Donald Trump: Actually, Now That I Think About It, Let's Leave the Abortion Laws As They AreI'm changing, I'm changing. I'm softening that position. However, he then added that abortion is murder.
Okay. As long as you're giving the proper amount of thought to these issues. There was once a very intelligent man who said, "The moment Trump gets into trouble, he's going to start pandering like crazy to liberals, because he just doesn't know any better." Here we see Trump finally realizing the damage he caused to himself with Michelle Fields and Heidi Cruz, plus his own goal on abortion, so his response, to get back those women he cherishes so much, is to say "Hey, let's leave the abortion laws as they are. But privately, I think abortion is murder. FYI." I seriously can't think of a worse political position: On one hand, he's telling the pro-life people I'm not changing any abortion laws. Fine, okay, most presidents won't try, but few are as upfront in telling a key part of the conservative movement they're getting the goose-egg. Simultaneously, on the other hand, he pisses off the pro-choice people, by telling them that, while he won't be changing the abortion laws, that abortion is murder. It's lose-lose. With a bonus lose for it being dreadfully obvious that he simply hasn't given the issue a lick of thought and is now just basically button-mashing (as Allah puts it) in hopes that some combination of inputs gets him past the boss on this level. Posted by Ace at 07:27 PM Comments |
Donald Trump: About That Thing I Just Said A Few Hours Ago-- NevermindAceThe woman will, or rather will not be punished, and the laws will not, or rather will, be changed.
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The carnival barker executes another double-backflip on abortion. It takes real courage to confuse yourself with all these "hypotheticals" four times in less than four days. But it's only murder. Well, unless it isn't. Who really knows anyway?
You keep thinking the rats will realize they're following the Pied Piper but ...
Let the Trumpsplaining commence!
#165: ConservingFreedom To: Roscoe (#157)
Opposite - I've read it closely enough to note its acknowledgment of previous narrower restrictions.
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-04-04 14:51:38 Reply Private Reply
#166: misterwhite To: ConservingFreedom (#162)
Incorrectly? Sorry. There was Supreme Court precedent for intrastate regulations. We just discussed the Shreveport Rate Cases.
misterwhite posted on 2016-04-04 14:58:09 Reply Private Reply
#167: misterwhite To: Roscoe (#164)
The "sub silentio" didn't give you enough? Thought it would. Sorry.
misterwhite posted on 2016-04-04 14:59:41 Reply Private Reply
#168: Roscoe To: ConservingFreedom (#165)
In other words, you haven't read it. I thought so.
Roscoe filed suit because he wanted a federal marketing card guaranteeing limited liability for liens on the wheat sold to his buyers. The federal government told him if he wanted to join the subsidy program for protection against the prevailing "ruinously low prices resulting from excess supply" he would have to abide by the rules. No tickee, no washee.
Roscoe posted on 2016-04-04 15:01:34 Reply Private Reply
#169: misterwhite To: ConservingFreedom (#165)
So if the next interstate case involves cabbages, Wickard v Filburn wouldn't apply?
misterwhite posted on 2016-04-04 15:01:38 Reply Private Reply
#170: ConservingFreedom To: misterwhite (#166)
Add I showed in posts 137, 140, and 143 that the Shreveport ruling was less broad than the Wickard ruling pretended.
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-04-04 15:06:21 Reply Private Reply
#171: ConservingFreedom To: Roscoe (#168)
In the course of so ruling the Court made statements that it worded broadly and that many subsequent rulings have interpreted broadly - notably, "even if appellee's activity be local and though it may not be regarded as commerce, it may still, whatever its nature, be reached by Congress if it exerts a substantial economic effect on interstate commerce and this irrespective of whether such effect is what might at some earlier time have been defined as 'direct' or 'indirect.'"
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-04-04 15:11:38 Reply Private Reply
#172: Roscoe To: ConservingFreedom (#170)
So Wickard was broader and more restrictive, limiting a wider range of Congressional controls. By your "reasoning."
Roscoe posted on 2016-04-04 15:12:46 Reply Private Reply
#173: Roscoe To: ConservingFreedom (#171)
Surprise!
Roscoe posted on 2016-04-04 15:14:44 Reply Private Reply
#174: ConservingFreedom To: misterwhite (#169)
Since that's a howling non sequitur as it stands, I'll try to move the conversation forward by guessing what you're really asking - feel free to clarify your meaning. Was the Wickard ruling broad? Yes, it was - much broader than the Shreveport ruling on which it pretended to (at least in part) be based.
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-04-04 15:15:43 Reply Private Reply
#175: ConservingFreedom To: Roscoe (#172)
No, that in no way follows from anything I've posted - but thanks for the fascinating albeit disturbing insight into what passes for "reasoning" in your fevered mind.
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-04-04 15:17:49 Reply Private Reply
#176: ConservingFreedom To: Roscoe (#173)
Bully for him - what would you have us conclude from that?
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-04-04 15:18:19 Reply Private Reply
#177: Roscoe To: misterwhite (#169)
Roscoe posted on 2016-04-04 15:18:28 Reply Private Reply
#178: SOSO To: ConservingFreedom (#171)
SOSO posted on 2016-04-04 15:19:27 Reply Private Reply
#179: Roscoe To: ConservingFreedom (#176)
Enter an agreement, abide by its rules.
Roscoe posted on 2016-04-04 15:19:37 Reply Private Reply
#180: Roscoe To: SOSO (#178)
Roscoe posted on 2016-04-04 15:20:31 Reply Private Reply
#181: ConservingFreedom To: Roscoe (#177)
If you want to know what I think, ask me, coward. Wickard was an appalling farce - Shreveport much more defensible. And I'm confident that you and maybe misswhite are the only ones willing to pretend I haven't already made that view crystal clear.
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-04-04 15:22:19 Reply Private Reply
#182: ConservingFreedom To: SOSO (#178)
I'm only in a formal sense addressing him - my real audience is anyone who might mistake his posts as in any way valid.
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-04-04 15:24:06 Reply Private Reply
#183: Roscoe To: ConservingFreedom (#181)
Even though it restricted a very narrow range of Congressional authority, at least according to you. So by your "reasoning," virtually all Congressional regulation of commerce should go unrestricted.
Logic ain't your long suit.
Roscoe posted on 2016-04-04 15:25:27 Reply Private Reply
#184: Roscoe To: ConservingFreedom (#182)
Is the imaginary cheering throngs in your head.
Roscoe posted on 2016-04-04 15:26:14 Reply Private Reply
#185: ConservingFreedom To: Roscoe (#183)
Not at all - for the Court to say that Congressional regulation of intrastate shipping rates is subject to certain limitations is not per se for it to say anything at all about other Congressional regulation. Wickard, by contrast, loosened limitations on Congressional authority and did so with broad language.
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-04-04 15:29:45 Reply Private Reply
#186: Roscoe To: ConservingFreedom (#185)
IOW, no restrictions.
I almost feel sorry for ya.
Roscoe posted on 2016-04-04 15:31:17 Reply Private Reply
#187: SOSO To: ConservingFreedom (#182)
I can't imagine that anyone is interested in what the asshole has to say, even if on the surface he agrees with them for the moment. He reinforces the notion that there is no limit to the number and type of strawmen a moron can conjure. He is a master weasel. He is the poster boy for the Dunning Kruger effect.
SOSO posted on 2016-04-04 15:33:01 Reply Private Reply
#188: Roscoe To: SOSO (#187)
Dunning-Kruger
Roscoe posted on 2016-04-04 15:33:55 Reply Private Reply
#189: ConservingFreedom To: Roscoe (#186)
No, silence does not imply no restrictions. Who here do you think is stupid enough to be fooled by your hamhanded nonsense?
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-04-04 15:34:39 Reply Private Reply
#190: Roscoe To: ConservingFreedom (#189)
Yes, silence imposes no restrictions.
Roscoe posted on 2016-04-04 15:35:58 Reply Private Reply
#191: ConservingFreedom To: Roscoe (#190)
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-04-04 15:41:32 Reply Private Reply
#192: Roscoe To: ConservingFreedom (#191)
Zero signal to noise ratio.
Roscoe posted on 2016-04-04 15:42:50 Reply Private Reply
#193: Roscoe To: ConservingFreedom (#191)
Quote.
Roscoe posted on 2016-04-04 15:44:06 Reply Private Reply
#194: misterwhite To: Roscoe (#190)
Correct. The natural state of commerce is free and open. Any regulation of that commerce is a restriction.
misterwhite posted on 2016-04-04 15:50:49 Reply Private Reply
#195: ConservingFreedom To: Roscoe (#193)
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-04-04 16:03:36 Reply Private Reply
#196: Roscoe To: ConservingFreedom (#195)
Commerce clause
Roscoe posted on 2016-04-04 16:17:54 Reply Private Reply
#197: ConservingFreedom To: Roscoe (#196)
The power to regulate commerce among the several states is delegated - while the power to regulate that which is not commerce among the several states, but substantially affects commerce among the several states, is not.
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-04-04 16:20:57 Reply Private Reply
#198: Roscoe To: ConservingFreedom (#197)
Have you ever read it?
Roscoe posted on 2016-04-04 16:23:03 Reply Private Reply
#199: ConservingFreedom To: Roscoe (#198)
Relevant only upon establishing that regulating that which is not commerce among the several states, but substantially affects commerce among the several states, is both necessary and proper for regulating commerce among the several states.
Feel free to so establish.
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-04-04 16:29:03 Reply Private Reply
#200: Roscoe To: ConservingFreedom (#199)
Backwards. Until proven otherwise. The power was explicitly given to Congress to make those decisions.
Roscoe posted on 2016-04-04 16:30:53 Reply Private Reply
#201: ConservingFreedom To: Roscoe (#200)
Quote.
The idea that the Constitution gives Congress the authority to determine the limits on Congress' authority is ludicrous even for you - and that's saying something.
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-04-04 16:36:28 Reply Private Reply
#202: Roscoe To: ConservingFreedom (#201)
"To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;"
"To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof."
Now you quote the provision requiring Congress to "establish" an exercise of those explicit powers to your satisfaction.
At least try.
Roscoe posted on 2016-04-04 16:41:12 Reply Private Reply
#203: ConservingFreedom To: Roscoe (#202)
A swing and a miss by you. The authority to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper does not include nor imply the power to declare whether a given law is necessary and proper.
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-04-04 16:45:16 Reply Private Reply
#204: Roscoe To: ConservingFreedom (#203)
Of course it does.
"Congress is empowered to regulate -- that is, to provide the law for the government of interstate commerce; to enact "all appropriate legislation" for its "protection and advancement..." Houston E. & W. Tex. Ry. Co. v. United States 234 U.S. 342 (1914)
Now you quote the provision requiring Congress to "establish" an exercise of those explicit powers to your satisfaction.
At least try. Don't be such a coward.
Roscoe posted on 2016-04-04 16:47:39 Reply Private Reply
#205: Roscoe To: misterwhite (#194)
"PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it." --Ambrose Bierce
Roscoe posted on 2016-04-04 16:49:49 Reply Private Reply
#206: tpaine To: ConservingFreedom, roscoe, Y'ALL (#203)
The authority to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper does not include nor imply the power to declare whether a given law is necessary,proper, and/or CONSTITUTIONAL.
As usual, roscoe doesn't have a clue...
tpaine posted on 2016-04-04 17:14:09 Reply Private Reply
#207: ConservingFreedom To: Roscoe (#204)
No help for you there - it wasn't ruled that Congress had the power to declare whether a given law is appropriate for the protection and advancement of interstate commerce, either.
Here's just one example of the Court rejecting a government claim of power under the clause: "The Government's first argument is that the individual mandate is a valid exercise of Congress's power under the Commerce Clause and the Necessary and Proper Clause. [...] the individual mandate cannot be sustained under the Necessary and Proper Clause as an essential component of the insurance reforms." NFIB v Sebelius
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-04-04 17:28:10 Reply Private Reply
#208: ConservingFreedom To: Roscoe (#204)
Yet another of your straw men - I never said a word about "to my satisfaction."
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-04-04 17:29:25 Reply Private Reply
#209: Roscoe To: ConservingFreedom (#207)
to enact "all appropriate legislation"
Roscoe posted on 2016-04-04 17:37:20 Reply Private Reply
#210: Roscoe To: ConservingFreedom (#208)
You have failed to identify any other party.
Roscoe posted on 2016-04-04 17:38:16 Reply Private Reply
#211: ConservingFreedom To: Roscoe (#207)
Which, to chew your food for you, disproves your claim that "The power was explicitly given to Congress to make those decisions" as to what was necessary and proper.
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-04-04 17:41:15 Reply Private Reply
#212: Roscoe To: ConservingFreedom (#211)
"To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;"
"To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof."
Poor you.
Roscoe posted on 2016-04-04 17:45:30 Reply Private Reply
#213: tpaine To: Roscoe, Y'ALL (#209)
To enact 'all constitutionally appropriate legislation'.
tpaine posted on 2016-04-04 17:53:52 Reply Private Reply
#214: ConservingFreedom To: Roscoe (#212)
ConservingFreedom posted on 2016-04-04 20:57:48 Reply Private Reply