Looking Back: July 2014 on JimsJustSayin
Ensign Sulu, I won't tell you how the Enterprise slipped into a worm hole, and you don't tell me how the Free Exercise Clause and Religious Freedom Restoration Act work.
Like all sensible folk, I wasn't watching the Sunday morning talk shows when UN Ambassador Susan Rice appeared on all FIVE network shows. So, until it was reported later that day and in subsequent days, I did not know that the Administration was asserting that the attacks on our Benghazi compounds resulted from a spontaneous response by people of Islamic faith who were offended by a YouTube video deemed blasphemous of Islam.
If Boehner wants to do his job, he needs to forget about suing the President. Even if he can get every Republican in the House to authorize the suit, the federal courts will, ultimately, throw the suit out (a) because of lack of legal standing to sue, or (b) as presenting a non-justiciable political controversy.
Adopting yet another federal law -- the resort of scoundrels as a general rule -- rather than deploying the law as it exists now, is not the answer. It is, however, in keeping with the temper tantrums of our times. Rather than proceeding on Articles of Impeachment, the proposed solution is to adopt a statute.
We are three days past Independence Day. I hope, nonetheless, that you will recognize that usurpation of legislative authority by King George III constituted the principal basis for our rebellion against English tyranny. Obama's tyranny is no less offensive to the republican self-government to which our Declaration aims, our State Constitutions frame, and our National Constitution commits.
Dear Diary, I visited the border today.
The fact is, having one black parent is good enough to make Barack Obama America's first "black president." So what that he didn't know his father? So what that his father bedded and illegally wedded Barack's mother? So what that his father's influence in his life is an after the fact construct for a book ghost written for a future president by a past domestic terrorist?
That Goodlatte believes that the basis for impeaching Obama does not exist leaves me with a dread sense that the one truly representative body of our federal government is captained by the ignorant or the damned.
Not heard in the background of that noise are the soft crunching of gravel under boots as American service members walk into, through and beyond dangers on virtually every continent. Ignored in the press to do this entirely sophistric act of legislative Kabuke theater are the pleas of communities along the southern border to act to reduce the tidal wave of illegal entries into the United States, along with the warnings of those with reason to know that the flood is not just of those seeking a better life here, but also includes, or is at risk of including, those who meld into the flood, so that, on entry into the best and brightest hope of mankind on earth, they can bring terror to the people whose interests have been sacrificed in the Senate in the interest of partisan politics.
With news of federal appeals court decision out of Washington, DC, in the morning on July 22nd, I thought, "this is the best of times." By the time the day had ended, and word came of another appeals court's decision on the same issue out of Richmond, Virginia, I thought "this is the worst of times."
