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In reply to the discussion: David Swanson: Obama Crowned Himself King on New Year’s Eve [View all]DevonRex
(22,541 posts)86. Hahahaha. Loony toons.
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Better Believe It
Jan 2012
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Why would that be? Obama likes the insurance cartel and "uniquely American" bogus solutions.
TheKentuckian
Jan 2012
#42
So's his analysis of the BFEE and Prescott Bush's role in the fascist Wall Street Coup Against FDR.
Octafish
Jan 2012
#129
Which article of the Constitution precludes the issuing of a signing statement?
Dewey Finn
Jan 2012
#73
No part of the Constitution permits Presidential signing statements, and no part of the
sad sally
Jan 2012
#97
"Not prohibited" is not the test, nor could it be, as the "not prohibiteds" are INFINITE.
WinkyDink
Jan 2012
#133
Wasn't me who "insinuated" anything. I merely cut in to respond (something allowed in threads).
JackRiddler
Jan 2012
#155
Amazingly, we still live in a country where one could write such things about the Prez with no
FarLeftFist
Jan 2012
#14
How do you know Swanson isn't on some FBI "subversive" or "radical" surveillance list?
Better Believe It
Jan 2012
#20
Because he's a dissident and critic of the federal government. That's reason enough today.
Better Believe It
Jan 2012
#61
But while you have no proof of that Swanson is still a free man making $$$$ by writing articles.
FarLeftFist
Jan 2012
#64
What does that have to do with government spying on and surveillance of dissidents.
Better Believe It
Jan 2012
#119
Not to mention all of those evil teabaggers. You'd a thunk they'd be the first to go.
FarLeftFist
Jan 2012
#81
So you deny that our civil liberties and Constitution are under attack?
Better Believe It
Jan 2012
#132
You will probably find the answers to your questions if you read the entire article by Swanson.
Better Believe It
Jan 2012
#25
Are you telling DU'ers when and how to post on Democratic Underground?
Better Believe It
Jan 2012
#63
On record is the veto, the signing statements are nothing. They aren't law but the bill signed is.
TheKentuckian
Jan 2012
#80
What? You don't pass out from joy when stupid, uninformed people call YOU the stupid one?
Number23
Jan 2012
#144
He has no such inclination and outcomes indicate the position of a small increase was phony
TheKentuckian
Jan 2012
#48
"Bully Pulpit!!", "Pretty speech!", "Bully Pulpit!!", "Pretty speech!", "Bully Pulpit!!", "Pretty sp
JoePhilly
Jan 2012
#104
Many Democratic Senators supported the Bush regimes actions such as the Patriot Act.
Better Believe It
Jan 2012
#56
He wrote quite a bit about Bush's imperial presidency and then an entire book about it.
Luminous Animal
Jan 2012
#75
Yanno, why doesn't an idiot like this just find another line of work. Cab driver or somthin'. They
deacon
Jan 2012
#45
The statement is a fat nothing. It isn't binding even to the guy who signed it much less
TheKentuckian
Jan 2012
#82
Seems essentially accurate to me. Circumventing the entire basis of the law and one man's
TheKentuckian
Jan 2012
#85
the drafters did NOT empower an *elected* legislature to declare war (or any of those other things)
fishwax
Jan 2012
#76
That may be true but that didn't prevent Obama from vetoing the legislation.
Better Believe It
Jan 2012
#141
Hey, don't go yet. Stick around a bit. I just got an e-mail from King Barack I.
Ikonoklast
Jan 2012
#103
"In the absence of progressives with backbones, more Libertarians like Paul would be welcome"
ProSense
Jan 2012
#120
"Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely." Lord Acton
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jan 2012
#157