Friggin' Commies

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by baconshorts

You error if you think, i think GWB is much different from BHO.

The point really is that many presidents, going back for more than a century, have interpreted the recess appointment provision as permitting their use during any time Congress was out of session. It's a reasonable interpretation but one that the DC Circuit disagreed with.

The issue may not yet be resolved. The Administration, or some future administration, may decide to appeal the CD Circuit's decision to the Supreme Court.

John

[mini me]

Wow. This thread has veered severely off course!

[barbara]

Originally Posted by mini me

Wow. This thread has veered severely off course!

Not if one is inebriated while reading it....

[piece-itpete]

LOL!

Welcome to the loonie bin mini

Pete

[d-ray657]

Just because I love to argue, I will assert that this thread hasn't wandered so far that it couldn't get back. We are still talking about what to do about a crazy regime that posts videos with not so subtle threats of annihilating NYC. The OP would suggest such a discussion, except to the extent that someone tries to get it off track by calling Obama a commie.

Regards,

D-Ray

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by mini me

Wow. This thread has veered severely off course!

Personally, I think we still have one foot in North Korea. We only got sidetracked because BS saw an opportunity to try to lump our president in together with a foolish little madman in North Korea. Despite that we've managed to keep the focus at least partially on the OP. Do you have anything you'd like to add to keep things going?

John

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by barbara

not if one is inebriated while reading it....

bam! :d

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

LOL!

Welcome to the loonie bin mini

Pete

We do veer into the guardrail, now and then...eh, Pete?

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Move along. Move along. Nothing to see here.

"We have always been at war with Eastasia."

Focus on imaginary foreign enemies and rally nationalist enthusiasm by fantasizing about defeating them. It's a time honored tactic of totalitarians of all stripes, not only "commies".

John

I love both Orwell and Grayson. Here is an excellent article by the latter;

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/0...-with-Eastasia

Enjoy.

Regards,
Dave

[BlueStreak]

"WAR IS PEACE"-----"Peace through strength" and the trappings of the global militarist mindset (MIC).

"FREEDOM IS SLAVERY"-----The destruction of organized labor, the desire to strip any or all worker protections as possible and the subjugation of the working class to the whims of employers that I believe it will eventually lead to. Remember, the slave owning plantation operators of the past were, by and large---private concerns. Some were even the private concerns of public officials, known as "The Founders".

"IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH"-----If you want to control a populace, give them dead heros and place them upon a high, esteemed pedestal, far beyond reproach (Founders). Deify their words, but attempt to hide or downplay their true actions (Slavery, Whiskey Rebellion, Trail of Tears, Manifest Destiny, etc, etc.) and make up sanctimonous fairytales of unflinching honor and impeccable charactor. Then transpose your ideology onto the persona of these quazi-fictional charactors. (Conservapedia and the Texas School Board, anyone?) Few will then dare contradict one who speaks of these dead demigods. After all, they recieved their guidance from the Alighty, himself, did they not? "If God be with us, then who dare oppose us?"---right?

Chew on that for a while.

I have more to pound away at you with. But, the last 24 hours have been emotionally draining. And, I need some rest.

Regards,
Dave