E-mail updates
Follow on Twitter
Subscribe to RSSPresident Barack Obama’s nominee to fill one of the vacancies on the powerful appeals court in Washington withdrew Friday, two weeks after the Senate blocked her from a getting a confirmation vote.
The National Rifle Association had opposed New York attorney Caitlin Halligan due to her involvement while Solicitor General for the state of New York in a lawsuit against gun manufacturers. The NRA said she had tried to undermine a federal law which prohibited lawsuits against gun manufacturers in cases involving criminal misuse of firearms.
But Doug Kendall of the Constitutional Accountability Center, a group supporting Halligan, said that “these arguments against Ms. Halligan were largely based on her work as a lawyer for a client -- primarily as the solicitor general of the State of New York. It is always very dangerous to attribute to a lawyer positions taken on behalf of a client; all lawyers are required to represent their clients’ interests zealously, and they violate their ethical obligations if they fail to do so.”
In a vote on March 6, the Senate fell nine votes short of the 60 needed under Senate rules to end debate on Halligan’s nomination. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, was the only senator to cross party lines and vote to move ahead on Halligan’s nomination.
In a statement released by the White House, Obama said he was "deeply disappointed that even after nearly two and a half years, a minority of Senators continued to block a simple up-or-down vote on her nomination." He called the filibuster "unjustified."
Halligan’s withdrawal spotlighted Republicans’ use of the filibuster to block several of Obama’s nominees, including another appeals court nominee, Goodwin Liu, whom Obama picked to serve on Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. A filibuster threat scuttled Liu’s nomination in 2011.
Ironically, one of the Washington lawyers who supported Halligan’s confirmation was Miguel Estrada, whose confirmation to the same appeals court in Washington was blocked by a Senate Democratic filibuster in 2003.
Halligan, who served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, is now general counsel at the Manhattan district attorney’s office.
In a statement Friday, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D- Vt., called Halligan “amongst the most qualified judicial nominees I have seen from any administration. It is a shame that narrow, special interests hold such influence that Senate Republicans for two years blocked an up-or-down vote on her confirmation.”
The court on which Halligan would have served if confirmed, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, is the second most powerful in the federal judiciary because many federal regulations, from environmental rules to labor laws, are decided there.
The D.C. Circuit court “is more important than the Supreme Court because on so many of the issues that go there, they will have the final word,” Leahy said two weeks ago when discussing Halligan’s nomination. “The Supreme Court will never hear all the requests for appeals from the D.C. Circuit.”
Leave a Comment:
Good, for the NRA!
Political process is hijacked by special interest groups.
We the People......Don't give up, never give in.
Yea sister. Good for the money grubbing gun loons who have the blood of children dripping from their hands.
And the Democrats have NEVER fillibustered to block nominations based on their own special interests???
Like all pigs you stink!
If Bloomberg opposes someone and spends a couple extra million to see them go down in flames...
well...thats just great
somebody else gets deep sixed by another party
boo hoo whaaa...life is cruel...so unfair
cry me a river
Democrats never abused the filibuster to this extent. Go check the records before you run your mouth.
Gun manufacturers win and republican followers think they won something? Only winners are the gun manufacturers not americans. Are you people really that stupid
I would call Mr. "Pocket Veto" Progressive~Liberal~Democrat Reid's blocking House legislation from hitting the Senate floor for voting "UNJUSTIFIED", "UN-AMERICAN", and "ANTI-DEMOCRATIC".
Talk about a ONE PERSON filibuster.
Good for the NRA. Now, it is high time to create a bon fire with the 17,000 pages of regulations in ObamaDoesNotCare.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BTW: Are those two UNCONSTITUTIONAL NLRB appointees still working for the government ?
Why is JUSTICE a victory for the NRA? If someone has the background of this person, then they should have recused themselves from the position..... isn't THAT what being a JUDGE is about?
Whenever the NRA wins, the United States loses.
Veronica.......Fighting to protect our bill of rights is winning for all Americans. We when decide to start eliminating those rights, we all lose. Please try to defend taking away the right of a father to protect his children and explain to me how that is a good thing.
The NRA has hamstrung the ATF department through lobbying. The ATF cannot do research, they cannot use any research to formulate policy, they cannot confirm a director. All due to the NRA. So, the NRA has effectively cancelled out the very agency that is supposed to oversee them.
5 million members dictating policy for 300 million Americans.
Conflict of interest, New Yok Lawyer, never fired a gun. Three stikes, move on to the next scapegoat.
No need to defend it because that IS NOT WHAT IS HAPPENING!
No one is proposing taking away anyone's rights. Except perhaps you inside your head. We are saying you don't need a semi-automatic weapon to defend those rights!
"The National Rifle Association had opposed New York attorney Caitlin Halligan due to her involvement while Solicitor General for the state of New York in a lawsuit against gun manufacturers. The NRA said she had tried to undermine a federal law which prohibited lawsuits against gun manufacturers in cases involving criminal misuse of firearms."
What we voters need to know now is who the NRA is throwing their money at..then vote them out. WHat are we paying for politicans for if they are more concerned with money from powerful lobbyist that do not have this nations interest at heart..only profits. This should go for every bill that congress takes up..find out who their lobbyist with deep pockets are ..and then vote out that politican untill lobbyist are stopped completely. If we want an honest good government..this should have to be done..
PAF, There was nothing proposed that suggest the repealing of the 2nd amendment. Just an assault weapon ban which has been done before (Reagan). You all are getting ridiculous with the claims that our rights are being taken away. What other rights are we losing?
So, are all of you gun lovers saying you are OK with the NRA shaping government and judicial policy? These are people whom you did not choose and did not vote into office. You would let these people, and the gun manufacturers for whom they front, make policy? And you think that's democracy?
This has nothing to do with banning people from voting,
We just want to end women's suffrage!!!
Can you go with that Veronica? Do you see how stupid that sounds?
Put that hole to good use and earn money but not by speaking!
You same people have no problem packing a court with your own special needs judges.
Nra money talks and democracy be damned
Desoto for one what the hell are you talking about and two you are the weakest of weak men. Im sure you are single and currently streaming porn as we speak
Yes, it's very good for the NRA that they hold such sway over the Republican political machine. It isn't so good for most Americans though. I wonder if there is a standard charge per filibuster or if prices vary.
Veronica is a prime example of how the progressive-controlled school system and media have brainwashed the unsophisticated ignoramuses among us, who think it's just peachy for the government to control every aspect of their lives so they can focus entirely on reality TV, People Magazine, rap music and procreating without benefit of marriage.
"No one is proposing taking away anyone's rights. Except perhaps you inside your head. We are saying you don't need a semi-automatic weapon to defend those rights!"
Uhh, yes, you do. In most cases a semi-automatic pistol, but semi-auto nonetheless. Plus, semi-automatics are included in those rights. Many liberals say, we're not banning your guns, just the assault weapons. What!? You ARE banning my guns if I want to buy an AR-15!!!
Personally I want a drone.
Veronica25...What the gun rights groups are talking about is not that someone is talking about taking away rights (at least not yet) but the fact that if they start to chip away a the second amendment how long will it be before it is gone completely and if it falls what is next the 4th
OH ! In your FACE ODUMBO !!!!!
Veronica you take away or water down the 2nd amendment and the 1st 4th 6th 7th and 10th will follow. Actually Obama has already done away with the 4th 6th and 7th by abusing the presidency in deciding which Americans can be killed by drone strike.
Stand4truth you are a moron and have learned nothing from history.
The NRA can't block anyone. MSNBC can however get the teeth gnashing, mouth frothing left to start their rhetoric. How about Biden and Bloomberg pushing the Colorado gun control measures or maybe Bloomberg threatening those who don't follow his path. Selective memories on the left huh?
I wonder if Ozzie Boy is simply ignorant, or does he intentionally deceive? Democrats were the FIRST to filibuster appeals court nominees during the George W Bush administration . George W. Bush nominated Estrada to a position on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on May 9, 2001. He received a unanimous "well-qualified" rating from the American Bar Association. On February 12 2003, Miguel Estrada, a nominee for the D.C. Circuit, became the first court of appeals nominee ever to be filibustered.[12] Later, nine other conservative court of appeals nominees were also filibustered. These nine were Priscilla Owen, Charles W. Pickering, Carolyn Kuhl, David W. McKeague, Henry Saad, Richard Allen Griffin, William H. Pryor, William Gerry Myers III and Janice Rogers Brown.[13] Three of the nominees (Estrada, Pickering and Kuhl) withdrew their nominations before the end of the 108th Congress.
Hypocrite Senator Patrick Leahy voted to filibuster these conservative nominees. Now he whines about leftwingers being filibustered. He ought to be ashamed of himself. But, like most liberals, he has no shame.
Veronica,
Nice to know that as soon as your position is threatened you resort to personal attacks. That says a great deal about your character.
If it is alright to roll back Amendments, then Im sure you will be ok if ALL electronic media is censored at the governments will then? Because THAT was done before too and if you can restrict certain portions of the 2nd Amendment we should be able to do the same with the 1st, 4th and 5th as well.
chip away at one and they will all fall shortly after? sounds like the good ole "domino theory" we all heard about and one of the reasons to get involved with VietNam. What a bunch of hooey
We don't need a bias in the courtroom. When judges try and rewrite the Constitution from a chair without due process in the legislative branch we only weaken the foundations of the government.
Seriously? You're going to go with the "but they did it first" approach?
How about this angle instead?
The GOP has used the filibuster more times in the last four years than in any other time since it's inception. Meaning, there has never been any other Presidency that has had so many delays, hold ups and so few bills passed through the use if it.
The GOP has sent a budget every year to the Senate. I am pretty sure we can all agree on that. What you wont agree with though, is that every budget and every bill that came out of the GOP led House in the last four years, had the repeal of the AHCA, or some type of conception rhetoric in it. To intentionally send something to the Senate, knowing it wont be passed or even be brought to the floor, adds a whole new dimension to the overly abused filibuster.
@ Veronica & Stand4Truth - Amazing! Absolutely amazing! You are both constitutional experts, and government experts! What do you know about the NRA? What do you even know about firearms? I mean really? Actual facts? Not just the crap that the libtards have filled you with. Real facts. Real truth. Take a class on the constitution, learn from a REAL person what it really means, not a politician, and find a firearms expert, and take a class, not one of your libtards! Take it from someone that actually knows something truthful!!!
sbr-1133749
When your kids use that defense does it work for you?
I understand that politicians act like children but the "he did it first" and "I know you are but what am I?" stuff is a habit I really wish they'd quit. When we start justifying it for them it is really making me wonder if the "adults" in Washington really have our best interests at heart and we really shouldn't be excusing that behavior.
Stand4truth, you obviously shouldn't own a firearm, you need anger management. Your post said you would like a gun to "take care of these fools". You're so against violence you want to kill to make your point.
Awww too bad Sooooo sad. The hypocritical democrats didn't get their way and now they are all upset. ROTFLMAO!!!
LOL.. you people are laughable... really nuts. Had Planned Parenthood lobbied and blocked a Pro-Life nominee to the exact same post, WHAT WOULD YOUR SILLY SONG BE THEN?
You people make hypocrites look like hypocrites.
That lady was deeply, philosophically hostile to firearms civil rights and the Second Amendment. She could NEVER be impartial on that issue and deserved to be rejected. Our courts are supposed to be dispassionate, but the left is increasingly insisting on philosophical alignment with their view, or absolute silence -- hiding the judges real views -- until after the appointment.
This is really more important than any damned election!
Kagan and Sotomayor LIED about their Second Amendment views during the hearings --- UNDER OATH I MIGHT ADD--- and when pressed used obfuscation and parsed their statements with phrases like "Heller is settled law" in order to gain the appointment, now that they are on that bench, a LIFETIME job, they are crawling out from under their rocks and showing their anti-second amendment predilections.
A mistake for President can be undone in four years.
A mistake for Senator in six.
A mistake for Representative in TWO.
A mistake on the Federal bench, especially the SCOTUS, is for a LIFETIME!!!
Those nine UNELECTED people in black actually RULE this Nation, thanks to Marbury v. Madison.
Hmmm? Blame the NRA when others use the ACLU, GLADD, etc.
Can you say "hypocrite"?
It is absolutely amazing how these threads can get the dander up of some folks and get them to say the darnedest things. And most are just oft repeated platitudes meant to rile and inflame the masses and the ill-informed. Can not some just stop and think for their dang selves?
The minute a conservative group uses any sway in the political arena, it is a very bad thing for liberals so they must IMMEDIATELY go on the attack. This need is so bad that they must make up statistics, or quote lies and half truths from liberal organizations, web sites, and heroes. Would it be okay to say that the baby killers at Planned Parenthood have the blood of millions of innocents, including the unborn, born and poor mothers, on their hands by using their political sway for decades in the abortion debates and votes? Would comments like this be considered rude and offensive? If so, then are not the comments that legal gun owners have the "blood of the innocent" on their hands be equally offensive? Yet Libs seem to use this as a talking point when ever the gun issue is debated.
As I have been saying for years, more people have died in the front seat of a Kennedy Car than by every gun in my gun case.
Here pig, here pig....soowee, soowee
Veronica spewed the same old tired old communist propoaganda.
There was nothing proposed that suggest the repealing of the 2nd amendment. Just an assault weapon ban which has been done before (Reagan). You all are getting ridiculous with the claims that our rights are being taken away.
Limiting the arms we may bear is an ifringement (something prohibited by the Constitution) of my 2nd amendment rights and as such makes it a right taken away from me (and before anyone asks about fully automatic weapons, yes, I can, and do legally own them).
"...What other rights are we losing?..."
I know of a few American citizens who had their right to a trial by jury of their peers taken away when photo opbama ordered their execution by drone.
Absolutely True! Democrats don't like to see this as up for political debate, because they are so close-minded. Do you realize how many times we hear them talking about the killing of children by guns, all the while they have no problem killing babies in the womb just because their mothers did not want them?
Once again, democrats have a double standard.
Guess what !!! When you try to place a judge into a position purely based on the direction of the political winds WE ALL LOSE !!
For those who are confused:
The NRA did not filibuster. Forty-nine Senators did. Those forty-nine Senators were elected, primarily by people who agree with the NRA on this point.
Now, for those of you who dislike automatic weapons in the hands of citizens rather than government, you should appreciate the sentiment of "don't like 'em? don't buy one?" and be satisfied in knowing that, by stepping aside, you are protecting people's "right to choose."
The NRA stands up for our RIGHTS and you looney liberals can't even see it. Pathetic......
Hate to change the subject but this is to funny;
The Louisanna Purchase $15,000,000
The Alaska Purchase $7,200,000
The Manhatten Island Purchase $24
Joe Biden's 2 night hotel bill in Feburary $1,044,388.50 (Yes, folks that's over 1 million dollars)
Joe said he'd cover the 50 cents.
From all of us here in the U.S. we can only say, "Thanks Joe"
PS. Hey "Progressives", nice candidate you're grooming for 2016. Good luck with that!
This is the political process! If one party tries to slip through a candidate which is too extreme, the other side, if possible, does everything it can do to stop it! How many times did groups like "Code Pink", the ACLU, etc. try to stop the nomination of a George Bush candidate? Oh, I guess that is OK because you libs agree with their motives. But if a conservative group tries to protect their rights or preferences it is horrible and should be banned! Yes, you liberals are complete and total hypocrites!
NRA= $$$$$$$$$$$$$$....Has nothing to do with the constitution...it's all about making profits.
Just like the greedy rich dupe the low intelligence middle class (the lower than top 5% rich) to vote against their self interests by voting for repubs, the NRA dupes that segment of low information and self-esteem people to NOT reign in some of the thousands of deaths of American life over their profits.
Yes, and the billions of dollars going to soon-to-be bankrupt "Green Energy" companies is absolutely not politics? Guess what was the largest debtor (a promised political donation) that Solyndra owed when they went bankrupt? Ding, ding, ding.... it was the California Democrat Party! Just another sign of the rampant hypocrisy that flows through the veins of every card-carrying liberal who supports Obama and his socialist-leaning buddies!
Gee, starsailing, those who will never be rich always find a way to blame someone else for their lack of ability and/or ambition.
So I put a six position adjustable polymer stock on my black powder muzzle loader. By defenition I guess I now own an "assault weapon" hahahaha.
A semi automatic rifle with black plastic parts is not an "assault weapon". An "assault weapon" by definition, is a firearm equipped with a selector switch allowing it to operate in various modes of "automatic" fire.
The constitution is above party affiliation, end of discussion.
ED-2874315 so, Michael Bloomberg isn't buying politicians? He readily admits he does and proud of it. Yea, his money talks.
And Starsailing, just to let you know.... The county with the fastest growing rate of income just happens to be one in Virginia that borders D.C.! All of that money that is flowing into the federal coffers is now flowing into the "New 1%", or the liberal intelligentsia! That is how liberals make their money now, through "governing" and taking as much as possible!
HAHA you gun grabbing P.O.S. lose again!!!!!
It was GREAT! to hear the Prez utter a real word (as in non-fantasy) and IN CONTEXT! "UNJUSTIFIED"
Good Night.
Me, I agree with each party on some things and disagree on others. I don't like the extreme elements of either party. But I know that the Second Amendment was put into the Constitution for a reason. The people had just fought off a tyrannical government. They wanted to be prepared to do so again if need be.
This rather mixes party lines. But I hope to get through to some people. If some president calls himself "the decider," proclaims himself dictator for life, and send the troops in to "deal with" anyone who is unhappy with the situation, I want the people to be able to fight back. And don't say anything about the ballot box, because in that case, the ballot box is GONE!
I just have two words for all you crybaby libs... Robert Bork!
Another DEFEAT FOR OBOZO THE CLOWN & his LAPDOG LITTLE MUSSOLINI CUOMO
So VERONICA says, "There was nothing proposed that suggest repealing the 2nd Amendment. Just an assault weapon ban which has been done before (REAGAN)."
RONI, RONI, RONI, you are really showing your ignorance about the topic of which you write, and should consider quitting posting before you make yourself look even more foolish. For everyone knows that it was knob gobbler Monica Lewinsky's oval office bubba, Bill Clinton, who signed the assault weapons ban into law in 1994.
Regarding Reagan, perhaps you're thinking of him since it was the Democrats in the Senate who blocked his Supreme Court Justice nominee, Robert Bork, in 1987. The Democrats who blocked Reagan's nominee included Joe Biden, Ted Kennedy, Al Gore, Harry Reid, and John Kerry. Ironic how opinions change when the shoe is on the other foot.
excellent- our constitutional rights are further protected from the liberals who seek to have our freedoms eradicated
Pigotry---You mean like LGBT minorities,
People (on both sides), is the name calling really necessary? Is it not bad enough that the politicians and the media wish to rile folks up by calling names and blaming each other as a mask for their own shortcomings and incompetence? ? Do we, the seemingly intelligent people, have to stoop to their levels? Can we not have a rational discussion without resorting to this kind of childish banter?
johninpa
funny you should mention this, I have always said "Crimea (Cry me a) River is Un-American"....
Veronica, the 2nd Amendment is one of the rights enjoyed by US citizens.
Americans rejoice if that right is kept, because it is the only right that keeps us from loosing the right of the 1st Amendment.
Anyone who doesn't support the 2nd cannot be a supporter of the US Constitution.
Maybe it's too hard of a concept for liberals to understand that we are the only country thet is truly free from tyranny because of the 2nd Amendment.
The NRA wins, Americans win.
Do liberals consider themselves Americans still?
Democrats stand up for killing "unborn" children (ABORTION).
Democrats then cry about "dead born" children (SANDY HOOK).
DEMS ARE VERY SICK PEOPLE who want to disarm REAL American Patriots.
Hawks will defend their domain. Dove do not have a domain. Dove are dinner, just like the sheep are.
The Lib's just don't get it
The 2nd. Amendment PREVENTS a TOTALITARIAN Government Left or Right
Well, Witchking, the problem is that too many people don't think for themselves or at all. And I see this on both the left and the right. That's why so many people believe they have come up with a "great argument" when they do their name-calling.
witchking-
what they dont get is that the NRA isnt just some old rich white guys buying people off....its 4+ maybe 6+ million American citizens; black, white, hispanic, asian, men, women and children, veterans, teachers, cops, firemen, rich and poor- who all have one thing in common- enough brains to see that freedom is a good thing and that the Constitution is something that assures that.
communist- socialist- progressive....call it what you will, but those words are like chains to anyone who values freedom.
Sorry try again more like 80+ million plus all the freedom loving Americans who enjoy all the wonderful things this great nation has to offer.
Freedom baby and it makes America even stronger.
It's so simple respect and love the bill of rights and the founding fathers ideals anything less and your damn traitor.
You cant legislate crazy no matter what laws you try and make.
Since when did the NRA become a political party...And on that note why in god's name did we let this happen?!?!?!?
When I carry a gun, I don’t do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I'm looking to be left alone.
The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded.
I don't carry it because I'm afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid.
It doesn't limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force.
It removes force from the equation...and that's why carrying a gun is a civilized act.
What an irony where our elected officials, who under oath swore to protect and defend our Constitution, want to pass a law to take our guns away and then send law enforcement with those same guns to take our guns.
Money do buy happiness. just ask NRA and the handful of Senators.
Yeah. it also bought the anti gun representatives in MN, CO, WA, OR, CT, etc, etc, etc, and tens of millions of dollars to promote the identically worder legislative spew of anti gun legisaltion that appeared over the last 3 months, all courtesy of the little Nazi Quisiling Blooming Idiot.
All in vain as so much overeach will be defeated in the courts yet again, and so many dumbocrats will get swept from office just like in 1994.
But we should thank you fools for falling into the trap of your own making. You have advanced the legal fight against you Nazi's and made it easier to bring the specific US Supreme Court challenges forward that will set legal precedent in NY, CO, NJ and once the massive majority of those laws are struck down, we ill proceed to Kalifornika and repeal everything related to said rulings.
Even one of your staunchest gun control advocates Prof Adam Winkler doubts the mag limits & or any bans will survive constitutional review as they are devices in "common & standard use"!
That and we love how the media went with their virulent hate, further accelerating their demise as more and more people treat main stream print media as the toilet paper of the Enquirer it is.
Thanks again you pathetic predictable morons for being your own worst enemy, lol, see you in court DA!
The idiocy, hate, and dysfunction continue. Vote these a$$holes out of office. We currently have a country going nowhere but backwards... all based on whatever the GOP gaggle come up with that pretends to be logic.
JimSpence
Thanks for the post... a perfect example of "illogic".
Yep, it sure as @!$%# encourages discussion I bet... what a f@#king joke.
Unless the other person has a bigger gun... you've got your own personal arms race going at the sacrifice of civility and reasonableness. You ARE the escalator, no one else.
Typical reverse illogic. Paranoia is the basis for carrying a gun, and you have it big time. We all faced bullies as kids. And, hopefully, most of us figured out that physical prowess gets trumped by mental prowess... I guess if you never figured that out or were the bully left behind, you might need a gun!
And it will stimulate some into a shootout. You had better be prepared to watch every person you meet VERY carefully, because by carrying a gun for the sole purpose of intimidation, you throw down the gauntlet of a challenge. I guess if you want every interaction in your life a life-or-death interaction, go for it.
No longer force? Now it's the bigger gun or the faster draw. Your logic is amazing. When just a few people have a gun, the ones with the gun still have the "force" option. You haven't eliminated the force option, you just like it when it is you that has it. Are you assuming everyone else will be so limiting and respectful in the use and message that the gun carries? You cannot know that.
Paranoid lately? Your version of who is your enemy is severely warped. It is you. You create your own problems. It's all in your mind.
I guess we'll be fighting for the renewed "right" to carry automatic weapons as soon as you perceive your neighbor carrying a gun as big as yours?
Ridiculous. You've lost your mind, buddy.
So, Jim...
I just gave you my opinion.
If we met face-to-face and you had a gun and I didn't, you think I would give you an opinion?
No. We would never meet. I would just walk away, never saying a word.
The gun is for intimidation. It does so.
A gun ends conversation, it doesn't make it possible.
GOP say it's their job to support the NRAss's so they line our pockets for the 2014 & 2016 election, so much for the party of the people !!!
Teapubcons are for everything the American people don't want !!!
The TeaPigCons are the NRA's screwgun, their only accomplishments are screwing the American people !!!
F-the GOP & NRA :-) !!!
Then tell me Mr. Kendall, why is it that lawyers, in general, have a reputation lower than Whale S__t?
I suppose that doing your client's bidding supersedes, or attempts to supersede Federal Laws because they wouldn't want to "violate" their ethical (insert joke here) obligations to their clients. So finding ways around written laws is OK ethically, but is it right morally and would you want a JUDGE in office who attempts to subvert the law in any sense?......Of course my answer would be a resounding "NO!" I don't give a damn if it was the NRA who opposed her or the "Grey Panthers" of the AARP.
What New Yorkers need to do is "Recall" their Fascist Governor, and the quicker the better.
Oh, poor little Dumbama clown did not get his way. Too bad but that is the process which is used by Dems and Repubs. Its called government and not dictatorship which you joker would like much more. Yes, we know.
LmarcT
LoL We are winning and you are always going to lose it's simple Americans love their freedoms 8)
Obama and all the gun grabbers are nothing but Commie Pinko @!$%#s who deserve nothing but to be Called TRAITORS to the Constitution they all swore to uphold.
LMarcT
Hmmmmmm, you seem to be under the impression that I care about your opinion.
I don't.
As far as your preceding insignificant rant, nothing pleases me more than to see another Liberal brain explode when confronted with rational thought.
Go away Spanky, you're out of your league.
Haggis:
Maybe you haven't noticed. The majority leadership in Congress and the party of the president changes on a fairly regular basis. One of the biggest reasons for this is because both parties try to pull stupid stuff like you are bragging about. Obama was elected on the basis of the economy, not because people wanted to be disarmed. If Obama keeps trying to appoint a steady stream of liberals (not moderates) it will trigger a Republican victory in the next presidential election.
Try to understand that most of the people are not in complete agreement with either party. And when you get overconfident (as you are right now) you are indeed inviting a "day of reckoning." But I don't think you will like it.
Yup.
People like the NEA, NAACP and AFL-CIO.
.
America scores a victory.
Wrong. Gun goobers score a temporary victory.
Interesting...so now the NRA is America?
I should expect that from a RWNJ.
Victory for Americans
Defeat for the anti-American democrats
Any time a radical, activist nominee gets shot down, we all win. Some of us just aren't bright enough to realize it. Supporters of the Constitution will rejoice while those who wish to transform the US into something very different will continue to hate. Nothing new here.
Defeat for the majority of Americans.
Win for the Gomers out there. (Enjoy it while you can cause it ain't gonna last!)
Hey haggis?
Go fuk yourself...
Each time someone buys a computer, Bill Gates gets richer: yet the Angels sing.......
Each time someone buys a gun, the NRA gun makers gets richer: yet the demons sing........
If you think your right to live in a safe society is more important than the NRA's Domestic Arms Race, get in touch with your US Senators and Representatives and tell them to return America to a saner society with background checks, a ban on all military assault weapons, and a ban on clips over 5 bullets!
Enough guns. We are saturated with guns in the USA. Enough!!!!!!
I think my right to bear arms as spelled out in the Constitution is much more important than any persons paranoia and fear. It certainly is worth fighting for against the enemies of our constitution that would deny me my right.
Hey haggis butthead! Do us all a favor and stuff it!
I have always noticed that liberals are extremely protective of the "rights" that they believe in! The right to abortion, gay marriage, control of the educational establishment, etc.. are all "rights" that liberals will scream bloody murder if anything in the law conflicts with their beliefs. But, if someone wants to protect a right in which they "conveniently" do not agree with, they just ignore the fact that the Constitution and the Supreme Court has backed this right consistently! I guess the constitution is great if it backs up liberal ideals. If it backs up conservative ideals it is now a "living document" which needs to be changed or ignored!
The founding fathers weren't talking about guns when they wrote it down in the constitution...they were talking about bear animal body parts.
Seems those early NRA guys used bear arms as an aphrodisiac for when they had good times with their cousins! Early form of Viagra or so they thought.
Gee, that was funny Starsailing! I guess you must have graduated from the Chicago Public School System!
starsailing,
Stick it!
Not yet, but he's working on it.
Haggis Bingo you think just because you type big letters that your going to get your point across any better? If anything you got more people ignoring you. I was going to ignore you like I usually do, but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to to tell you that no matter how many times you tell the guncrowd it wont last, no matter what assinine names you come up with for the Republicans or the teaparty, no one is going anywhere.
All that is going to happen in the future, is you will keep on responding in big bold letters, we will still have our guns and you will still be a big pussified douche nozzle.
Haggis has some sort of Delusion of grander that is why he types in those BIG LETTERS so every one will see his worthless liberal talking points that have no basis in the real world
Haggis Bingo, Still living at home and off of your parents?
HaggASS, I see you're having another two year old's temper tantrum because not everybody wants to neuter the country like you and the other libtards want to do. Heard you squealing with delight like a little girl when Gov. Hickendipp@!$%# gutted Colorado, now it's our turn to celebrate a victory against stupidity.
Just fun commenting on anything that makes rt wingers heads explode........
Monsters under your beds...monsters in your closet....gonna getcha......booga booga.....fear.....black helicopters......drones...shadows......aliens from outer space......
Spider whined about me not being rich....au contraire......define how rich is rich enough?
As if I should envy people who are super rich.....Like Rove?....Norquist, Rush, Cheney....and Romney?.....Oh god too funny.......Romney who wore his first pair of jeans during the campaign and walked around the whole time like he @!$%# in his pants. Romney first time going into a hardware store...and came out with "some things" as if he knew what he bought and knew how to use them. Like Romney who saw ...machines....that give you ...food...when you put money...in them. Like Romney riding on the back of a jet ski holding on to Ann cause he was scared @!$%#less to drive it. Like Romney who discovered you can get 3 shirts in a pack. My brother is a millionaire...I see it...never happy about anything, and always worry some one wants his money so he spends the whole time trying to take more before someone takes some of his.......Yeah sure...like I am missing out......NOT! It's good to be me!
OperationASSHAT.... and just how many of those gov'ts were DEMOCRACIES ?
NONE.
Your point is MOOT, IRRELEVANT and based 100% on DELUSIONAL PARANOIA.
Starsailing:
"Monsters under your beds...monsters in your closet....gonna getcha......booga booga.....fear.....black helicopters......drones...shadows......aliens from outer space......"
You may be projecting. But ponder this. Some time in the future, after you have eliminated civilian guns like you want, another George W. Bush comes into power. He sees no point to this silly election business. He's the decider. And if you don't like his decisions, well, the military still has the automatic weapons and can take care of you. Is that your utopia?
Ozzie boy aka little wimp.
bottom line here is rather you believe it or not. the only reason you are able to live the life you have and enjoy is because Americans can have guns and a God of there understanding two things Democrats are trying to take away
No matter the Political party we in this America have to respect the Commander-in-Chief decision on matters. Those republicans have disrespect for Our Black President and have let the world know how they have no respect for a person who have a skin color that is not the same as what this America respect your skin have to be white for any persons of power to know who is in charge. Obama is the President and our Slave Master in the Seats that have the power for years will disagree for no more than he is Black or what these Slave Master people call all who don't have the same skin color as them. They have put us in bondage killed men,raped our women and kill our babies because they had dark skin so I pray For All White Folks thinking they got the right to judge and not pay for their Sins respect people in power no matter who they are. White Men have rule this United States Of America and where are we because of these former leaders who have lead this country in debt let drugs come into entercities and no powerful people pay for all the repulicans have done and still are doing Thank God For President Obama!
Ma'am I mean no disrespect but that is just about the dumbest thing I've ever heard. You can't possibly say that about all people who vote Republican. You do know that there are black folks who vote that way right?
Jennifer:
I decidedly disagree. It is not our obligation to respect the decisions of the Commander-in-Chief. He is not King -- a fact that George W. Bush forgot all too often. There is a mechanism for recourse when people think that the president's decisions are self-serving rather than in service of the general population. That mechanism was exercised here. Yes, one of the reasons the filibuster rule is in place is to prevent too extreme a nominee from being approved just because there is a majority in Congress of the same party as the president.
Our government is not a soverign power to be ruled by personal decree! It is a limited form of government. Our revolution was focused on ridding ourselves of a monarch named King George III. If a President commits what is a " high crime or misdemeaner" he can be impeached or removed from office. There is nothing in the Constitution calling for blind obedience, homage,or even a ranking regarding any elected office holder!!! We ,the People are governed by laws enacted by duly elected representatives. President Obama is not the Alimighty, or frequently he acts as if he really thinks he is!! Any citizen can disagree with him , curse him,exclaim profanes at him, and even disobey him as long as any laws are not broken. There is constitutional protection for freedom of speech!! Respect is something you earn, not something you command based upon office you have been elected to. In my opinion, the President has done very little to gain my respect!! For whatever my opinion is worth I will to anyone's individual judgement??
The terrorists win again.
equality for all, correct? do we hold car manufacturers responsible for drunk drivers killing others? no. do we hold knife manufacturers responsible when their knives take another life? no
you liberals have no consistency in your positions
That's because Obama had the black vote!
Or did you mean something else Earlyout?
Last I checked doofus, the terrorists were the ones that wanted to restrict freedoms and rights. That would be you and you liberal friends that follow Obama's will as he begins to strip away rights. Enjoy your last days of freedom.
Obama and the anti-gun nuts won? I thought that the NRA was the winner.... Oh, you are calling anyone who believes in the Constitution and the 2nd amendment "terrorists"! Just have to get my mind around your mind-blowing stupidity! Nope, still can't!
And losses another life! Not Real Americal support this move.
Reading is fundamental...
Gee, and how many children have not come into this world because of abortion? I, personally, believe in the right of a woman to take care of her body as she see fits, but, isn't it just a bit hypocritical that you call people who just want to protect their own "bodies" killers?
Hey bubba,
WTF is Americal support. Is that a new bra from Vicky Secret? WTF is it?
lol
Its that strap thingy that progressives on the government teet use to rest their weary neck with a sperm drip catch cup right below their chin!
Rules? We don't need to follow no stinking rules. Losses another life? We don't even need to follow the rules of language.
Don Harris,
We don't need to follow NO stinking rules? duhhhhhhhh "I bwoke my poncil."
We do need to follow SOME stinking rules????????? Left brain / Right brain? LoL
Losses Looses Louses Loses Louises ..................... Can you fool a real Clown?
Keep it up goofball. Whatever your point is,... your cause is embarrassed. LoL
In the history of the US judiciary it is quite common for lawyers with tendencies to support one political perspective over another in private practice to completely change that perspective when appointed to the bench. The acceptance or rejection of a judge based on a political judgment about their zealous representation of a client is irresponsible foolishness. Lawyers are supposed to be zealous advocates for their clients even when they despise them.
Remember that John Roberts supported Obamacare and that Earl Warren - who became the standard of a liberal activist judge was appointed with the expectation that he would be a conservative.
This kind of political shell game is a disgrace and those who support it are only demonstrating their love of ignorance and irresponsibility.
Victory for the American Taliban
Hmmmm......The Taliban tend to want to limit people's rights and freedoms. I would say that this is a victory against the American Taliban. We recently won against you guys trying to ban soft drinks. How much more involved do in the private lives of individuals do you want? What is next? Deciding what music we can listen to and determining what movies we can watch?
GOP/Tea Party = American Taliban
1) Ideological purity
2) Compromise as weakness
3) A fundamentalist belief in scriptural literalism
4) Denying science
5) Unmoved by facts
6) Undeterred by new information
7) A hostile fear of progress
8) Demonization of education
9) A need to control women’s bodies
10) Severe xenophobia
11) Tribal mentality
12) Intolerance of dissent
13) Pathological hatred of the U.S. government
You are limiting my rights and freedoms by subjecting me to an environment where I am never certain who has a gun and who doesn't, how sane they are, and what I might do that would provoke them into using that gun against me.
I have the same freedoms you do.
Veronica, you can make all the ridiculous lists you want.
You are still a loser dependent on others and happy to live in total chaos.
Tell me what else you know about me? Would it kill you to find out i make more than you and have more money in the bank? I know how repubs hates facts
Liberals/Democratic Party = American Taliban
1) Larger government / control is always smarter
2) Compromise ONLY ON LIBERAL CORE VALUES otherwise NONE
3) A fundamentalist belief in free handouts and entitlements = freedom
4) Denying Christianity but embracing Islam (which denies science, liberal values and rights)
5) Moved by emotions only. Kneejerk reactions to an emotional tragedy is ALWAYS policy
6) Undeterred by logic
7) A hostile fear of faith
8) Demonization of church values,
9) A need to control the concept that it is NOT okay to shoot children but it is okay to abort hundreds of thousands of them.
10) Severe narcissism
11) Socialist mentality
12) Intolerance of fundamental Constitutional rights
13) Pathological hatred of the United States (always apologizing for it)
Gee Veronica25.
I could apply 90% of your list to the Democratic Party. Only different I see is #9. In reality, not so much a "control a woman's body" as not wanting to pay for ones indiscretion.
The list Riley made summarizes my feelings very well.
Veronica- You got everything exactly right! Except the very first thing... You needed to say Dem. Lib's instead of GOP! I have seen many closed minded people but you are at the top of the list! Dem. Lib's are so good at pointing fingers... remember, when you point a finger, you have three fingers on your hand pointing BACK AT YOURSELF!!!
Veronica, take your meds and fall into your normal stupor... I am tired of hearing your vacuous nonsense.
Veronica25, your posts are great and absolutely correct!!!!!
#7.7 is brilliant!!!!
It's too bad the Repukes are too stupid to understand any of it..............
riley-1759556 = dimwit.
Jane321 = personal attacks the sign of a scared, ignorant and small mind.
Unmoved by facts lol. It's the socialists in this country who play the emotion card on every issue. You wouldn't know a fact if it bit your vegan ass.
Riley, I could not have said it better about Veronica and her liberal buddies! They insult, make up a few "facts", then dismiss anyone who does not agree with everything they say as "small minded", or Teabaggers! Please make up a few better lies, Veronica!
Amazing how many "ANTIs" think the NRA only does one thing. They don't realize that most police are trained by NRA instructors. They don't know that the NRA supports so many wildlife programs that teach wildlife management. They don't know, or care, that the NRA supports the constitution as a whole, not just the 2nd. But you can't tell them anything. They just want the government to do everything for them.
They aren't willing to have an open mind. They also stand on those kids graves to forward their own agenda. Feinstien and her goons never gave their condolences to those families. The day after that event she jumped up and down and started waving her AWB papers around. She doesn't give a rats a$$ about them. Pathetic. Wake up people, YOUR rights are on the line! ALL of them.
Mike, liberals only see shades of gray when they look at themselves! They think that truth, like the constitution, is up to interpretation and can be changed when it is convenient. They will not admit that the NRA is often a positive organization which has done much for many communities. They only see the hatred that they vomit on everyone who does not believe EXACTLY the same as they do!
Veronica - Tell me what else you know about me? Would it kill you to find out i make more than you and have more money in the bank? I know how repubs hates facts.
What a pathetic little pea of a brain. You equate your savings and earnings to being superior. You just exposed your true character, or I should say, lack there of.
Veronica is also in favor of abortions on the latest abortion article from nbc.
Those who are against the Constitution are not true Americans.
Obama sent millions to Syria to support the Muslim rebels, and you call Americans the Taliban?
How about the Muslim in Chief? Baraq Husseini Ubama.
OK Folks......... I think we fully understand that VERONICAs is clueless. Resorting to anti-social rants and name calling, a clear sign she realizes her points of view are moronic.
Nice photo (probably not her or "him"). Her /"his" comments digress each time down to the bottom of the barrel.
What a loser comment........... "I got more money than y'all do" I could actually hear everyone laughing from all over the country.
Lol talk about getting Shellacking that was it.
It's already been tried and Frank Zappa mopped the floor with them.
Republicans win again!!! And again!!! And again!!! One can always depend on Obama to get crushed. :D
Have you been sleep the past 5 years? Lol
MARVIN, Dead from the neck up I see. Apparently you forgot about a little thing we had several months ago called a Presidential Election???
God but you people are imbeciles.
Is Mitt in the White House? I must have missed that. You should read the GOP's "Growth Opportunity Plan". Now that's a funny document. A group of Republican came together and actually did the work to figure out how they could grow the Republican Party. The only problem is that the Tea Party, Neoconservatives, Libertarians and Fundamentalist Christians won't have anything to do with it. That means the other 5 people in the Party are pretty much screwed. "The Republican Party...going the way of the Whigs one voter at a time".
@veronica
have you been asleep? americans voted for a divided government in 2012. if they didn't, dems would have majorities in both congress and the senate..... but you don't.
Brendan lets run it down, Obama won the election, dems gained seats in senate and house and repubs can thank gerrymandering for their majority control of congress which his the worst in history. Repub leaders are calling for change in the party and know they cant compete going foward on the current path and yet you say everything is fine? Your funny
Brendan, Americans voted for a divided government in 2010 as well. And conservatives have been blocking bills, legislation, appointments, policy ever since. Wake up!
The last election only proves that morons outnumber those with intellect and common sense.
SCARY!
Yea says the party of Palin and Bachmann, Logico your funny
@veronica
i'm not a republican so i don't identify with the party nor did i say anything is fine. both parties gerrymander, no question about that, but when democrats do it, its ok? take a look at cook county illinois and stop pointing fingers.
@Fielden. Democrats have been blocking bills every since 2008, ask Harry Reid how few of the republican bills he allows a vote. stop pointing fingers thinking one party is better than the other, you are just part of the problem
Repubs-36 gerrymandered districts
Dems-9 districts
Your right they both do it but repubs need it to keep the majority even though dems got 1 million more votes in congress. Just look at the district lines in 08 and then look at it in 2012. Its almost comical how low these guy will go to stay in office
Democrats have been gerrymandering for 50 years here in California. But I guess you're ok with that.
Gerrymanderring was created for minorities so they could representation in congress. Repubs uses it and abuses it
You know what Brendan, even Republican gerrymandering won't save the Republican Party from demographics. Your days as a viable party are numbered. Even the Republican leadership realize that. Why do you think they are resorting to voter suppression. Your days are numbered.
Tell me how Sarah Palin (one of your former VP candidates) fit's into the party of intelligence? How about Michele Bachmann, she was actually one of your candidates for nomination to the Presidency. How intelligent was that?
Veronica.. .you better pray Ginsburg and the other ailing leftist Justices hold out long enough to be replaced by Obama... otherwise the next Constitutionalist President will tip the SCOTUS to the Constitutionalist side by one or two votes. Then it will be: 6-3, YOU LOSE.
Sorry girl. The SCOTUS actually controls the nation, not the temporary residents in the White House or the Congress.
Yes the idiot won the election. How's that working out for ya... More hooey change-eee for the dems
Don't worry CJ, even though we still have some of the worst unemployment rates in a generation and a GDP which is moving like a sloth in a snowstorm, the press and the liberals will still crow about how great things are! Now if they could just find a way to get complete control then you would see what they could really do! (This scares the fu(k out of me!!!!!)
Hey OBOZO WHERE ARE THE JOBS?
So Veronica, tell me, you voted for him just because it was trendy, or just because of his skin color?
No matter that he vowed to destroy America?
No, are you stupid? Who could of voted for any ticket with Palin on it in 08 and Flip flopney and ryan who wantsto cut social security and turn medicare to a vouchers program. Do you not see the bad candidate of the republicans the be a option? Come on they only won one demographic and repubs have done everything they can to give him a hard time and its exactly why they currently have a 14% approval rating. Do you beieve they ill keep their jobs? Dont let get start with their war on women
Obama is Anti American
He has this hard on for Gun Control he was quiet first term spitting bull@!$%# out that he supports the 2nd 8)
NOT
Until or unless Congress...who has the final say has the balls to clip their wings. Since you are a "Constitutionalists", who authorized and created the rules under which SCOTUS operates? (Here's a hint; Article III of the Constitution). What Congress givith...Congress can takith away.
Show us. If you're going to make an inflammatory remark about the POTUS...back it up...or STFU!
The rules that protect the minority have been exploited by BOTH sides over the years to insure that our country evolves slowly. Knee jerk reactions that try to do too much too fast have NEVER been good for us.
If Halligan was such a good pick, then she should have not withdrawn herself from consideration. Now perhaps Mr. Obama will nominate someone with just a little less history of leaning toward 1 side of the political spectrum so that the process can move ahead.
This woman is more than capable to qualify as a judge. She is highly respected among her peers. No, this is yet another case of scumbag Republicans grossly abusing the filibuster which was never meant to be used this way. Do you have any idea how many appointments, judges and other wise that have not been filled because of blatant GOP obstruction??? Democrats never used the filibuster to this extent and it's gotten to the point where it's almost impossible to run the government. We have no head of the ATF because the gun loons want it that way. According to Wayne La Pierre, they are "Jack booted thugs" but the gun runners and drug dealers are evidently OK in the eye of the NRA.
thats the BATFE that sends guns to the cartels,Ozzie...
think FAST AND FURIOUS
I remember operation wide reciever
You mean rules that protected slavery, segregation, discriminatory work practices for women and others? Who did it slow it down for?
Or is it:
"minorities are to blame for what i failed at and things as a Euro that I feel I am entitled to because.....yada..yada..yada" That has gotten very old.
Try instead:
"i have failed because i did not work hard enough. i did get the jobs or recognition because i did not work hard enough.....:-( "
Classic case for wanting an entitlement but classifying as a right.
Really...did the president at that time invoke Executive Priviledge to cover his AGs crimes in that one ,too?
Veronica remembers operation Deep Throat.
Godbless you must be a conservative because thats the only way they can responed to a woman they disagree with. You are a very weak man and probably watches too much porn since no woman will touch you
Ozzie.....The democrats were as bad or worse when it came to blocking judge appointments by Bush.
796 fillibusters to date, most in history by far
"Veronica25
I remember operation wide reciever"
Another movie you stared in, huh?
zzzzzzzzzzzzzz when you stop watching porn and get out your moms house, maybe then you will be able to lose your virginity
Obama's excecutive orders is nowhere near the record......NEXT
Piss off bitch, my mother died in 2006.
And you look like you hook for your money...
Lol i know you would feel like that since you would have to pay for a girl that looks like me.
Feistey and yet congress has a lower approval rating then the prez. Its hard for me to blame him when repubs have blocked, filibursted, and killed bills and legislations in record numbers. They pretty much has done all they can to destroy their own party. You know congress is bad when people rather have roaches and lice.
That may not be free cheese. Veronica may just have a hygiene issue.
Brian why would she be a hooker? Could you live on $27.00 a month?
"Lol i know you would feel like that since you would have to pay for a girl that looks like me."
Oh, so you admit your hooking? Now that we`ve established that I guess we can move on to the price...
LMAO...
Does conservatives believe in being real men? It seems that they need guns to feel tough and talk down to women. Very very weak so continue to stream porn i know thats the only way you will get your rocks off
Fiesty i can say atleast you can disagree with me without stooping to name calling and i thank you for that. But to answer your question, these are still effects from the economy collapse but recovery is coming along slowly and more and more jobs are being added each month, By 2016 i believe we will be fine
Oh apologies.
So that`s what you are? A real man?
LMAO...
Give it ten minutes.
It`s earning the rent money right now...
Fiesty Obama is not the first and im sure not the last to give money to foreign countries. Obama and Biden has taken a 1/3 of the vacations Bush and cheney did but there was no outrage back then. And i thought i remembered reading the easter egg hunt was still a go?
Brian sssshhhh me and fiesty are having a educated debate. Learn how to be quiet when adults are speaking
Atleast we can agree on that and i would say Obama is not the best prez either. I feel lke he should of done a better job reaching out and comproming instead of everybody staying on their own side. I thought i did what did i leave out
Welfare and foodstamps fallout from financial collapse, sending foreign aid is beyond me, the govt does that for a lot ofcountries for some reaon but congress controls the spending right? FFA fallout from the sequester which Boehner claimed to got 98% of what he wanted so yes congress. We can agree white house tours closing is stupid and i do not agree with that. Michelle made create money befor Obama got elect so i can assume that it came out of her pocket until i see proof that says otherwise. Bidens trip was ridiculous i cant even begin to tell you how disappointed i was to read that. The easter egg hunt went on as planned
I got to run now but once again thank you for being a real man and having a real conversation. These other guys are cowards and i can say you are very respectful. Ill see you again and good luck
Mrs. Obama, I didn't know your middle name is Veronica!
She`s gotta work hard for her money...
September 19, 2012: "The OIG investigation found that Attorney General Eric Holder was not aware of the strategy and tactics used in "Fast and Furious," and turned up no evidence that Holder tried to cover up the operation, or mislead Congress about it."
So, do you know something the Office of the Inspector General doesn't know? Or are you simply another Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory Wack-Job?
That's DEMOCRACY lefties.... live with it, or pack your bags and find a system more suitable to your totalitarian natures.
@Veronica
Nobody died in operation wide receiver but plenty of Mexicans did in Fast and Stupid..
The other sad and horrible thing that happened is a Great American Hero Named Brian A. Terry Died from Fast & Stupid..
Holder is piece of @!$%# just like Rahm and that douche Feinstein all Anti American Traitors.
Google Brian A. Terry Veronica and click on image so you can take a good look at a true American.
Big Al-369306
Since you ignore the facts as determined by an Inspector General Investigation; you leave everyone with the assumption you are a Right-Wing Nut Job. That pretty much invalidates future posts.
What victory! small potatoes.....NRA LEADERSHIP - GUN MANUFATURERS CHIEF LOBBYIST. Gun owners interest - none.
How do gun manufacturers cause senators and congressmen to lose elections?
Can Bloomberg throw money at an election in Alaska and make an anti gun candidate win?
Too easy. Money given to politicians for elections thru their lobbying arms. Politician or then reminded that their reelections will be challenged on the NRA grading system for Congress and others who voted against NRA supported policies. C'MON.....
But its still people who vote them in or out of office...yes or no?
Too easy?
or do the gun manufactureres vote people in and out?
johninpa
How old are you dude? Have you ever heard the term "Marketing is Everything"? Flood the market with enough lies often enough and enough people will simply accept it as fact. They are called "low information voters" and they usually watch FOX News.
Right definition, wrong target. You have mistaken Fox for MSNBC, aka, the Socialist Democrat Political Action Committee.
Try not staring in a mirror when you post Doc, it will improve your cognition skills.
MSNBC, aka, the Socialist Democrat Political Action Committee.
iS NOTHING BUT THE PROPAGANDA ARM OF OBOZO
They were even caught in an outright lie last week when they quoted the NRA falsely
NBC News, propaganda at its finest!
I wish that it would improve yours, but unfortunately there is no cure...and no effective treatment.
Suing gun manufacturers for what a criminal does would be like suing car manufactuers for auto accidents.
Victory for the American people
Defeat for the radical democrat party
Why isn't the media held responsible for their involvement in violence?
We never had the type of gang violence before rap music? Why not hold the producers of rap, the artists & record labels accountable?
The NRA will do more for gun safety this weekend than democrats will do in their entire lifetimes.
True True
YOU GO GIRL!! As an NRA member and damn proud to be one,i have to agree with you ,the NRA will do more about gun safety this weekend than the dems. will do in a lifetime. [ NRA FOREVER. WE AINT GOING NOWHERE ] So all you NRA haters GET OVER IT!!!!!
champagnesabre, I like the way you think...
Bah Biden said just blast the double barrel Shotgun off the balcony that's the best gun safety of all 8p
The honeymoon is over for the golfer in chief.
It's time to remind the NRA .. that they do not hold any elected office in the US government. They don't make the laws and the American people do not need the NRA's permission for anything.
Your sissy boy's in the senate were afraid of a vote and passed on it.
They already know where the American public stands.
The NRA is less than 2% of the population and your poor excuses
for political leaders show fear?
No more corporate welfare for the NRA!!! No one is forced to join the NRA... now unions on the other hand. De-fund the Chamber of Commerce... outlaw special interest groups.
Prime Baby....
I don't think the NRA puts the Congressmen in office. If the Congressmen FEAR the NRA, and concede to their views it has to be because their are enough VOTERS out there that agree with the NRA and the Congressmen decide to do the right thing and support those constituents views.
It's called DEMOCRACY. Run some gun grabber candidates against those who you feel were influenced by the NRA by ALL MEANS. Please.
Prime, go tell that to the ACLU, unions, environmental lobbies, green energy lobbies, etc etc etc.
Remember when Obama said he would not have special interest groups influence his presidency?
In his cabinet and cabal of czars most of them are former activists and special interest group lobbiests. On his jobs council the head was Immelt, Obama's BBF, 3 Obama political bundlers and the rest from special interest groups. Obama has made many promises and has said many things that please people but his actual record of action is poor. I do not trust what he says, but what he does. If you want some good examples go back and read what he promised about Obama care and compare it to the horrendous mess it is turning out to be. So horrendous that it will cost the government trillions over the next 10 years and people will have to pay much higher cost for their medical insurance and receive less coverage. The Obama care tax package will hit our economy and health care system with a sledge hammer by 2014. That is just one item.
NRA CONTRIBUTIONS = $1,457,151 ranks 230 of 20,968
SEIU CONTRIBUTIONS = $23,792,557 ranks 8 of 20,968
NRA LOBBYING = $2,980,000 (2012) $2,905,000 (2011) ranks 170 of 4,352 in 2012
SEIU LOBBYING = $916,737 (2012) $1,578,120 (2011) ranks 466 of 4,352 in 2012
NRA Ref:
http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000082
SEIU Ref:
http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=d000000077
Because I like to rattle the chains of the same gun loving idiots who sit on these threads day after day.. endorsing gun slaughter murder and misinterpret the second amendment for their own selfish needs which is their abnormal fascination and addiction to guns..
Idiots who act like the Second Amendment was written by God ..
Nope it was written by a bunch of privileged white men who embraced human slavery .. who never believed all men are created equal who ignorantly believed Black people were only 3/5 human and committed crimes against humanity on the Native Americans they stole this country from and still today in 2013 give Native Americans less rights and freedom than any other American in this country. Yeah those rocking founding fathers that you gun nuts drool over..
This Blog is for you.. no doubt it will make your heads explode.
Cont....
Stick it where the sun doesn`t shine kunt...
@Prime
Read history, you flaming racist IDIOT.
The 3/5 compromise was put into the Constitution to as a step in the process of ENDING slavery.
After slavery was ended, the 3/5 compromise was amended out in the 13th and 14th amendment.
Good grief.... you listen to many constitution hating libtards.
Educate yourself.
Prime, I'll wager that you have no understanding of how the Bill of Rights
work With the constitution and I'd go further and wager that your lack of
education was the result of public schools.
The founding fathers wrote the Constitution but it needed to be ratified.
The had a great frame work but it didn't sell so the wrote the Bill of writes"
These are known as the amendments. The first was in place because they needed
to let people express themselves. The 2nd insures that the first cannot be taken away.
The second empowers the people against Government tyranny.
This is a little know fact but back then the Colonies had just fought a brutal battle
against a tyrannical Government and they wanted the people to be armed so the
need would never occur again.
The best quotes I have seen lately involve the first and Second amendments
with the exchange between Cruz and Fienstien and in the VERY VERY end she is
forced to admit he was correct.
@ DesotoKim
and I wager your lack of manners and breeding comes from your redneck trailer park trash upbringing.
You don't like my free speech . then guess who doesn't care.
Opposition to the Bill of Rights
The Federalist Papers (specifically Federalist No. 84) are notable for their opposition to what later became the United States Bill of Rights. The idea of adding a Bill of Rights to the Constitution was originally controversial because the Constitution, as written, did not specifically enumerate or protect the rights of the people, rather it listed the powers of the government and left all that remained to the states and the people. Alexander Hamilton, the author of Federalist No. 84, feared that such an enumeration, once written down explicitly, would later be interpreted as a list of the only rights that people had.
As a native American myself [CHEROKEE INDIAN] Ihave the same rights as any other American does. And as far as you talking about whites and slavery I guess you did not know that black people used to own just as many black slaves as the white race did. Know your history before you open your mouth !! Look it up its there in the history books, GET YOURSELF EDUCATED BEFORE SPEEKING!!
That was Madison. His view was the Federal government could do nothing not laid out in the Constitution. Specifically Article 1, Section 8 that LIMITS Congress to only those functions listed and therfore was not a danger to rights.
HE WAS WRONG.
He never imagined that the "general welfare" statement in the preamble, nor the "interstate commerce clause" would be carried to the extent we find today.
Fortunately for us, the Anti-Federalist faction INSISTED on protections of certain rights in Amendments 1-8, and the reservation of any unnamed "rights or powers" to the States or the People in the 9th and 10th Amendments.
Almost every right in the first eight Amendments can be found as reactions to actual abuses by the Crown in the periods leading up to the Revolution or in English History. They were designed to keep the new government from violating those rights. Including the right to arms.
It's fun to throw some history out there, but never assume you are the sole authority.
Madison wanted, for example, a permanent standing army. He did not get one. Any appropriation for an Army is LIMITED to a two year appropriation span. We are allowed however, to "establish and maintain a Navy." They get around this by reappropriating money for the Army budget annually. Nice parsing of the Framers intent, don't you think?
However, we now have a permanent standing army of humongous proportions, a force that I suspect even Madison would fear. The USAF also may be illegal, once divorced from the Army, as there is no mention in the Constitution allowing the establishment of a separate "air force." But then why pay attention to the Constitution any more, eh?
Madison's permanent army would be 20-30K, and the Miltia, a yeomanry militia of all the people, of 500K, with "arms in their hands." THAT is why there is a Second Amendment:
It's simple not difficult that's why we win and the commies lose
Ban the Guns issue the secret service squirt guns, opps the bad guys still have real guns
WooooooHooooo................
Spread the news. We just enrolled over 340 new members into the NRA and the NAGR this Friday in Maricopa county. We just passed out the comments made by Anti-Gun freaks in blogs like this one.
Seems the best way we have found so far to raise the membership.
For all of you Anti-Gun freaks posting here............. KEEP IT UP!!!! LoL
America, You Must Not Look Away (How to Finish Off the NRA)
By Michael Moore
The year was 1955. Emmett Till was a young African American boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi. One day Emmett was seen "flirting" with a white woman in town, and for that he was mutilated and murdered at the age of fourteen. He was found with part of a cotton gin tied around his neck with a string of barbed wire. His killers, two white men, had shot him in the head before they dumped him in the river.
Emmett Till's body was found and returned to Chicago. To the shock of many, his mother insisted on an open casket at his funeral so that the public could see what happens to a little boy's body when bigots decide he is less than human. She wanted photographers to take pictures of her mutilated son and freely publish them. More than 10,000 mourners came to the funeral home, and the photo of Emmett Till appeared in newspapers and magazines across the nation.
"I just wanted the world to see," she said. "I just wanted the world to see."
The world did see, and nothing was ever the same again for the white supremacists of the United States of America. Because of Emmett Till, because of that shocking photograph of this little dead boy, just a few months later, "the revolt officially began on December 1, 1955" (from Eyes on the Prize) when Rosa Parks decided not to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The historic bus boycott began and, with the images of Emmett Till still fresh in the minds of many Americans, there was no turning back.
In March of 1965, the police of Selma, Alabama, brutally beat, hosed and tear-gassed a group of African Americans for simply trying to cross a bridge during a protest march. The nation was shocked by images of blacks viciously maimed and injured. So, too, was the President. Just one week later, Lyndon Johnson called for a gathering of the U.S. Congress and he went and stood before them in joint session and told them to pass a bill he was introducing that night – the Voting Rights Act of 1965. And, just five months later, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law.
In March, 1968, U.S. soldiers massacred 500 civilians at My Lai in Vietnam. A year and a half later, the world finally saw the photographs – of mounds of dead peasants covered in blood, a terrified toddler seconds before he was gunned down, and a woman with her brains literally blown out of her head. (These photos would join other Vietnam War photos, including a naked girl burned by napalm running down the road, and a South Vietnamese general walking up to a handcuffed suspect, taking out his handgun, and blowing the guy's brains out on the NBC Nightly News.)
With this avalanche of horrid images, the American public turned against the Vietnam War. Our realization of what we were capable of rattled us so deeply it became very hard for future presidents (until George W. Bush) to outright invade a sovereign nation and go to war there for a decade.
Bush was able to pull it off because his handlers, Misters Cheney and Rumsfeld, knew that the most important thing to do from the get-go was to control the images of the war, to guarantee that nothing like a My Lai-style photograph ever appeared in the U.S. press.
And that is why you never see a picture any more of the kind of death and destruction that might make you get up off your couch and run out of the house screaming bloody murder at those responsible for these atrocities.
That is why now, after the children's massacre in Newtown, the absolute last thing the National Rifle Association wants out there in the public domain is ANY images of what happened that tragic day.
But I have a prediction. I believe someone in Newtown, Connecticut – a grieving parent, an upset law enforcement officer, a citizen who has seen enough of this carnage in our country – somebody, someday soon, is going to leak the crime scene photos of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. And when the American people see what bullets from an assault rifle fired at close range do to a little child's body, that's the day the jig will be up for the NRA. It will be the day the debate on gun control will come to an end. There will be nothing left to argue over. It will just be over. And every sane American will demand action.
Of course, there will be a sanctimonious hue and cry from the pundits who will decry the publication of these gruesome pictures. Those who do publish or post them will be called "shameful" and "disgraceful" and "sick." How could a media outlet be so insensitive to the families of the dead children! Someone will then start a boycott of the magazine or website that publishes them.
But this will be a false outrage. Because the real truth is this: We do not want to be confronted with what the actual results of a violent society looks like. Of what a society that starts illegal wars, that executes criminals (or supposed criminals), that strikes or beats one of its women every 15 seconds, and shoots 30 of its own citizens every single day looks like. Oh, no, please – DO NOT MAKE US LOOK AT THAT!
Because if we were to seriously look at the 20 slaughtered children – I mean really look at them, with their bodies blown apart, many of them so unrecognizable the only way their parents could identify them was by the clothes they were wearing – what would be our excuse not to act? Now. Right now. This very instant! How on earth could anyone not spring into action the very next moment after seeing the bullet-riddled bodies of these little boys and girls?
We don't know exactly what those Newtown photographs show. But I want you – yes, you, the person reading this right now – to think about what we do know:
The six-year and seven-year-old children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School were each hit up to eleven times by a Bushmaster AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. The muzzle velocity of a rifle like the AR-15 is about three times that of a handgun. And because the kinetic energy of a bullet equals one-half of the bullet's mass multiplied by its velocity squared, the potential destructive power of a bullet fired from a rifle is about nine times more than that of a similar bullet fired from a handgun.
Nine times more. I spoke to Dr. Victor Weedn, chairman of the Department of Forensic Sciences at George Washington University, who told me that chest x-rays of a person shot with a rifle will often look like a "snowstorm" because their bones will have been shattered into fragments. This happens not just because of the bullet's direct impact, but because each bullet sends a shock wave through the body's soft organs – one so powerful it can break bones even when the bullet didn't hit them. A video here shows what the shock wave looks like in the "ballistic gelatin" used by experts to simulate human tissue. (Would Gabby Giffords have survived if shot by a rifle rather than a Glock pistol? Probably not, says Dr. Weedn; the shock wave would have damaged the most critical parts of her brain.)
As horrifying as this is, there's more; much more. Dr. Cyril Wecht, past president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, told me this:
We also know this, according to Dr. Wecht:
Veronique Pozner, the mother of Noah, the six-year-old boy described by Dr. Wecht, insisted that the Governor of Connecticut look at Noah in an open casket. "I needed it to be real to him," she said. The Governor wept.
The pictures showing all this exist right now, somewhere in the police and medical examiner's files in Connecticut. And as of right now, we've somehow all decided together that we don't need to look, that in some way we're okay with what's in those pictures (after all, over 2,600 Americans have been killed by guns since Newtown) – just as long as we don't have to look at the pictures ourselves.
But I am telling you now, that moment will come with the Newtown photos – and you will have to look. You will have to look at who and what we are, and what we've allowed to happen. At the end of World War II, General Eisenhower ordered that thousands of German civilians be forced to march through the concentration camps so they could witness what was happening just down the road from them during the years that they turned their gaze away, or didn't ask, or didn't do anything to stop the murder of millions.
We've done nothing since Columbine – nothing – and as a result there have been over 30 other mass shootings since then. Our inaction means that we are all, on some level, responsible – and therefore, because of our burying our heads in the sand, we must be forced to look at the 20 dead children at Sandy Hook Elementary.
The people we've voted for since Columbine – with the exception of Michael Bloomberg – almost none of them, Democrat or Republican, dared to speak out against the NRA before Newtown – and yet we, the people, continued to vote for them. And for that we are responsible, and that is why we must look at the 20 dead children.
Most of us continue to say we "support the Second Amendment" as if it were written by God (or we're just afraid of being seen as anti-American). But this amendment was written by the same white men who thought a Negro was only 3/5 human. We've done nothing to revise or repeal this – and that makes us responsible, and that is why we must look at the pictures of the 20 dead children laying with what's left of their bodies on the classroom floor in Newtown, Connecticut.
And while you're looking at the heinous photographs, try saying those words out loud: "I support the Second Amendment!" Something, I'm guessing, won't feel right.
Yes, someday a Sandy Hook mother – or a Columbine mother, or an Aurora mother, or a mother from massacres yet to come – will say, like the mother of Emmett Till, "I just want the world to see." And then nothing about guns in this country will ever be the same again.
Pack your bags, NRA – you're about to be shown the door. Because we refuse to let another child die in this manner. Got it? I hope so.
All you can do now is hope no one releases those photos.
Kids die every day in Chicago,Philly,Detroit and around the world...elitist like you and the pig Moore dont give a rat's a$$ because you cant make any political hay from their deaths.
Go dance on some more dead bodies,ghoul.
So, John in PA, you are OK with kids getting shot?
Why is it that in every case for the left, it is education that will enlighten the masses..... EXCEPT when it comes to firearms.... the NRA stands for the 2nd Amendment & education.....
Yet the left will not even allow Eddie the Eagle program inside the school for fear of the NRA
It teaches children 1) If you find a gun, DON'T touch it, 2) LEAVE the area, 3) Go TELL an adult
How could ANYONE be opposed to that kind of training?
Very few "children" are killed anywhere in the US..... there are gang-bangers killing each other.... lunatics killing people.... police shooting criminals... and people protecting themselves & they're loved ones.....
What is the age of these so-called "children"? 18? 22? 26? Far from kids in my book.....
A deranged madman kills children in an UNARMED school & there's suddenly no need for firearms in this country.... BULL...... there's no need for deranged madmen....
Two "children" MURDERED a toddler in Georgia today... will the left seek JUSTICE for the crime or will they just point at a GUN and scream "BAN THEM"?
Those two MURDERERS should be given a trial & when found GUILTY.... EXECUTED..... but hey won't be... you & I both know they won't....
Yaaaaaaaaaaay, copy & paste!!!!
Got any thoughts of your own?
Nice long story about something nobody gives a flying Fck about..
But if cut and paste is your thing let me try some...
.
“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure.
It is a sign that the U.S. government can’t pay its own bills. ...
I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt limit.”
— Then-Sen. Barack Obama, floor speech in the Senate, March 16, 2006
The Budget Control Act of 2011 (Pub.L. 112–25, S. 365, 125 Stat. 240,
enacted August 2, 2011) is a federal statute in the United States that was signed into law by
President Barack Obama on August 2, 2011.
The Act brought conclusion to the 2011 United States debt-ceiling crisis,
which had threatened to lead the United States into sovereign default on or about August 3, 2011
The federal government’s outlays this fiscal year will total $3.55 trillion,
according to the CBO’s latest estimate.
Do the arithmetic and you’ll see that $42 billion is 1.16 percent of what the federal government
would have spent this year if there had there been no sequester.
I am with you all the way. God bless you and your very eloquently put statement. Many these days do not have the attention span to read the whole thing. I did. CONGTATS to you! And...thank you for your statement. It is WELL past time for change.
The NRA has these elected officials "by the balls" so to speak. GEE..folks..take all that money and they damn well better vote for your sorry, selfish butts! The NRA needs to be categorized as a terrorist organization.
Sick, sorry, selfish, and greedy bunch of (damned) souls we have in our government today. May God take his revenge on those who do not care for the greater good. OH...it does NOT mean the greater financing good for anyone. You sold your soul out for money a long time ago. You are worthless.
@ maz-537846
Well Said !!
The NRA is nothing more than a branch of organized crime. The NRA is a criminal's best friend..with gun show loopholes and straw man buys criminals can buy guns with as much ease as those law abiding citizens
Is that copyrighted material Prime? Do you have a release or waiver? Are breaking Federal law?
If these cut and past blog posters are gonna keep this up and simply parrot some gun grabber crap without intent to seriously discuss, I am gonna start posting whole pages of pro-gun rights stuff...
PrimeNumber and maz-537846 you are about two dumbass idiots PLEASE GET YOURSELVES REALLY EDUCATED ABOUT THE NRA BEFORE YOU OPEN YOUR DUMBASS MOUTH.... THANK YOU !!!!!!
Maz! you idiot.. you obviouly suffer from the same attention span you claim others have.
Prime numass did not write it, and that is why I did not read it.
Look below the main title.. It says very clearly, "By Michael Moore".
Stop trying to play with the Big Dogs!
I would have you go sit on the porch bench, but that is still way above your level.
I am now going to join the NRA.
hey john maybe you people should do something about your thugs that would stop the killings
It's so funny that you quote Michael Moore. I think Gov. Cuomo's Big Gulp ban was designed with him in mind.
I honestly think you need to re-visit grade school.
Hey prime, have you seen any photos of late term abortions? Equally disgusting and they happen with much greater frequency than children murdered in schools. What about the children. Shouldn't we do anything to save just one life?
OKwhatnow
Yea I just re upped my membership for two years
Prime, thanks for the long rambling cut and paste there. It's certainly long enough and idiotic enough for me to print it out and wipe my arse with it. That's all that you and your buddy Michael Moore are worth.
Moore is a Douchbag Asshat
victory? For the inbred morons leading outr de-evolution? Check the news lately. We are f'd up
.
True leaders never have to tell anyone "I'm in charge"
A true leader, leads......
Of course, if you're a community organizer.... you organize.......... bet you can find everything in the White House.... got him a label maker & stuck labels on everything.....
NRA = Merchants of Death, lobbying group for mass murderers in the US.
That you think you are making a point by name calling is sad.
The NRA saved America & the world during WWI & WWII.... nice way to say "Thank you"
The NRA will do more for gun safety this weekend than democrats will do in their entire lifetimes.
Guns don't kill. So called legal gun owners do.
Heres another DUMBASS
I agree Danny. You can always tell the trolls, they say spout stupidity without reasonable thought. It is just to get a reaction. Like Mike-424215 above. Just to get a reaction. What a moron.
I'm sorry numbnut. I guess you should know that I agree with you schizos. New gun laws would be meaningless now. Legal gun owners have already put so many weapons in the criminals hands at this point that any gun law would be pointless. I'm more on the side of strengthening and enforcing the laws we already have in place. Free jail and prison space by legalizing pot and make a profit and fill the space with real criminals. More particularly, illegal gun possession criminals. Quadruple their fines and quadruple their prison sentences. Sell a gun to a criminal and don't register the sale and the gun is used to commit a crime and you didn't previously report it stolen or sold, then when it's traced back to you, you face the exact charges the criminal that used it committed. Just the same as if you sat behind the wheel of the get away car during a bank robbery.
Michelle Bachman is that you??
Filibusters and lobbyists should be illegal.
Except Michael Bloomberg
Ozzie Boy I will go no further than your first post. You are an idiot.
name-calling is not a good fight.
Call it name calling if you want ,I call it like I see it being writing another DUMBASS opening thier mouth!!! get your facts straight about the NRA before opening your mouth. DONT BE AFRAID TO STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS ,I'M NOT!!! JOIN THE NRA YOU MIGHT GET EDUCATED ABOUT GUN AND GUN SAFETY
The NRA, they didn't give up and they never gave in!
I just re-upped my membership for two years