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AMERICAN CONSERVATISM IN 2008 AND BEYOND

 
 
maporsche
 
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Reply Fri 17 Jul, 2009 04:39 pm
@Cycloptichorn,
I personally think they are on track to at the very least gain seats in one of the houses. I don't think O and the Dems have screwed up enough to lose the majority.
Foxfyre
 
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Reply Fri 17 Jul, 2009 04:42 pm
@Cycloptichorn,
Google naitionalization of the banks, Cyclop. You'll find plenty of sources, including some very leftwing ones, that were talking this in January and the possibility is not off the table yet.
Cycloptichorn
 
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Reply Fri 17 Jul, 2009 04:51 pm
@Foxfyre,
Foxfyre wrote:

Google naitionalization of the banks, Cyclop. You'll find plenty of sources, including some very leftwing ones, that were talking this in January and the possibility is not off the table yet.


Of course people are talking it - hell, I want them to nationalize the banks which are in trouble. They should have done that, instead of just throw money at them, as we have done. But, we didn't do that, and we aren't going to do it, precisely b/c of the political hay your side would attempt to make out of it. So, please; until we see some more evidence that this is going to happen, stop getting so breathless and throwing around terms like 'soft fascism,' I mean, c'mon, Fox.

Cycloptichorn
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parados
 
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Reply Fri 17 Jul, 2009 04:51 pm
@ican711nm,
ican711nm wrote:

Ican's comments are in blue
parados wrote:
1. Provide evidence of Obama taking "foreign money" Snopes debunks foreign money claims

I provided that in 2008!
It was debunked in 2008. I provided a link to Snopes. Just because you want to believe it doesn't make it so. Provide evidence.
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2. provide evidence he is doing things for this foreign money while not doing anything for American citizens (If you can find evidence of 1.)

I did not provide that! But Obama did provide that when he directed that Hamas--the shooters at Israel--be given millions of dollars in aid.
I don't see any evidence of Hamas giving money to Obama. You have not provided any so the statement he gave money to the foreign interests that contributed is NOT supported. But then you lied about where the money is actually going it seems..
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By seeking to aid Gazans but not Hamas, the administration is following the lead of the Bush administration, which sent money to Gaza through nongovernmental organizations.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/washington/24gaza.html


Hmm.. Bush gave money to Hamas? I don't think so. Do you?


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3. Lacking 1 and 2 above and the argument about Obama's lack of citizenshipmakes the second paragraph moot. There is no "defrauding" to be found since there is nothing there for evidence of the 3 points used to claim he defrauded anyone.

We're. not lacking 1 and 2 above, but we are lacking evdence that Obama was born in America!
Actually you have plenty of evidence. You just want to ignore it.
http://images.theweek.com/dir_27/the_week_13742_27.jpg
It's interesting that you now want to argue about the birth certificate. You must have "STUPID" stamped on your forehead.
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4. Provide evidence of legislation passed by Congress and signed by Obama that has violated the constitution.

I provided a plethora of evidence of that!
No, you haven't. Provide the number of even one law that you think violates the constitution and WHY you think it does. You have made up **** about how Obama's taxes violate the constitution but Obama has signed NO LAW concerning taxes.
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5. Provide evidence of a court deciding that legislation violated the constitution

I did not provide that!
Nor did you provide the law.
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You haven't provided any evidence ican. You have made up a lot of **** but when pressed you can't support it.

I have provided a plethora of evidence that Obama's presidential actions are unconstitutional!
You have repeated the same silly things over and over but you have NOT provided evidence. Evidence would be an actual law number and an actual ruling by a court. Your argument that "uniform" means something different than what the courts said does not prove Obama did anything. It only proves you are trying to make up stuff when the income tax laws have been in place sine 1913. They have been constitutional for 100 years but you somehow think they prove Obama is acting unconstitutionally.
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If Obama is taking money from others in violation of the constitution but not you then tell us why their taxes are unconstitutional but yours are constitutional.

So far as I know, no one's income taxes now are different from what they were 2003 to 2008! Until TARP, I lacked sufficient evidence to show that Bush spending of income taxes was unconstitutional. However, when Bush signed TARP on Obama's recommendation, Obama made Bush do it? Laughing Bush had only a few more months to be president. Impeaching Bush after his term ended seemed nonsensical to me. But impeaching Obama for his continuation and expansion of TARP with his Stimulus plan is essential for the rescue of our country from the damage Obama is doing now.
What court has said TARP is unconstitutional? NONE. You are full of **** here.

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Explain why your income taxes that are graduated like everyone elses don't violate your silly 'uniform' argument.

Currently, I'm paying income taxes that total less than 10% of my gross income--including taxes on the incomes of corporations in which I have invested. I think the tax rate for everyone should be 10% of gross income--no corporate taxes, no inheritance taxes, no deductions, no exemptions, no refunds, no paybacks, et cetera. A uniform tax rate for others as well as me would result as follows:
If your annual gross income were $10, you'd be required to pay $1 in income tax;
If your annual gross income were $10,000, you'd be required to pay $1,000 in income tax;
If your annual gross income were $10, 000,000, you'd be required to pay $1,000,000 in income tax;
If your annual gross income were $10, 000,000, 000 you'd be required to pay $1,000,000,000 in income tax.

I see you didn't explain anything about WHY it isn't unconstitutional for you to pay 10% but it is unconstitutional for ME to pay 10% on the first $20,000 I make, 15% on the next $50,000, and 25% on the next $70,000. You would too if you made more than $20,000. Laughing
Cycloptichorn
 
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Reply Fri 17 Jul, 2009 04:52 pm
@maporsche,
maporsche wrote:

I personally think they are on track to at the very least gain seats in one of the houses. I don't think O and the Dems have screwed up enough to lose the majority.


In the house of Reps, maybe; but not in the Senate, they are in a really bad position given the calendar of elections. The Republicans have to defend more seats than the Dems and their fundraising hasn't been fantastic, not to mention ethical scandals that they are seeing on several fronts.

Cycloptichorn
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DontTreadOnMe
 
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Reply Fri 17 Jul, 2009 04:54 pm
@Cycloptichorn,
Cycloptichorn wrote:
I think at this point you are stuck praying that the economy doesn't improve at all, in order to have any shot in hell in the next election.


i don't know if foxy is doing that or not, but the are others who are for sure. along with some who want to see the u.s. hit by another terrorist bombing.

now that's what i call real patriotism.
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ican711nm
 
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Reply Fri 17 Jul, 2009 04:56 pm
@Foxfyre,
Foxfyre wrote:
The way it is shaping up, it could get really ugly.

It is "really ugly" now. "The way it is shaping up, it could get HORRIBLY ugly."

Bottom line, by trying to impeach Obama now, we have a really good chance of impeaching him after 2010. Vote Republican November 2010, and the new Republican majoriities that would result will impeach Obama in 2011.

Time's a'wastin!"
Cycloptichorn
 
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Reply Fri 17 Jul, 2009 05:06 pm
@ican711nm,
ican711nm wrote:

Foxfyre wrote:
The way it is shaping up, it could get really ugly.

It is "really ugly" now. "The way it is shaping up, it could get HORRIBLY ugly."

Bottom line, by trying to impeach Obama now, we have a really good chance of impeaching him after 2010. Vote Republican November 2010, and the new Republican majoriities that would result will impeach Obama in 2011.

Time's a'wastin!"



You didn't answer my question - do you honestly believe that the Republicans have the ability to capture either house of Representatives in the next cycle?

Cycloptichorn
Foxfyre
 
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Reply Fri 17 Jul, 2009 05:13 pm
@ican711nm,
ican711nm wrote:

Foxfyre wrote:
The way it is shaping up, it could get really ugly.

It is "really ugly" now. "The way it is shaping up, it could get HORRIBLY ugly."

Bottom line, by trying to impeach Obama now, we have a really good chance of impeaching him after 2010. Vote Republican November 2010, and the new Republican majoriities that would result will impeach Obama in 2011.

Time's a'wastin!"



Well we're still at an impasse on this one. I don't think you have a case to impeach him and a snowball chance in hell of getting it out of committee even if you do. And we are way too short on time to expend political capital and take the chance of the few good leaders we have left being branded wild-eyed nutcases should they try. We are only 16 months away from the next election. Nobody thought the Democrats in any kind of trouble in 1994. Clinton was still wildly popular and, apart from Hillarycare, hadn't created too much havoc with anything. But what do you know? Hillarycare alone was enough to bring the people to full attention and they put the Democrats out of power in the very next election.

With a good, conservative GOP majority in the House, mostly supported by a sizable group of conservative Democrats, and no real advantage for either party in the Senate, Clinton went along with some pretty good stuff and achieved a reasonably successful presidency.

So could Obama have a reasonably successful presidency if he is as narcissistic and desperate for approval as Clinton and has to go along with a good Congress in order to get credit for anything.

That's our only chance, Ican. That's our only chance.

I honestly don't care who gets the credit. I just want us to rewind this insane Keynesian Marxist Facist track that our government is currently on and restore our Republic to some semblance of what the Founders gave us.
cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Fri 17 Jul, 2009 05:18 pm
@Foxfyre,
I don't think ican understands the impeachment process. If he did, he wouldn't be making a fool of himself talking about the impeachment of Obama.
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ican711nm
 
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Reply Fri 17 Jul, 2009 06:24 pm
@parados,
Ican's comments are in blue.
parados wrote:
It was debunked in 2008. I provided a link to Snopes. Just because you want to believe it doesn't make it so. Provide evidence.

Just because you want to believe Snopes doesn't make it so.

I don't see any evidence of Hamas giving money to Obama. You have not provided any so the statement he gave money to the foreign interests that contributed is NOT supported. ...

Those who supported Hamas contributed to Obama. So Obama reciprocated by giving aid to Hamas.

Actually you have plenty of evidence [Obama was born in America]. You just want to ignore it.

What's the evidence?

It's interesting that you now want to argue about the birth certificate. ...

I don't want to argue about Obama's alleged birth certificate.

You [claim] Obama's taxes violate the constitution but Obama has signed NO LAW concerning taxes.

Obama has advocated plenty of taxes that he has repeatedly said he wants to sign into law. True, he has not yet signed those taxes into law.

Your argument that "uniform" means something different than what the courts said does not prove Obama did anything. It only proves you are trying to make up stuff when the income tax laws have been in place sine 1913. They have been constitutional for 100 years but you somehow think they prove Obama is acting unconstitutionally.

Uniform means exactly what the founders and the USSC 1895 decision said it means. It means the tax rate on all the things of the same kind (e.g., on population, on dollars of income) shall be equal.

If Obama is taking money from others in violation of the constitution but not you then tell us why their taxes are unconstitutional but yours are constitutional.

Currently, Obama is not taking taxes from me differently than did Bush starting in 2003. Both Bush and Obama are taking, say, 10% of my gross income. That's constitutional for me--assuming 10% is sufficient to pay for constitutionally lawful federal expenditures--but not those who are having more than 10% taken or less than 10%. Everyone should pay the same percent on gross income that is sufficient to pay for constitutionally lawful federal expenditures.

What court has said TARP is unconstitutional? NONE. ...

I agree, no court. The Constitution's 5th Amendment says TARP is unconstitutional, because TARP gives tax money taken from people who have lawfully earned it, to people or organizations that have not lawfully earned it.

I see you didn't explain anything about WHY it isn't unconstitutional for you to pay 10% but it is unconstitutional for ME to pay 10% on the first $20,000 I make, 15% on the next $50,000, and 25% on the next $70,000. You would too if you made more than $20,000.

Answered above.
ican711nm
 
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Reply Fri 17 Jul, 2009 06:34 pm
@Cycloptichorn,
Cycloptichorn wrote:
You didn't answer my question - do you honestly believe that the Republicans have the ability to capture either house of Representatives in the next cycle?


Yes, I did answer your question: the answer is it depends on something!
ican711nm wrote:
Bottom line, by trying to impeach Obama now, we have a really good chance of impeaching him after 2010. Vote Republican November 2010, and the new Republican majoriities that would result will impeach Obama in 2011.

I will now add: failure of the Republicans to try to impeach Obama now will result in the Republicans not gaining majorites in either house in 2010.

The problem that Republicans must solve to regain majorities in either house, is they must demonstrate they have the courage of their articulated convictions to rescue and protect our Constitutional Republic. Under Bush and so far under Obama, they have demonstrated they lack the courage of their articulated convictions to rescue and protect our Constitutional Republic.
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parados
 
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Reply Fri 17 Jul, 2009 06:51 pm
@ican711nm,
You are so predictable ican.

No evidence as I expected.

As to the birth certificate, maybe you can show us what a real one looks like. Obama's has the official seal and is what is accepted by the US government to prove citizenship. It is all that is needed to get a passport or a social security card. The government has no precedence of requiring more than that for proof. I'll bet you can't prove your citizenship using the standard you are requiring of Obama.



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Uniform means exactly what the founders and the USSC 1895 decision said it means. It means the tax rate on all the things of the same kind (e.g., on population, on dollars of income) shall be equal.
Which ruling said that? I posted the exact words from the ruling which are..

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There is certainly no want of uniformity, within the meaning of the constitution, since we have repeatedly held that the uniformity there referred to is territorial only. Loughborough v. Blake, 5 Wheat. 317; Head- Money Cases, 112 U.S. 580 , 5 Sup. Ct. 247. In the words of the constitution, the tax must be uniform 'throughout the United States.'

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=158&invol=601

Perhaps those words aren't clear to you but they are certainly clear to me and should be to most other people.

When you get some evidence other than your impossible reading of the constitution, get back to us.
ican711nm
 
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Reply Fri 17 Jul, 2009 07:03 pm
@parados,
parados wrote:
I posted the exact words from the ruling
The courts are not empowered by the Constitution to legislate the meaning of uniform. The meaning of uniform was established by the founders of the Constitution to mean exactly what I said it means: Tax rates on things of the same kind shall be equal (e.g., population, dollars of income).

To change that, the Constitution must be lawfully amended as specified by Article V of the Constitution. The powers of the federal judges in our courts are limited to the powers specified for them in the Constitution. That you think the courts can lawfully give themselves powers to lawfully amend the Constitution is irrelvant! They have no such powers until and if the Constitution is amended to give them such powers.
Cycloptichorn
 
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Reply Fri 17 Jul, 2009 07:10 pm
@maporsche,
maporsche wrote:

I personally think they are on track to at the very least gain seats in one of the houses. I don't think O and the Dems have screwed up enough to lose the majority.


It's right about 18 Dems and 18 Republic running for office in the Senate.

2010 - In the Senate, (info pulled from Wikipedia)

Retiring Democratic Senators -
o 2.1.1 Ted Kaufman of Delaware
o 2.1.2 Roland Burris of Illinois
Retiring Republican Senators -
o 2.2.1 Kit Bond of Missouri
o 2.2.2 Sam Brownback of Kansas
o 2.2.3 Judd Gregg of New Hampshire
o 2.2.4 Mel Martinez of Florida
o 2.2.5 George Voinovich of Ohio

Right off the bat, there's a disadvantage for Republicans, who are going to have to defend more open seats than the Democrats. Money gets spread thin real fast.

In the house,

Democratic Party: 256 members. Republican Party: 178 members.

The Dems have a 78-seat advantage in the House. They would have to lose more than 30 seats this cycle in order to flip the place to the other side. I don't really see that happening unless things really go south for Obama in general.

Cycloptichorn

cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Fri 17 Jul, 2009 08:50 pm
@Cycloptichorn,
I don't believe that democrats should be too worried about republicans taking over congress any time soon. They have become the "no party," and most Americans are tired of their negativity to everything. They have put most of their intellectual effort into Judge Sotomayor's confirmation hearings, and everything else they have done has all been negative.

They do not contribute anything; all they know what to say is "no."

Who would want them to control congress? They have not shown any ability to propose solutions to any of our country's problems - the biggest since the great depression.
okie
 
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Reply Fri 17 Jul, 2009 10:12 pm
@cicerone imposter,
And your solution is to spend our way out of debt. What a bunch of Democrat losers! Phony ones at that.
cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Fri 17 Jul, 2009 10:42 pm
@okie,
okie, Show me where I said what you claim I said? You a goddam liar and a jerk with no redeeming value on a2k or anywhere else.
okie
 
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Reply Fri 17 Jul, 2009 10:47 pm
@cicerone imposter,
When I say "your," thats the Democrat solution, you voted them in, they are bought and paid for by you and all your fellow Demcrat voters. Do not try to run away from your responsibility. You cannot blame this on Bush. And certainly not on McCain. No way would McCailn advocate spending our way out of debt. He may be dumb but he is not stupid, not stupid like Obama. Call it what you will, but really, it is stupid, just plain stupid. Face it, your guys are losers.
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MontereyJack
 
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Reply Fri 17 Jul, 2009 11:02 pm
Face it, okie, you can spend your way out of a depression, even a Bush depression. Simple economics. Worked in the big one in the 30s. Employment and GNP rose every year, after FDR came in, except for 38 or 39, when his critics convinced him to go for a balanced budget, and things went downhill for a year or so till he reverted to spending. Of course critics say it was WWII which finally brought us out of the depression. That's true, but what was that in economic terms but the world's biggest ever stimulus package, and in your terms the most socialist we've ever gotten to boo--worked, too. Industry made huge quantities of what the government told it to, didn't make whatever the government told it it couldn't, and paid and charged what the government said. The economy boomed (and the guns boomed), employment went way past full, and the depression went out. And i don't see any of you writing in opposition to that model,'cause you guys just love militarism.

Obama isn't socializing anything, and he's not advocating spending on anywhere near that scale, but the model DOES work. Tax cuts don't do it--they do nothing to stimulate demand or increase strangled credit. Signs are already there that the failed Bush economy is starting to work again under Obama.
 

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