Cokie Roberts on Downgrade: 'The Problem That We Have Here Is the Constitution'
By Noel Sheppard | August 07, 2011 | 13:51
ABC's Cokie Roberts said something on national television Sunday that made her colleague George Will shake his head on camera.
During a "This Week" discussion about the recent credit rating downgrade by Standard and Poor's Roberts said, 'The problem that we have here is the Constitution of the United States of America which actually does require people to come together from different perspectives" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
COKIE ROBERTS: This group of people in New York [Standard and Poor’s] is actually talking about more government rather than less government, Congressman. In fact, the reason they like France and Great Britain is because they’re parliamentary systems where the majority gets what it wants no matter what.
And the problem that we have here is the Constitution of the United States of America which actually does require people to come together from different perspectives whether it's divided government or not. We have divided branches of government under any circumstance.
Wow!
In June, Time magazine's managing editor Richard Stengel wrote a cover story asking, "Does the Constitution Still Matter," and now Roberts goes on national television blaming our credit rating downgrade on America's most sacred document.
Somehow I doubt Roberts would be bemoaning the majority's inability to ram through any legislation it wanted if the Republicans controlled the White House as well as both chambers of Congress. Liberals like her only decry divided government when they're in control.
But what shouldn't have missed the eyes of viewers was George Will shaking his head in the foreground as Roberts made this absurd comment.
Fans of his surely know how he believes one of America's greatest strengths is indeed divided government. As it pertains to the current debt issue, something Will wrote in September 2008 was amazingly prescient:
Divided government compels compromises that curb each party's excesses, especially both parties' proclivities for excessive spending when unconstrained by an institution controlled by the other party. William Niskanen, chairman of the libertarian Cato Institute, notes that in the past 50 years, "government spending has increased an average of only 1.73 percent annually during periods of divided government. This number more than triples, to 5.26 percent, for periods of unified government."
That bears repeating: "[I]n the past 50 years, 'government spending has increased an average of only 1.73 percent annually during periods of divided government. This number more than triples, to 5.26 percent, for periods of unified government.'"
As such, if your real goal is reduced spending, the divided government Roberts so despises is actually the answer.
It's certainly not surprising that she doesn't know this and Will does.
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That's rich!
Submitted by shannon76 on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 1:59pm.
I love the condescension in this clip where a hack journalist, Roberts, who has been a Beltway stenographer her whole life is speaking down to a man who has in his lifetime been: a. BYU placekicker, a Democrat before he met Ronald Reagan, and a business owner.
What does Cokie think we had with Obama, Pelosi, and Reid?
Submitted by TheHistorian on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 5:08am.
She can condescend all that she wants; she had her wonderful European dream for two years. If she doesn't think that Obama, Pelosi, and Reid was exactly a parliamentary form of government, then she has never seen that type of government in action. It was a government where the minority had no rights, if you remember that Obama himself said that "elections have consequences".
So, what was our consequence? We got unqualified people in the Cabinet and other Cingressional appointments (Eric Holder and Lisa Jackson, to name two), we got no budget, we got massive spikes in spending, and we got the health care fiasco to name four items. Cokie, you saw your vision of parliamentary government. And it sucked, which is why the American people chose to take away the huge Democrat Congressional majorities.because they were sick of the European model of one-party rule.
Dennis Prager
COKIE
Submitted by jjjj on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 6:33am.
i think this one is related to eleanor clift.....bwhaaahah
Pretty much every wheel came off this weekend ....
Submitted by Fredy on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 2:01pm.
Cokie Roberts should have this comment tossed into her face EVERY time she appears on TV ubtil she finally goes away.
Is it fair to question Cokie's patriotism? YES it is!
Wow, indeed. Just Wow!
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 2:18pm.
Yeah, like Obama said, it's this big messy thing called democracy...... Well, not true democracy, but we know what he meant. The inconvenient fact that he can't just do what he wants.
which actually does require people to come together from different perspectives whether it's divided government or not. -Roberts
And even if we didn't have that pesky constitution, just what the H does Cokie think would have been different in this mess if we had a parliament? Or even a majority-rules democracy? Parliament would still be arguing. In a pure democracy, they would be still out trying to have votes on this in every city and town in the country. Now wouldn't that be efficient???
I guess she thinks it's as simple as the president going on TV and saying "Show of hands....all in favor......"
Honestly, do these people ever think things through?
When I read that line from
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 2:39pm.
When I read that line from Boy Blah-Blah, I took it as an underhanded insult to our system of government - and if Barama could REALLY have his way, he wouldn't have to go through all of this 'big, messy' Constitutional process..........kinda like being a dictator, which is what he's been aiming for from day 1.
Oh, and Kookie..........about England and France??? They're really working out well, aren't they??? Maybe you outta be living over there if you like their form of government so much. Maybe you can get a nice apartment.........say.........right in the middle of some Mooooooooooooooooooslem area of town, where the police or fire departments won't even go near. Well........I think we've got places like that over here, except they're inhabited by Obama supporters.
Canada has a parliamentary system of government,
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 1:37pm.
but we were downgraded in the 90's. It took us nearly a decade to get back up to AAA level. I suggest that Ms. Roberts is either clueless, or a flat-out liar. Take your pick.
"There... Are... Four... Lights!"
You don't want straight majority rule, Cokie.
Submitted by Red Jeep on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 2:12pm.
What if the majority legalized rape?
No kidding.
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 2:14pm.
See my last line above.
Yes, they never think farther than the next step.
Submitted by Red Jeep on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 2:19pm.
Shallow thinkers, a common trait of liberals.
Yes, it was a liberal who
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 2:21pm.
Yes, it was a liberal who didn't think it through when he came up with the slogan "Winning the Future."
or ABC employees
Submitted by Samshile on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 4:11pm.
Become a union and get $20 an hour.
Some ideas are so wrong, that
Submitted by rgranger on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 2:16am.
Some ideas are so wrong, that compromising with them makes you just as stupid. Sometimes the proper and correct answer is NO! Not just no, but HELL NO! And I still don't know why Republicans feel the need to compromise with these really bad ideas, like raising the debt limit... To me it is like compromising with the postilion that it is a good idea to jump off a 1,000 ft cliff, but republicans always seem to find a way.
Compromise is a weapon - not a virtue.
Submitted by Don L on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 7:21am.
Compromise and bi-partisan or even post-partisan are buzzwords of the left, created in Hades to deceive.
Compromise: Eve did when she ate the apple.
Bi-partisan: drop your principles and join up with our non-principled agenda.
Post partisan: have no principles ever -like the constitution, they just get in the
way of our dictatorial impulses.
No, but I could back a bill making it OK
Submitted by johnsonl on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 6:08am.
to slap liberals repeatedly until they shut up.
For the left, something's
Submitted by rbosque on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 2:24pm.
For the left, something's ALWAYS wrong with the Constitution, it gets in thier way of absolute control. Nothing wron with the Constitution, something is definatley wrong with Cokie and the other mindless left.
Cokie the dope
Submitted by NotFondOfLibs on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 12:28am.
Cokie is just like every other lib who stands by the Constitution when is suits them and criticizes it when is doesn't support their position. Get lost Cokie. Your pathetic mentality is obvious and out of line. Get gone old woman.
yes.....those founding
Submitted by jjjj on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 6:39am.
yes.....those founding fathers what a collection of lightweights eh? not that they didn't write the most enlightened political document ever conceived by the mind of man......but lets all listen to our LITTLE SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE....COKIE...bhwhaaahah oh my goddddd!
thinkers of great thoughts
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 2:26pm.
You know,, what is really annoying about Ms Cokey and the rest of their ilk (and obama is also of this kind of ilk) is their automatic assumption of unassailable education and wisdom. obama can go into any room full of professionals and he assumes to be the smartest guy in the room even though his education is highly suspect. The arrogance of the Leftards is simply jaw-dropping. But here we are considering a person who's job is to read scripts and blather opinions and then she assumes to be a scholar on any topic brought forward, no matter how technical or obscure.
However, I remember the democrats screaming for their rightful place in the running of congress even though the Republicans had the Whitehouse and both chambers of congress. I remember the democrats saying that to not include them in legislation was to deny democrat voters their representation.
I wonder if Miss Nancy still
Submitted by Reaver on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 4:13pm.
I wonder if Miss Nancy still has her “rights of the minority” sitting in a drawer somewhere? She may start beating that dead horse again soon. Of course the last few years it was the republican minority she beat on. If they fall for that BS again they deserve to be had. Maybe she'll just whine about the good old days when elections didn't matter.
OHHHHHHHH YEAAAAAAAAAAA!
Submitted by GregE on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 2:39pm.
That DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN Constitution THANG!!!
kookie
Submitted by grammajane on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 2:51pm.
Sounds like she has been listening to bsnbc and leaned to far forward. Libs on display, with their elite no nothing agendas. Maybe she missed American History in her ivy league education
WTF
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 2:54pm.
Ancient Greece and Rome had no constitution. Isn't the same thing happening to America what happened to them? History has a way of repeating itself. Doesn't it?
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
Huh?
Submitted by mandrake on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 3:15pm.
Ok, so ancient Greece and Rome had no constitution and fell. America has a constitution and is going to fall because history repeats itself? Not sure I follow that.
The Point Is
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 3:51pm.
It doesn't matter if our government is run by constitution or not. It is destine to fail anyway. All governments end up getting too big to bail.
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
They Fail Because
Submitted by Joe W. on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 4:00pm.
They failed because they lost their sense of values and they lost their moral compass. They adopted a wide open, Godless attitude and their culture and civility collapsed, right along with their economies and social structure. And we are well along our way. Just as the Bible has prophesied.
Amen,
Submitted by almostacowboy on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 4:42pm.
Brother Joe.
We asked for this, without greed envy, and degeneracy.
Submitted by Don L on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 7:14am.
Amen, but remember, they are only what we have asked them to be -this is not Caesars time anymore. Democracy has made us the "Caesar" the power to decide all societal things, and we have proven to be as degenerate as he was. Freedom misued is an ugly thing.
That's a keeper
Submitted by mandrake on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 4:07pm.
Gonna save that one.
Who Watches the Watchers
Submitted by Avitar on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 5:08pm.
The Strongest point in the Constitution was that the Senate was selected by the state legislatures. This put the full time politicians from the states watching over the Federal Government's conduct. This worked until changing technology put too much power into the hands of a few "Press Barons." They wanted the country to do certain things that were inherently stupid and removed the impediments to their getting what they wanted. The 17th amendment gave them direct elections of the US Senate and the Federal Reserve the flexible squishy dollar. This was a form of Government which had never lasted more than fifty odd years in history.
The US had a lot of momentum and we passed the previous record in the '70's. Since then we have been on borrowed time.
The plane for for north korea
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 3:06pm.
The plane for for north korea leaves in ten minutes, be on it you stupid communist slut.
we were warned
Submitted by spepper on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 3:14pm.
We were warned a long long time ago, by the very framers of that Constitution that "Cokie" complained about-- they said to be VERY discerning as to whom we elected into positions of high (federal) office-- that if we didn't, we would ALL find ourselves one day, in the category of those who "....vote for themselves security, over LIBERTY, end up with NEITHER".
yep the famous words of Sam
Submitted by jkwtrading on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 3:21pm.
yep the famous words of Sam Adams do you value your comfort over your freedom. we can carry his words out to the final conclusion which is New Hampshire motto. "live free or die".. we are getting closer to potentially reliving our second revolution, set up the same way as the first.
Our Tories are D's and liberals..
Sam Adams?
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 4:13pm.
Thought it was Ben Franklin that said that. Here's the verbatim:
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Either way, very important words.
And in my estimation, Cokie doesn't deserve to be in this country if she thinks the way she does about the US Constitution. Or anyone else. Including Barry Soetoro. I don't know why they just can't leave this country for one more to their liking.
-Jon
Oh the Constitution
Submitted by ricklail on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 3:37pm.
such a pesky little thing for the left.
Cokie and her druthers ...
Submitted by metaphorsbwithu on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 3:41pm.
We just had 2 years of Cokie's druthers with one-party liberal Democrat rule and look what it's gotten us, Cokie?
Trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see, ObamaCare which was opposed by most Americans, real green thrown away on phoney green projects, widespread unemployment, a diminishing role on the world stage, the dissing of our most faithful allies, massive growth of government and union influence, attacks on states by the administration and particularly the DOJ ... and so on.
Divided government?
Right, ma'am, that's the whole idea.
It's supposed to prevent the kinds of things we are going through now.
"It is often exceedingly difficult to---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 5:22pm.
undo the 'good ' that do-gooders do."
A quote from somewhere back in the mists of time that was undoubtedly aimed originally at a liberal.
MD
Rightly so, matthewdean, and furthermore
Submitted by metaphorsbwithu on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 10:43pm.
Perhaps the most pointed quotation of all, known by most and which should be known by all:
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good
of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live
under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
"The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may
at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good
will torment us without end for they do so with the approval
of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis
metaphorsbwithu---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 10:47pm.
Excellent, indeed !
I tip my hat to you.
MD
I believe in your case...it's
Submitted by Barack Must Go on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 4:01pm.
I believe in your case...it's actually constipation Pepsi.
Yeah, that Constitution thingy can be a real PITA
Submitted by Dave. on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 4:12pm.
Especially if you're a freedom and liberty-hating totalitarian statist commie puke.
-Dave
Amen, Brother Dave.
Submitted by almostacowboy on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 4:46pm.
My thoughts exactly (or close enough).
Hahahahahaha!!! Oh Cokie,must
Submitted by amyshulk on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 4:14pm.
Hahahahahaha!!! Oh Cokie,must you say everything that pops into your empty head???
Ronald Reagan
Democrats are starting...
Submitted by okiehawk44 on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 4:17pm.
I'm beginning to notice more Democrats blaming everything on anybody or on anything other than themselves and their group -- does that signify anything? To me it does -- I think they are starting to unravel and to flail about not in defense but in utter frustration that theories long held do not work -- like spending more to lower debt or collapsing the use of proven natural resources of which America has an abundance in order to encourage the use of windmills and solar panels made in other countries.
These folks -- many of them anyway -- know better and know they have dedicated their entire lives to theories that don't work or don't work well or don't work in a real life situation.
These are death throes not well thought out defensive positions.
I find it pitiful to watch not as a victor but as an opponent -- and I smile.
I agree totally, we actually
Submitted by jkwtrading on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 5:44pm.
I agree totally, we actually have a very positive time coming...for the D's its pure hell but pure blue skies for us.
Cokie Roberts Washington Born And Raised.
Submitted by Avitar on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 4:46pm.
Her dad was an important Democrat Party committee Chairman who died in office. Her mother took over the seat when her father died not as a place holder but rather occupying the seat until retirement.
Cokie has Washington red ink running through her veins and is all Washington all the time.
I was shocked when I was twelve to hear somebody like Cokie Roberts resenting the best of the United States Government but the idea that some people are going to attack the fundamental pillars of the United States is something everyone has to get used to.
Cokie's biggest problem ...
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 5:45pm.
... is that she inherited her daddy's alcohol problem. The dumb broad has been drunk the majority of the time she has lived in D.C.
I don't even want to know why she is called "Cokie." I guess after trying to drink the town dry, she moved on to bigger and better stuff?
That is a helluva moniker to
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 6:24pm.
That is a helluva moniker to carry around, huh??? Maybe she had a boyfriend named 'Blowfly'??? You know.............I've met some 'classy broads' before.........so I don't think that the word is neccessarily negative...........but in her case, you got it right.
Is anyone else shocked or
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 4:51pm.
Is anyone else shocked or even embarrassed how a political philosophy that's literally filled with airheads managed to become so powerful in the USA? Cokie Roberts isn't just some fluke extremist Leftist saying something wildly stupid. Roberts isn't even a mainstream Leftist mouthing off something that's probably the polar opposite of something she said on camera while the Republicans held everything. Roberts is a member of the Leftwing ELITE! She is someone that other Leftists look up to and aspire to become and she is an idiot!
The Left fills the media with Leftists that should inspire others with their wisdom, and all they do is put up airheads! Behar, Maher, Roberts, Matthews, Couric, and get placed on pedestals and they are nothing but raving lunatics!
It's embarrassing that the Left managed to become so powerful.
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What is sad is that a retard
Submitted by buddyc on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 4:50pm.
What is sad is that a retard like her has a national forum.
I also watched the former Fed Chair Greenspan answer a question about the debt problem by answering "We can just print money". I am shattered that we have people like Greenspan in positions of authority in the government and Roberts in position of authority in the media.
It is not surprising we are in the shape we are in. These two people represent what got us here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Cokie the Evil Doer
Submitted by zotmania on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 4:56pm.
I wish George Will had said, "Cokie, you ignorant slut." Yeah, sounds about right.
Did Cokie say we should get
Submitted by balboa on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 5:21pm.
Did Cokie say we should get rid of the constitution or that it's a bad thing?
re: Cokie's stupid, ignorant comment
Submitted by DrJackRyan on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 5:35pm.
Cookie Cokie: The US Constitution was designed to do just what you and obmarx are complaining about. Having the legislative process as outlined in the Constitution prevents Congress from acting hastily, i.e, it forces thorough debate. I'd rather have what we have than a government that could act too quick with a high risk of being in more trouble than where we are at today. Our Constitution was carefully constructed and thought out and I am glad we have it as it is. Good catch, Noel.
Can't we do better than has beens like Cokie?
Submitted by Herbster on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 5:33pm.
Hey, Cokie! You should be thrilled about the "Rights" given to people in this country..........you have a "Right" to all the Jack Daniels you can drink! Salut!
Cokie
Submitted by Curly on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 5:55pm.
Hell ain't gonna be hot enough for Cokie and her ilk!
"Cokie" must be short for "incoherent harpy".
Submitted by drsamherman on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 6:19pm.
When she gets it wrong, she gets it monumentally wrong. I would advise her to retire so she can deal with her senility.
Everyone sitting there should be ashamed
Submitted by JDL on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 7:30pm.
They just sat there and let her get away with spewing her progressive nonsense.
They are showing their true colors and if we keep pushing them to the "back of the bus" we should be able to send them over the edge.
They are just dying to get violent and take it out on the Tea Party.
Just wait till 2012 when they are relegated to sweeping the floors of Congress.
The Constitution is the problem
Submitted by Robersire on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 9:41pm.
Yeah and English as the number one language. Conservative judges. Freedom of speech, of religion the right to bear arms, law and order, elections and responsibility of individuals, males who are Christians and broccoli.
An unnamed source said that Obama plans on confiscating the Union pensions after he wins in 2012. At least we have one thing to get excited about if the B.O. wins.
She's just following the lead
Submitted by Slyrr on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 10:28pm.
She's just following the lead of her 'messiah'. Obama said, mourningly, 'Problem is we've got this big, messy thing called 'Democracy'!'
By which he clearly intended to say, 'If you'd just crown me King and make me a flat-out dictator, I could kill everyone I don't like and fix all this!'
Just like he said about China during their state dinner visit. 'I really envy you Chinese. You don't have to put up with the media, you can just kill them! I wish I could be King of China instead of President of this big, messy Democracy!'
And the libutards are again saying now how much they wish they could destroy the Constitution and rewrite the law of the land so they can do whatever they want.
Be afraid people. They're tyrants feeling their Cheerios and they're only going to keep getting bolder and worse the more they think they can 'get away' with their lies.
Greece and Rome
Submitted by jaydeee007 on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 10:40pm.
They failed because they lost their sense of values -- Check
and they lost their moral compass. -- Check
They adopted a wide open, Godless attitude -- Check
and their culture and civility collapsed, -- Check
right along with their economies and social structure. -- Check
The only thing I would add is that we have begun the process of miking the Constitution an irrelavant Document in the minds of our young people and thus attempting to prohibit a return to the Constitutional Principles that girded our nation.
The Tea Party is rising up to counter that trend and if they succeed we can, for once, break the cycle of historical repetition.
Clearly we have more than ten righteous men in the United States of America, so there is Real Hope! (not the kind Obozo sells)
What's this "we" crap?
Submitted by CobraMan on Sun, 08/07/2011 - 10:45pm.
"And the problem that we have here is the Constitution of the United States of America which actually does require people to come together from different perspectives whether it's divided government or not."
What's this "we" crap? You got a mouse in your pocket? Hay, Cookie, has it ever occurred to you that "different perspectives" may actually be a good thing? After all, it was a "different perspective" that allowed women the right to vote, correct?
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Darn that pesky Constitution anyway!
Submitted by panzerakc on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 12:22am.
I mean, gee whiz, Cokie, who needs that nasty old thing, anyway. Who would need a document that, among other things, gives women the right to vote!
Tolerant liberal
Submitted by Cactus Kurt on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 12:30am.
Tolerant liberal is an oxymoron.
Cookie Roberts is an Idiot.
Submitted by pcnav on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 2:47am.
This "woman" is attempting to undermine our constitution and saying that France and Britain have a better parliamentary system? I wonder if she has seen the news that European socialist programs are crashing and burning faster than those of the American evil democRATs.
BTW... just what make Cookie Roberts an expert on this or any subject?
When it comes to the constitution I took a vow upon entering military service to support and defend the constitution and I will stand adamantly against you Cookie Roberts, to keep this document in place.
Yep, make no mistake the left
Submitted by msh1973 on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 7:14am.
Yep, make no mistake the left in this County want to do away with the Constitution....wow. Just when you thought these folks couldn't get any crazier.
Dear Cookie...
Submitted by Motormouth KOS on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 6:58am.
Have you been hanging with Randy Madcow?
Your hair looks pretty butch and the crap you are spewing is almost as stupid as Randy's.
Just wondering
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It is our God given freedom they loathe
Submitted by Don L on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 7:05am.
We'd be remiss in not understanding fully that she speaks for the entire left when she says this. We cannot fail to understand what they (and Obama) mean when they openly loath the constitution as if it were a merely a poorly written piece of legislation instead of the culmination of centuries of seeking freedom from govermental despots, whether kings or conqueors.
It's entire foundation rests on one premise that they cannot accept. That man is a free creature soley because God has so created him, a creature of dignity, capable of love or destruction, unlike any other creature. Control-freaks cannot tolerate man having free choice -so they must dump the competition, the very God that has created man to be free. Having eliminated God from our public culture , they must now eliminate the key reference to God's untouchable declaration that man is to remain free regardless of despotic desires by worldly powers -the pinnicle of which is the Constitution of the USA. They are on a collective warpath toward its destruction -when Time magazine asks boldly - if it is relevant anymore, and the president openly loathes its restrictions upon despotic impulses (that civilian army thing again -or was that just a dream - Obama's desire for a Red Guard, or brown shirts, or will the SEIU and the Black Panthers do for now?)
What man(including both both parties) has failed to understand is that he also, with that freedom has responsibilities. But modern man has also largely rejected his Creator's directions and misused that freedom. He instead chooses to believe that freedom is like Swiss cheese -where he can pretend no difference between the holes and the nourishing cheese itself.
These control-freak folks cannot be gods unto themselves (precisely what all control freaks attempt to become) without first getting rid of God and His moral dictates, so we have created a degenerate society with twin financial cancers - "I want it all, now' and its opposite, "Covetous envy of the Soak the rich," mantra of the left."
Those two Godless paths seem to reflect the core thinking of our two political parties as they view how to manipulate fallen man for their own end. (Let's set aside social issues -killing innocents isn't a big deal - not as important as money)
SO I GUESS IT'S OK
Submitted by BobAnthony on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 7:40am.
TO HATE THE SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND TO ALLOW THE NEW WORLD ORDER TO SETTLE IN WITH SHARIA LAW! TYPICAL OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD CRAP FROM THE BANKSTER ELITE MEDIA WHO CREATE THE FALSE LEFT-RIGHT PARADIGM!
ROBERTS, YOU ARE MEDIA ELITE SCUM AND WAIT TILL JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO HEARS OF THIS!
The reason the media is corrupt? Two words...OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD!
MOCKINGBIRD - The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA
Hey, Bob check this out:
Submitted by lrgon on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 11:32am.
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/behind-the-big-news-propaganda-and-the-cfr/
Hypocrisy on the left of us; hypocrisy to the right us.
Submitted by lrgon on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 11:29am.
Quick to point out the liberals' ignorance concerning the Constitution but mum when it comes to conservatives trashing it. Roberts is wrong.There is no question about that. But where are the conservatives when a totally unconstitutional agency like the DHS is being created in the heels of another unconstitutional law called the "patriot act?"
Roberts may be a total dweeb when it comes to commenting on things she knows nothing about but put "national defense" or "patriot" in front of bad law and conservatives cheer for its passage.
How dumb can you get?
Submitted by Abu_Nudnik on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 1:16pm.
Your mistake: The Constitution is not the most cherished document IT IS THE LAW.
Her mistake: Only in the case of a majority government. Minority governments in Canada, for instance, certainly must garner votes for Bills from other parties.
How many years has she been at this?