obama runs a bananna republic

[BANHAMMERED!]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/23/sen-kit-bond-obama-is-bui_n_190642.html

"I just want to make sure before i let you go that you mean to be comparing the obama administration with a banana republic?"

haha thats not racist.

"I am saying that those who want to have public hearings and show trials in the United States Congress... would be following tactics that are more appropriate for a banana republic," replied Bond. "I don't think the Obama administration wants to say the next time the Republicans get in control they will have show hearing-trials and try to institute criminal prosecutions against people who carried out orders of the Obama administration."

[Halolauren]

Its another retarded attempt to direct focus on the last administration instead of fixing the problems we have now.

[Old fart Toby]

One of the weaknesses of Constitutional law is the executive branch (with some limitations and some congressional oversight) and the legislature is allowed to craft policy and law in the US code at will and the ultimate test of legality has to be done by the judicial system. By using legal counsel before issuing policy, the executive and legislative actors are doing due diligence on examination of policy within the context of current law and precedent. This due diligence is what covers their ass from prosecution when the law gets tested by the judiciary. Lawyers simply don't go to jail for incompetence, they can get disbarred for it though, case in point, Clinton's disbarment.

Obama knows this better than most and knows that while judicial investigation would gain his party significant political advantage, short of disbarring the incompetent legal counsel (including the appellate judge), nothing can be gained from this. It will destabilize transitions of political factions in the same way that executive confirmations have become. Because of the difficulty in faction transitions, the most effective administrations are those that have a big majority. Big majorities are not good democracy. Big factional majorities tend to gravitate towards reactionary and radical poles of political change models and are usually bad news for the citizen who has to absorb the large alterations in law.

In short: we don't want to add "prosecution wars" to "confirmation wars" when we move from blue to red to blue. It destabilizes the system when we already only spend 2 years of a 4 year term taking any policy risk in the first place.

When a politician fails to defend the Constitution in accordance with their oath of office, that does not bring with it a legal liability of prosecution. If that was so, it would be impossible to change the law.

[William]

Obama is trying to run a banana republic. I pity the man.

[Halolauren]

At least it's not a Gap.

[William]

big GAP, have v have-not

[Halolauren]

You do realize you're manic right now?

[William]

I'm having a little fun with you. No mania.

[Halolauren]

And the necroposting in 20 threads is what?

[William]

You demonizing one of the main functions of a forum to score a cheap shot? Adding to interesting topics? Examining a few things with a little hindsight? All of the above?

[Halolauren]

Will - "Necroposting is one of the main functions of a forum"

[Celestial Beard]

I like it when people don't know where the term "banana republic" originated

[William]

Lauren, what you and other webtards call "necroposting" is essentially just an update of an open thread, hence the word thread. One of the main functions of a forum is to log ongoing discussions that don't need to be tended to in real time. 1 week, 1 month, 1 year later...who cares?  That's what they're there for.

[dunkinbean]

also let your name be an emancipation from the confines of what othhahahahahsdhahahahahahahahahahahahhaha

[BANHAMMERED!]

I like it when people don't know where the term "banana republic" originated

Banana Republic is a popular American-based clothing chain that has been in existence since 1978. Banana Republic was founded by a couple by the name of Patricia and Mel Zeigler.


IDIOT

[Halolauren]

You're on the Web, Tard.  Webtards rule here.

I called you out for topping a ton of threads directly after you got TOLD in two threads you and I were discussing in.

you have the right to necropost, but you had better STOP EDITING MY REPLIES.

[William]

i got told something that was flatly untrue. you got told your statements were idiotic and they remain so. besides being a pointless shill the more i look around here the more i think krono was right when he called you barely literate.

but if you must know i was searching my own post history and came across a bunch of unread stuff that was on the second page of this board. shit got topped. not my problem if you're embarrassed by what they expose.

now if you don't want your posts to get "edited by lauren"'d don't make a habit of posting huge pictures when you're too dim to use your big girl words.

[Halolauren]

Remember the above post the next time you accuse anyone of revising history because you just did it.

And don't make me force the removal of your moderator status by exercising my freedom of speech.  Edit one more post and see what happens.

[William]

tough talk, kiddoooo. your powers of intimidation are about the same as vac-packed bologna. we both have our proxies, and uhhh i'll leave the revisionism to you and other terrible, opportunistic people who's hobbies include running our republic into the ground.

[William]

deleting a spam photo =/= revisionism. not even close.

[Halolauren]

What about deleting necroposts?

I'm against that as well.  Just calling you out on 'em, as is my right, and I'll continue to.  I'll also note you haven't edited any more posts.

Keep necroposting and I'll keep derailing, as I have successfully here.

[William]

Why would I edit any more posts? The image was glaring and annoying. And juvenile. But I'm not a censor.

And you should stop using the newly fashionable term "necroposting", it sounds like something a goth kid who sits home on Friday nights after going to the mall would say while browsing his forum of choice.

Between that and taking pride in "derailing" a dead topic on the internet it's a wonder you were allowed to get a driver's license.

[Halolauren]

You ARE a censor.  The fact that you're annoyed by something doesn't make it okay to censor.  Be a little more principled.

And I don't intend to stop using the term necroposting because it is expedient and because it gets to you and therefore discourages the practice.  See why we don't need laws to enforce social taboos?

[William]

It doesn't get to me to the extent that I will continue the practice unabated. It gets to me that you relish in the term, and the mere idea that it annoys me, like a giddy little schoolgirl who takes pleasure in pissing off other people. Again, driver's license. it's a small wonder.

[Halolauren]

I derail threads so I should not have a drivers license.  Good logic.

[Rocketlex]

A train-engineer's license I could understand.

[Christian]

Let's not get off track here.

[Halolauren]

i almost skullfucked a moose Lex/X

[Celestial Beard]

synergy with this thread now achieved