Florida Attorney General Elect, Pam Bondi (R), Supports Nullification of Federal Laws

[JCMach1]

Florida Attorney General-elect Pam Bondi supports the idea of amending the U.S. Constitution to let states overturn federal laws.

Bondi on Monday joined with other political leaders in Florida and 11 other states that have formed a coalition to support the proposed repeal amendment. It would allow two-thirds of the state to repeal federal laws...


I think we have our winner for Conservative Idiot of the Week! Didn't we fight a Civil War over that or something??? hmmmmm

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20101220/ARTICLES/101229972/1034?Title=New-Fla-AG-supports-amendment-to-nix-federal-laws

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Well, in addition to idiocy, she sounds just charming...

From Wiki:
She adopted a St. Bernard dog, Noah, after he was rescued from St. Bernard's Parish in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina. When the original owners located the dog and attempted to reclaim it, Bondi refused to return the dog. In July 2006, a lawsuit was filed by the dog's original owners against Bondi seeking a transfer of custody of the dog. Ironically, Bondi hired prominent criminal defense attorney Barry Cohen (a frequent adversary to Tampa prosecutors) to defend her interests in this lawsuit. However, in May 2007, Bondi agreed to return the dog to its original owners, following the intensely negative public scrutiny she faced.

[Angry Dragon]

2. After reading reply #1

A whole bunch of words come to mind to describe her
Do not care to be banned so I will keep them to myself

[hobbit709]

3. Scratch ANY repuke and find a common thief.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. I wanna know who is pushing that agenda in all those states.

This is not a spontaneous plan.

[CurtEastPoint]

5. Could it be Kkkkkarl? nt/

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. Him, and/or Gingrich. And Norquist.

All the bad actors have re-surfaced of late.

[RockaFowler]

6. What is wrong with my state??

Not only this dipshit, but pRick Scott, Adam Putnam. My God, we are screwed for years to come.

I will say it again, please let us form our own state down here in South Florida

[NYC Liberal]

7. We already tried this. It was called the Articles of Confederation.

The federal government had almost no power - it couldn't even tax - and was at the mercy of the states.

It was a complete disaster.

Teabaggers need to read up on history.

[JCMach1]

11. Yeah worked like sh*t, even managed to make George Washington

look like a bit of douche...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion

[NYC Liberal]

14. Andrew Jackson wrote this about the Constitution during the

Nullification Crisis. It deserves to be reposted:

We have hitherto relied on it as the perpetual bond of our Union. We have received it as the work of the assembled wisdom of the nation We have trusted to it as to the sheet anchor of our safety, in the stormy times of conflict with a foreign or domestic foe. We have looked to it with sacred awe as the palladium of our liberties, and with all the solemnities of religion have pledged to each other our lives and fortunes here, and our hopes of happiness hereafter, in its defense and support. Were we mistaken, my countrymen, in attaching this importance to the Constitution of our country? Was our devotion paid to the wretched, inefficient, clumsy contrivance, which this new doctrine would make it? Did we pledge ourselves to the support of an airy nothing a bubble that must be blown away by the first breath of disaffection? Was this self destroying, visionary theory the work of the profound statesmen, the exalted patriots, to whom the task of constitutional reform was entrusted? Did the name of Washington sanction, did the States deliberately ratify, such an anomaly in the history of fundamental legislation? No. We were not mistaken. The letter of this great instrument is free from this radical fault; its language directly contradicts the imputation, its spirit, its evident intent, contradicts it. No, we did not err. Our Constitution does not contain the absurdity of giving power to make laws, and another power to resist them. The sages, whose memory will always be reverenced, have given us a practical, and, as they hoped, a permanent constitutional compact. The Father of his Country did not affix his revered name to so palpable an absurdity. Nor did the States, when they severally ratified it, do so under the impression that a veto on the laws of the United States was reserved to them, or that they could exercise it by application. Search the debates in all their conventions examine the speeches of the most zealous opposers of federal authority look at the amendments that were proposed. They are all silent not a syllable uttered, not a vote given, not a motion made, to correct the explicit supremacy given to the laws of the Union over those of the States, or to show that implication, as is now contended, could defeat it. No, we have not erred! The Constitution is still the object of our reverence, the bond of our Union, our defense in danger, the source of our prosperity in peace. It shall descend, as we have received it, uncorrupted by sophistical construction to our posterity; and the sacrifices of local interest, of State prejudices, of personal animosities, that were made to bring it into existence, will again be patriotically offered for its support.

[JCMach1]

15. Nice quote from Old Hickory...

[peekaloo]

8. another dim bulb on the R's Christmas Tree.

sad.

[nashville_brook]

9. k and r for visibility

[madfloridian]

12. She's a Momma Grizzly....picture.

[Puzzler]

13. Unless there's a Republican president...

then Republicans are all about a strong federal government.

They were crowing about "states rights" during Clinton's presidency, silent during W's reign, and now they're back at it. Funny how that is.