Comments on: Free the president from the bonds of Congress! https://thenewneo.com/2015/04/18/free-the-president-from-the-bonds-of-congress/ A blog about political change, among other things Tue, 21 Apr 2015 20:50:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Bill Wanschura https://thenewneo.com/2015/04/18/free-the-president-from-the-bonds-of-congress/#comment-888223 Tue, 21 Apr 2015 20:50:05 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=48587#comment-888223 I always wondered how a country could vote a leader to be “President-for-Life”, e.g. Chavez in Venezuela, and now I see it being attempted here. I guess people think things would turn out differently here than it has in , say, Zimbabwe. It would turn out exactly the same.

]]> By: David Foster https://thenewneo.com/2015/04/18/free-the-president-from-the-bonds-of-congress/#comment-888020 Mon, 20 Apr 2015 18:45:32 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=48587#comment-888020 I wrote a little song (well, a new set of lyrics for an existing song) about one of Rattner’s sub-czars, Brian Deese.

Ruler of the Auto Industree

]]> By: Molly NH https://thenewneo.com/2015/04/18/free-the-president-from-the-bonds-of-congress/#comment-887802 Sun, 19 Apr 2015 14:02:39 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=48587#comment-887802 your basic hippocrits indeed
I read where eco warrior Leonardo di caprio has
been on a private jet 6 times in 6 weeks.
The 1% have to get where they have to go
Actually living *green* is for the *little people*

]]> By: G6loq https://thenewneo.com/2015/04/18/free-the-president-from-the-bonds-of-congress/#comment-887797 Sun, 19 Apr 2015 13:06:16 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=48587#comment-887797 Democrat, thou are a sanctimonious hypocrites…

Make that pompous, condescending, holier-than-thou, sanctimonious hypocrites …

]]> By: n.n https://thenewneo.com/2015/04/18/free-the-president-from-the-bonds-of-congress/#comment-887747 Sun, 19 Apr 2015 05:46:33 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=48587#comment-887747 Make abortion, not life. Selective exclusion. Too many labels. Toxic Green energy. Human-centric and flat-Earth consensus or political models. Democrat, thou are a sanctimonious hypocrite.

]]> By: n.n https://thenewneo.com/2015/04/18/free-the-president-from-the-bonds-of-congress/#comment-887746 Sun, 19 Apr 2015 05:43:13 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=48587#comment-887746 The biggest Obama benefactors are unidentified and untraceable. Although, there is evidence that they may originate in the Middle East. Perhaps the far Middle East.

]]> By: G6loq https://thenewneo.com/2015/04/18/free-the-president-from-the-bonds-of-congress/#comment-887718 Sun, 19 Apr 2015 02:43:46 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=48587#comment-887718 Soon!

]]> By: Matthew https://thenewneo.com/2015/04/18/free-the-president-from-the-bonds-of-congress/#comment-887708 Sun, 19 Apr 2015 02:11:23 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=48587#comment-887708 Funny, how the Democrats complain about the Koch brothers, but don’t seem to mind Rattner or George Soros.

]]> By: JK Brown https://thenewneo.com/2015/04/18/free-the-president-from-the-bonds-of-congress/#comment-887696 Sun, 19 Apr 2015 00:01:41 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=48587#comment-887696 Have they achieved that which has been impossible for the last 1000 years? Have they undermined the civic culture of the English-speaking peoples that has time and again thrown off the despots and reasserted the ancient liberties and the dominance of the representative body in governing with a law of the land that applies to all from monarchs to society’s lowest? Perhaps we are lost?

I’ve been reading Daniel Hannan’s ‘Inventing Freedom’ and listening to John Robson’s videos on Magna Carta. One thing that has come from it is a completely different view of where our Founders developed their ideas. I having not read specifically before remained in the ignorance that is taught in our school systems for the last 70 or so years. Namely that they read of Athens, etc. That they were students of such and such philosophers. It was always a bit uncomfortable and didn’t really seem to fit with the age of most of the Founders.

Well, the different story that they were just being a bit fundamental on the ancient liberties of the English-speaking people makes more sense. But I wonder why the effort for near the last century by Liberal and Conservative, Democrat/Republican alike to hide the story?

Here is an excerpt from John Fiske’s ‘The American Revolution’ first paragraph. In that paragraph he tells a more logical and compelling story than I’d ever heard on how the first assertion of ancient liberties then break with England came. Why is even the American “history” taught in the 1970s so off?

…the colonial governors were now invariably appointed by the Crown. In most cases they were inclined to take high views regarding the royal prerogative, and in nearly all cases they were unable to understand the political attitude of the colonists, who on the one hand gloried in their connection with England, and on the other hand, precisely because they were Englishmen, were unwilling to yield on any occasion whatsoever one jot or tittle of their ancient liberties. Moreover, through the ubiquity of the popular assemblies and the directness of their control over the administration of public affairs, the political life of America was both really and ostensibly freer than that of England was at that time; and the ancient liberties of Englishmen, if not better preserved, were at least more conspicuously asserted. As a natural consequence, the royal governors were continually trying to do things which the people would not let them do, they were in a chronic state of angry warfare with their assemblies, and they were incessant in their complaints to the Lords of Trade.

“the royal governors” are not elected by us but they still seem bent on undermining the ancient liberties.

]]> By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2015/04/18/free-the-president-from-the-bonds-of-congress/#comment-887689 Sat, 18 Apr 2015 22:58:42 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=48587#comment-887689 President for Life, dictatorship will cure the Bush Syndrome, watch and see.

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