tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85738128800942796392024-03-14T02:33:36.689-04:00In General CounselREGULAR AND IRREGULAR NEWS AND COMMENTARY ABOUT THE LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND OTHER LEGAL ISSUES IN GENERAL
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<br>Online since Aug. 8, 2008<br>IGCbloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17949991436086459946noreply@blogger.comBlogger630125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8573812880094279639.post-49566469758481367402012-10-03T19:41:00.002-04:002012-10-03T20:04:38.628-04:00Presidential Debate Viewer's Guide[<i>Apologies for the lack of postings; we've been swamped with other work</i>]<br />
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After watching the debates in several president election
cycles, certain trends and predictable outcomes become evident. With that in
mind, here is a viewer’s guide for the presidential debates between
Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and the two debates to
follow and also generally applicable to the upcoming vice presidential debate
between VP Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan. This guide will be supplemented
as events warrant.<br />
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The presidential
debates are scheduled for tonight, October 16, and October 22, and the vice presidential
debate is October 11. Apart from the Town Hall format on October 16, apparently
each debate moderator will apparently serve as the sole questioner, unlike some
of the previous presidential debates where a panel of journalists posed the
questions.</div>
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Admittedly past performance does not guarantee future
results, and your mileage my vary as they say.<br />
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Given that the debate moderators, as usual, are from the conventional
Beltway liberal media, however, these prognostications are more likely to be
accurate than not . Moreover, a significant portion of the questions will be posed in the form of
accusations at least when directed to Romney (or Ryan).</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Warning:</b> If you
are going to do any drinking games -- which are not recommended by any means --
remember to drink responsibly, and never drink and drive.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Camera wise:</b> In
the televised debate format, Democrats have been traditionally much more savvy about
making eye contact with the American people. Republicans in general foolishly
try to make eye contact with the moderator or panelists, who are really
irrelevant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Based on precedent, expect
Obama to look directly into the camera and Romney not to, unless his handlers
were smart enough to prepare him otherwise.</div>
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[<i>Comment: </i>Romney should say that Obama left the economy unguarded in the same way that he left the American embassy unguarded in Benghazi, Libya.] </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Buzzwords:</b> Watch
for multiple mentions of “tax cuts for the rich,” “working families” (which in
realty usually means <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">non-working</i>
families), “paying their fair share,” and referring to the American people as
“folks.” Dishonorable mention: "let's be clear," the economy “was in a ditch,” “millionaires and
billionaires,” and "fiscal cliff."</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">47% guaranteed:</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> It’s a given and
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entrepreneurs didn’t build their businesses, or that small-town voters are
“bitter clingers," or the recently released 2007 speech.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Good <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>government:</b> The moderators will proceed on
the assumption that all government programs at face value are valid and
effective (despite rampant waste and fraud and that many are counterproductive)
and try to put the pressure on anyone (guess who?) who wants to even incrementally
reign in out-of-control government spending.</div>
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At least one of the moderators or Obama himself will accuse
Romney of having no foreign policy experience even though Obama in 2008 had
neither foreign policy nor domestic policy experience and to this day has no
business experience.</div>
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be downplayed.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dog eat dog:</b>
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Expect no references to <a href="http://ingeneralcounsel.blogspot.com/2012/04/dog-eater-in-chief.html" target="_blank">Obama eating dog</a> (which he admitted to in his
autobiography).</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Big issues:</b> Based
on their questioning, the moderators will assume that the two of the issues
keeping voters up at night are same-sex marriage and abortion rather than the
economy and unemployment. With that in mind, at least one moderator will badger Romney
about his pro-life views but will not question Obama for his support of
“partial-birth” abortion.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Crazy supporters:</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The moderators will also badger Romney about
<a href="http://ingeneralcounsel.blogspot.com/2012/08/todd-akin-dont-go-away-madjust-go-away.html" target="_blank">Todd Akin’s idiotic, insane statements </a>but won’t ask Obama about any of the
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Timing:</b> The moderators
will interrupt Romney when he runs over the time limit to answer a question.
The moderators will not interrupt Obama when he runs over the time limit to
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Townies:</b> The
audience will likely be loaded with Obama supporters, especially in the Town
Hall format. With regard to the latter, virtually all the audience questions in
the Town Hall will be posed by individuals who are facing real or imagined
hardships and believe that only a government handout provides a solution to
their problems. It will be revealed later that at least one of the questioners
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The moderators will pose potentially embarrassing or tacky questions to Romney
about his background, personal wealth, or religion. No such questions will be
posed to Obama.</div>
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least one of the moderators will accuse Romney of being out of touch with
ordinary Americans. No moderator will ask Obama if he is out of touch with
ordinary Americans even though he flies around from one celebrity fundraiser to
another on a military jet and has played more golf than any U.S. president
in history even during national or international crises.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Flop sweat:</b> At
least one of the moderators will ask Romney about flip-flopping on issues but
will not ask Obama about flip-flopping on issues even though both men have done
the same.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Outsourcing:</b> Bain
Capital, Romney’s former company, will come up in the context of outsourcing
jobs overseas. It will be up to Romney to bring up that the Obama
administration has given millions of taxpayer dollars or loan guarantees to politically
connected companies that have outsourced jobs overseas.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">That’s nice:</b> At
least one of the moderators will insist each candidate say something nice about
the other. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Awkward and a complete waste of precious debate time.</div>
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Romney.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>If Obama does well in any or
all of the three debates, even narrowly, the mainstream media will deem it a
clear win for Obama and that the election is over, etc. If Romney does well in
any or all of the three presidential debates, the headlines from the mainstream
media the next morning (or that night) will declare the debate to be a “draw.”
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</xml><![endif]--><b>Fact-checkers:</b> Leftwing fact check groups will be tweeting like there is no tomorrow even time Romney "lies." A lie is defined these days as a political disagreement. Rightwing groups are more even-handed, in part because many of them are lukewarm on Romney in the first place and examine the facts rather than engaging in spin. Guess which fact-checking organizations will get the most attention from the mainstream media.</div>
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<script type="text/javascript">var addthis_pub="igcblogger";</script><a expr:id="data:post.url" expr:name="data:post.title" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8573812880094279639" onclick="return addthis_sendto()" onmouseout="addthis_close()" onmouseover="return addthis_open(this, "", this.id, this.name);"><img alt="" border="0" height="16" src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0pt none;" width="125" /></a><script src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/152/addthis_widget.js" type="text/javascript"></script>IGCbloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17949991436086459946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8573812880094279639.post-64754920326673569402012-08-21T08:07:00.000-04:002012-08-21T08:39:20.596-04:00Todd Akin: Don't Go Away Mad...Just Go AwayTodd Akin...another idiotic Republican trying to expound on social issues when the election is all about the economy and repealing ObamaCare. Recall that the GOP tossed away some victories in 2010 because some of their lame candidates foolishly went there.<br />
<br />
Memo to GOP candidates everywhere: Never take the bait from the media about social issues, okay?<br />
<br />
As <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/2012/08/20/ann-coulter-if-akin-loves-his-country-he-will-step-aside/" target="_blank">Ann Coulter writes</a>, "This is no time for another foot-in-the-mouth, Trent Lott Republican to be dominating the national political discussion. The country is at stake."<br />
<br />
Coulter, who sometimes goes off the deep end herself, appropriately recalls the case of former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, who was railroaded by corrupt federal prosecutors to the detriment of the entire country:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
U.S. Senator Ted Stevens was completely innocent of the crimes he was
charged with – as we now know – but because he refused to withdraw from
the senate race while he was under investigation in 2008, Republicans
lost a sure Senate seat in that election. If Stevens had stepped aside
and let another Republican run, Obamacare would not have become the law
of the land.</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
That’s how important a single Senate seat can be.</blockquote>
The Missouri Senate election was destined to be an easy win for the GOP until this fool revealed himself to be a total loser. It's time for him to drop out and let a qualified viable candidate (perhaps Sarah Steelman who ran in the closely contested Republican primary) take over and defeat the very beatable Obama rubber stamp Claire McCaskill.<br />
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<br />
Whose the worst liberal talking head on Fox News? There are so many to choose from, aren't there?<br />
<br />
Tamara "it's Bush's fault" Holder and Alan Colmes have to be at the bottom of the barrel, though. Or how about chief Obama apologist Juan Williams, who was fired by NPR because he was too conservative.<br />
<br />
But the oafish Bob Beckel of <a href="http://ingeneralcounsel.blogspot.com/2011/09/heckel-and-beckel-five-should-be.html" target="_blank">The Five</a>, who revealed himself in this clip to be a stone-cold anti-Semite, is long overdue from being outsourced and testing Obama's wonderful economy that he loves so much.
Apart from this bigoted comment, his "I don't know anything about popular culture...I don't know how to use technology" act is very, very lame. Jehmu Greene, who also made <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/fox-news-decision-not-to-fire-jehmu-greene-angers-the-right/" target="_blank">a racially charged comment</a> on Fox News but for some reason wasn't fired, is also awful. <br />
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To their great discredit, the other panelists on <i>The Five</i> treated this remark as a big joke.<br />
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<script type="text/javascript">var addthis_pub="igcblogger";</script><a expr:id="data:post.url" expr:name="data:post.title" href="" onclick="return addthis_sendto()" onmouseout="addthis_close()" onmouseover="return addthis_open(this, "", this.id, this.name);"><img alt="" border="0" height="16" src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0pt none;" width="125" /></a><script src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/152/addthis_widget.js" type="text/javascript"></script>IGCbloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17949991436086459946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8573812880094279639.post-60875390836053310662012-08-08T08:36:00.002-04:002012-08-08T08:36:19.505-04:00In General Counsel Online For Four YearsThank you for your continued readership of the In General Counsel blog which now marks four years of activity. Because of the crush of other deadline-sensitive work, postings have been light lately, but we will get back on track with fresh content soon.IGCbloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17949991436086459946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8573812880094279639.post-31391054592962729292012-08-04T18:15:00.000-04:002012-08-04T18:28:08.462-04:00ICE Agent Arrests Illegal--ICE Agent Faces SuspensionAn ICE agent is threatened with suspension for not letting an illegal alien (age 35) go free.<br />
<br />
Obama's <a href="http://ingeneralcounsel.blogspot.com/2009/10/orwell-on-totatitarianism.html" target="_blank">Orwellian</a> <a href="http://ingeneralcounsel.blogspot.com/2012/06/neil-munro-american-hero.html" target="_blank">immigration policy</a>: Up is down, right is wrong, and ignorance is strength:<br />
<br />
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<script type="text/javascript">var addthis_pub="igcblogger";</script><a expr:id="data:post.url" expr:name="data:post.title" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8573812880094279639" onclick="return addthis_sendto()" onmouseout="addthis_close()" onmouseover="return addthis_open(this, "", this.id, this.name);"><img alt="" border="0" height="16" src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/lg-share-en.gif" style="border: 0pt none;" width="125" /></a><script src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/152/addthis_widget.js" type="text/javascript"></script>IGCbloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17949991436086459946noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8573812880094279639.post-74357370971322131242012-08-04T17:45:00.000-04:002012-08-04T17:45:55.593-04:00"A Statistically Impossible Lack of Diversity"Breaking news: Leftist gatekeepers <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/1/liberal-majority-on-campus-yes-were-biased/print/" target="_blank">control academia</a>.<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
It's not every day that left-leaning academics admit that they would discriminate against a minority.
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
But that was what they did in a peer-reviewed study of political diversity in the field of social psychology, which will be published in the September edition of the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science.</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Psychologists Yoel Inbar and Joris Lammers, based at Tilburg University
in the Netherlands, surveyed a roughly representative sample of
academics and scholars in social psychology and found that "In decisions
ranging from paper reviews to hiring, many social and personality
psychologists admit that they would discriminate against openly
conservative colleagues." </blockquote>
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Michael Totten writes at <a href="http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/michael-j-totten/it-or-not-jerusalem-israels-capital" target="_blank">World Affairs</a> that...<br />
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White House press secretary Jim Carney refused to publicly name the capital of Israel yesterday. All he was willing to say when asked repeatedly is that the White House position on Israel’s capital hasn’t changed... </blockquote>
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It’s a fact—not an opinion—that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital. Anyone
who insists otherwise is in denial. You may wish Tel Aviv was its
capital. You may even wish a united Al Quds was the capital of the Arab
state of Palestine. But those things can only be true in an alternate
universe or in the future. In this universe, in 2012, Israel exists and
Jerusalem is its capital.</blockquote>
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Only one of Israel’s national government buildings—the ministry of
defense—is in Tel Aviv. All the others are in Jerusalem. And all of them
are on the western side of the city inside the internationally
recognized borders. <b>The only people who dispute Israel’s right to exist
in west Jerusalem are those who dispute Israel’s right to exist
anywhere</b>.</blockquote>
Apparently the only people who don't know that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel are those in the Obama administration.<br />
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An investigation is underway, but authorities suspect that he may have swallowed some kind of poison immediately after being found guilty for torching the mansion that he apparently could no longer afford.<br />
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purge has been suspended.</blockquote>
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federal laws that prohibit the systematic removal of voters close to an
election do not refer to noncitizens. He also accepted the state’s claim
that its purging efforts are over for now.</blockquote>
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part of a request by the U.S. Department of Justice, which sought a
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should not be voting,” the judge said. “People need to know we are
running an honest election.”</blockquote>
Hinkle is a Clinton appointee.<br />
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It was bad enough that the Miami Heat won the NBA championship, and now the bureaucratic monstrosity known as <a href="http://ingeneralcounsel.blogspot.com/2012/03/its-obamcares-birthday-and-you-can-cry.html" target="_blank">ObamaCare</a> is the law of the land. Could anything be more depressing or disillusioning or disheartening?<br />
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We haven't blogged about it up until know because we kept hoping that there would be a follow-up announcement from the Supreme Court to the effect that "hey, we were just messing with you, America...of course ObamaCare is unconstitutional and null and void."
But it is not to be.<br />
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Although ruling that the law imposing socialized medicine on the U.S.was unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause, Chief Justice Roberts inexplicably upheld the law by a 5-4 vote based on Congress' taxing powers in the decision released on Thursday morning.<br />
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Up until the <a href="http://ingeneralcounsel.blogspot.com/2012/06/supreme-court-alienates-america-with.html" target="_blank">Arizona immigration law decision</a>, Roberts was in general doing a fine job on the court, but here he let American down in a massive way.<br />
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Regardless of all the hype, despite the Obama administration's empty promises, virtually everyone's insurance premiums will go up <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/06/29/Seven-new-taxes" target="_blank">along with their taxes</a>. And, government-run healthcare means government-rationed healthcare, which leads to, yes, death panels.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>We've learned that the <a href="http://ingeneralcounsel.blogspot.com/2012/06/obamacare-supreme-court-prediction.html" target="_blank">various predictions</a> by expert Supreme Court watchers were wrong. For example, the individual mandate was not tossed out. Nor did Justice Kennedy go wobbly. Nor does a bad oral argument on the part of one side serve as a precursor to the final decision.
In fact, Justice Kennedy, along with Justices Scalia, Thomas, and Alito wanted to throw out the entire law, not just the mandate. These four gentlemen held firm on constitutional principles and for that they should receive America's thanks.<br />
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So, Roberts had four votes in his pocket to either disallow the entire law which would have given him the latitude based on "judicial restraint" to block the mandate with his fifth vote but leave other aspects of the law in place (leaving aside the severability issue), but yet he decided to go with the Court's left-wing block by upholding the law on the basis of the taxing power.<br />
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Legal scholars are continuing to pour over the decision, but as a practical matter why in the world would Roberts do that when the government grounded their entire case on the Commerce Clause and specifically rejected the tax argument? Why did he take it upon himself to new justification that the government never advanced? Is that even appropriate?<br />
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What's even more disappointing is that during the oral argument, Roberts was perceptive enough to specifically call attention to the fact that the one-size-fits-all ObamaCare mandate will force American citizens into coverage they don't need or want and that high-deductible plans will go by the wayside.<br />
The latter is not a constitutional issue, but it is a practical dollars-and-sense issue that will hit middle-class consumers right in the wallet.<br />
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According to some analysts, Roberts may have changed his vote at a later stage, and that the dissenting opinion actually started off as the majority--even more of a pity. Did Roberts succumb to either public or private Chicago-style intimidation to change his vote? Let's hope not.<br />
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And as to the notion that the decision to is some Jedi mind trick or Trojan Horse by Roberts that will prevent the left from expanding its sweeping reach under the Commerce Clause, hogwash. This is the real world, not a law school class. Moreover, none of that verbiage would be binding on a future court if the ideological balance changes.<br />
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As Prof. William Jacobson wrote Friday at <a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/06/funny-how-that-new-judicial-restraint-works/" target="_blank">Legal Insurrection</a>:<br />
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The self-delusion that yesterday’s affirmation of
Obamacare’s mandate under the taxing power of Congress was a conservative
victory continues in full force today.</blockquote>
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Judicial restraint now means ignoring the will of Congress
as to the purposes and structure of legislation in order to save the
legislation from Congress.
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history,terms and purposes in order to save it, was not used to salvage
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Watch Sarah Palin discussing the decision on <a href="http://ingeneralcounsel.blogspot.com/2011/09/heckel-and-beckel-five-should-be.html" target="_blank">The Five</a>, including calmly schooling the oafish Bob Beckel (who is still on the show perhaps because Juan Williams is even worse):<br />
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The Obama administration said Monday it is suspending existing agreements with Arizona police over enforcement of federal immigration laws, and said it has issued a directive telling federal authorities to decline many of the calls reporting illegal immigrants that the Homeland Security Department may get from Arizona police...“We will not be issuing detainers on individuals unless they clearly meet our defined priorities,” one official said in a telephone briefing.</blockquote>
Raise your hand if you are fed up with this lawless, pandering administration. Apparently Justice Scalia is:<br/><br/>
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In a far more rational decision, the Supreme Court ruled in <i>Knox v. SEIU</i> late last week that the big union couldn't continue to steal money from government workers' paychecks. This decision was also discussed on FNC, but please disregard the liberal's tired and lame "<a href="http://ingeneralcounsel.blogspot.com/2012/06/police-firefighters-and-teachers.html" target="_blank">police, firefighters and teachers</a>" reference as the public sector is mostly made up of paper shufflers on perpetual coffee break who have nothing whatsoever to do with law enforcement:
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Or maybe he's the <i>least</i> <a href="http://ingeneralcounsel.blogspot.com/2012/01/most-interesting-man-in-thesouth.html" target="_blank">interesting man in the world</a>:
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg did not mean to, but she appears to have said that the Supreme Court has, at a minimum, ruled that the individual mandate in ObamaCare is unconstitutional. </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
As reported by POLITICO, the liberal Justice told the American Constitutional Society on Friday, June 15 that the one remaining ObamaCare question the Court must decide is is whether the whole law must fall if the individual mandate is unconstitutional — <b>“or may the mandate be chopped, like a head of broccoli, from the rest of it?”</b></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
But they would not need to decide this question if they had already
ruled that the individual mandate passes Constitutional muster.</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
This suggests, at a minimum, that the individual mandate is gone.
But it may well be that the court has ruled that the entire ObamaCare
law is, therefore, null and void because there is no severability
clause...</blockquote>
The High Court's decision, regardlesss of how it goes, is expected to be released next week.<br />
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In the meantime, if you want to stay healthy, eat your broccoli.<br />
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<b>Added:</b> Per Intrade, there is almost an 80% chance that the individual mandate gets ruled unconstitutional.<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/search/%2523ObamaGiftRegistrySlogans">#ObamaGiftRegistrySlogans</a> You may stiff the bride<br />
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) <a data-datetime="2012-06-23T00:22:21+00:00" href="https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/216325282800472065">June 23, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Could Team Obama, with its <a href="http://ingeneralcounsel.blogspot.com/2012/04/is-obama-campaign-abetting-credit-card.html" target="_blank">world-class campaign fundraising</a> prowess, be that hard up for cash so they had to launch this tacky gift registry?<br />
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Got a birthday, anniversary, or wedding coming up?</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Let your friends know how important this election is to you—register
with Obama 2012, and ask for a donation in lieu of a gift. It’s a great
way to support the President on your big day. Plus, it’s a gift that we
can all appreciate—and goes a lot further than a gravy bowl.</blockquote>
Aside from wedding and birthdays, how would your family feel about Santa visiting the White House rather than your house? <br />
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At this writing, there are about 900 comments posted at the registry. Check it out. It's not going well for Team Obama.<br />
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Maybe the Obama campaign is falling short of fundraising goals. Per the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304765304577478561656128448.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop" target="_blank">Wall Street Journal</a>:<br />
<blockquote>
The Democrats' official fundraising numbers, released on Wednesday,
showed that the $95 million cash-on-hand advantage Obama and the DNC had
over the Republicans at the end of April had been cut by two-thirds at
the end of May to $33 million. This is in part because the Obama
campaign is burning through its war chest so fast and in part because of
the impressive $107 million that the Romney campaign and the RNC
announced they had on hand at May's end.</blockquote>
Jay Leno weighs in:
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Prof. William Jacobson of <a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/06/obama-invokes-executive-privilege-after-long-stall-by-holder/" target="_blank">Legal Insurrection</a> has an excellent summary of the issues:<br />
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First Holder pretends he will cooperate, but doesn’t. Then he stalls
with negotiations. Then he stalls some more by promising to cooperate
again, but doesn’t. Then, when his back is up against the wall because a
vote is scheduled to hold him in contempt, he runs to Obama for some
legal protection, which will result in the matter being thrown into the
courts for more delay.</blockquote>
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As with most things damaging to Obama, all they care about is pushing the bad news off until after the election.</blockquote>
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What all this means, of course, is that Holder has been withholding
documents responsive to the House subpoena which have not been turned
over. So he has not complied with the House subpoena, since it only was
today that he obtained the protection of an Executive Privilege claim
from the White House.</blockquote>
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Darrell Issa and his Republican committee members deserve a medal. Keep pushing.</blockquote>
Former federal prosecutor <a href="http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2012/06/20/the-plot-thickens-obama-asserts-executive-privilege-to-block-fast-furious-disclosures/" target="_blank">Andrew McCarthy</a> of PJ Media weighs in:<br />
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The issue in F&F is not the withholding of DOJ documents. The issue
is the reckless provision of an arsenal fit for an army to violent
cartels, quite predictably resulting in the murders of possibly hundreds
of people including at least one United States law enforcement officer...
</blockquote>
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If this were a Republican administration, the press would long ago
have made the Department’s obstruction of Congress a five-alarm scandal.
Bush administration Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was forced to
resign over a matter that was less than frivolous compared to F&F.
The press is in the tank for Obama, so Holder & Co. have relatively
smooth sailing — even when it became clear that they provided blatantly
false information to Congress about the use of the gun-walking tactic.
Chairman Darrell Issa (R., CA) has been heroic in pursuing this
investigation at a time when Republicans have been generally feckless in
challenging Obama’s abuses of power.</blockquote>
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But while Holder has been in the eye of what little storm there was, it has always been the case that F&F is <i>Obama’s</i> scandal..Obviously, the hope was that if DOJ was intransigent enough, the House
would get frustrated and bored and move on to other things. That hasn’t
happened, thanks to Rep. Issa and his colleagues. But the focus on
Holder and withheld documents should not obscure that F&F is really
about Obama and the murders of a federal agent and hundreds of others —
very likely, to promote the Left’s political argument that American
Second Amendment rights are the cause of international violence.</blockquote>
Here's what FNC's Judge Napolitano had to say:<br />
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Yet as far as Obama's <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/14/obamas-100th-golf-round/" target="_blank">record-setting presidential golf outings</a>, once again the sound you are hearing is <a href="http://ingeneralcounsel.blogspot.com/2009/10/part-ii-media-bias-and-sounds-of.html" target="_blank">crickets</a>:<br />
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The next time President Obama hits the links, it will be his 100th round of golf since coming to the White House.
That’s quite a milestone in just 3 1/2 years. As it takes him about six
hours to drive to the greens and complete 18 holes, Mr. Obama has spent
the equivalent of four months’ worth of work time golfing. Meanwhile,
the U.S. economy has been stuck in a sand trap...</blockquote>
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Mr. Obama had no sense of the inappropriateness of playing 99 rounds of
golf while 99 percent of the country couldn’t even afford the cost or
time to go once. Now he wants a second term to finish what he started.
After the 100th round, voters may want to think twice about giving him a
mulligan.</blockquote>
Ironically, back in 1994, future Obama top adviser David Axelrod criticized President G.H.W. Bush for playing <u>too much golf</u> and therefore being too out of touch with the American people:<br />
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Note that Axelrod admits that "beating up on Bush is the only thing we have left."<br />
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The more things change, the more they stay the same.<br />
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<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/303037/are-we-revolutionary-times-victor-davis-hanson" target="_blank">NRO's Victor Davis Hanson</a> doesn't think so:<br />
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Politically, Obama calculates that some polls showing the current likely
Hispanic support for him in the high 50s or low 60s would not provide
enough of a margin in critical states such as Nevada, New Mexico, and
Colorado, or perhaps also in Florida and Virginia, to counteract the
growing slippage of the independent vote and the energy of the
clinger/tea-party activists. Thus, what was not legal or advisable in
2009, 2010, or 2011, suddenly has become critical in mid-2012. No doubt
free green cards will quickly lead to citizenship and a million new
voters. Will it work politically? </blockquote>
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Obama must assume lots of things: that
all Hispanics vote as a block in favoring exempting more illegal aliens
from the law, and are without worry that the high unemployment rate
hits their community among the hardest; that black voters, stung by his
gay-marriage stance, will not resent what may be seen as de facto
amnesty, possibly endangering his tiny (and slipping) lead in places
like Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. And because polls show
overwhelming resistance to non-enforcement of immigration law, Obama
also figures that the minority who supports his recent action does so
far more vehemently than the majority who opposes it. </blockquote>
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Time will tell;
but my gut feeling is that his brazen act will enrage far more than it
will delight — and for a variety of different reasons. As with all his
special-interest efforts — the Keystone cancellation, war-on-women ploy,
gay-marriage turnabout, and now de facto amnesty — Obama believes
dividing Americans along class, ethnic, gender, and cultural lines will
result in a cobbled together majority, far more preferable than a 1996
Clinton-like effort to win over the independents by forging a
bipartisan consensus.</blockquote>
As far as the underlying policy itself, <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/303038/executive-overreach-john-yoo" target="_blank">NRO's John Yoo</a> argues that it is a huge overreach by the administration:<br />
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President Obama’s claim that he can refuse to deport 800,000 aliens here
in the country illegally illustrates the unprecedented stretching of
the Constitution and the rule of law. He is laying claim to presidential
power that goes even beyond that claimed by the Bush administration, in
which I served. There is a world of difference in refusing to enforce
laws that violate the Constitution (Bush) and refusing to enforce laws
because of disagreements over policy (Obama).</blockquote>
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Fast forward to 2012: What's more rude, a president disregarding separation of powers or a <i>Daily</i> <i>Caller</i> reporter interrupting the president to ask a legitimate question? What's more important, disrespecting Obama or disrespecting the U.S. Constitution?<br />
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As far as the media as the media's reaction of this president doing an end-run around the Constitution, it's generally <a href="http://ingeneralcounsel.blogspot.com/2009/10/part-ii-media-bias-and-sounds-of.html" target="_blank"><i>crickets</i></a>. <br />
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It does seem like that after a terrible week, make that a terrible month, on the economic front, the Obama administration wanted to do something to change the subject in a big way.<br />
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Leaving aside the merits of granting quasi-amnesty to illegals, does anyone really believe that this executive order will only involve 800,000 persons? When has a government projection--especially in immigration--ever been correct? And do you think the bureaucracy will be competent enough to root out fraudulent claims under this new program?<br />
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As far as governing by executive order, <a href="http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=027B452F-8238-40EB-8DAE-7176BA2DE739" target="_blank">even some leftists don't like it</a>:<br />
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The president is using executive power to do things Congress has refused to do, and that does fit a disturbing pattern of expansion of executive power under President Obama,” said Jonathan Turley, a constitutional law scholar at George Washington University Law School, known for his support of progressive causes as well as his ire at Obama for not prosecuting Bush officials in connection with alleged torture of terror suspects.
In many ways, President Obama has fulfilled the dream of an imperial presidency that Richard Nixon strived for. On everything from [DOMA] to the gaming laws, this is a president who is now functioning as a super legislator. He is effectively negating parts of the criminal code because he disagrees with them. That does go beyond the pale.”</blockquote>
<i>Daily Caller</i> reporter Neil Munro gives his side of Friday's exchange:<br />
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Charles Krauthammer weighs in:<br />
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