day and age, if a person is not “ideologically conservative”, then he will *always* buckle when the leftists decide that they now want the latest hill he has previously retreated to.
Eleanor Darragh Cruz was a citizen of the United States at the time of her son’s birth. The census returns for 1940 and her parents’ marriage certificate are all available online. She, her sister, her mother, her father were all born in the United States.
And, in fact, his *wife* has stated at least twice in public venues that he was born in Kenya.
This is a fantasy. Quit trading in stupid internet memes.
It contradicts all surviving documentary evidence and it defies belief. The idea that two impecunious college students would undertake expensive and time-consuming international travel in 1961 for no discernable reason (what, to introduce Ann Dunham to BO, Sr.’s lawful wife?) is incredible. And there is no evidence for it.
Ann Coulter was right. You release the long-form certificate and the people pushing this nonsense will just make something else up.
It depends on who he replaces. If he takes Ruth’s seat, then nothing will be lost. In fact, his laziness and jackassery may push Kennedy to side with Scalia, Thomas, and Alito more often.
And don’t forget his copious non-knowledge of the Constitution, sure to impress all SCOTUS members who have actually read the Constitution before. I’m sure all 57 states would be proud to have such a mature, collaborative individual sitting on the bench. (The bench in the locker room at the golf course. Or the bench in the federal facility where he’s waiting for the JAG’s to prosecute him for high crimes and misdemeanors. Or the bench in the sauna at the bathhouse. Your choice.)
Excellent point. Hell he might even get Roberts back on track and Breyer to write more sane opinions.
For some reason, when you say “eunuch clerks”, I picture Peter Lorre as Dr. Einstein, and his relationship with the psychotic Jonathan Brewster, in “Arsenic and Old Lace” back in the 40s…”Yes, Johnny”.
I’m afraid Breyer’s a lost cause. He makes good mint chocolate chip ice cream, though.
Yeah Bob, it would be cool if they drove up to the bench, all crammed into a little electric car with a big, cartoonish ah-OOO-ga bulb horn, then piled out wearing their bulbous red noses and big floppy shoes. I think that would really underscore what this country has come to.
I can’t see Daniel doing that.
I hear that there is some nice jonesian koolaid you might try.
Just sayin’
The SCOTUS unfortunately decides too many cases that affect our lives. There might be 4 justices selected in the next 48 years. I would rather not have Trump picking those justices.
Garym: You might like the commentary at RedState. They are almost universally following that position (well at least on the anti Trump part). They are sort of split on Cruz and Rubio. Trumpkins are summarily booted over there.
I am a Cruz supporter. I like Ted.
I do not get to go to the Iowa caucus (or the New Hampshire or South Carolina primaries) so I am sitting back with a tasty beverage and watching what happens.
Who are you supporting Ilion?
Ted Cruz’s mother was a natural born citizen at the time of Ted Cruz’s birth. The fact that his father was Cuban is not an issue.
I’m not a fan of the Redstate guys. Cruz is my choice, but I would vote for Rubio or Carson. Trump, very brilliantly by the way, is running as a Conservative and populist, but he will run to the left after getting elected. His past statements give me pause about what he says now and what he will actually do.
Yeah. I know Trump is full of crap. I am not voting for him, unless the choice is him and Hillary or Bernie on the other side. But he has managed to shake this election year up.
Are you trying to destroy my childhood memories. I loved the clown cars as a young calf.
Even Trump as recently as last September admitted that since Cruz’s mom is a citizen and had resided in the United States for more than 5 years after age 14 (which was the law at the time Cruz was born) that Cruz was a natural-born US citizen.
Yet, I know what I’m talking about, and you don’t know what you’re talking about. What’s worse that your mere ignorance is your willful ignorance — even if you do watch this little video (pay special attention at :40 to :47), you probably won’t admit even the minor point that you have no valid reason to believe he was born in Hawaii.
And, more importantly, even having seen that I know what I’m talking about with respect to Mrs Obama having stated in public that Mr Obama is from Kenya (you know, that “fantasy”), you *will not* step back you nasty slurs and consider that just perhaps I know what I’m taling about with respect to Obama, Crux, Jindal and Rubio not being natural born US citizens.
I’m supporting the truth.
Yes, it is. Natural born citizenship (or subjecthood) is inherited from the father, not from the mother.
Is Cruz a natural born citizen of the USA, or of Cuba, or of Canada?
It can be only one.
At the minimum, you (EBL) are saying that he’s a natural born citizen of both the USA and of Cuba; depending on your misunderstanding of the issue, you may also be including Canada.
Please forgive the length of this post, but it needs to supply its history —
Ilion: “Cruz is not a natural born US citizen. That he (and you, I’ll wager) does not *care* that the Constitution explicitly forbids him being president (just as it does Obama and Rubio and Jindal), indicates to me just how much he would respect the Constitution were he to #OccupyResoluteDesk”
Matt_SE: “Cruz is a natural born US citizen. You are either an unhinged birther or a liar. Go take some Thorazine.”
Art Deco” “My father was born abroad of American parents (one of whom was born in Genesee County, N.Y. and the other of whom was born in Monroe County, N.Y.) He never had to be subject to naturalization. …”
Ilion: “That’s because *where* a person is born has nothing at all to do with whether he is a natural born US citizen. You father was natural born US citizen because *his* father was a US citizen at the time of your father’s birth.”
Art Deco: “Obama, Rubio, and Jindal were all born in the United States of parents lawfully present, none of whom were employed in the diplomatic service. Obama’s mother was a U.S. citizen from birth. You don’t know what you’re talking about and need to quit making an ass of yourself.”
Ilion” “Quite beside the point of whether they are natural born US citizens. … And, in fact, his *wife* has stated at least twice in public venues that he was born in Kenya. And allow me to repeat: whether he was born in Kenya, as he himself once claimed, or in Hawaii, as he now claims, has nothing to do with whether he is a natural born US citizen. But, it does have to do with his intellectual honesty.”
Ard Deco: “This is a fantasy. Quit trading in stupid internet memes. …”
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So, finally we get to the point of this post —
Yet, I know what I’m talking about, and you don’t know what you’re talking about. What’s worse that your mere ignorance is your willful ignorance — even if you do watch this little video (pay special attention at :40 to :47), you probably won’t admit even the minor point that you have no valid reason to believe he was born in Hawaii.
And, more importantly, even having seen that I know what I’m talking about with respect to Mrs Obama having stated in public that Mr Obama is from Kenya (you know, that “fantasy”), you *will not* step back you nasty slurs and consider that just perhaps I know what I’m taling about with respect to Obama, Crux, Jindal and Rubio not being natural born US citizens.
Really? From where I’m standing, when “conservatives” aren’t shilling for transnational corporations, “citizens of the world” and other globalists, they’re mostly just nostalgic, always a few decades behind the times; whereas Jacksonians will always snap back to the same small-government nationalism, because politics is downstream from culture.