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I’ll meet you at the barricades.

Author ID: 7425 | 8/7/2006 10:27 PM CST | #68205 |

YeeHah!  Mr. DuToit!  If it comes to it, I’m sure they’ll be plenty of Federalist Lawyers willing to help out.

Author ID: 8518 | 8/7/2006 11:33 PM CST | #68208 |

Where’s Simon Jester when you really need him?

Author ID: 8371 | 8/7/2006 11:43 PM CST | #68209 |

I’m still very sorry that people think the Supreme Court is authorized to review laws at all. I know, they’ve been doing it for more than 200 years. Doesn’t mean they’re allowed to.

They should be arrested by federal marshals and hanged for it. It’s a crime called sedition. Letting those political hacks decide what is and is not a power of any level of government is one reason why we’re in the fix we’re in. Because people don’t take the personal responsibility to remove the politicians who are guilty of passing those evil laws.

Author ID: 8165 | 8/8/2006 12:11 AM CST | #68211 |

I was hoping for something like this! I should have known it would start here.

You are an American hero, sir!

John

Author ID: 167 | 8/8/2006 05:32 AM CST | #68214 |

I pledge $200 to cover the legal costs for one of my senators, if they will give McCain a Texas style beat down on the Senate floor.  I’ll even let them borrow my Garand for the task.  If the Honorable Representative from TX-1 will do the deed, I’ll give him $300.  $100 bonus if they beat him will a rolled up copy of the Constitution.

Author ID: 798 | 8/8/2006 06:06 AM CST | #68215 |

I’m in.

Author ID: 7657 | 8/8/2006 06:26 AM CST | #68216 |

Dear Honorable Sen. McCain,

Kiss my ass, and take your act back to the Vietnam camps where they programmed you to be a Manchurian candidate.  I’d rather have free speech than your idea of a clean government.

A freedom-loving American.

Author ID: 1257 | 8/8/2006 06:44 AM CST | #68219 |

Kim - Talley Ho!!!

Author ID: 8266 | 8/8/2006 06:52 AM CST | #68220 |

I’d like a couple of bumper stickers!

Author ID: 2187 | 8/8/2006 07:03 AM CST | #68221 |

Now that’s what I call crossing the isle for a good cause. Doing it the right way, so to speak.

Some of you D.U. tormentors would do well to post a link and show that when it comes to constitutional freedoms, there is no room for political partisanship. Perhaps starting with this issue, we can get the ball rolling in the right direction on more issues.

I salute you again Kim. Given enough warning I’ll jump into the breach with you. Alternately, if you should, at some point, require refuge, you know how to get ahold of me.

Author ID: 186 | 8/8/2006 07:14 AM CST | #68222 |

Refuge? Refuge? From what?

Thankee for the offer, Brother Rope, but I’m not going to hide anywhere on this issue. Not ever.

Line in the sand.

Author ID: 1 | 8/8/2006 07:27 AM CST | #68223 |

I’m no particular fan of Luther (sorry) , but… ich kann nicht anders.

Author ID: 1448 | 8/8/2006 08:29 AM CST | #68225 |

Wearing this most excellent banner proudly at my site:

Provoking the Muse

Author ID: 5891 | 8/8/2006 10:34 AM CST | #68234 |

I’m with you Kim, I’ll put this logo on my blog too.

Author ID: 8571 | 8/8/2006 11:11 AM CST | #68235 |

Mark Twain (I believe) said that the Senators do not know whether to answer “here,” or “guilty” (or was that Theodore Roosevelt?).
Nevertheless, I have noticed that it is those least deserving of respect who insist on it the most, to wit the use of additional honorifics by our Senators and Congressmen in addressing one another. Leave it to such a crooked bunch to pass such an incumbent protection act as McCain/Feingold (and leave it to the “independent judiciary” to affirm such an unconstitutional law).

Political speech is supposed to be afforded the most protection and least restriction of any speech, particularly when compared with commercial speech. But, what can we expect when nude dancing at strip clubs is protected as free speech and demonstrating outside abortion clinics is prohibited. I regret that I have not (yet) been able to ask one of my Liberal Rubbish family members why, given that, they are then surprised that demonstrating outside the Republican National Convention is restricted.

Paying money to a political candidate is a form of political speech, and while I can understand the fear that rich people would take over the government if contributions were unrestricted, the solution is not restrictions but full disclosure.

Author ID: 2303 | 8/8/2006 12:09 PM CST | #68240 |

Way to Kim, bumper stickers in deed, just watched the Mac ain pain with my daughter 117year old military bound, what hapened to John when he came home? by the stopped on way home voted, not for John wrong state or any like him freedom train pulling out of the station, I told teh manager at work sometime back I qould pitch in to send some of these folks anywhere they want to go but DC France Spain Mos ??? well GO KIM GO

Author ID: 7107 | 8/8/2006 12:13 PM CST | #68241 |

RIGHT ON KIM!
But you need to tell us your true feelings and not hold back, haha

In our office we have an expression - Do not try to aply logic to anything from a liberal, either politician or press, you will just get more confused.
Traveler

Author ID: 8277 | 8/8/2006 02:23 PM CST | #68243 |

Ryan Sager is right; McCain-Feingold is a cancer upon the Constitution.  The Supreme Court will have to remove it.

Author ID: 2303 | 8/8/2006 03:51 PM CST | #68245 |

BTW, up here in WA, our primaries are in September.  Put together the 30 days before the primary and 60 days before the general-because the primary is usually within 60 days of the general-and that’s pretty much 90 straight days when candidates, especially incumbents, are free of free speech.

Author ID: 7021 | 8/8/2006 08:04 PM CST | #68247 |

You can add Traction Control to that list.

Author ID: 7146 | 8/9/2006 10:53 AM CST | #68284 |

Windy Wilson,

The supreme court (hurka hurka) has nothing to do with this. Our Constitution states that if any law is passed which is directly in conflict with said Constitution, it is automatically invalid and ignored.

Author ID: 8571 | 8/9/2006 01:29 PM CST | #68297 |

Any elected or appointed official who supported, promoted or voted for that bill has violated their oath of office, and is guilty of treason!
To willingly obey such a law is also treason!
Rope, Tree, Politician/Bureaucrat---some assembly required!!!

Author ID: 7964 | 8/9/2006 02:00 PM CST | #68302 |

The good senator came to visit me at walter reed.  After introducing me to Bob Schieffer (I’d have preferred Claudia Schiffer) whom he’d apparently brought along for his “celebrity"status, the malignant arizonan troll spouted (and this is a Direct Quote):

“Well, we all know what we’re here for; lets get the photo op.”

Then Bob gave me a signed copy of his book, “This just in, what I couldn’t tell you on TV.”

He dedicated it, and even managed to spell my name wrong.  Not my last name, which was plastered on me, the door, the bed, all the usual places, but my first name.  Which, by the way was plastered on me, the door, the bed, all the usual places.  I’d have understood his misunderstanding of my name, I was pretty banged up, my eardrums were burst, and I tend to mumble.  But he could’ve asked my Wife or Mom, they were also in the room.  Alas, Bob scribbled something unintelligible in the jacket, he and the dwarf left the room, and I just rolled my eyes, hit the pain button, and went back to sleep.

I re-gifted the book at a neighborhood white-elephant gift exchange last Christmas.  It was traded three times, and I received a package of edible underwear. 

I’m glad I was able to trade up to something that made more sense to have, and was something I wouldn’t mind guests seeing on my coffee table.

Chuck

(Now we need one for Murtha)

Author ID: 7769 | 8/9/2006 02:12 PM CST | #68304 |

And Yes, add me to the list of supporters.

Chuck

From My Position… On the way!

Author ID: 7769 | 8/9/2006 02:18 PM CST | #68305 |

Hear hear!

My blog is dead, but I may try to bring it back to life just for this.

Author ID: 589 | 8/9/2006 02:26 PM CST | #68307 |

I also pledge a Franklin to the KDTLDF (You-Know-Who Legal Defense Fund) should it be needed.  I don’t give a fig if I need to refinance the house to make it happen.

Someone mentioned bumper stickers. . . has anyone submitted those “Screw McCain Feingold” graphs to Cafepress or any similar group?

Author ID: 8170 | 8/9/2006 10:18 PM CST | #68326 |

So what, exactly, is the date McC-F goes into force?

That’s the date my blog opens… or just before it.

Author ID: 1913 | 8/10/2006 01:24 AM CST | #68327 |

Thank you sooooo much for this post and for the great graphics for it. I have posted about this now at my blog and put one of your graphic’s there as well. Again thank you for all you do. Love your blog.

Author ID: 8583 | 8/10/2006 09:19 AM CST | #68351 |

That’s one of the things I hate about LiveJournal.  They haven’t enabled blog ads or other sidebar graphics. Bah.
I need to move my lazy butt off of there.

I’m with you in spirit, however.  *McLame/Foolsgold is an outrage, only slightly behind the eminent domain travesty, in my book.

*to quote The Great One™, Mark Levin

Author ID: 1876 | 8/10/2006 01:45 PM CST | #68360 |

American Truth Spoken stands with you… These Democommunists will not be tolerated, and we will not be silenced!

Author ID: 8585 | 8/10/2006 06:10 PM CST | #68363 |

Unfortunately, McCain is a Republican…

...in name only of course.

Author ID: 2 | 8/10/2006 07:44 PM CST | #68365 |

I realize I’m going a bit off-thread here, but this is the stuff that leaves me a bit unsettled when I think of 2008 (the part in bold, that is).
“Seven years after leaving Congress, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has again become a high-profile figure among conservatives as he considers a run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008.  A recent Gallup Poll placed Mr. Gingrich third in a field of Republicans who are viewed as potential presidential candidates. Although Sen. John McCain of Arizona and former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani placed first and second in the poll, they are considered too moderate by many of the party’s base to secure the nomination.”
- Washington Times, 8/7/06

I hope that last part is true, or we may actually be faced with the nightmare decision that Kim pondered last December.

Author ID: 1876 | 8/10/2006 08:42 PM CST | #68367 |

Nobody answered the “cafepress” question yet. OOOOOOOOHHHHH, I feel a tirade coming on. I do really like the treason idea on them, though. RINO hunting sounds like a lovely days sport!

Author ID: 6430 | 8/11/2006 07:39 AM CST | #68394 |

Mr. du Toit,

Here you call yourself an intellectual; yet you don’t understand what all correct-thinking intellectuals do: that quaint little amendment thingy was written to protect pornography and rap music and performance art. It was never intended to cover silly, trivial things like, ya know, political opinions. The Founders went to war for porn, don’t ya know?

And you got another part of that quaint little amendment thingy wrong: it’s not “the press”; it’s “The Press”. The Founders didn’t want to give rights to just anyone, ya know, only to a self-selected Media Elite. That’s why McCain-Feingold exempts the Media Elite, don’t ya know: they’re supposed to speak, and we’re supposed to listen. Speaking our own minds, well, that’s just not allowed.

(Taking my tongue out of my cheek: my blog gets a trivial amount of traffic, and I don’t have ads. But I’m going to add them for this. And I won’t discriminate. Red or blue, agree with me or not, I’ll place any ad for any candidate who will accept this condition: “By asking to place my ad on this site, I am declaring that the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act unconstitutionally infringes on the free speech of individuals and groups, and that I shall support any measure to repeal it or to declare it unconstitutional.")

Author ID: 8587 | 8/11/2006 08:53 AM CST | #68400 |

Regarding bumper stickers:  Few people actually buy them.  We’ve not sold a single NoR item on Cafe Press.  You can buy bumper sticker paper from Office Depot and print yourself.

I doubt the wisdom of it anyway.  The point is to put the banner where information is disseminated.  Your car isn’t a newspaper or a blog.

But if you think there would be a market for it, have at it (with our blessings).

Author ID: 2 | 8/11/2006 10:19 AM CST | #68411 |

Dear TS:

Thanks for the Okey-doke to make my own stickers.  I’ve been meaning to upgrade to a photo-capable printer anyway.

And since I drive over 1500 miles a week for work (and since I regard speed limits as helpful hints instead of hard and fast laws), there will be plenty of people who will get a chance to see my bumper. 


Author ID: 8170 | 8/13/2006 10:14 AM CST | #68505 |

I can’t figure out how to set a trackback on this ... sigh…

Author ID: 1913 | 8/13/2006 05:16 PM CST | #68509 |

I’m late, but I’m in.

And don’t forget for a minute that the whole thing was a fraud from the beginning, perpetrated by left-wing foundations.

Author ID: 188 | 8/14/2006 07:44 PM CST | #68609 |

Drav,

We’re not too good with the trackback thing ourselves, which is why we normally have them turned off.

If you right click on the Trackback URL thingie on the bottom of this page (below the post, near the permalink egg, you can copy the trackback URL and then paste it in whatever blog software you are using as the “ping” for that post.

Author ID: 2 | 8/14/2006 11:42 PM CST | #68619 |

uhh… still figuring out the blog software. my HTML editing knowledge ends at about the same time CSS started.

Author ID: 1913 | 8/15/2006 12:12 AM CST | #68620 |

I like the part about McCain being brain washed and becoming our own Manchurian Candidate. I don’t know how he can call himself a Republican when he is way far left of Hollywood! I am a retired cop of 25 years and never, ever believed in any sort of gun control. My Mom was a young French teenager during WW2 in France when the SS came around and took all the firearms away from the citizens. They knew who had them because of a master list kept by the French Govt. The only firearms allowed without registration were shotguns, but these were also taken away, leaving only pitchforks, and spades which my uncle used a few times on stupid and unsuspecting Krauts.

Author ID: 8316 | 8/20/2006 09:26 PM CST | #69034 |

Yeah, Right

August 8, 2006
6:15 AM CST

Ryan Sager at RealClearPolitics reminds us of this un-Constitutional atrocity:

When Congress comes back into session, roughly 60 days before the November midterms, it will essentially be immune from criticism. That’s because Congress—acting, of course, only in the interest of “clean” politics—passed a ban on ads that mention federal candidates’ names in the window 60 days before the general election, as part of McCain-Feingold in 2002.

So, say the Senate takes up an immigration bill granting full amnesty to all illegal immigrants this fall—it will be almost impossible for grassroots groups to advertise against it, because they won’t be able to run ads during this period naming the people who are sponsoring or voting on the bills. Criticizing them by name during this window is against the law. You can’t ask voters to “call Congressman [So-and-So].”

Wanna bet?

Here’s my promise: If a conservative organization wants to run a political ad criticizing any Congressman up for re-election during that 60-day window, I’ll let them run one on this website, for free, right up until Election Day.

And if Congress or for that matter law enforcement think that I’m going to refrain from criticizing an elected or wannabe-elected official, ever, they’re sadly mistaken.

In fact, considering that that little prick John McCain is up for re-election this November, I’m going to make a point of criticizing him, as often as I can find a reason to—and trust me, there are any number of reasons to go after the Senator from Media. [I forgot, it’s Kyl who’s up for re-election, not McCain. Too bad. I’m still going to say ugly things about him whenever I can, though. Thankee to the folks who corrected me.]

Here’s one example, from Tom Bevan (also at RCP):

When McCain starts opining on what a success his bill (McCain-Feingold) has been and ranting against the Federal Communication Commission’s unwillingness to close more “loopholes,” the room gets quiet and tense, as if the senior senator from Arizona has just taken out a copy of the Constitution, laid it on the floor and begun jumping up and down on the First Amendment.

Yeah, that’s because he’s done just that, the turd.

Needless to say, as RCP also points out:

In a stab at remedying this, the FEC will consider an “interim final rule” later this month to loosen the noose on grassroots advocacy.

I don’t care if the FEC passes water, let alone an “interim final rule”—I’m going to say what I want to say, and that’s the beginning and the end of it.

Just so we know precisely why I feel so strongly about this, here’s the reminder:

Amendment I.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

And a final note to Ryan Sager, who concludes:

It’s nice to see the FEC trying to do something. But McCain’s law is a cancer that the Supreme Court is going to have to remove.

The Supreme Court already had their chance, and didn’t remove it. But I don’t need the Supremes to come to my rescue, because their opinion on this matter is about as relevant as a fire hydrant’s opinion of dogs.

I know the supreme law, and Congress has broken it. Screw them, and the Supreme Court, and the President, for signing it into law in the first place.

Screw them all. I’m going to say what I want to say, and if they don’t like it, they can all go to hell.

If any other bloggers out there want to join me in this act of civil disobedience, that would be grand. If not, they too can go to hell.

Enough is enough.

And if you want to join me, freel free to have at the graphics.

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