Two wrongs don’t make a right. But sometimes they make the point.

Besides, this shows Obama as weak: the Bush/Cheney administration grabbed arbitrary powers wherever they could, invaded two countries, created Homeland Security, gutted environmental legislation, slashed taxes for the uber rich… Obama couldn’t even institute a decent national health service or restore taxation to sane levels. I guess constitutional scholars are too respectful of laws to actually try to impose new ones.

The two-but-really-just-one-on-some-topics-party system is certainly broken at a fundamental level, but that doesn’t make weak politicians like BO any better in comparison.

Article I, Section 6

So, if the Congress passes a law and the President signs it into law and the Supreme Court upholds the law as, in their opinion, not being unconstitutional, then what makes the law unconstitutional?

 It is frankly shocking how far authority worship can go.  

Your opinion of it?

Yes.  There is a reason the document begins with the words “We the People of the United States.”   The Constitution belongs to us, not the Supreme Court.

It is a document that clearly spells out who we are and what we want, and if we decide it isn’t clear enough, we are the only authority in this country with the power to clarify it through our State Legislatures.

So yeah, if the People of the several States say its unconstitutional, that’s where the buck really stops.

Instead of telling us all how important they are, Congress needs to convene the Article V hearings they are Constitutionally obligated to call since by now all FIFTY states have called for a convention to propose amendments.

Then for openers, the repeal of the 17th amendment should be immediately proposed and ratified.

Re-establishing sanity after 8 years of imperial rule by GWB…

Since that implies that government in general and the White House in particular would have to give back some of the powers that they’ve seized, I’m pretty sure that not doing that is a bipartisan goal.

…advancing a strong progressive agenda to reduce inequalities and help the lower middle classes.

One of the major parties, which shall remain nameless, seems to have based its platform on the idea that ‘reducing inequalities’ will lead to the death and dismemberment of the lower middle classes and all other right-thinking, God-fearing, patriotic Americans. That leaves the one party that still refuses to give up power and still jumps when its corporate masters whistle, but at least doesn’t say that gay marriage causes tornadoes.

It really appeals to me because it offers an absurd, pessimistic view of doing what you believe (at a point in time) to be the right thing to do. That just speaks to me, you know?

We’re talking about voting for people who have few (if any) qualms about supporting our wars of aggression that have resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths. Can we talk about your privilege in not being one of the millions of displaced peoples in the countries we’ve occupied?

I can be worried about your right to marry at the same time that I worry about it being perfectly legal to send you to jail by fiat. And you don’t just get to pick one of those things. The question is which one you want first.

Who was it that said a while ago how today’s Democrats are more right-wing than Richard Nixon? Do you think that trend is just going to stop because we vote for them?

Edit: For the sake of clarity, I do not want any Republicans winning. I’d rather have a Democrat than a Republican, but I’m more interested in all of us who aren’t far-right using something other than fear of the alternative to decide our vote. Nudging those goal posts back is going to help the powerful, not us.

As for Santorum in particular? I’m white, straight and male. Those privileges wouldn’t count for much once we get to everything else I believe, do, and have done.

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I’d rather we all deal with multiple Santorum terms than continue this good cop / bad cop nonsense forever.

I’d rather not deal with someone who wants to put sodomy laws in force, annul all gay marriages and make abortion illegal. When you stand on principle and other people have to take the consequences, that doesn’t make you a principled person; it just means that you’re skating on privilege.

Hope I can believe in!

I give up, I must admit I dont give a flying fart anymore.  Screw em all, let GOD sort you out…

What is the continuation of this farce of a ballroom dance between two sects of authoritarians going to accomplish? Apparently not wake us the fuck up from this fugue state.

What if we don’t warily cast our progressive votes for the Democrats?

Maybe the Republicans will try to censor the internet and support perpetual war. Maybe the Republicans will create some sci-fi dystopia where they can indefinitely detain us on a whim?