Well, after where we started in 2009 and everything we’ve come through since — and all of the obstruction and cynicism the Republicans have pitted against our work to keep America moving forward — here we are in the final months of President Obama’s second term. And all I can think right now is, “Here endeth the lesson.”
Because at this point, the differences between the Democrats and the GOP are clearer than night and day. Ever since the President took office seven years ago, Republicans have made disrespecting him and undermining the authority of his office their number one priority. That started with standing in the way of affordable health care and continues right up to the outrageous and irresponsible behavior we’ve seen over the past few weeks as they’ve refused to even consider the confirmation of President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Chief Judge Merrick Garland.
It’s this latest nonsense that really gets my blood boiling. Because Senate Republicans are violating the integrity of our justice system as one final, bitter attempt to undermine the President’s constitutional authority. And they have gone too far.
So I’m reaching out to you today, because I have had it with watching these Republicans pride themselves on preventing progress. And if you agree that it’s time for Senate Republicans to do their job and give Chief Judge Garland a hearing and a vote, then I’m asking you to add your name next to mine right now:
http://my.democrats.org/Confirm-the-Nominee
Thanks for hearing me out on this.
Wendell Pierce
The list is very long.
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found this…………
But didn’t Thomas Paine say this:
“…….it is the nature and intention of a constitution to prevent governing by party, by establishing a common principle that shall limit and control the power and impulse of party, and that says to all parties, thus far shalt thou go and no further. But in the absence of a constitution, men look entirely to party; and instead of principle governing party, party governs principle. An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”
–Thomas Paine, A Dissertation on the First Principles of Government (1795)
http://harpers.org/blog/2007/07/paine-on-the-mistreatment-of-enemies/
I know this was Paine on the mistreatments of enemies and he even mentions the revolution of France in it, as an example. But I believe this (at least to me) identifies with what Edward Abbey is saying about protecting ourselves against a government without principle, which, according to Thomas is a party that governs principle instead of principle governing party. However, I know that in the immediate context Thomas is indeed speaking on revolutionary acts that are ran by part instead of principle. Be that as it may, I see the principles ruled by parties instead of principles ruling the parties as something happening now?
LOL…from the NEVER satisfied file. How else could one explain anyone criticizing the GOP who have, almost to a man, REPEATEDLY refused confront Obama, hold him accoutable, and funded all, ever last one, of his insane unconstitutional spending requests? I wouldn’t be suprised if Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnel, you know the jackasses in the elephant suits, didn’t request the attack so it can be used as an excuse to prove they don’t have ‘a pair’ between them.
You could go as far as to ask what the republicans have given us? Keep in mind that in my life time they had control of all three branches.
Enemies on the Left, False Friends on the Right – Part 6
Heritage and NAFTA
The idea of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) originated with Heritage Fellow and CNP member, Richard Allen, and has long been advocated by Heritage policy analysts. The idea of creating a North American free trade zone from the Yukon to the Yucatan was first proposed by Heritage Distinguished Fellow Richard Allen in the late 1970s, refined by then Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, and further developed in a major 1986 Heritage Foundation study.
The Free Trade Agreement got the ball rolling for the development of skills standards by the newly formed National Skills Standards Board. It was endorsed by the U.S. Labor Department Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) study originated under Labor Secretary Elizabeth Dole. This eventually led to the School-to-Work Opportunities Act and the dumbing down of American education curriculum for the global workforce training.
With all of this emphasis on “standards” it should be pointed out that NAFTA allows exchanges of all categories of professionals, with those coming from Mexico and Canada having met their own countries’ standards, not necessarily equal to those required in the United States. If this process evolves the way most of these exchange processes have in the past, that disparity will be addressed in one of two ways—by changing U.S. standards to match foreign standards, or by altering both NAFTA nations’ standards to align with international standards like ISO 9000 or ISO 1400 monitored by UNESCO. This should be of concern to professional organizations in the United States. See page 315 in The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America to see the impact on education in the US by the signing the North American Free Trade Agreement.
The (CFR) 2005 report “Building a North American Community” not only clearly outlined how George W. Bush’s lax policy on illegal immigration served to build the foundation of a North American Union, but also revealed the extent of Republican influence toward the creation of the NAU. Republican task force members who authored the blueprint for the NAU include Heidi Cruz (Economic Director for the Western Hemisphere at the National Security Council under Condoleezza Rice), Richard Falkenrath (Bush’s Deputy Homeland Security Adviser and fellow at the neoconservative Brookings Institution), and Carla Hills (a former Assistant Attorney General and U.S. Trade Representative under Presidents Ford and George H.W. Bush).
A Socialist North American Union
Aside from the near-socialistic policies revered by Segal and Bush masquerading as “conservatism,” avowed socialists, too, have been proponents of a North American Union (although, the fact that the NAU effort is being led by leftists masquerading as conservatives is deeply revealing, and serves to deceive the American people).
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/north-america/item/10636-faux-conservatives-defend-the-north-american-union
Social Engineering Through The Propaganda of the Republican Presidential Race
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” Joseph Goebbels
People who get along together well under the mild contingencies of approval and disapproval are controlled as effectively as (and in many ways more effectively than) the citizens of a police state. (Skinner, 91)
http://propaganda.news/2016-03-21-social-engineering-through-the-propaganda-of-the-republican-presidential-race.html