Gingrich Warns of an Obama Dictatorship »
Posted By capj71 9 months ago in Political News
Newt Gingrich was ringing the warning bells of alarm while on Fox News that President Obama is creating a dictatorship by imposing regulations on the financial industry. Gingrich was in full conspiracy mode, while claiming that Obama is going to socialize everything.
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jovial9 months ago
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It's interesting to see the Republican party flailing about wildly making accusation after accusation that bears forth little or no merit. The party that thumbed their nose at Democrats for so many years. Hunted down Clinton like a escaped convict throughout his entire presidency. Now they sit in a corner trembling, anticipating the retribution and justice they so rightfully deserve.
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alakazam9 months ago
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Did you see the spin doctor try to pin the KBR camps on Obama?
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-feldman/glen...
It wasn't a Plot out of "The X-files"
KBR built them under direct order of the Bush Presidency.
The Neo-cons have no shame...none.
Their bid for absolute control failed and now they are laying blame at the feet of the opposition.
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Endoscopy8 months, 4 weeks ago
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ROTFLMAO
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Gingrich and Hannity bring up legitimate points about proposed bills that the Democrats are creating and the idea like happened with the fake stimulus package and you say the Republicans are flailing about. Traditionally the reconciliation committee is composed of members of both parties from the house and senate
Discuss the proposed laws.
Taking over non financial institutions.
Limiting pay for ALL companies whether or not they receive government money.
Reconciliation like the fake stimulus package had. Pelosie and Reid only with their staff and some people from treasury.
Try and discuss the issues jovial or are they that bad so you can only rant about the Republicans?
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hyperbola9 months ago
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Where was Gingrich when we needed him to defend the Constitution?
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Top Constitutional Scholar: Secret Bush Memos Amount to Treason
The memos lay the legal groundwork for the president to send the military to wage war against U.S. citizens; take them from their homes to Navy brigs without trial and keep them forever; close down the First Amendment; and invade whatever country he chooses without regard to any treaty or objection by Congress.
The memos are a confession. The memos could not be clearer: This was the legal groundwork of an attempted coup. I expected massive front page headlines from the revelation that these memos exited. Almost nothing. I was shocked.
Astonished, I sought a reality check -- and a formal legal read -- from one of the nation's top constitutional scholars (and most steadfast patriots), Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights, which has been at the forefront of defending the detainees and our own liberties.
Michael Ratner: I call it "Fuhrer's law." What those memos lay out means the end of the system of checks and balances in this country. It means the end of the system in which the courts, legislature and executive each had a function and they could check each other.
What the memos set out is a system in which the president's word is law, and Yoo is very clear about that: the president's word is not only law according to these memos, but no law or constitutional right or treaty can restrict the president's authority.
What Yoo says is that the president's authority as commander in chief in the so-called war on terror is not bound by any law passed by Congress, any treaty, or the protections of free speech, due process and the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. The First, Fourth and Fifth amendments -- gone.
What this actually means is that the president can order the military to operate in the U.S. and to operate without constitutional restrictions. They -- the military -- can pick you or me up in the U.S. for any reason and without any legal process. They would not have any restrictions on entering your house to search it, or to seize you. They can put you into a brig without any due process or going to court. (That's the Fourth and Fifth amendments.)-
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hyperbola9 months ago
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The military can disregard the Posse Comitatus law, which restricts the military from acting as police in the the United States. And the president can, in the name of wartime restrictions, limit free speech. There it is in black and white: we are looking at one-person rule without any checks and balances -- a lawless state. Law by fiat.
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Who has suspended the law this way in the past? It is like a Caesar's law in Rome; a Mussolini's law in Italy; a Fuhrer's law in Germany; a Stalin's law in the Soviet Union. It is right down the line. It is enforcing the will of the dictator through the military.
...They had to be planning some kind of a takeover of the United States to be saying they could simply abolish the First Amendment if the president believed it was necessary in the name of national security. It lays the groundwork for what could have been a massive military takeover of the United States.
Here they crept right up and actually implemented part of the plan, with Padilla, with the warrantless wiretapping. Yet they are saying in the White House and in Congress that it is looking backward to investigate the authors of these memos and those who instructed Yoo and others to write them.
But investigation and prosecutions are really looking forward -- to say we need the deterrence of prosecution so this does not happen again.
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Beau78909 months ago
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Looks like Newt's officially begun his campaign for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
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If only he'd been able to contain himself for a couple of years and continue to let Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh make him look rational in comparison, he might have had a chance. -
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calitennflo9 months ago
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When Government consists of a strong State supported corporations and a regime-like ruler, that is so far above law...they are seen breaking the laws flagrantly...then they might be a fascists. Fascism is a totalitarian nationalist and corporatist ideology(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascist) Just what the government is...I do not know...as it can only hypothetically be a Democracy...the US.
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Democracy is a form of government in which the supreme power is held completely by the people under a free electoral system.(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy) The powers of government are vested with all the people...fixed and absolute and without contingency; "a vested right" (wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn)
Remeber we have rights, that are vested, and inaliable...these are also certain rights...sealed: established irrevocably; (wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn)
The (9th)Ninth Amendment : The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
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Hhussk8 months, 4 weeks ago
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There is little difference between Republicans and Democrats. One group wants to spend a lot; the other wants to spend a lot more. Gingrinch's comments are truthful, however, that does not mean the Republican agenda will be any better. It's the conservative philosophy that will create a solution.
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willottica8 months, 4 weeks ago
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Which conservative philosophy is that?
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The philosophy of deregulation will certainly not create a solution, though a system of financial restraint might. That is not a philosophy that I've seen employed by the Republicans in quite a while, though.
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Progressive8 months, 4 weeks ago
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FTA:
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The idea that Obama is going to take over non-financial assets is stupid. It is hard to believe that he has a dictatorship in mind, when he has refused to nationalize the banks. Republicans are too thick to get that right now, people want more regulation in the financial sector. Heck even Wall Street realizes that the only way this mess will get cleaned up and ponzi schemes and scandals stop is with more government oversight.
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vor8 months, 4 weeks ago
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To me this equivalent to throwing in the towel. They can't produce any new or better ideas so they are falling back on the Fear Factor. It worked before, they are simply hoping that economic conditions will thow the public into despair and they will vote GOPout of default. I don't believe this is going to happen. Obama is doing the right things despite the kicking and screaming from the opposition.
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It has been a long time since the Republicans have been virtually powerless. They aren't handling it well at all. That goes for even the posters on these boards.-
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vor8 months, 4 weeks ago
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The guy is not ignorant you don't see me saying that. Newt is one helluva student of history but that doesn't mean we don't view things quite differently. A very complex person though. But when you start bandying about terms like "dictatorship" you begin to lose credibility. If he was on Propeller saying such things that is one thing.
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You guys have been taking things way out of context lately and Newt is no exception. Admit it, you are not handling losing this election well. I never took the election of GW or Reagan well either. You begin to wonder, "What are these people thinking?"
These issues are like Newt, quite complex. I cannot simply read one side of an opinion and come to a definitive conclusion. That is not the way we work. It would be just as foolish to accept everything Obama says at face value. And believe me I don't. To agree with any politician or pundit lock, stock, and barrel is to fall into a trap. Some may seem to deify obama but he is just a man. I don't think the Left is going anymore gaga over him than the Right did for Reagan. And trust me if he leaves behind the same legacy of damage I will slam him. He won't get my vote again. -
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Progressive8 months, 4 weeks ago
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Did you hear that Newt is going to convert to Catholicism on Easter Sunday? What a PR move:
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vor8 months, 4 weeks ago
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This explains the issues Obama is having at Notre Dame!
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The Catholic Church has no business preaching ethics to anyone. I really wish those
who have chosen this faith would research the true history of this church. The oppression and abuse of the poorest adherents over the centuries and the scurrilous nature of many of those who have served as Pope and other offices within the Vatican makes me wonder how anything valid ever existed here. The last person I want rendering me instruction is someone who has vowed a life of celibacy. They are finding release somewhere you can be assured.
Of course if you know my views none of this ever had validity in the first place. But Newt does fit right in with these fellows.
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donrp088 months, 4 weeks ago
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i know and understand that the most of you have heard this before but, i have to repeat it. "one can not spend their way out of debt".it failed during the great depression,it failed in the 70's, 80's and it will fail this time as well. at the rate BO is barrowing and spending we will be in a depression as bad if not worse than the great depression, watch and see it's just around the next curve. and no, i am not affiliated/claim any political party, i cast my vote to the best qualified but unfortunately there was only one and he didn't make it to the general election, but i still voted for him and ignored BO and McC. as they both are politics as usual.
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lloydm658 months, 4 weeks ago
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I voted for America First,if my side had won we would have at least some private job creation. To date we only see government jobs flourishing.We should cut the pay of every politician,until somebody gets a private sector job,or is back to work at his/her old job.We need to get off the soap box about all the lofty goals of who eats at the captains table aboard the Titanic,while the water is ankle deep,and rising.Could it be that this crowd knows it is going to be leaving the their lofty perch sooner than they expected,and would like to make some sort of mark,or at least a scratch while they can.
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