Constitutional Conservatism
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dime_novel_hero“Envision the day Obama signs a dictatorial anti-Second Amendment bill into law and the states, as a solid unified majority forcefully respond, “NO! We will not obey!”
Colonel Dan starts off his monthly Libertarian fear mongering on the last page of “The Cowboy Chronicles” (Vol. 26 No. 11) with this bit of hyperbole and ignorance. I mean, this is Schoolhouse Rock level political science here.
If a bill is being signed into law, the president didn't just pull it out of his ass. It has gone through the legislative process, been voted on, and approved by both the House of Representatives and the Senate before it gets to the president's desk to sign. That’s the exact opposite of how dictatorships work.
So, when you start of with a lie, I’m beginning to doubt you really care about truth. Yes, Colonel Dan, I’m calling you a liar and a fear monger because the amount of research you have done, though cherry picked, indicates that you really do know better and are just choosing to lie about how the American political process works. I mean, if you used the word “decree” instead of “bill” you might have some sort of case but then you would have to show a pattern of dictatorial decree by President Obama.
“Obama’s National Labor Relations Board appointments being one obvious example. Obama appointed members to that board who he anticipated would be unacceptable to a significant number of Senators. He therefore waited until the Senate went on vacation to appoint them, not in recess, but on vacation., and issued a ludicrous statement that he merely made recess appointments.”
What Colonel Dan fails to mention (choose to conceal) is that the Senate was scheduled to go on recess but used a legally questionable method to pretend that they were still working, (pro forma sessions where a single senator briefly gavels the Senate into session for a few minutes) knowing that Obama would attempt a recess appointment. It was parliamentary bait and switch. Colonel Dan would have you believe that he has used dictatorial powers but what he doesn’t tell you is that it is still in the courts being decided according to the way our Constitution says it is to be decided. Should the courts decide against the administration, are you really suggesting that Obama will ignore the ruling and send in the military to disband the Supreme Court?
“As I’ve always said, when those charged with enforcing the law, ignore the law, there is no law. And that’s exactly what we have right now in this federal government.”
So, yeah. I guess you do believe that.
And the thing is, it was really little different than President Bush had done more than a dozen times. And many presidents before that. I bet you weren’t screaming about the threat of an imperial presidency way back then.
Finally, Colonel Dan gets to the meat of the matter, pulling out state nullification theory, ignoring Article VI, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution while, at the same time as claiming they are defending the Constitution and threatening armed revolution to restore Constitutional federalism.
Bullshit. The editors of the “The Cowboy Chronicles” chose to run this States Rights screed alongside articles on Confederate raider and terrorist “Bloody” Bill Anderson and slaving filibuster William Walker, do they really expect us to believe that they, and Colonel Dan, are all about saving America from the dictatorial powers of Barack Hussein Obama?
“A generation ago, Americans wouldn’t have given Obama the time of day.”
Yea. And we both know why, don’t we?
Colonel Dan starts off his monthly Libertarian fear mongering on the last page of “The Cowboy Chronicles” (Vol. 26 No. 11) with this bit of hyperbole and ignorance. I mean, this is Schoolhouse Rock level political science here.
If a bill is being signed into law, the president didn't just pull it out of his ass. It has gone through the legislative process, been voted on, and approved by both the House of Representatives and the Senate before it gets to the president's desk to sign. That’s the exact opposite of how dictatorships work.
So, when you start of with a lie, I’m beginning to doubt you really care about truth. Yes, Colonel Dan, I’m calling you a liar and a fear monger because the amount of research you have done, though cherry picked, indicates that you really do know better and are just choosing to lie about how the American political process works. I mean, if you used the word “decree” instead of “bill” you might have some sort of case but then you would have to show a pattern of dictatorial decree by President Obama.
“Obama’s National Labor Relations Board appointments being one obvious example. Obama appointed members to that board who he anticipated would be unacceptable to a significant number of Senators. He therefore waited until the Senate went on vacation to appoint them, not in recess, but on vacation., and issued a ludicrous statement that he merely made recess appointments.”
What Colonel Dan fails to mention (choose to conceal) is that the Senate was scheduled to go on recess but used a legally questionable method to pretend that they were still working, (pro forma sessions where a single senator briefly gavels the Senate into session for a few minutes) knowing that Obama would attempt a recess appointment. It was parliamentary bait and switch. Colonel Dan would have you believe that he has used dictatorial powers but what he doesn’t tell you is that it is still in the courts being decided according to the way our Constitution says it is to be decided. Should the courts decide against the administration, are you really suggesting that Obama will ignore the ruling and send in the military to disband the Supreme Court?
“As I’ve always said, when those charged with enforcing the law, ignore the law, there is no law. And that’s exactly what we have right now in this federal government.”
So, yeah. I guess you do believe that.
And the thing is, it was really little different than President Bush had done more than a dozen times. And many presidents before that. I bet you weren’t screaming about the threat of an imperial presidency way back then.
Finally, Colonel Dan gets to the meat of the matter, pulling out state nullification theory, ignoring Article VI, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution while, at the same time as claiming they are defending the Constitution and threatening armed revolution to restore Constitutional federalism.
Bullshit. The editors of the “The Cowboy Chronicles” chose to run this States Rights screed alongside articles on Confederate raider and terrorist “Bloody” Bill Anderson and slaving filibuster William Walker, do they really expect us to believe that they, and Colonel Dan, are all about saving America from the dictatorial powers of Barack Hussein Obama?
“A generation ago, Americans wouldn’t have given Obama the time of day.”
Yea. And we both know why, don’t we?
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Date: 2013-11-11 10:51 pm (UTC)The Cuyahoga Kid writes: "Global warming is a hoax., "assault weapons" are a hoax, Obamacare is a hoax, and immigration reform is also a hoax."
Colonel Dan (a Cowboy Chronicle editor responds) : "Needless to say, I share all your concerns."