HALF-FULL REPORT 07/06/12

Persistence pays off.  At last, after my bugging him for so long, Jack Abramoff has joined the TTP stable of writers.  It’s not just that he’s been my buddy for 30 years.  It’s that nobody can expose what slimy things crawl around under the rocks of Washington like him.  Now we get to see him expose that slime on a regular basis.

There was a lot of acclaim for his first column (7/04), Why Lobbyists Love John Roberts.  And was he on the money: we learned the next day after Jack’s column (7/05), federalie lawyers have prepared 13,000 pages of new fascist regs for Zerocare, with Zero marshalling an army of IRS agents to enforce Zerocare punishment and fear. K Street is in heaven.

But now there’s a question:  What should we title Jack Abramoff’s column?  Let me hear your ideas.  Meanwhile, welcome to TTP, Jack!

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Who knew H.L. Mencken was French?  He was famous for saying the voters in a democracy should get what they deserve – and should get it good and hard.  That sure is what the French are getting for giving the Socialist Party a monopoly on power.

This week (7/04), Socialist president Francois Hollande announced massive tax increases across the board, billing them as soaking big companies and "the rich."  They included a 75% confiscatory income tax.  Coupling that with a welter of anti-business regulations, such as making it even harder to fire workers who won’t work, the French economy is poised to leap straight off Suicide Cliff.

Just in time, and just as the HFR predicted last April (scroll to near the end):

"What’s important about this is not just that Hollande and Zero promise the same things, but that the French economy is going to collapse into Hell as a consequence — and in time for it to be a sobering reminder to anyone actually thinking about voting for a Zero second term.

"A recent national poll in France showed that 73% of all young people from 15 to 30 want to work for the government.  France is a Moocher Nation.  Americans will have a chance to see what that looks like with Hollande.  It will be very educational."

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Zero, of course, is dedicated to making America a Moocher Nation.  Should he be reelected, he’ll want to declare November 6^th (his reelection day) as a Federal National Holiday to be commemorated as the Anti-July 4^th:  National Dependence Day.

The most blatant, overt, truly incredible example of this is the campaign of Zero’s Agriculture Department to put more people on Food Stamps.  The USDA fascisti even condemn people who "resist" going on food stamp beggardom because of their "pride," ridiculing their "self-reliance."

This is way beyond disgusting.  For me, these USDA food stamp bureaucrats do not deserve the honor of being called American.  We should round them up – after abolishing the entire USDA – and exile them to an island somewhere, like Howland Island. 

As Governor Bobby Jindal says, It’s Not the Declaration of Dependence.  Romney-Jindal 2012!

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Speaking of governors… Gov. Jindal states in his article above that he will not implement Zerocare in Louisiana.  Neither will Gov. Nikki Haley in South Carolina. Neither will Gov. Rick Scott in Florida.  Neither will Gov. Scott Walker in Wisconsin.  Neither will Gov. Terry Branstad in Iowa.  Neither will Gov. Sam Brownback in Kansas.  Neither will Gov. Rick Perry in Texas.

In fact, Fox News reported on Tuesday (7/03) that "at least 18 governors" have either publicly announced they will not implement Zerocare, or are seriously considering it.  If so, this is huge.  If anywhere remotely close to half the governors in America disobey Washington en masse, it will be the best hope of our lives to start recapturing our freedom.

The prospect of a gubernatorial mass rebellion against unconstitutional federal seizure of power prompted prominent economist Walter Williams on the Rush Limbaugh show yesterday (7/05) to call for state nullification of the federal Zerocare law.

Walter cited the Kentucky Resolutions written by Thomas Jefferson in 1798 to make clear that individual states had the right and the duty to declare unconstitutional any acts of Congress not authorized by the Constitution:

"Resolved, That the several States composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but that, by a compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes – delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force."

Folks, this is, as SloJo Biden puts it, a BFD.  This could be the 10^th Amendment State Rebellion we’ve all been hoping for.

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This is State Nullification.  There is another way to nullify a law – by jury.  Juries have the right to judge the law under which a defendant is accused, as well as the facts determining whether the law was broken or not.  The problem is, judges across the country will hold a defense attorney in contempt (with a heavy fine and request for disbarment) if he attempts to inform the jury of this right.

On June 18, New Hampshire Governor Tom Lynch signed HB 146 into law.  It reads:

AN ACT relative to the right of a jury to judge the application of the law in relationship to the facts in controversy.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

243:1 Findings and Intent of the General Court. Under the decisions of both the New Hampshire supreme court and the United States Supreme Court, the jury has the right to judge the facts and the application of the law in relationship to the facts in controversy. The jury system functions at its best when it is fully informed of the jury’s prerogatives. The general court wishes to perpetuate and reiterate the rights of the jury, as ordained under common law and recognized in the American jurisprudence, while preserving the rights of a criminal defendant, as enumerated in part 1, articles 15 and 20, New Hampshire Bill of Rights.

243:2 New Section; Right of Accused; Jury Instruction. Amend RSA 519 by inserting after section 23 the following new section:

519:23-a Right of Accused. In all criminal proceedings the court shall permit the defense to inform the jury of its right to judge the facts and the application of the law in relation to the facts in controversy.

This is another BFD.  It brings up Prohibition.  What do you think got rid of it?  Doing so required passage of the only Amendment (21, passed in 1933) which repealed another (18, passed in 1919).  It was juries in state after state refusing to convict someone for making, selling, or transporting booze.  Juries nullified Prohibition.

Ever since, judges have thrown the book at an attorney in their court who mentions nullification.  They can’t do that anymore in New Hampshire.  This could catch on.  Imagine, for example, if juries refused to convict anyone not paying Zerocare taxes.  Imagine if juries got plain sick and tired of the whole IRS Gestapo.  We might even end up with the repeal of the 16^th Amendment…

HB 146 is a marvelous victory for the Fully Informed Jury Association.  Check out their site for more info.

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Meanwhile, the blowback against Judas John Roberts ruling on Zerocare continues to mount – so much that it’s giving the Pub Congresspussies some fire in their bellies.

Speaker John Boehner pledged yesterday (7/05) that the House will pass a bill to repeal Zerocare, all of it, this month. This will raise many a sardonic smirk, but Hugh Hewitt believes they’ll do it.

I can tell you, these guys are seriously ticked.  Here’s how ticked.  I’m hearing talk among a number of them about impeaching Justice Elena Kagan.  Remember she was Zero’s White House Solicitor General during the whole Zerocare debate and vote in Congress.  She obviously lied under oath to the Senate about her role in its passage.

The guy tapped to test the waters on this is Louie Gohmert (R-TX).  He will be leading an investigation of why she didn’t recuse herself despite repeated calls for her to do so.  If she had, the SCOTUS vote would have been stuck at 4-4. 

Justices can be impeached by Congress just as it can with any government official including the President.  Only one has, and a long time ago, Samuel Chase in 1804 (he was acquitted by the Senate).  If Louie can find the real smoking gun proving she lied under oath, it’s Impeachment City for Kagan.

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Impeachment just takes a simple majority by the House – but it takes a two-thirds majority of the Senate (actually of the Senators present and voting) to convict.  It’s looking good for the Pubs to take the Senate in November, but they’ll get nowhere near a filibuster-proof 60, much less 67. 

The good news for repealing Zerocare is that as the whole things hinges on a tax, it can be voted on in a procedure for budget bills called "reconciliation."  It’s the way the Dems got it passed in the first place, because it doesn’t allow a filibuster requiring 60 votes to cloture (end) it.  A bill under reconciliation rules passes with a simple Senate majority – which the Pubs will have.

Odds for the Pubs to keep the House and take the Senate have gotten better since the Judas John ruling, as evidenced by more and more Dems refusing to endorse Zero and refusing to even show up at his nominating convention in Charlotte at the end of August.

Three of them are from North Carolina, and one represents the 8^th District that includes Charlotte – Larry Kissell.  The other two are Mike McIntyre and Hayden Rogers.  Add to them:

Henry Cuellar of Texas, Nick Rahall of West Virginia, Mark Critz of Pennsylvania, Jim Matheson of Utah, and Stephen Lynch and Richard Neal both of Massachusetts.  Plus Senators Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Jon Tester of Montana, and Joe Manchin of West Virginia.

All of them are running for their political lives, and they’ve decided that means to run far away from Zero.  There will be more.

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Few if any of them will be from California, which becomes more deranged by the day.  Believe it or not, the loony Dems have a bill up, HB 1476, allowing children to be legally granted more than two parents.

This is, of course, a gambit by the homosexual lobby to legalize polygamy, and thus PHM:  Polygamous Homosexual Marriage.  This was predicted back in 2004 in PHM:  The Next Insanity.

Another Dem lunacy making its way through the California legislature is the ludicrously-titled Transparency and Responsibility Using State Tools or TRUST Act, the explicit purpose of which is to create a sanctuary state for illegal aliens.  It’s being called by its sponsors the Anti-Arizona Bill.

And there’s more.  California’s state budget is tens of billions in the hole.  Yet yesterday (7/05), the Dem-controlled Assembly voted to spend $8 billion on the total boondoggle of high-speed rail.

Dear old Barry Goldwater, the conservative icon of the 60s, used to joke about how America would be better off by "sawing off the Eastern Seaboard and let it float out to sea."  We can’t do that for California unless the San Andreas does it for us.  But we do need to recognize that this place is going nuts.

The most important remedy would be for a Pub Congress to refuse to spend one single dime bailing out this crazy state when it comes to DC waving its beggar bowl.  The place is going bankrupt and we should let it.  Being broke and starving might sober Californians up a bit.

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Before we close, the funniest story of the week has got to be about Egypt’s new Islamist leaders passing a fatwa on killing frogs. You’re mistaken, you see, in thinking that frogs croak "knee-deep, knee-deep," or something onomatopoeic.  Nope, turns out there’s a "hadith" (Arabic for "made-up invented fairy tale about Mohammed")  that says frogs are actually chanting "Allah, Allah."

I know Geert Wilders thinks Muzzie goof-balls are a grave threat – but they only are because we don’t laugh at them and tell them to engage in illicit acts with their camels.  It’s only because liberals fear Moslem envy that they have the slightest bit of influence over us.

On a serious note regarding Egypt, wheat prices are skyrocketing due in large part to our Midwestern drought.  Egypt is broke, there main revenue source – tourism – is dead, while the country is the largest wheat importer in the world (in amount not per capita).  You’d think its Muzzie leaders would be focusing on how to prevent mass starvation instead of frog fatwas.

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Hope you’re having a great July 4^th week.  If you need something to read over the weekend, however, here’s a compendium of the most devastating take-downs of Judas John and his "Dred Scott" ruling.  Enjoy.

Judicial Betrayal by Thomas Sowell

The Worst Ruling Since Dred Scott, by Ben Shapiro

Did John Roberts Hollow Out The Supreme Court’s Self-Image? By The PJ Tatler

John Roberts, Chief Sophist by Peter Wehner

Obamacare’s Hideous History, Recounted by Quinn Hillyer

And of course:

A Lie Makes Obamacare Legal by Mark Steyn