tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post1042783589601160137..comments2023-10-26T08:02:44.948-04:00Comments on Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State: The Tea Party And The Politics Of LimitsDon Pescihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11167988001948356357noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-29697947131142933502014-02-14T19:37:53.451-05:002014-02-14T19:37:53.451-05:00I'm afraid this is beginning to border on a cu...<i>I'm afraid this is beginning to border on a cult of personality for people on the left.</i><br /><br />... beginning??? Seriously?<br /><br />That was evident at the outset. Turley & Co are supposedly our best and brightest? That's a very scary thought.Libertarian Advocatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18245884833251725459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-6457434708041180172014-02-13T15:21:27.243-05:002014-02-13T15:21:27.243-05:00Like Rand Paul, Nat H. reads much more natural rig...Like Rand Paul, Nat H. reads much more natural rights/libertarianism into the Constitution and Bill of Rights than can actually be found there. In this instance he joins Professor J. Turley in being primarily concerned with the destruction of Constitutional self-government itself by gross violation of the doctrine of separation of powers. <br />----<br />“Apparently he doesn’t give one damn about the separation of powers,” Hentoff told WND. “Never before in our history has a president done these things.”<br /><br />And just to make sure everyone knew how extremely serious he regarded the situation, the journalist added, “This is the worst state, I think, the country has ever been in.”<br /><br /><br />Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/liberal-icon-urges-obama-impeachment/#cIhcRZlR0zmf15bU.99<br />--------<br />TURLEY: I'm afraid this is beginning to border on a cult of personality for people on the left. I happen to agree with many of President Obama's policies, but in our system it is often as important how you do something as what you do. <br /><br />And I think that many people will look back at this period in history and see nothing but confusion as to why people remained so silent when the president asserted these types of unilateral actions. You have a president who is claiming the right to basically rewrite or ignore or negate federal laws. That is a dangerous thing. It has nothing to do with the policies; it has to do with politics.<br />http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/02/12/turley_on_expansion_of_presidential_powers_we_have_become_a_nation_of_enablers.htmlpeter brushnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-17237133985652786412014-02-13T13:44:33.634-05:002014-02-13T13:44:33.634-05:00That’s a good link from Nat, a liberal who has bee...That’s a good link from Nat, a liberal who has been writing on constitutional issues for decades. As for Obama: This is the way a whirlwind, which has no center, moves through a chinashop.Don Pescihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11167988001948356357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-22715496984925444612014-02-13T10:31:17.928-05:002014-02-13T10:31:17.928-05:00A reactionary is a person who holds political view...A reactionary is a person who holds political viewpoints that favor a return to a previous state (the status quo ante) in a society. The word can also be an adjective describing such viewpoints or policies. Reactionaries are considered to be one end of a political spectrum whose opposite pole is radicalism...<br />----------<br />As defined at wikipedia nothing intrinsically offensive about being reactionary. Some serious doubt as to whether it is too late, but what we have to react against is the mindless egalitarian movement that "values" what it views as "social justice" over the rule of law. A movement that will throw a tradition of self-government overboard for the sake of blatantly absurd and suicidal social engineering. At this point it's difficult for me to avoid the conclusion that the left is not so much interested in "progress" as it is in revenge against a society and culture it views as repressive. If Obamacare could work that would be frosting on the cake, but its enough that the right hates it, that it is counter-cultural.<br /><br />The limits of the Constitution are an impediment to our American Presidente Transformandero. Can we please have some of our Republicans speak up, establish facts on abuse of power, impeach the guy? Can we have a few intellectually honest lefties like Nat Hentoff speak up, acknowledge what's going on? (Where's Lowell "the maverick" Weicker?)<br /><br />http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/hentoff012914.php3#.UvzjzfmTgeopeter brushnoreply@blogger.com