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| Obama blames Founding Fathers' 'structural' design of Congress for gridlock |
| 2014-05-24 |
| The president also blamed "demographics" for the inability of the Democratic Party to gain more power in Congress, saying Democrats "tend to congregate a little more densely" in cities such as New York and Chicago. Much like vermin? He said it gives Republicans disproportional clout in Congress. |
| Posted by:Uninerong Creremble8257 |
| #17 A prof who insisted it wouldn't be missed Fell in with a strict Constitutionalist: "This old tatter," he sneered, "Must be nipped, tucked, and queered." "Well, pilgrim, I hope you're a pugilist!" |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2014-05-24 23:58 |
| #16 The sports metaphor is appropriate. I'll not comment on it's zoological partner. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-05-24 19:45 |
| #15 Unfortunately AP - I think we are the football... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-05-24 19:24 |
| #14 Mean olde Mr. Arithmetic will win in the end. This country has $17x10^12 in debt, assets are a fraction of that, and future unfunded obligations are not even discussed. We are bankrupt, and the piper will be coming to town. In the words of an old Alaskan I knew, not an elegant statement, but it hits the mark: Watching the President and the Congress govern is like watching a bunch of monkeys f**king a football. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2014-05-24 19:21 |
| #13 Hey Dickhead (yeah you Obama), that's why its a rePUBLIC not a democracy. Rights belong to the individual, not the mob. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-05-24 18:51 |
| #12 Came the call: Vivisect constitutions Scrawled out by dead white Lilliputians! ValJar Jar beats law law As macaws tweet histoire To a Gulliver enmeshed in delusions. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2014-05-24 17:02 |
| #11 The Constitutional provision of which Champ complains reflects something that the Founding Fathers were very good at and Champ is completely useless at: forging a compromise on a hotly disputed issue to promote the national interest. It's the difference between serious patriots on the one hand and an empty suit on the other. |
| Posted by: Matt 2014-05-24 16:55 |
| #10 Impeachment is also a feature the founding fathers wanted to provide as well. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2014-05-24 16:40 |
| #9 Politicians like you, Obummer, are what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they wrote it. God, wotta tool. |
| Posted by: Cousin Avi 2014-05-24 13:33 |
| #8 Meh, he's a weak twerp with a good baritone speaking voice. He's a new oddity, a creature of magic thinking the interwebs brought us. There will be more but not so obvious one hopes. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-05-24 13:17 |
| #7 Darth, AMEN !!!! Obama is the most blatant dictator wannabe I've ever seen, and I go back to Truman (though I don't remember him). He is a despicable troll with an evil streak that is only surpassed, thank God, by his incompetent streak. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-05-24 12:21 |
| #6 Oddlt enough, Rate My Professor has no listing for him. But I've read that his students did not receive the teaching they needed toward the bar exam. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-05-24 12:19 |
| #5 Just him saying this out loud shows the tyrant heart beating in his breast. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2014-05-24 12:08 |
| #4 He completely understands the balance of power. He knows its there for a reason. Yet his narcissism gets the best of him in public. He needs to remember he did not win by a landslide. A large portion of Americans do not agree with his communist/socialist agenda. Our constitution was written explicitly so a narcissist like him hound not hijack the greatest nation on earth with an agenda that half of our country does not agree with. I would say, and I'm not expert, that our constitution was designed to work like this and is doing a great job of halting what Obama calls progress. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2014-05-24 12:06 |
| #3 Ladies and gentlemen, the greatest Constitutional Scholar since John Adams. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-05-24 11:56 |
| #2 And this clown taught Constitutional law? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-05-24 11:55 |
| #1 It's a feature, not a bug... |
| Posted by: Raj 2014-05-24 11:39 |