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Thursday, January 7, 2016

Obama Was Born In The U.S.; Ted Cruz Was Born In Canada Of A Cuban Parent. GOP Unfazed

Republican presidential candidate, Pat Buchanan, the living American who has served longest as a White House senior staff adviser, observed: “The Republican philosophy might be summarized thus: To hell with principle; what matters is power, and that we have it, and that they do not.” 
“Where the Right Went Wrong" 

Alan: The nearly complete absence of Republican interest in Ted Cruz's foreign birthplace -- contrasted with tooth-and-nail "birther" attacks on Obama who was (in fact) born in the United States -- reveals American conservatism's knee-jerk willingness to promote any trumped-up falsehood for purposes of political advantage. I do not refer to partisan "spin" but to whole-cloth lies told brazenly and without surcease. Conservatives' are committed to the Prince of Darkness, that Archfiend who is properly defined as The Quintessential Liar.


The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Stupid People Don't Know They're Stupid 
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-dunning-kruger-effect-stupid-dont.html

Thomas Jefferson On The Persistent Inclination To Vilify Virtue

The Daily Show Interviews Republican Official Who Spills Beans On Deliberate Voter Suppression 
Masquerading As Prevention Of Voter Fraud
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/jon-stewart-asif-mandvi-investigates.html


Machiavelli And The Chief Insight Of American Conservatives

The Singularly Slimy Way Conservatives Lie.... Just To Moan, Piss, Whine, Bitch

Constitutional Scholars Explain Why Ted Cruz Is Eligible to Be President

Donald Trump says questions about whether Ted Cruz is eligible to be President of the United States could become a “big problem” for the Canadian-born Republican candidate. But among legal scholars, there’s a consensus: He’s eligible to occupy the Oval Office.
The Texas senator, who was born in Calgary, Canada, to an American mother, has been widely viewed as meeting the “natural born citizen” requirement of the United States Constitution. And most legal experts agree -- including former Solicitors General Neal Katyal and Paul Clement.
“An individual born to a U.S. citizen parent -- whether in California or Canada or the Canal Zone -- is a U.S. citizen from birth and is fully eligible to serve as President,” the bipartisan duo wrote in a Harvard Law Review article in March 2015. Trump first raised this question of President Obama in 2008, saying that the future president, who was born in Hawaii, may not be eligible.
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Laurence Tribe, a professor at Harvard Law School, told ABC News that Trump's alternative definition would mean that only citizens born in the United States would be eligible.
“My own view as a constitutional scholar is that the better view -- the one most consistent with the entire Constitution -- is the broader definition, according to which Cruz would be eligible,” he said, including anyone who is a U.S. citizen at birth and doesn’t need to be naturalized.
Burt Neuborne, a professor at New York University Law School, agreed: “It seems to me that his citizenship is just as good as Donald Trump’s citizenship.”
Facing questions about his nationality before he announced his candidacy for president, Cruz took the unusual step in June 2014 of formally renouncing his Canadian citizenship. Cruz said today on the campaign trail that the question is “settled law.” But most scholars agree that the question has not yet been officially resolved.
“I think there’s a scholarly consensus, but it’s not a done deal,” said Sarah Helene Duggin, a professor at the Catholic University of America, adding that experts aren't unanimous on the issue. “I don’t think it’s open and shut at all.”
Tribe, who also taught constitutional law to Cruz and Obama at Harvard, concurred. “I don’t agree that it’s ‘settled law,’” he told ABC News. “The Supreme Court has never addressed the issue one way or the other, as I believe Ted ought to know.”
Trump also says that the question could prompt a long, drawn-out battle in the courts that could spell problems for the Republican Party. But Neuborne disagrees.
“You’re putting the presidency in play in some way in a world in which the American president is the anchor,” Neuborne said. “When that is threatened, the American judiciary moves immediately and fast.”
When good Christians join forces, 
what can possibly go wrong?

Devout Christian, Blaise Pascal


"Do Republicans Do Anything But Piss, Moan, Whine, Bitch?
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/11/do-republicans-only-piss-moan-whine.html

Conservative Norm Ornstein: The Media Ignore Republican Lunacy

Conservative Norm Ornstein and Liberal Thomas Mann
"Let's Just Say It. The Republicans Are The Problem"

"Congressional Republicans Couple Unabashed Prostitution With Flabbergasting Stupidity"

"The Republican Party Is A Satanic Cult"

Donald Trump: The Paranoid Style In American Politics And The Ongoing Festival Of Hatred



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