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Ann Coulter: Gingrich’s ‘Outrageous’ Threat To Subpoena Justices Threatens Checks & Balances

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On The O’Reilly Factor tonight, Ann Coulter did not mince words when dissecting Newt Gingrich‘s views on executive power and directly challenging the authority of Supreme Court justices by potentially having them subpoenaed under a Gingrich presidency. She argued that the frontrunner candidate has a history of making over-the-top, bombastic statements that only ever end up hurting the conservative cause.

Gingrich’s frontrunner status in the Republican field hasn’t been without its share of controversies, and the latest is Gingrich’s proposal to assert more oversight over the Supreme Court if he is elected to the presidency. During last night’s GOP debate, Megyn Kelly questioned Gingrich about his position, citing several political analysts who do not like the precedent it sets for the system of checks and balances.in American government.

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O’Reilly admitted that “the system’s not perfect” and there are certainly judges that he believes exercise judicial activism more often that others, but acknowledged the precedent would be a dangerous one. He asked his audience to think about whether they’d be okay with, say, Barack Obama wielding that kind of executive power. Gingrich tried to justify his position by citing Abraham Lincoln‘s vocal opposition to the Dred Scott decision, but O’Reilly (who, you’ll recall, wrote a book about Lincoln this year) responded by saying Lincoln’s opposition to certain Supreme Court decisions was only rhetorical.

O’Reilly then brought Coulter on for her reaction to Gingrich’s bombast, and she minced no words in explaining what was wrong with Gingrich’s words. Coulter explained that the notion of subpoenaing Supreme Court justices was a ridiculous one, and if anyone is going to bring them in for impeachment proceedings, it would be Congress and not the president.

Another possibility for the president, as O’Reilly saw it, was to issue executive orders like Lincoln did with the Emancipation Proclamation and then wait to see if it gets challenged by the courts. But Coulter was incredibly critical of Gingrich’s words even to the point where she suggested they made conservatives look ridiculous.

“I, at least, know that this is an outrageous thing he is suggesting. You have to lay the groundwork for it, you don’t just make these bombastic statements and open up conservatives to ridicule.”

RELATED: Ann Coulter Calls GOP Leaders’ Midterm Predictions ‘Delusional,’ ‘Completely Insane’

O’Reilly went so far as to label Gingrich’s position as “frightening,” and suspected that unlike the warm reception he got at the debate when he made his controversial statement, voters in more moderate districts and states would be “scared” of Gingrich. And for voters who are already scared of President Obama getting a second term, running a “scarier guy” might not be the best strategy.

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  • Mo Fokker

    Didn’t you hear the teabagger-fundies in the audience? They were excited at the suggestion. They want that; the base wants it. 

  • OSTL

    you went through all that trouble changing names to make that bigoted remark?

  • http://twitter.com/HighlyRandom Highly Random

    “he makes these bombastic statements and leaves conservatives open to ridicule” 

    MY GOD THE IRONY

  • Anonymous

    Wow.  Ann Coulter actually sounds reasonable for once.  She usually never does any sort of analysis like this as much as she just throws bombs.  I actually agree with her on this.

  • Anonymous

    This is simply a dream come true. On one hand, you have the Tea party wingnuts applauding Newton as he shreds the Constitution. On the other hand, you have the Republican establishment giving their man Coulter, her marching orders to go out and start the process of taming the beast they created. The only problem is, Newton has played this game for a long time and he will not go down easily, nor will he take any prisoners if he prevails. Obama in a landslide.

  • OSTL

    licking yourself, whoa!

  • Mo Fokker

    Considering Ann is a big fan of Joe McCarthy who engaged in demagogic, irresponsible and unsubstantiated accusations, as well as public attacks on the character and patriotism of political opponents, I find her disapproval insincere.

    This is more about Fox News deciding they want Mitt Romney as the Republican candidate.

  • OSTL

    The Tea Party is applauding Newt? Where did you hear that?

  • Anonymous

    Republicans have been trained to hate the Constitution so much that this really came as a surprise to nobody.

  • 12voltman1

    Is everyone who doesn’t agree with you a racist or a bigot?
    Because it is your favorate rant.
    Project much Jeff?

  • OSTL

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  • OSTL

    teabagger-fundies

  • OSTL

    jeebus, you’re a sick puppy

  • Anonymous

    When he made the statement to go after the judges. I would assume it was the Tea party wingnuts that applauded. This is why man Coulter was given her marching orders. She is clearly a Tea party wingnut, but she is shrewd enough to know Newton will cost the Republican party big time. Especially with statements such as this.

  • OSTL

    sexist much?

  • Anonymous

    newt comments sit well with you dumb freakin teabagging asswipes who want the the president to be as powerful as a king from the dark ages…you hobbits arent known for being to bright, we had a revolutionary war to free ourselves from the type of bullshit gingrich preachs….im sure many of you kluckers want to return to the days of a religious theocracy so you can force feed everybody your phony azz values….coulter is right for once….you conservaturds look like nutts

  • OSTL

    the only klucker I know is your pal aka mrs. philby…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    Newts not perfect, but nobodys going to get out of bed in November to vote for your loser…

  • us995

    i agreed with whoopi when she farted today smartest thing to ever come out of one of her openings

  • Anonymous

    Am I in an alternant reality?  Is O’riley having a real serious conversation about the Constitution?

  • Hout Bosques

    I disagree with your conclusion that Fuppet News wants Romney. Insofar as Coulter goes, you have to reconcile what she’s saying here – about Newt – with what she said a few months back when Chris Christie was playing fat footsie with the possibility of running:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL86hmuHbOY 

    Roger Ailes, above all else, wants a horse race. He really doesn’t care which GOP contestant wins (The exception being Ron Paul, who isn’t afraid to take Ailes & Murdoch & Fuppet News to task, & never kowtows to any of them.), so long the process takes as long as possible. No one wants a brokered convention more than Ailes. As for the general election, Ailes knows from experience, from the history of Fuppet News ratings, that FNC ratings actually go UP  when the Recc party is in opposition; so, for the sake of ratings, he would just as soon Obama be re-elected, because FNC viewers watch FNC way more when they’re outraged than when they’re cheerleading.

  • shonangreg

    Two conservatives both making total sense. it is refreshing when it happens. And this after a horrible week for Coulter. I think she’s been nothing but the butt of jokes since she appeared on Maker earlier this year. They basically called her names to her face, and she didn’t noticed and just kept on babble-laughing . . . Her intellect will soon sink back into the morass of the right-wing’s unified message, though. Very few can stand up and dissent over there. Those people instantly, reflexively get labelled “RINOs” . . . and then nothing they say is taken seriously anymore. It is like ex-communication.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Why is there a photo of Bret Michaels with this article?

  • Anonymous

    That was kind of random, lol. 

  • Gloves K. Donahue

    You seem sweet, Ma’am. Would you like to go with me to the malt shop and then maybe we can shoot some craps in the alley behind the bar ?

  • Gloves K. Donahue

    Just do what Obama does with judges he doesn’t like.

    Invite them to the State of the Union address and insult them.

  • Dead_Air

    I was thinking the same thing.

  • Anonymous

    That was a very good discussion between Ann and Bill. Nice job.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jj-Wisniewski/100002654075475 Jj Wisniewski

    I don’t always agree with Coulter, but that’s what the founding fathers intended for each branch to constitute a check and balance on the other. If you get rid of the judiciary, and have either party become totally dominent, it will rule by means of a dicatorship not by a democracy. Why didn’t anyone on stage bring up the Citizen’s United Case, which takes the vote of citizens away from Americans and puts them into the hands of lobbyists and special interests through SuperPac’s. Except for Paul, the rest of these candidates are being funded through secret money flowing into SuperPacs. Of course these candidates would say Roberts, Alito, Thomas, and Scalia are their favorite. Democrats would say Kagan, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Ginsberg. Kennedy can lean either way.

  • Anonymous

    Only some of them, gloves. But no, its Gingrich who is doing the insulting, and Ann is correctly trying to nip that in the bud. She is not the only republican commentator out to sink Newt.

  • Anonymous

    Nah. Newt is like one of those eccentric Cambridge historians with the pipe and the tweed jacket. His disposition is not suited to be president, but coming up with wacky ideas launched from ego-centric perspectives is a specialty.

  • Anonymous

    It’s funny how the tea baggers think Newt will cream Obama in a debate.  Spouting his nonsense will sink him for sure.

  • Anonymous

    Coulter is a smart lady. How the hell is Newt going to beat Obama? Ann is in it to win it rather than to feel good about bashing Obama.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, we all know that Barry’s “ahh…ahhh,ahhs ” will devastate Newt!

    BTW, unfortunately for Obama, they do not allow teleprompters in the debates.

  • Anonymous

    Look Mediaite’s infamous and flatulent troll is back!

  • Anonymous

    Says the #1 liar on Mediaite.

  • Anonymous

    Oooh, Mann, she’s ugly!

  • Anonymous

    Or possibly smoke some of those marijuana cigarettes….

  • Anonymous

    Newt, America’s first dictator.

  • Anonymous

    Stonedputz you keep yapping about the teleprompter, yet you forget that anytime he’s had to face anyone he’s absolutely destroyed them.  Don’t kid yourself the Obama machine underestimates no one.

  • Anonymous

    There seems to be a misconception here that we still have a balance of powers in our government.

    Newt is just brainstorming ideas for the reality most refuse to acknowledge.

  • Anonymous

    “She argued that the frontrunner candidate has a history of making
    over-the-top, bombastic statements that only ever end up hurting the
    conservative cause.”

    Did she say that with a straight face?  Has she listened to herself?  These psycho conservative talking heads like Coulter and Beck never stop with the comedy!

  • Anonymous

    You could make a fortune on whatever you are smoking!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    “nobody”???

    Do you stand by that extreme statement?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    Nobody does victim like a rightwinger.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    well said

    (“Fuppet” isn’t very clever though. I prefer “Foreign Owned Xtremist news”

  • Anonymous

    yet you forget that anytime he’s had to face anyone he’s absolutely destroyed them”

    Bawahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

    Thanks for the laugh, son- that was a great one.

  • Anonymous

    But son, you would still be a loser.

  • Anonymous

    Have you read your posts, son?

    Talk about bombast and drivel.

  • Jon Weiss

    While I am not a fan of Gingrich, his idea is a good one.  One of the cornerstones of our system is accountability, and that should apply to all corners of government, including the Judges.  For example; if a Judge makes a call that is obviously in violation of the Constitution, they should be called on to explain themselves.  Not that they could be prosecuted, but that they he called to explain themselves in non legalese so that all Americans can know the repercussions of the judgment.  

    I for one would love to know the logic behind the argument that a woman has a Constitutional right to abortion.  My personal position on abortion is that if a woman wants to have one, that is between her, the child’s biological father and God, they can sort it our and they can pay for it, not the taxpayers. 

    But for a Judge to make a claim about Constitutional right which is not mentioned in the Constitution, is ludicrous.  Since the Constitution does not mention anything on either side of the abortion issue, to claim that the Constitution guarantees abortion as a right, puts the very competence of that the Judge makes in the “questionable” category.  

  • Jon Weiss

    That’s odd, I have been unable to find the debate between Hillary and Newt anywhere in Google, perhaps you could provide a link?  If they have never actually debated each other, your point is false.  For Ms. Clinton to simply bash  Mr. Gingrich publicly is hardly “throwing him around”,  it is more akin to “cheap shots”, if all it takes is public sniping, to be considered the winner, I could beat Obama and I am not in politics nor do I have any political aspirations, but Obamas repeated Constitutional violations, coming from an alleged Constitutional Scholar are enough to sink him, in the eyes of all but the most partisan hacks.

  • Jon Weiss

    “Destroying them”, is a very relative term.  Obama has only faced ONE viable candidate in his entire career and he dug up dirt on her to win his Senate seat.  

    Newt’s laundry has been pretty well aired and any new stuff is unlikely to be out there to sway anyone.  

    Obama, on the other hand, has no real record to run on.  

    Gingrich will be able to, and likely will, point out all of Obama’s failures and his claims on which he failed to deliver.  Such as, turning the economy around in 3 years, we are still in recession with anemic recovery numbers heading into Obama’s fourth year.  Closing Gitmo, its still open with no sign of closure.  Ending both of the wars…How many died in Afghanistan this week?

    Gingrich will likely point out that most of Obama’s successes have been the result of Obama adopting the policies already in put in place by G.W. Bush.  The Iraq war termination schedule, was in place long before Obama was elected, but Obama was quick to claim credit, even though it was on Bush’s already set plan.  Obama condemned Bush’s “stupid wars” and concentrated his condemnation around the cost to the U.S. economy… but how much cash did we spend in Libya?  On the economy, the national debt is at it’s highest in our history, and we as still spending like the proverbial drunken sailors with no end in sight and no sign of debt reduction in view.  Yesterdays news came out with a story that Medicare may start reducing payments to doctors, if that happens in the next few months, how many seniors who lose their doctors are going to be rushing to vote for the man who handed them Obamacare, which has done nothing to lower their costs and is now losing them their access to a doctor?

    In a debate with Gingrich, Obama would be facing an opponent that will be hard to challenge on the facts of politics, since Obama only studied it as a student, and Gingrich lived it.  Obama has a wealth of flip flops, screw ups and dirty laundry that his last Republican challenger, McCain, actively ignored, I doubt that Gingrich or Romney, or any of the challengers on the right will be as charitable as McCain.  

    Obama is facing a challenge that is far greater then he realizes.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    You are a HUGE dork.

  • Jon Weiss

    Apparently you missed the contents of the recent defense bill that passed Congress with overwhelming DNC support, that gives Obama unlimited power of arrest, detention, and martial law without due cause and strips U.S. citizens of the right of Habeas Corpus.  Not to mention Obama’s demands for the power to shut down communications in the U.S. based on nothing more than his personal desires.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Says the #1 liar on Mediaite.

    Yes, all stoneparkIV does is make stupid claims with absolutely NO evidence to support his unfounded poppycock and balderdash.

  • 12voltman1

    Says the dirty, lying, pus-mouthed whore.

  • 12voltman1

    You are a sad clown of a whore, oozing with foul custard
    and slack and sloppy as an over-used trash bag

  • Mo Fokker

    Yeah, let us have the judges be accountable to the president or congress, like they are in Venezuela or Nicaragua.

    P.S.
    The constitution was intended to interpreted.  If you don’t like the interpretation made by the courts, then lobby your representatives to amend the constitution.

  • Anonymous

    It’s a really bad sign when Ann Coulter and Bill O’Reilly are the ones bringing sanity to the Republican Party.  Newt Gingrich either has no idea how dangerous, outrageous, and tyrannical his idea was … or just doesn’t care.  Either way, even the most conservative voter should be afraid of that kind of abuse of power.  Too bad the Tea Partiers didn’t realize the big steaming pile Gingrich wants to leave on their beloved Constitution and its balance of powers.

  • OSTL

    whadup, widdle baby?

  • http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-sjc1/hs322.snc3/28695_104339339610961_100001046869519_36793_4471129_n.jpg COB™

    How’s my favorite “Thunderdome” survivor been lately?

  • Anonymous

    You seem to be a thoughtful person but your lack of understanding about the role of the judiciary boggles the mind.  Research checks and balances.  You should be able to list at least five ways (constitutional ways) by which congress and the executive can rein in the judiciary. 

    PS. If you want to know the logic behind Roe v. Wade or any other judicial decision read the opinion.  

  • Anonymous

    Coulter on Gingrich is like, which is least desirable: A full, unflushable commode or Coulter. Gingrich on the other hand will continue to shoot himself in the foot and will join the ranks of those also-runs! It’s kinda like his entire past is crashing his party. But, then again, he is a career politician with excess baggage. American needs to clear house of all TEA-GOP-Republicans for the 113th Congress.(the next Congress) This current 112th Congress has so screwed up the Washington legislative process, it’s gonna take one huge clean-up to effect correction!

  • Anonymous

    Liberal is the definition of VICTIM!!

  • Anonymous

    Again, where did you hear that?

  • Anonymous

    Yes!

  • Anonymous

    Conservatives…would that be the people demanding smaller government, and strict adherence to the Constitution?
    When spinning  your Liberal crap, choose and issue that doesn’t make you look foolish from the get-go!

  • Anonymous

    Words straight from the Liberal dictionary self-hating bottom-feeders. You must be in allot of pain.

  • Anonymous

    How does that Liberal dogma go….if you can’t attack the issue, attack the messenger…your right on Liberal point.

  • Anonymous

    If that’s true, the 2nd Amendement becomes even more relevent.

  • Anonymous

    It’s called, reality.

  • Anonymous

    Come on, Moo-shel’s not that bad…sort of….

  • Anonymous

    As opposed to the one we have in office now?

  • Anonymous

    Hence, the Conservative demand that the Constitution be strictly fallowed.

  • Anonymous

    Apparently, you don’t watch the Liberal, so called news channels. If you want to see a laughable puppet show, tune in.

  • 12voltman1

    You must be one of Stonepark’s regular customers. Lowlife!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Callie-Ann-Christmas/100000231597155 Callie Ann Christmas

    When Judges continually go against the will of the American people to satisfy their minority activism … call them out!

  • 12voltman1

    As opposed when you spin your conservative crap?

  • 12voltman1

    Just guns against milItary army
    Good luck with that!.

  • 12voltman1

     Can you be anymore Orwellian then you?
    You are always sounding alarm bells about the manipulation and misinformation in today’s politics.
    But I guess it’s what you do.
    Afraid? Of What?

  • 12voltman1

    Says the cheap, sore-riddled nasty bit of gutterscrunge!

  • 12voltman1

    StonePark will rent you his mouth for the change in your pocket.

  • http://www.facebook.com/lewis.reagan Lewis Reagan

    A judicial activist is a judge who makes a ruling that a right-winger doesn’t like.

  • Anonymous

    Ann Coulter is Jesus in drag.

  • 12voltman1

    May I suggest Fahrenheit 451.

  • Anonymous

    In the Liberal book of insults, what page is that on? You should know this by heart!

  • Anonymous

    Give us an example of Conservative spin.

  • Anonymous

    In your Liberal world, your assuming our military would turn on it’s citizens, knowing they are right?  I think not!

  • Anonymous

    Are you a plant? No one is this dumb! Exception being…Obimbo

  • Anonymous

    Obimbo’s is Jeff Dunham’s puppet…on a stick!

  • 12voltman1

    Amen

  • paulejb

    I would like to see the NY judge who released a criminal without bail, enabling him to kill a cop, subpoened to answer for her actions.

  • Anonymous

    I think it’s the end of the world, cause I agree with her, too. I agreed with Rove about something he said 2 weeks ago. OMG, the Mayans were right!

  • Jay Hanig

    Gingrich isn’t likely to do any of that stuff because he’s going to remain on the outside looking in.  He has a disturbing resemblance to Rod Blogojevich in his world outlook.  I sometimes wonder if he’s bipolar.

  • Anonymous

    carltonwest says that a conservative woman is ugly?  Pokey says you have the “hots” for Michele and Sarah!  What is wrong with Ann?  She is beautiful!

  • Anonymous

    “She argued that the frontrunner candidate has a history of making
    over-the-top, bombastic statements that only ever end up hurting the
    conservative cause.”

    This from ANN COULTER???? The woman must be suffering from professional envy.  The woman is over the top!

  • Anonymous

    “She argued that the frontrunner candidate has a history of making over-the-top, bombastic statements that only ever end up hurting the conservative cause”

    I laughed so hard when I read this that milk came out of my nose. And I wasn’t even drinking milk at the time. Coulter calling someone else bombastic and over-the-top? Oh that’s rich.

  • http://twitter.com/esd2000 Er. D.

    How dare Ann or anyone else question or challenge Newt. NO ONE and I mean NO ONE knows more about anything than Newt “thinks” he knows.

  • BooBoo Bear

    Think again, this question was asked of the armed forces during the Bush Administration.

  • Anonymous

    Ann Coulter is a nut and is so indignant when convenient.  I have every single book of hers and never again will I waste another penny on her.  She’s been pro-Romney and will say or do anything to take Newt out of Romney’s way.   Newt is right on this and Coulter isn’t half the wit Newt is with history involving Jefferson or Lincoln who felt similarly. 

    The main reason I am supporting Newt has nothing to do with the fact
    that he’s the brightest, the deepest thinker, the one proven to get
    Democrats on board with him to effect positive change, or a true
    historian who knows the recipes for success in our country. The big
    reason for me is he has been the ONLY candidate to fully articulate his
    positions and solutions for the challenges facing our nominee not only
    in a general election vs. Obama but as our next President. He is not
    wasting time on the stupid attacks Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul, or Mitt
    Romney are engaging in. Expect more out of your candidates for once in
    your life people. Everyone makes mistakes in their lives, stop looking
    for purity and begin listening.

  • Anonymous

    These two are all but giving Romney a “Factor” endorsement. 

    Romney is boring.

  • Anonymous

    He’s a little more than just boring. A man That lies about what his first name really is, has a bigger hurtle to clear than Obama.  And to Steve, please promise us (demos) that you will spare no time, effort or expense to promote,lift, support etc. LeRoy N. Gingrich for the big enchilada. The crushing of that lying, adulterous sociopath piece of $hit will not only offer a salve to the OWS and the 99%, but assure that the republiklan party will go the way of polio and other ancient diseases that from time to time plague an otherwise healthy and maturing society. That’s red meat Bring it on!

  • Anonymous

    He’s the president and she works for him, bucktooth fool!

  • Anonymous

    You know what JW, you might not get to see that because LeRoy might not make it thru the prelims. The GnOP are already doing a number on the lying a$$ed, adulterous, reprobate crook and master hypocrite. He’ll never get to see “Smooth B” and rightly so, he’s not good enuf by any moral or intellectual standard. So dream on, but if he makes it to the finals then I will apologize to you, and all teabaggers in the house. LeRoy N. Gingrich is a stupid man’s idea of what a smart man like.

  • Anonymous

    n9n, he barley got past Bachman yesterday. When the coward is directly confronted on his bull $hit, he disintegrates like a cheap suite. These teabaggers say that LeRoy will be so overwhelming because it fits their fantasy that, surly no black man can best them in the arena of mental battle. The fools as usual ignore the fact for the last 3 plus years NONE  of them have been able to lay a pinky on the man. He can best them thinking, dancing and waxing that a$$.

  • Anonymous

    Barabu, ANN is proof positive that our white girls* are much better than their white girls.

    * for the sake of argument,I’ll concede that Ann is really a girl

  • Anonymous

    Ya Know JW, before the next time you take that Viagra pill or apply that penis pump, I think that should be a matter between your sister and Sen. Larry Craig. That’s my personal position and because I”m me, I declare your competence “questionable”. Lying a$$ed teabaggers, love the constitution so much they just can’t resist having sex with it ever chance they get.

  • Anonymous

    Everyone makes mistakes in their lives, but past behavior – especially the behaviors exhibited by Newt, is always a good measure for future behaviors.  As a democrat, I can only hope that the republicans stay the course and put this guy on the top of their ticket.  Not only would Obama have the support of independents, but most every republican politician who has served with the guy would be supporting Barack Obama – starting with Senator Tom Coburn. 
    As to Ann Coulter, she really wanted NJ Governor to get into the race but said she would hold her nose and support Romney.

  • Anonymous

    That’s not all – but if you recall, he said “he brought down the Berlin Wall” and “HE balanced the budget” and “HE was the one who did welfare reform”.  HE obviously forgot that the trial for the Welfare Reform was done in Arkansas and HE had nothing to do with it but then Governor Clinton sure did.

  • Anonymous

    There are sure a lot of the same qualities – they sure love themselves. 

  • Anonymous

    And they would never admit that an ACTIVIST judge would be one that actually supported the Citizens United decision. 

  • Anonymous

    A woman has a constitutional right to privacy.  If you want a peek up her vagina, you need to go to medical school – and not be a politlician but an OB–GYN.

  • Anonymous

    I can’t help but resist asking you just why you think the president is a dictator when the fricking republicans in congress have their heads up the ass of Grover Norquist so far they can’t see or hear what their constituents really want.  And you say the president is a dictator?  You need to educate yourself on what a dictator is and Grover Norquist comes closest to the description than anyone else in our country and that SOB isn’t even an elected official, but he sure hands out a lot of Koch money to the republicans.

  • Anonymous

    The republicans bring up the president’s use of the teleprompter all the time, but never admit that every president since Eisenhower has used the teleprompter EXCEPT for Nixon.  
    George W Bush actually had problems reading the teleprompter. 

    With the campaigning for the next election coming into full mode pretty soon, you will get to see him in Town Hall meetings answering people’s questions and there are no cue cards and no teleprompters.

    Obama is no more or less reliant on a teleprompter than Reagan or any other repubican president was. In a country where every small comment by the President is pounced on by a jackal, sensational media, control over the message and preparation for speeches is paramount.

  • Anonymous

    If the ending of the Iraq War was already in place by George W Bush which I agree it was negotiated originally by him, why did McCain, Lindsey Graham and all the Republican candidates except Ron Paul come out a throw stones at the president because he honored that commitment?

    By the way, the president didn’t say he could turn the economy around in 3 years and he certainly had no idea that he would be fighting a anti-American republican congress whose #1 goal wasn’t JOBS, but HIS job.

    You need to get a reality check.  The only reason we are spending like drunken sailors is that the fricking republicans DOUBLED the national debt – from 5.6 trillion to $10.7 Trillion PLUS a $1.3 Trillion budget deficit which means they spent $6.4 Trillion AND committed the next administration to fulfilling their commitment on MEDICARE Part D – Bush’s prescription drug “SOCIALIST” program, 2 wars and tax cut s for the rich.

    And all that money that the republicans borrowed and spent DOUBLED the INTEREST we now have to pay.

    You republicans need to get better at math.

  • Anonymous

    I would have thought that a party of family values would actually have a problem with the First Lady being a six-year adultress.  What a role model for your children she would be.

  • Anonymous

    I’m sure what you think are “constitutional violations” aren’t really violations at all.  For instance, who would have ever thought a corporation would have the same rights as a person? 

  • Anonymous

    Because the questions are being asked by FOX – the republicans 24/7 news show and one of the most powerful benefactors of the supreme court decision.

  • Anonymous

    Most of the US Supreme Court justices come to the State of the Union.  That is not a new thing, but a tradition.  He had every right to embarass them due to their clearly “activist” decision.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t disagree with Heir-Obimbo, or you might get dressed-down in Public. I was kinda hoping one of them would get up and slap his punk-ass face. This clown is only a president! Somehow this community organizer got it in his pea-brain that he has more authority than he does. And clearly, so do you!

  • Anonymous

    Try resisting because, when you start making assumptions, and weird conclusions based on supposition fed to you by your Party you really sound laughable. Mr.Norquist espouses smaller government and less taxes. Just what don’t you agree with, and why?

  • Anonymous

    Maybe but, not inept. He is head and shoulders above Obimbo.

  • Dale Hogue

    I’m sure that it is possible for melbo58 to write his post without using snarky language or cuss words with a dollar sign instead of the letter s.  The Republican Party has little or nothing to do with the thinking and comments of the candidates involved in these election debates other than to give the speakers a platform to express their thoughts. 

  • Anonymous

    When racist, bigot, and sexist are used by the bottom-feeding left, it’s suppose to interpreted as fact yet, when the right uses those terms they’re hateful and demeaning.
    Project much 12votman1…maybe you should change that to ”minus 12volt 0?  

  • Anonymous

    Irony would be thinking about voting again, for the mistake you made. Oh wait….that would be stupidity, wouldn’t it? Sorry….

  • Anonymous

    Sorry DH, I’m sure that’s the way you will try to play it in the general with your class of USDA certified nuts, but it ain’t going to happen. If they don’t speak  for you or reflect the party’s values, the party should say so or denounce them. They are running for the highest office in YOUR name! Obama is going to kick some real “a$$$” in ’12. (As for as Coulter, she’s just a hooker doing what a hooker does)

    Melbo

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    Dale Hogue wrote, in response to melbo58:
    I’m sure that it is possible for melbo58 to write his post without using snarky language or cuss words with a dollar sign instead of the letter s.  The Republican Party has little or nothing to do with the thinking and comments of the candidates involved in these election debates other than to give the speakers a platform to express their thoughts. Link to comment

  • Anonymous

    What part of your ass did you pull that out of? Please provide a link of proof to back that allegation. If not I can only conclude you are another fine example of teabaggery and I will cut and paste this post to ridicule clowns like you whenever a rock is turned over and one of you scurries out. (Merry XMAS)

    Melbo

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    gorgegirl wrote, in response to melbo58:
    I would have thought that a party with family values would actually have a problem with the First Lady being a six-year adultress.  What a role model for your children she would be. Link to comment

  • Jon Weiss

    Gracie, 

    I have a very in depth understanding of the checks and balances, and they do not include any segment of government having full autonomy and protection from the law.  The branches of Government are “Co-Equal”.   
    The Founding Fathers apparently assumed that the President would always obey the law and that if he didn’t the Congress would be there to thwart any nefarious plan.  They did not take into account the current situation, where we have an out of control President who wants to be King combined with a legislative branch that is too gutless to challenge him.  An example of what I am referring to is contained in the law commonly referred to as “Obamacare”, a law crafted by Obama and rammed through under his direction by his own party.  

    This law demands that people buy insurance, and all through the legislative process the “Commerce Clause” was used as the basis for the individual mandate.  Yet the Commerce Clause quite clearly states that it is a power granted to the Congress, ONLY in matters of interstate commerce, not intra-state commerce.  

    Therefore if I decide to buy health insurance from a company headquartered in my state, I would, under this clause, be exempt from any oversight from Congress altogether, since my commerce would not be interstate, but rather intrastate, a matter that many other laws involving states rights specifically exclude the Congress from having any power whatsoever.   Therefore, if Congress has no authority to regulate intrastate commerce, they have no power to regulate my dealings with a local company, including my decision to buy, or not to buy, a product or service.  Sadly, the Congress, dominated by the Democrats at the time of the passing of the law, was less interested in American’s health care than they were in rescuing medicare, they were more concerned with the appearance of the liberal health program in the eyes of the public than they were in protecting the rights of the individual.  For if Medicare fails, it is a MAJOR FAILURE for the party that instituted it in the first place, namely the Democrat Party.  The end result of these actions is that freedom was sacrificed on the alter of political expediency.   Obama has stated outright that he has no qualms about bypassing Congress and he has done so more than any President to date, and the only thing that has prevented his impeachment is a congress that is too cowardly to stand up for the people that they allegedly represent.  The system of Checks and Balances is not currently working, Gingrich’s plan would be a start on a return to the active use of Checks and Balances, by making the court accountable for its actions.

  • Jon Weiss

    melbo58,”lying a$$ed, adulterous, reprobate crook and master hypocrite.”Since when did Bill Clinton re-enter the race for a third term?  As for Gingrich’s intellect, I have been looking for a video of him in a speech or debate where he fell into a litany of “uh, er, ah, um”, “57 states”, or “insurance rates going down by 3000%”.  

    All of these are actual accounts of Obama “superior intellect”.  

    Gingrich’s statements are at worst, still coherent, and at the median, factual.  

    Obama has never succeeded in meeting that standard.

  • Jon Weiss

    McCain and Graham have always been in the RINO herd and played hand in hand with Democrats to the detriment of their own party.  Just like the Democrats campaigning for John McCain against other GOP candidates in the primaries, there were even a large number of documented cases of long term Dems changing their party affiliation during the primaries to vote for McCain to ensure a win for him to run against Obama.  Republicans have NOT been criticizing Obama for honoring the Bush commitment, in fact Republicans chided Bush for setting a hard deadline, and then they simply continued the criticism of Obama for the same foolish action of announcing plans in advance telling the terrorists our every move.  It was not the plan they were criticizing it was the public announcement of our military planning that was wrong on Obama’s part.  

    Did you ever stop to wonder why, while every other high level Republican was going public with Obama’s lack of a Senatorial record, his questionable associations and lack of openness on his personal record, that McCain directed his campaign to remain silent on ANYTHING negative about Obama?  Obama’s win was an engineered victory with McCain as an integral part of the plan, and a willing dupe. 

    For me personally, I have no problem with Obama following Bush’s plan.  What I criticize Obama for, is that, he is the man who has for three years, beat the Bush administration over the head with all that is bad in DC, yet wen something goes well, it is suddenly all about Obama as if Bush never existed.  The fact of the matter is that in killing Bin Laden, all Obama did was to tell the SEALs to “Go”, the plan had been set long before Obama became President.  In departing Iraq, all Obama did was to follow the plan that the Bush Administration had already laid out, then he stepped forward and falsely took full credit for it.  My problem is not that he did or did not act on a certain matter, my problem with Obama is that I abhor dis-ingenuousness and hypocrisy, and Obama seems to exude both in nearly everything he does.  
    As for Obama turning the economy around, you can check You Tube for the video where he stated that he had “a plan to turn the economy around” and that if he “could not do it in three years” we “would be looking at a one term proposition.” (referring to his term as President).I have done a reality check on Bush’s spending and the tax cuts were indeed a mistake, ALL of the tax cuts, (Bush did NOT cut just the taxes on the rich, his tax cuts went to every level of income rich and poor alike).  

    As for Medicare part D…, I do get a laugh every time I hear people ranting about that one.  

    The Obama White House (you can check it at whitehouse.gov) claims that “Part D” costs us “$300 billion per year” every year since its inception.  But the GAO differs somewhat.  Since 2011 is not yet over, the latest figures available are for 2010.  In 2010, Obama’s claim of $300 billion misses the true mark by $233 Billion, since Part D actually costs the taxpayer $67 Billion (GAO number, not mine.).  

    A mere pittance compared to the $500 billion that the Democrats reallocated (stole) from Medicare to pay for Obamacare, just before they claimed that “the Republicans are trying to destroy medicare.”  

    As for the wars, perhaps you prefer to sweep 9/11 under the rug?  I don’t.  Yes, I admit that Al Qaeda was not AS fully involved in Iraq (recent evidence proves that Saddam Hussein did conspire to provide aid to Bin Laden) as Bush (and H.R. Clinton, and Bill Clinton, and Joe Biden, and Harry Reid and, a litany of other democrats, and the Generals and British intelligence) all claimed.

    But still, removing Saddam (who blythly murdered 800,000 of his own people) was a good thing. 

    Afghanistan, on the other hand, was fully involved in granting Al Qaeda safe harbor, and we absolutely did the right thing there.  

    The same cannot be said for our involvement in Libya and Yemen, where Obama not only conducted his own “dumb war” but did so against a sovereign nation, an action which he condemned Bush for taking (some of the hypocrisy I mentioned earlier), and in doing so he actually aided a partner of Al Qaeda, the “Muslim Brotherhood”.

    Yes, Bush did raise the national debt by $5 trillion…IN EIGHT YEARS, fighting two wars.  

    But you seem to want to ignore the fact, that Obama has matched the increases of Bush . . . . in less than half the time, and by his own admission, he’s not done yet.

  • Jon Weiss

    Yes she does, and the biological father has a legal right to a say in the disposition of his offspring.  You seem to think that a right to privacy is a bulwark against responsibility.  

    As I stated earlier, if you want to give the woman an unlimited right to kill her unborn child you need to come up with a better plan than a “Constitutional Guarantee” of a right to a procedure that is mentioned NOWHERE in the Constitution.  

    I too have a right to privacy under the 4th Amendment (except when Obama wants to suspend it), but even that one does not give me the right to kill my kids, not even in the privacy of my home…AS STATED IN THE 4TH AMENDMENT!  Further, there is nothing in the Constitution that says I should be required to pay for an abortion, so if a woman wants one, she need to pay for it herself.NOTE”: No one mentioned “peek(ing) up her vagina”…except you.

  • Jon Weiss

    gorgegirl,

    The violations I referred to are those such as his plan for Obama care which has NO Constitutional basis at all other than what Nancy Pelosi falsely ascribed  to that overpriced debacle.  Another is his absolute refusal to defend the borders against illegal immigration which is a primary function of the federal government as stated in the Preamble and in the Body of the Constitution, but a function which Obama has blatantly refused to perform.  As for corporations having rights of persons, perhaps you need a lesson in U.S. history, such as that little “dust up” we had with Britain in the 1770′s, one of the main points of that war, was a demand to a cessation of “Taxation without Representation”, yet modern liberals seem to like that idea, of taxing corporations at confiscatory rates while allowing them no voice in government.  If you want their taxes, you have to allow them participation just like any citizen, to do otherwise is tantamount to pissing on the graves of the Continental Army.

  • Anonymous

    True and there is nothing more important to the teabaggers than coherent lying a$$ed, reprobate crooks and master hypocrites. The general election, well that’s a different story.

  • Anonymous

    If some guy left his sperm where it wasn’t wanted, it is no longer his.

  • Anonymous

    If the justices decide that the Affordable Healthcare Act is not constitutional, they will also have to revisit whether a hospital or doctor has the right to refuse medical care to those without clear evidence of payment.

  • Anonymous

    They don’t even have to “amend” the constitution.  Just past laws which are constitutional and acceptable to the majority of people.

  • Anonymous

    No, Newt is showing the republican base why he isn’t qualified to be president.

  • Jon Weiss

    If she didn’t scream “rape” she must have wanted it.

  • Jon Weiss

    You, apparently, are totally unfamiliar with the Hippocratic Oath to which all doctors are expected to adhere, wherein they swear to render aid, to those in need, not above and beyond, life saving, but doctors are expected by their profession to at the very least save lives.  Doctors, by their profession are required to render aid even if payment is not forthcoming, but most medicine practiced in the US is well within the purview of doctors to validly refuse treatment payment or not.  

    Such is a major problem with Obamacare, and many health insurance polices, for they all demand that the doctors perform actions which are morally and ethically questionable and further demand that the pool of participants (in the case of insurance) and the public at large (in case of Obamacare), pay for elective procedures that are morally and ethically it questionable to be performed at the whim of the non paying public.

  • Jon Weiss

    Also, Health care is NOT a Constitutional Right, just as I pointed out about the liberal lie about abortion being a Constitutional Right, I challenge any liberal to point out the phrase int the Constitution that names abortion as a Constitutional Right, which is impossible because the Constitution does not in any manner or form even mention Abortion, OR Health Care.

  • Anonymous

    What the Tea-Party members want is a Court that adheres to the Constitution. What we have now are 9 unelected judges making law from the bench. A power they don’t have!

  • Anonymous

    The Liberal-Progressives are salivating at the thought of Newt being the candidate. Not because they think Obimbo can stand up to him in an open debate, they know that’s not going to happen but because, Newt bring so much baggage with him that can be attack and that’s about the only thing the Liberal Party does well. They are scared to death, squeaky clean Romney will be their opponent.

  • Dale Hogue

    gorgegirl, what college or colleges have you attended?  What was your grade point average?  What was you major?  Can you fly an airplane of any kind?  If so, can you fly one of the most sophisticated jet planes in our country’s air force?  Have you ever been a CEO of any kind of privately owned company?  Have you ever written a book with or without a co-writer?

    FYI – George W. Bush attended and graduated from Yale University.
    George W. Bush attended and graduated with a Masters’ Degree from Harvard University’s school of business.  His grade point average at both Universities are open to the public. He was pilot of one of the most sophisticated Jet Planes in our Air Force.  He was the CEO of the Dallas Major League baseball team.  He wrote a book about his experience as President of the United States for two terms.

    You said in your post that “George W. Bush actually had problems reading the teleprompter.”  If this was so, don’t you think that the MainStream Media would have told the world about his inability to read teleprompters?

    Google: Hogue/Johnny Lee Clary

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