Comments | chris_gerrib: Birthers Win One, or Hyper-literalism Runs Rampant

chris_gerrib

Birthers Win One, or Hyper-literalism Runs Rampant

Jan 05, 2012 15:33

So, I heard that "birther queen" Orly Taitz will actually get to argue on the merits that Obama is not a "natural-born citizen" and thus ineligible to be on the ballot in Georgia. Although her public statements say that she will "finally get to depose Obama," her actual argument (PDF here) is that because Obama's father wasn't a US citizen, he's ( Read more... )

politics, birthers

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daveon January 5 2012, 21:54:53 UTC

Damn you Gerrib! You made me look!

Still it's amusing that when Obama does what was standard SOP for all other presidents for over a century he's being totalitarian and "using the constitution for toilet paper"... interestingly, it seems that the bits of the constitution he's ignoring often turn out to not actually be in it, or be controversial(*) or just situations where the author of the statement just disagrees with him.

(*) - in that hardline return to the 1880s Libertarians think pretty much everything written since the mid-19th century should be taken out.

chris_gerrib January 5 2012, 22:23:04 UTC

You made me look! - You're a big boy - I didn't make you do anything ;-)

Actually, George Washington made recess appointments, so it's a 200+ year-old power.

daveon January 5 2012, 22:39:51 UTC

The current GOP impersonation of a headless chicken in the face of Obama finally doing some of the things he hasn't so far is quite amusing. I'd like to think that this was part of a larger plan to get them where he wanted them, but I'm not convinced he's that organized, just hitting a run of good luck.

chris_gerrib January 5 2012, 22:51:32 UTC

In the first two years of his term, I really do think Obama thought he could work with Republicans. After all, he had in the Senate.

By the time he decided that working with the Republicans wasn't happening, the 2010 election hit. Then, he made a list of what he absolutely needed from Congress, and kissed whatever ass was offered to make it happen. (See, debt, raising ceiling of.)

Now, he's decided that he doesn't need anything from Congress, so he'll rope-a-dope them. Whether that's run against them via his jobs bill, recess appointments, defense spending cuts (coming soon to a Congress near you) or whatever, from now until November it's going to be open season on Congress - and Obama's got plenty of bullets ( ... )