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The job is running the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
The position was created by that sneaky liberal President Reagan.
The nominee was labelled by the loyal opposition as conservative, and welcomed.
The Wall Street Journal practically gushed with pleasure and praise.
Chambliss and Cornyn place a hold on the process because of HIS VIEWS ON HUNTING?
Cantor is mistaken, of course. The czars are more accountable to congress than most White House staff: witness how Congress is preventing his taking the job.
The issue is not the nominee, his qualifications, or his performance. The issue is a group in Congress that are behaving like the People's Republic of China - drag out negotiations for as long as possible using false, improper and misleading language to obscure their actual agenda.
The first post that whines 'The Democrats did the same thing!' wins the booby prize.
Sneaky radicals.....next up, Obama Admin refuses to put Humpty Dumpty back together again.
Don't you remember?
If your not old enough to remember than its probably best you not to speak on that which
you know nothing about.
But the kinds of regulation that would respond to my concerns [about deliberative democracy], they're not really feasible and they probably wouldn't help. Most problems are best solved privately, not through government. There's a problem of discourtesy in the world, which is best handled through social norms, which are indispensable. But you wouldn't want the government to be mandating courtesy. - Cass Sunstein
He made be a good choice for Regulation Czar.
The last President screwed up
The last President was a goof in my opinion
I could go on and on.
PLEASE ANSWER ME THIS?
At what point does the Current President actually have to take responsibility for his actions and that of His administration?
Its either the race card or the Last President that is ALWAYS thrown in, in lack of anything intelligent and factual to offer to the conversation.
"A legislative effort to regulate broadcasting in the interest of democratic principles should
not be seen as an abridgment of the free speech guarantee."
--Cass R. Sunstein, Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech, The Free Press,
1995, p. 92
This quote is just one of many on the subject. And then there,s this interesting comment.
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"My major aim in this book is to uncover an important but neglected part of America’s heritage: the idea of a second bill of rights. In brief, the second bill attempts to protect both opportunity and security, by creating rights to employment, adequate food and clothing, decent shelter, education, recreation, and medical care."
-- Cass R. Sunstein, The Second Bill of Rights: FDR’s Unfinished Revolution and
Why We Need it More Than Ever, Basic Books, New York, 2004, p. 1
I mean, reall? That's all you got on him?
Your "outrage" is a little weak, considering what your GOP was busy doing when they ran the 109th Congress, but sure this isn't about how much you just hate Dems. Suuurrreee.
OF RIGHTS?
This website tells it all ! -LOL
http://www.bermanexposed.org/
Martosko's a CROCK and Deceitful master of the trade as evident by pretending to post as me - Thanks you showed us a great example of your tactics - LOL
More specifically, the abolishment of gun rights. The Tribune literally published an editorial calling for the complete removal of the Second Amendment from the Constitution in 2008.
Sunstein has been used at least three times in my memory to backstop that position. Advocating for the "collective rights" argument is the least of it, although Sunstein has taken that failed position many a time.
Unfortunately, the Tribune's financial distress has apparently made much of its archive unavailable to ordinary readers and I can't bring links to the Sunstein articles insisting the central government has the authority to ban the private ownership of guns and should do so.
Perhaps someone in the trade can locate them, although the Tribune has cleansed many an article from the public archives that might seem unsavory now, such as many of the front-page hit piece articles on US Senatorial candidate Jack Ryan in 2004.
From the op/ed, and the crux of his argument:
If the founders had limited themselves to the final 14 words, the amendment would have been an unambiguous declaration of the right to possess firearms. But they didn’t, and it isn’t. The amendment was intended to protect the authority of the states to organize militias. The inartful wording has left the amendment open to public debate for more than 200 years. But in its last major decision on gun rights, in 1939, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously found that that was the correct interpretation.
On Tuesday, five members of the court edited the 2nd Amendment. In essence, they said: Scratch the preamble, only 14 words count.
In doing so, they have curtailed the power of the legislatures and the city councils to protect their citizens.
If you consider the men who wrote the document, the time period, and the circumstances of the documents. These men had just come out of a Revolutionary War.
I do not believe that the amendment was ONLY intended to protect the authority of the states to organize militias.
Try reading Thomas Jefferson and his reference to what he says will happen
" When you beat your swords into plough shares".....
Then who cares what radical and nonsensical views a presidential troll has. If he/she screws up, the great legal system filled with liberal tort lawyers will have a feast.
That and any intelligent parent with common sense should NEVER, EVER send a child to Harvard. What a joke. And you pay big bucks for THIS?
Despite what you believe I have seen people on here with concerns(right or wrong) and instead of having a adult exchange of ideas and thoughts everyone is resorting to name calling and insults. Name calling hurts no one but you because not being able to hold an intelligent and adult conversation only hurts you.
Is there No one on here with intelligence on here to actually discuss an issue; or is it all going to be childish name calling?
If Obama can appoint good people like Sunstein to offset the damage done by 8 horrific years of the wing-nut Bush Administration catering to industry lobbyists, and regulate business to change its abusive ways to animals as well as humans, then more power to him — maybe there’s hope for us all yet! We need more honest, intelligent, kind, and rational - people in government. Three cheers for Sunstein!
You can read about their front groups and here:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Davi...
They are notorious for tricking people with their subversive practices.
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/p...
Anything written by this group is a ploy to trick people and brand their big business agenda, especially ANYTHING having to do with animals since their funding comes from using animals for profit.
CCF has received funding from the Altria Group (formerly Philip Morris), Tyson Foods, Coca Cola and Monsanto. Tyson is also a major supplier of restaurant chains, including Kentucky Fried Chicken [3] and McDonalds. [4] Monsanto contracts product toxicity testing on animals out to Huntingdon Life Sciences. [5] All of these corporations, as well as Phillip Morris contract laboratory Covance Laboratories; have been the subject of PETA and/or other animal rights campaigns over animal testing and welfare issues. Over 40% of the group's 2005 expenditure was paid to Rick Berman's PR company, Berman & Co. for management services.
Are you surprised Martosko is anti Cass Sunstein - his lively hood depends on Sunstein's failure!
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rich...
Richard Berman Cares About Animals: Clients Exposed. PetaKillsAnimals.com is a website created in July 2004 by the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF). [1] CCF is a front group for the restaurant, alcohol, tobacco and other industries. Over 40% of the group's 2005 expenditure was paid to Rick Berman's PR company, Berman & Co. for "management services". [2]
Each year, Berman, using his front group (Martosko) to spread misinformation, spends millions of dollars distracting the public with misleading ads.
As a result of his largesse, in 2006, Richard Berman used $2,000,000 in cash to buy this $3.3 million house.
These guys are lobbyists for greed.......
Yeah - that sounds like a breath of fresh (albeit CRAZY) air.
:)
And when your dog files suit against you (with taxpayer dollars) because his walk wasn't long enough for his liking you can tell us about his moderation and sensitivity.....
I have the video in his own words. Not just hype and not just a snipit; the whole thing.......
The Obama administration is the home of jews and blacks. How about a decent, hard working American for once, Hussein?
no prejudice here, huh?
must be a republican.....
I am not a Republican but I totally find that offensive.
Maybe, just maybe IF YOU can call Brock a racists for his comments then he maybe just got his ideas on race from someone just as narrow-minded as you!
Isn't that part of the problem in the US right now?
It seems that Amy has No problem judging a book by the Cover Only.......
You are a racist and dining room table.
One would think that Obama is the first to create the "czar" title -- and that's all it is, a title -- he isn't the first. Actually the "czar" concept originated with Nixon -- re_member the "drug czar." The reason Obama has more czars in his administration than his predecessors (Reagan, Clinton, Bush & Cheney who had czars for almost every conceivable post) is simply due to the many fires left burning from the last administration.
[Newsweek's satirist, Andy Borowitz, wrote in 2007, "the Bush WH needed a lying czar to oversee all distortions and misrepresentations..." ]
So all this hoopla is just noise, more distraction. Nevertheless it is infuriating to see the Republicans spend all their time thinking of ways to bring down Obama. Republicans need to reassess their priorities because if we are to be prepared for future challenges we need solutions, not monkey wrenches.
On a 63-35 vote, the Senate has broken the filibuster against Cass Sunstein, President Obama’s nominee for Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
:)
sorry but wackado ISN'T a word - try either wacky or whacked -
but then let's not digress.......
fringe, baby, fringe......
Look, I can post URLs Too!!
http://www.gallup.com/poll/120815/Republicans-D...
http://www.gallup.com/video/120809/Americans-Pe...
http://www.gallup.com/video/118946/Republican-P...
LOL
One example is that he would prefer that school lunches ban both meat and dairy.
He thinks hunting should be illegal and the 2nd Amendment doesn't allow for citizens to own firearms.
So if these are examples of your belief system then I say rejoice in his nomination. For those of us that disagree I would wonder why raising red flags would be questionable? This guy holds radical beliefs and would be - in effect - the MOST POWERFUL person in Gov't you have never heard of - or for that matter voted for.
Turn OFF FAUX NOISE.....you might learn something
-- Cass R. Sunstein, The Second Bill of Rights: FDR’s Unfinished Revolution and
Why We Need it More Than Ever, Basic Books, New York, 2004, p. 1
Silly me - I don't believe we need a 2nd bill of rights and I certainly disagree with ALL OF HIS INTENTIONS. And last I check I have the right to disagree don't I?
On a 63-35 vote, the Senate has broken the filibuster against Cass Sunstein, President Obama’s nominee for Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
He's as go as gold! Even your wingnuts voted for the guy! :)
fringe, baby, fringe......LOL
after reading all 3 of your post; your response to this person seems a bit hypercritical.
You ask oljw to do research. He obviously did and found facts to support his point and gave you the sources. Instead of having a logical, rational, and adult exchange of thought You only seem to have the ability to call others names....
And this seems to be consistent.......
When they cant dispute facts they resort to name calling.
You know its really bad and they have no argument when they call all white people racists!
Let me give you another example...like Warren Hern:
"...the human species is a rapacious, predatory, ominecophagic species engaged in a global pattern of converting all available plan, animal, organic and inorganic matter into either human biomass or into adaptive adjuncts of human biomass. This is an epiecopathological process that is both immediately and ultimately ecocidal.
In this respect, the human species is an example of a malignant ecotumor, an uncontrolled proliferation of a single species that threatens the existence of other species in their habitats."
First of all, I don't think this person could ever look upon another person without seeing rampaging metastasis. How can a self-loathing vision not create anything other than a warped point of view.
With a point of view like this, I can see nasty policies of all sorts would be seen as favorable. So when people read statements like Hern, Singer, Holdren they hear crackpots that have infested the university systems.
http://www.webster.edu/%7Ecorbetre/philosophy/a...
quick jump off a cliff and save yourself!!
http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/philosophy/ani...
People like you, who can be manipulated by every scaremongering politician are what has ruined this once-great country. Go watch teevee and let the adults fix your messes.
is this the new Repub strategy?
mikamiche100,
Has anyone told you that in english, we group sentences together, to form "paragraphs?' Did you bother to proofread to make sure it was comprehensible, because personally, the clusterfox you present makes about as much sense as Glenn Beck, himself.
Another child, left behind.
Its about time Americans wake up, before Obama destroys our great nation. Obama must be stopped NOW. Today is 9-11. Obama is doing all he can to avoid recognizing this day. Why you ask, Because he hates America