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LuckyTheDog (1000+ posts) Fri Apr-01-11 03:51 PMOriginal message Is Cantor planning a coup? Seriously... Edited on Fri Apr-01-11 04:03 PM by LuckyTheDogI worry about how Cantor thinks he is going to enforce HR 1. I think it might be worth investigating whether the Republicans are threatening some kind of coup. I mean, even if Cantor does not know how a bill becomes a law, somebody on his staff does. Yet, the GOP proposed that bill. Why? If we take them at their word -- that they intend to impose their bill on the country regardless of what the Senate and president do -- then what we have on our hands is sedition.
LuckyTheDog (1000+ posts) Fri Apr-01-11 03:54 PMResponse to Reply #1 3. Cantor should be censured... ... or, perhaps even expelled from the House for staging this attempt to subvert the Constitution.
SDuderstadt (1000+ posts) Fri Apr-01-11 03:53 PMResponse to Original message 2. If so... they will be facing down the U.S. military.
kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Fri Apr-01-11 03:55 PMResponse to Original message 4. Seems Repukes have entered a phase in which they pretend they can ignore legal processes of govt. From the States to Capitol Hill. They always look like buffoons when they talk this way, but they've never acted out this way so stridently and in such concert before. And people have laughed at some of history's major villains when they were just getting started.
FiveGoodMen (1000+ posts) Fri Apr-01-11 04:05 PMResponse to Reply #4 7. "in which they pretend"? Unless and until someone actually takes steps to stop them, they can ignore legal processes of government.It worked for Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, etc, etc, etc.It has yet to blow up in the faces of Walker, Scott et.al. (though that may be coming).All laws are "off the table" as long as justice looks the other way.
AndyTiedye (1000+ posts) Fri Apr-01-11 04:55 PMResponse to Reply #4 15. They Own the Supreme Court Too, So Anything Could Happen
onenote (1000+ posts) Fri Apr-01-11 04:06 PMResponse to Original message 8. I really really hope you aren't serious. Because it makes you look silly. No one is planning a coup. Its absurd. They know that Cantor's proposal is unconstitutional and ridiculous. But they are simply playing to the teabaggers for cheap political points.
LuckyTheDog (1000+ posts) Fri Apr-01-11 04:11 PMResponse to Reply #8 11. I disagree. When guys like Cantor feel free to propose things that are clearly illegal, then we have entered into a new phase of politics. We are lurching toward a place where the rule of law starts to seriously break down. One can assume that Cantor is just a moron -- and maybe he is. But, what if he knows what he is doing and is really trying to make an end-run around the Constitution? Given his position, I think we should proceed assuming that both things are true.
onenote (1000+ posts) Fri Apr-01-11 05:20 PMResponse to Reply #16 18. No. I'm saying that if you apply critical thinking skills, its clear that they're not doing it with this cockamamie proposal.
Taverner (1000+ posts) Fri Apr-01-11 05:25 PMResponse to Reply #18 19. I don't think you can conclude that at all Remember, these are Republicans we are talking about
Has anyone seen any threads at the DUmp about Obama ignoring court rulings on oil drilling? Me neither.On a side note, if congress always passed laws that were constitutional , then the USSC would not strike down laws Dhimmi'Rats would have nothing to show for their tenures there.
