Shameful Politicians - Just Like Neon Marshmallow Chicks

Allow me to introduce you to the Peep Senators:

Susan Collins (R-ME), Rob Portman (R-OH), and Mark Kirk (R-IL).

These are selfish critters - ugly and small. Much more concerned about their own political futures in Washington than they are about the future of the United States of America and its Constitution.

These individuals are up for re-election in November. Because of the leftists in their districts pushing for a leftist SCOTUS nominee, they are afraid that they won't get their cushy job again come the election. Instead of standing up for what's right, they are willing to throw America to the left for at least one generation, and probably forever. These three have agreed to give a show - they will meet with Obie-One's SCOTUS nominee - Merrick Garland.

Now I don't know much about this man. I did check out the SCOTUS blog before getting farther into this than the paragraph above. Maybe he would be the greatest thing since sliced bread. But the fact that he has been nominated by a socialist-leaning President who has done everything he can think of to undermine and abrogate my Second Amendment right is a gigantic red flashing warning sign.

I do not want a man or the Supreme Court to re-write the Constitution. They are not there to re-write it, or mold it into something other than what it is. They are there to interpret it. Period.

The fact that Garland openly questioned the Court's decision on the Heller decision is telling. He does not like the Second Amendment. He wants to strike it down as far as possible without trying to get it repealed. That would be a losing battle and he knows it. But if he takes a seat on the Court, he will be in a position to do great damage to this right and to any other to which he takes exception.

This article from the Washington Times lays it out in clear terms: 

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, a Republican presidential candidate, said Judge Garland is the kind of nominee people get “when you make deals in Washington, D.C.”

“Make no mistake: If Garland were confirmed, he would side predictably with President Obama on critical issues such as undermining the Second Amendment, legalizing partial-birth abortion and propping up overreaching bureaucratic agencies like the EPA and the IRS,” Mr. Cruz said.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/mar/16/merrick-garland-has-very-liberal-view-gun-rights/?page=all

We all know Obie-One is done after the November 8th general election (thank GOD!) so the article isn't referring to the man, it is referring to the man's positions.

Obie-One is an open opponent of the Second Amendment. He has spent eight years taking every opportunity to try to ignite a grassroots uprising against it, and has failed. He has papered the West Wing in an attempt to find the Executive Order that will stick, and has failed. This nomination is his last best hope - and it's a play for which these Peep Senators are falling.

As for Garland, when the Heller ruling came down he was on the Washington District Court. He suggested that it should be reconsidered, even though SCOTUS - the very body he wants to join - had spoken.

In that case, a Washington DC police officer - someone who routinely carried a handgun during his duty hours - asked for permission to purchase and register a gun for his residence. He was denied, so he applied to the Supreme Court under the Second Amendment.

The Court heard the case and determined that Heller had the right, under the Second Amendment, to purchase and keep an operable firearm at home for his self-protection.

Garland didn't like that. Therefore, he questioned the decision. Which is his right, but it does not bode well for Constitutional freedom if he takes a seat on the court.

The fact that these three Senators are showing all the spine of an Easter peep is worrying. And it's shameful.

Obviously they are far more concerned about their political futures than they are about the future freedoms of their constituents. That is despicable. They should be ashamed and they should lose their seats come November. The fact that they will cave to some political directive instead of standing hard and fast on principle speaks to their character. They don't deserve to represent anyone.


Personally, I value the rights given to me as a citizen of the United States via the Constitution. I do not want the Court to take my rights away. If we give up one, another will follow and then another. Eventually the Constitution won't be worth the paper on which it's written - and this country will be just like every other.

Imagine the government gaining more right, more power to examine our lives - how we act or speak or with whom we associate and punishing us for those actions, thoughts or associations.

With the Constitution as written we are protected from government intrusion into our lives.

What if the Court decides that we have too many rights, too much freedom of association? What if the Court decides we don't have the right to speak or write as we want?

With a leftist Court, one that doesn't like this Amendment or that, these things are not outside the realm of possibility.

Already there is a move afoot to shut people up - the First Amendment is under scrutiny and outright assault on our college campuses.

Just this week someone or a group used chalk - plain, ordinary chalk - to write pro-Trump messages on sidewalks, railings and fences at Emory University and other students claimed - because of a few white lines easily blurred or wiped away - that they felt 'threatened'. They whined and cried to the University administration which caved and is threatening to punish the perpetrators of this horrible act. Really? Obviously, the pro-Trump people haven't got the right to express themselves.

This is not an isolated case and it is one that could well end up in front of SCOTUS.

Do you want to lose your right to express yourself? Do you want your right to speak out, even if it's not the popular, taken away? Are you prepared for the thought police to take control of your life - perhaps even throw you in jail because you write a few lines in chalk on a campus sidewalk?

If we have justices on the Supreme Court who do not interpret the Constitution but instead mold it into their world view, this is not impossible. This could well come to be in short order - and it would be impossible to undo.

Our rights, our freedoms are at stake and it is not something to take lightly.

Just something to keep in mind between now and election day. We need someone to nominate a Justice who values the Constitution, who understands their role as interpreter, not crafter. Based on my review of his background, Merrick Garland is not a good choice.

Best~
Philippa

Geez, Talk About Coincidence

Yesterday's post was all about 'what's coming next', relating in broad terms my views RE: the world, politics and economics. Then, mere hours later, the news broke that Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court had died. This is a watershed moment in American politics.

Obie-One is in the last year of his presidency, a lamer duck than ever. Nothing he wants to institute as policy or anything else is going to go much of anywhere for the next eleven months. Particularly given the fact that the right controls both Houses of Congress.

All Representatives in the House and thirty-four seats in the Senate will be up for re-election come November, so there is the potential for a major power shift inside the Beltway. When you couple those things with the revolution taking place among the American electorate, this is turning into a perfect storm of an election year.

Mitch McConnell, the Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee that will be responsible for examining and confirming the next Justice, has already said, 'No'. Which is as it should be because whoever is appointed is going to have long-term impacts on the Court and on life here in the United States.

Obie-One will, as he has in the past, put ideology far ahead of Constitutional purism. He will look for a jurist who will be comfortable with, or even be champing at the bit to, legislate from the bench. The problem with that is that once the Supreme Court speaks, there is no court of last resort. The idea of passing a Constitutional Amendment to undo what the Court hands down is just about unheard of. Thirty-eight states have to pass the Amendment and that virtually never happens. Therefore, the Justices who sit on the Court could, if they put ideology ahead of Constitutionalism, be the nation's dictators, consigning the American people to whatever whim they choose to pass into law.

Given that, and with Scalia's passing, the next ten months take on even greater import. Who will be the next President? Who will be responsible for nominating and confirming the next Supreme Court Justice? Will the president be the outsider - Trump? (I leave Carson out because he just ain't going to go the distance - two states under their belts, numbers three and four looming, and he's already flagging.) Will it be the Tea Party candidate, Ted Cruz (who didn't even gain the support of the Tea Party's darling, Sarah Palin)? Or will it be a Washington insider - Clinton, Sanders, Rubio, Bush or Kasich?

On the right, the 'Establishment' candidates cannot gain traction. Look at Jeb! and Kasich. Their poll numbers suck wind and they're showing little signs of improving. After last night's debate, even with all the vituperation and shouting, Trump is still leading in South Carolina with 42% of the Republicans saying they'll be voting for him. Bush, the Establishment Right's darling, is at just six percent, along with Carson. Kasich has nine percent and Cruz and Rubio are in the teens. This, after Trump ignored all warnings and went right after the supposed sacred cow of the Bush family.

On the left, Hilliary's nomination to the head of the Democrat ticket is a certainty unless the FBI steps forward with a better than rock solid case against her. Still, the DOJ will decline to indict and that will set off a massive firestorm if the brainiacs who watch this stuff more closely than I are right.

Of course, as Real Clear Politics posits in the following article, her current deep and persistent brown-nosing of Obie-One is nothing more than a desperate ploy:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/02/13/hillary_clintons_frantic_embrace_of_obama.html

Reading this article stuck a deep chord - created an Ah Ha! moment. It was like a puzzle with a number of unset pieces - something smelled but I couldn't fit the pieces together. Now that I've seen this, it makes perfect sense.

Six months ago, even four months ago, Hilliary was desperate to distance herself from Obie-One. She was defining herself and her candidacy as being different from his. Then came the flare-up with the e-mails and the Foundation, and she's suddenly in Obie-One's hip pocket, breathing deeply. Since December she has begun running as Obie-One's 'third term' apparently hoping that this will offer some protection from Obie's DOJ.

No matter since it looks like the FBI has put the e-mail issue on the back burner and are now going after her through the questionable antics of the Clinton Foundation. Did she trade political favors for donations to the Foundation? Hmmm. Looks like it because the FBI has issued a subpoena to the Foundation. I just hope they find something they can make stick, despite the politics of it, and do it around the end of April when it's too late for anyone but Bernie to make a real run for it.

If it gets down to Trump or Cruz on the right and Berns on the left, it should be a good year for the right. Unless, of course, the American voter gets stupid again and elects a bunch of Democrats into Congress 'to balance the White House'. All that will do is ensure two more years of gridlock which everyone says they don't want.

Still, unless there is an indictment of Hilliary, Hilliary will be the left's only choice for president. Why? Because of the unconstitutional 'Super Delegates'. These are the party hacks, the Democrat sycophants with more money than brains who have sucked at the Kool-Aid teat for so long whatever brains they had have melted. They are puppets of the Democrat party and will do as the party dictates. In this case, the party dictates that they must be for Hilliary. Therefore, these people are already solidly in Hilliary's corner, bought and paid for, committed. That's another CF that's going to get more interesting when and if a recommendation for indictment is sent to the DOJ. Don't believe me? Well... Here's a headline from Salon:

Saturday, Feb 13, 2016 12:30 PM PST

Un-Democratic Party: DNC chair says superdelegates ensure elites don’t have to run “against grassroots activists”

Critics say the unelected superdelegate system is rigged. Debbie Wasserman Schultz basically admitted this is true

http://www.salon.com/2016/02/13/un_democratic_party_dnc_chair_says_superdelegates_ensure_elites_dont_have_to_run_against_grassroots_activists/


Aside from all of that, what must be sending shivers up the spines of everyone currently serving in Congress is that the American people are sending a strong message that same-old, same-old doesn't play any more. If the majority of people are supporting Sanders and Trump, shunning Hilliary and the Establishment candidates on the right, what does that mean for the upcoming election?

Add into the mix the fact that the Senate - thirty-four of whom are up for re-election come November - will have to confirm, or not confirm, the next Supreme Court Justice. Obie-One has already said, despite McConnell's drawn line, that he is going to nominate someone. In that case, what's a Senator to do? It's like juggling nitroglycerin.

There is not enough time - just two weeks - for Obie-One to nominate a new candidate and get them in front of the Senate for confirmation hearings before the Super Tuesday caucuses and elections. Even if he tries to fast-track it, the Senate has the power and capability to drag its heels.

Iowa and New Hampshire might well have been the canaries in the coal mine for politics as usual inside the Washington Beltway. The American electorate has begun to speak in loud tones, as shown by giving a Tea Party candidate, a businessman / celebrity and a 74-year old Independent Senator from Vermont those two states in resounding fashion. Then there was last night's debate where the fireworks got really nasty between Trump and Bush and Cruz and Rubio.

March 1st, Super Tuesday, is going to be even more telling. If things go as they have gone in the past two states, and South Carolina, Nevada and the fifteen states on March 1st break the same way - for Trump/Cruz and Berns - that will present the Senate with a huge dilemma.

Yes, Hilliary "won" Iowa - but, literally, only by the flip of a coin. She got well and truly trounced in New Hampshire. If Trump and Berns come out of South Carolina and Nevada with a lead, and if they each do well on Super Tuesday, that will pretty much cast the political future in concrete. 'Establishment' will not fly in the coming Congressional election and those people who like their comfy seats and cushy jobs in the Senate are going to have to think long and hard about who they confirm to the Court.

It's not looking good for Hilliary in South Carolina - a must win state for her. Berns is making good inroads into her presumed security there. For weeks the press has been talking about South Carolina being a 'firewall' for her candidacy - but if you read some recent articles about what's going on there, it doesn't look quite so certain. He's closing the gap in published polls, and he's gotten some key endorsements (although the talking heads are declaring endorsements don't matter any more). He's got a strong ground game and it looks like he might just give her a run for her money.

All I can say, again, is that this seems to be a perfect storm in the political realm. A pending nomination to the Supreme Court, an extraordinary field of presidential candidates from which the American people will pick and choose over the coming months, and a Congressional election that will determine the course of this country for the next two years, at least. Watch closely - it's gonna be a rocky ride!

Best~
Philippa

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