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Re: Writer
Obama vs. the Constitution in his own words:
“[The Warren court] didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution” - discussed at http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/WriterofLight9992/576697.
"Warren Court interpreted [the Constitution] it in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. It says what the states can't do to you, says what the federal government can't do to you. But it doesn't say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf” - ibid.
“As your president my job is to regulate what happens in the financial markets to make sure that people aren't taking these kinds of risks and that we're having full disclosure” (http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN1344699920080514). I will eat this keyboard if you can show me where that is in the Constitution, which is supposed to provide his job description.
posted by
WriterofLight
on April 18, 2009 at 8:24 PM
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Re: Writer
kooka, see my citation of the 10th Amendment in replying to Van Arsdale.
posted by
WriterofLight
on April 18, 2009 at 8:13 PM
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Re: Unconstitutional?
You're right, nothing "prohibits the President from brow-beating the CEO of a company into resigning." But, from http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html, I offer the 10th Amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
From that I conclude that, if the Constitution is moot on the subject, it is not within his power.
posted by
WriterofLight
on April 18, 2009 at 8:11 PM
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Unconstitutional?
I have a copy of the Constitution, and I can't find any thing that prohibits the President from brow-beating the CEO of a company into resigning.
Why is it that conservatives have no problem with poor people getting welfare & food stamps (and now unemployment insurance) being required to take drug tests, or people who live in housing projects giving up the right to own a gun, or people who receive AFDC not being allowed to own a car over $3000 (cause, you know, why would a single parent be allowed a car that is reliable, doesn't break down and has all that "safety stuff") and anyone getting federal student aid has to register for the draft,
But a business receiving billions of dollars in loan guarantees can't be told to fire the knucklehead that drove them to the brink of bankruptcy! That's an abuse of power.
posted by
VanArsdale
on April 3, 2009 at 12:30 AM
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Writer
I've yet to see Obama piss on the Constitution as Bush/Chaney did. After the last eight years with what those tow did with cutting the laws of this land up as they saw fit... It really does become ridiculous to try and claim Obama is worse. And unlike the (un)Patriot act and Chaney's making it clear he is above the laws and can do as he pleases (Yet the Conservatives defended him did they not?), I yet to hear a rational argument that says Obama has defied the Constitution. The best you have is some of the crap that has been going on in Congress, but that is not Obama's doing.
posted by
kooka_lives
on April 2, 2009 at 7:51 PM
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"If the President does it, it's not illegal!"
Richard M. Nixon
posted by
VanArsdale
on April 2, 2009 at 2:59 AM
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Michael Moore is the true personification of Satanic deception!!!
posted by
Justi
on April 2, 2009 at 12:46 AM
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