Rick Perry THE coporate *****

[gendoikari]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/seven-ways-rick-perry-wants-change-constitution-131634517.html

just to condense the article here's seven things he plans on doing.



1. Abolish lifetime tenure for federal judges by amending Article III, Section I of the Constitution




2. Congress should have the power to override Supreme Court decisions with a two-thirds vote.

so you'd essentially be giving congress most of the power in the government, a body so full of bought off scumbags it should read the corporate masters slave dungeon.


3. Scrap the federal income tax by repealing the Sixteenth Amendment.

oh and get this he calls the income tax a "great milestone on the road to serfdom" don't make me laugh.


4. End the direct election of senators by repealing the Seventeenth Amendment.

Yeah, lets let the government already run by corporate whores elect itself now so they don't have to hide being corporate whores.


5. Require the federal government to balance its budget every year.

This is the most retarded thing I can think of, at times it's good to have a balanced budget and you certainly can't have it unbalanced all the time like we do but to say it must be balanced at all times shows economical stupidity.


6. The federal Constitution should define marriage as between one man and one woman in all 50 states.

Why should the federal government say what two consenting adults do in the privacy of their own home.


7. Abortion should be made illegal throughout the country.

Yes, bring forth the sea of unwanted children, drown us in over population. Rick perry you are a dumbass with no sense of any moral compass.


Somebody throw the bible at this man.

[Kamos]

American politicians being assholes, no big news for me. I wonder if it's possible to edit thread titles; hint hint.

[The Douche]

I wonder if you realize the sexist nature of the word "*****", used in this context, OP?



Anyhow, yeah, Rick Perry, a republican from texas is a douche, no surprise.

[gendoikari]

I wonder if you realize the sexist nature of the word "*****", used in this context, OP?



Anyhow, yeah, Rick Perry, a republican from texas is a douche, no surprise.

Lol Irony. Also he is a dog so it does fit.

[Ocean Seal]

Wow, ending the direct election of senators. That doesn't seem to be very much in line with that whole bourgeois democracy thing that they were pushing.

[gendoikari]

huh edited the first post but it didn't change the thread name.

Anywho, yes he wants senators to be elected via state assemblies. Effectively giving ZERO power to the american people on a national level.

[thefinalmarch]

Sexist language, OP? That's a paddlin'.

[gendoikari]

Sexist language, OP? That's a paddlin'.

Look i was pissed off and seeing red I just threw a title up there I'm sorry. god.

[Kamos]

Look i was pissed off and seeing red I just threw a title up there I'm sorry. god.

It's not our problem, but the mods are going to... well, you know what they will do, if you get my drift.;)

[gendoikari]

It's not our problem, but the mods are going to... well, you know what they will do, if you get my drift.;)

same thing to me as what the bank of america does to rick perry, and rick perry will do to the american people.

[Die Neue Zeit]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/seven-ways-rick-perry-wants-change-constitution-131634517.html

just to condense the article here's seven things he plans on doing.

so you'd essentially be giving congress most of the power in the government, a body so full of bought off scumbags it should read the corporate masters slave dungeon.

Actually, overriding judicial authority on constitutional cases isn't necessarily a bad thing. The reason is these bodies aren't politically accountable (including recallable) when in fact they are making very political decisions. There's always "judicial activism," "legislating from the bench," etc. even on the most mundane of constitutional cases.

In the interim, I would rather slice the Supreme Court in two, one to deal with constitutional cases and one to deal with everything else, with term limits for both. The former should very well be politically accountable and be subject to overriding from other "branches of government." Only the latter should preserve the "independent judiciary" concept.

[jake williams]

Of course Congress is fucked, but if giving more power to this nominally elected and representative body does you worse than leaving it in the hands of a totally unrepresentative and unaccountable body of nine unelected ultra-right wing members of the judicial community - I think that's a bad sign. I think very specifically this liberal strategy that we can use some particular legalistic interpretation of certain laws as our major vehicle of social change, rather than actually building popular movements and in some cases even at the expense of building those popular movements, is totally backward.

If I were a bit less of a humanist I'd be tempted to say that if there actually is a right-wing populist struggle that eviscerates the Supreme Court and in the process rolls back black civil rights, abortion, gay rights and so on, then to an extent the US left would be simply reaping what it's sown. Of course I don't actually believe this and I think those are fundamentally important victories, but the ACLU sort of idea that we can simply sue our way to a just society, because we're starting from this great matrix of basically just bourgeois democratic law, is fundamentally flawed. If this becomes an election issue, it'd be utterly shocking if Obama didn't come out fiercely against it. Some measure of judicial or constitutional supremacy is at the centre of bourgeois law, and Obama would be well-positioned to demonstrate liberals' natural place as the proper stewarts of bourgeois democracy.

The legalization of what formerly constituted broad popular struggles for civil rights has been a major factor in the right's ability to scapegoat women's rights, black rights and so on as simply the product of activism by some very real "liberal elites".