A Disastrous Day for the Tea Party

[Flaylo]

Doug Kendall: A Disastrous Day for the Tea Party


After all they haven't been saying much lately, flash in the pan movement is over. The health care law will not be repealed.

 

[editec]

One election does NOT a mandate make.

I'm pretty pleased with the elections this time around but I don't think it means the battle is over.

Not remotely over, really.

 

[rdean]

Well come on. Obama was teaching constitutional law at the university level for 10 years. He probably knows more about the constitution than any Republican alive. I don't see him putting a bill out there he knows is unconstitutional.

 

[Katzndogz]

Well come on. Obama was teaching constitutional law at the university level for 10 years. He probably knows more about the constitution than any Republican alive. I don't see him putting a bill out there he knows is unconstitutional.

Not quite true. He was never a Constitutional Law professor, he was a "visiting" professor and not part of the faculty. He never taught the study of the Constitution, only those parts of the Constitution as relates to civil rights.

It is his often stated opinion that the Constitution is wrong. It is fatally wrong and fatally flawed.

 

[California Girl]

Well come on. Obama was teaching constitutional law at the university level for 10 years. He probably knows more about the constitution than any Republican alive. I don't see him putting a bill out there he knows is unconstitutional.

Not quite true. He was never a Constitutional Law professor, he was a "visiting" professor and not part of the faculty. He never taught the study of the Constitution, only those parts of the Constitution as relates to civil rights.

It is his often stated opinion that the Constitution is wrong. It is fatally wrong and fatally flawed.

Rdean is not interested in facts, he's a big believer in the rhetoric of idiots. In truth, only 6% of his posts do not contain bullshit.

 

[editec]

I ALSO think the US Constitution is fatally flawed.

 

[DiamondDave]

Fatally flawed in the fact that it has been allowed to be thwarted by power hungry government officials that take the liberty of extra power that is not granted to the federal government by the constitution

 

[Jarhead]

Well come on. Obama was teaching constitutional law at the university level for 10 years. He probably knows more about the constitution than any Republican alive. I don't see him putting a bill out there he knows is unconstitutional.

So I guess you are saying the judges that found it to be unconstitutional know nothing of the consitution?

I studied economics....I was an economics TA for a few years at the Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship.

I admit I know less about how economics is applied to real life business than those that have experienced it and applied it at the highest of levels.

When I started my first business, I consulted with my mentor...the head of the Economics department at Syracuse. The first thing he said to me was "dont just rely on what I taught you for much of that is not applicable to the real world. Rely on your ability to reason"

 

[Full-Auto]

Doug Kendall: A Disastrous Day for the Tea Party


After all they haven't been saying much lately, flash in the pan movement is over. The health care law will not be repealed.

We finally took democrats and there criminal enterprise out of the liquor business.

We rejected a democrat attempt at hiding behind a commission to raise taxes and not be accountable.

It was a glorious day!!!!!

 

[Dragon]

I studied economics....I was an economics TA for a few years at the Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship.

I admit I know less about how economics is applied to real life business than those that have experienced it and applied it at the highest of levels.

When I started my first business, I consulted with my mentor...the head of the Economics department at Syracuse. The first thing he said to me was "dont just rely on what I taught you for much of that is not applicable to the real world. Rely on your ability to reason"

He was right, for a reason you don't mention, which also goes the other direction: economics and business administration are two completely different skill sets.

Someone running a business deals with a small PART of the economy, and is concerned with the performance and success of that part of the economy in competition with other parts.

Someone making economic decisions at the government level deals with ALL of the economy, and is concerned with the performance and success of the WHOLE.

If you are running a business, and your competitors don't do as well as your business does, that's a GOOD thing. In economics, their poorer performance is lumped together with your better one, and you doing well means nothing.

If you are running a business, and you find a way to increase worker productivity while keeping wages from rising, that's a GOOD thing. In economics, it worsens the ratio between consumer demand and productivity, which is a BAD thing.

No, you should not run your business according to the principles of economics; you should run it according to the principles of business administration.

The reverse is also true -- which is why successful businessmen tend to make poor politicians.

 

[Vaard]

Doug Kendall: A Disastrous Day for the Tea Party


After all they haven't been saying much lately, flash in the pan movement is over. The health care law will not be repealed.

repealed? 10 years from now, republicans will be trying to take credit for passing it.........

 

[Truthmatters]

Juts like they try to take credit for the surpluses of the 90s.

The CBO scored the 1993 budget reduction act with the lions share of the surpluses.

It was signed and passed without one single R vote

 

[AmericanFirst]

Well come on. Obama was teaching constitutional law at the university level for 10 years. He probably knows more about the constitution than any Republican alive. I don't see him putting a bill out there he knows is unconstitutional.

He did, obamacare. Obamaturd might know the constitution, he just is against it, socialists are that way.

 

[rdean]

Well come on. Obama was teaching constitutional law at the university level for 10 years. He probably knows more about the constitution than any Republican alive. I don't see him putting a bill out there he knows is unconstitutional.

Not quite true. He was never a Constitutional Law professor, he was a "visiting" professor and not part of the faculty. He never taught the study of the Constitution, only those parts of the Constitution as relates to civil rights.

It is his often stated opinion that the Constitution is wrong. It is fatally wrong and fatally flawed.

Statement Regarding Barack Obama

The Law School has received many media requests about Barack Obama, especially about his status as "Senior Lecturer."

From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996. He was a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004, during which time he taught three courses per year. Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors, although not full-time or tenure-track. The title of Senior Lecturer is distinct from the title of Lecturer, which signifies adjunct status. Like Obama, each of the Law School's Senior Lecturers has high-demand careers in politics or public service, which prevent full-time teaching. Several times during his 12 years as a professor in the Law School, Obama was invited to join the faculty in a full-time tenure-track position, but he declined.

Media Inquiries | University of Chicago Law School

 

[kwc57]

Well come on. Obama was teaching constitutional law at the university level for 10 years. He probably knows more about the constitution than any Republican alive. I don't see him putting a bill out there he knows is unconstitutional.

And yet he did. Go figure.

 

[rdean]

Well come on. Obama was teaching constitutional law at the university level for 10 years. He probably knows more about the constitution than any Republican alive. I don't see him putting a bill out there he knows is unconstitutional.

He did, obamacare. Obamaturd might know the constitution, he just is against it, socialists are that way.

American first, except when it comes to Americans helping Americans. We call that socialism. Better they die? Cause that's the "Republican way".

 

[bripat9643]

Well come on. Obama was teaching constitutional law at the university level for 10 years. He probably knows more about the constitution than any Republican alive. I don't see him putting a bill out there he knows is unconstitutional.

Obama may know the Constitution, but he despises it.

 

[bripat9643]

American first, except when it comes to Americans helping Americans. We call that socialism. Better they die? Cause that's the "Republican way".

When the government is "helping Americans" (ie, writing them checks), that is socialism. What's your definition of socialism, Americans helping Italians?

 

[kiwiman127]

One election does NOT a mandate make.

I'm pretty pleased with the elections this time around but I don't think it means the battle is over.

Not remotely over, really.

At this stage of the game, I don't think any party has any kind of mandate. There's all kinds of "buyer's remorse" going on in regards to both parties (plus the Tea Party) as they all suck. With the mood of the country and the awareness of this country's political environment, it's going to be really an interesting election in 2012.

 

[rdean]

American first, except when it comes to Americans helping Americans. We call that socialism. Better they die? Cause that's the "Republican way".

When the government is "helping Americans" (ie, writing them checks), that is socialism. What's your definition of socialism, Americans helping Italians?

You mean like disaster relief?