GOP Senator on the Courts
 

Replace it to what? Peace and Freedom?

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I don't see how it delegates to a court. Are you saying that a dissatisfied litigant could simply go into another court and say a judge should be impeached by the court? I can't imagine that would be permitted by any court--it's quite clear that the sole power of impeachment is in the House and the power to try all impeachment cases lies in the Senate.

I think fringey's on the right track, but I don't think that any vote would be compelled. If so, couldn't Congress have passed a statute saying that "any president who lies under oath shall be impeached", and then on that basis alone impeached and convicted clinton? methinks not.

Now, I suppose there's some possible value in the provision as fringe suggests, which is that exercising jurisdiction improperly gives rise to an inference, or a presumption, of a high crime/misdemeanor/non-good behavior, such that a milquetoast rep. could say "while I think that the courts should be able to decide cases, it's quite clear that judge slothrop here violated the statute passed by congress and for that reason I vote to impeach." In other words, it's a bootstrap cover.

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Uh, you are putting a lot of thought into this. The guy couldn't even get cosponsors. A lot of total bs bills get proposed . . .

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Yet, frighteningly, some also get passed. Pub. L. No. 109-3, for example.

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could I have either the long or the short name?

anyway, stop fucking with my happy place. if you are talking about the terri schaivo thing, that's not nearly as far-reaching.

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Oh. Thanks.

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How many cases call into question whether god is the supreme authority? It's not all first amendment cases . . .

and, yeah, 109-3 is the schiavo bill. 3 months and 3 bills. hard at work. can we fire them all?

some blogger pix, that maybe are sort of encouraging
 

some blogger pix, that maybe are sort of encouraging
 

It's frankly beyond me that anyone who would caption this photo with a reference to "securing Fallujah" could complain about media bias.

http://www.mudvillegazette.com/images/boom2.jpg

By your standards, this picture is patently anti-American, Hank.

What's the over/under on DeLay stepping down? Two weeks? Three? Am I being too hasty?

Less, what'd'you say?

some blogger pix, that maybe are sort of encouraging
 

Why? It's pretty colors, and I think we made it that way.

Too hasty. He's survived this long . . . must not be perceived as enough of a liability to the party yet. I would say before the next election season gears up, though, so probably late this year, early next year.

some blogger pix, that maybe are sort of encouraging
 

Nice, but not really Pulitzer material.

http://schadenfreude.cogitox.com/images/patio.jpg

Do you really think this photo is anti-American?
 

Ah, I missed this post. Your point that the AP is biased because of which photos it decided to submit for a journalism award is too stupid even to consider. I wouldn't have wasted any more time on the subject.

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Of course it isn't Constitutional. Shelby's grandstanding for the folk back home and to puff up his war chest. You can't simply legislate away the Establishemnt Clause, not to mention that whole "separation of powers" thing that permeates the document.

Do you really think this photo is anti-American?
 

You miss a lot of shit. At work do people have trouble understanding you?

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I had a better opinion of you before I read that post. My subconcious must have a set of blinders. I'm really just trying to see you in the most positive light.

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You're trying to see me in the light? RT said she caught you in the dark trying to see her through her bedroom window. Why the diff?

Stepping down from the chair?

I was part of a conference call with Richard Morrison last night, and none of us were THAT optimistic.*

DeLay's power stems from his amazing ability to raise and control money for other Republicans. Until it's clear that he doesn't control the purse strings anymore, not that many Rs are going to make moves against him.

*ETA: There is a lot of hope, though. It was a good call.

And yet, new stuff keeps popping up virtually every day. I think this moves it up to the early fall at least.

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So You Won a Pulitzer. Who Cares?

"There's no real science or even fairness behind the picking of winners and losers, with the prizes handed out according to a formula composed of one part log-rolling, two parts merit, three parts 'we owe him one,' and four parts random distribution. "

Oh please. I'm sure they were providing valuable services. (Seriously, I doubt that that will be the straw. Or even a major contributor. I think his daughter is legitimately an event planner, and it looks like nearly half that money went to her business, and not directly to her as payo . . . a payroll expense. If it went to the business, it probably paid for actual goods and services, etc. I may be being some combination of too cynical and not cynical enough, though.)

His daughter ran his campaign last year.

Seems to me that Hillary should step down under this logic as well.

Sweet pea, darling, fucking jackasshole, I was actually more or less defending the payments. Christ. I WENT OUT OF MY WAY to defend actions of a PERSON I LOATHE and you fucking bring up Hilary like the knee-jerk assjack you are.

I was waiting for the part in the article shifter linked to that explained his daughter was 11 years old, but had a killer collection of beanie babies. Oh well, not that easy.

BTW, shifter, I think Ty had that article in mind (i certainly did). He reads today's news yesterday, so he's primed for debate here.

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Anytime, dude. Like, sorry to have to impose reality on you - I know it's a bummer.

Way cool avatar man.

See? Next time, don't try coddling up to Club like that.

I didn't do it for that assjacky asshole. I did it in a spirit of, you know, like fairness and shit.

I don't care what his registration card says. He's a fucking R through and through, including all the morality crap.

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OTOH, it was a slow day yesterday.

I guess I should adjust off my sarcasm meter.

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My point was there was no random distribution in the 20 photos, so I guess it was the other parts.

What morality crap?

If you want friends, you should be friendly!

Your party, of which you are a card-carrying member, has been kind of pushing hard on legislating morality. Your blinders may not be letting that through. That's OK, I'm sure you are happier with them on. Pity they aren't a little tighter, and a few inches lower down.

True - but his wife? Check out what she does - "Mrs. DeLay provides big picture, long-term strategic guidance and helps with personnel decisions."* And her monthly paycheck is higher than the daughter's.

* I get that from my spouse for free - and often I don't even have to ask.

I think Burger was saying yesterday that they've haven't been legislating much of anything. Unless you were referring to bankruptcy reform?

Oh SHUT IT. You know what I mean. Or are you and club best friends now? ETA bankruptcy reform fits the bill for me. Payola to the cc companies.

Pananda, they only cited a couple of months of payments. Whatever. I'm just saying, at least on the daughter's side, it's quite possibly legit and this is far less heinous than other crap DeLay pulls. But you go ahead and think this is going to be the last nail in the coffin. I'm trying to protect you from the inevitable disappointment.

I really would rather it wasn't the last nail in the coffin. I think that there are larger points to be made about DeLay and the GOP that will be lost if he steps down soon:

• DeLay's potentially illegal dealings with lobbyists are just coextensive with much more widespread brands of behavior that, while often perfectly legal, are no more morally praiseworthy. The issue here is the rise of a Republican Party that in its House, Senate, and White House incarnations is wholly a prisoner of corporate interests and has abandoned any pretense of ideological principle in an effort to put policy up for sale to the highest bidder. The big game here is hundreds of billions in corporate subsidies masquerading as Medicare reform; massive tax cuts; and the failure to properly enforce labor, environmental, tax, and consumer-protection laws. The real payoffs aren't junkets but the hundreds of millions of dollars that finance the entire conservative institutional apparatus.

While I'm as attuned as the next guy to the frisson of excitement and shudders of pleasure around here that come every time we get another illicit glimpse of DeLay's tawdry dealings, you don't want some things to come to a delightful climax too soon.