Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr: Congress Is in ‘Rebellion’ So Obama Should Go Outside the Constitution
Tyranny gets a backbench cheerleader:
Illinois Democratic Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. told The Daily Caller on Wednesday that congressional opposition to the American Jobs Act is akin to the Confederate “states in rebellion.”
Jackson called for full government employment of the 15 million unemployed and said that Obama should “declare a national emergency” and take “extra-constitutional” action “administratively” — without the approval of Congress — to tackle unemployment.
“I hope the president continues to exercise extraordinary constitutional means, based on the history of Congresses that have been in rebellion in the past,” Jackson said. “He’s looking administratively for ways to advance the causes of the American people, because this Congress is completely dysfunctional.”
“President Obama tends to idealize — and rightfully so — Abraham Lincoln, who looked at states in rebellion and he made a judgment that the government of the United States, while the states are in rebellion, still had an obligation to function,” Jackson told TheDC at his Capitol Hill office on Wednesday.
“On several occasions now, we’ve seen … the Congress is in rebellion, determined, as Abraham Lincoln said, to wreck or ruin at all costs. I believe … in the direct hiring of 15 million unemployed Americans at $40,000 a head, some more than $40,000, some less than $40,000 — that’s a $600 billion stimulus. It could be a five-year program. For another $104 billion, we bailout all of the states … for another $100 billion, we bailout all of the cities,” he said.
All of this is completely insane, but we shouldn’t delude ourselves into thinking it can’t happen. On two occasions, President Obama mused publicly that he would very much like to go around Congress on immigration law. And then he actually did it.
The Obama White House has also signaled that it may once again bypass Congress on the jobs bill.
Many of Obama’s priorities have sputtered and stalled, and the president blames gridlock in Washington for the lack of progress that voters might hold over his head come next November. But the White House has signaled it is willing to use other options such as executive orders, administrative action at the agency level and a review of regulations to implement the president’s wishes without Congress on board.
In recent weeks Obama has exerted his executive authority on issues ranging from education to housing policy to the environment.
That was back in September. And now we have an Obama ally, JJ Jr, egging the president on to declare Congress in “rebellion” for voting down a bill, and urging the president to unilaterally put 15 million Americans on the federal payroll. Never mind that we don’t have the money to do that; once you’ve expanded the federal payroll by that much, you’ve opened those millions up to government union membership, and you’ve permanently altered the American work force. You have probably also guaranteed either a collapse of the economic system, or a more genuine rebellion if you ever try to get those millions off the dole.
All of this is an invitation to real tyranny, and Glenn’s right that Jackson should resign over these remarks. They really don’t have any place in our republic at all.
If the president actually follows Jackson’s advice, impeachment should be on the table.
Update: A commenter wants Rep. Jackson’s contact info. Here ya go. Be CIVIL.
A co-equal branch of the federal government cannot be “in rebellion” against another branch. Why do Dems keep acting as if they think Obama is a “ruler” as opposed to the head of the Executive branch of our government? He has no more right to go outside the Constitution to further his agenda than does Congress or the Supreme Court. Either Jackson is completely ignorant concerning the structure and functions of our government or he is encouraging its destruction by Obama in order to form a dictatorship with himself as one of the favored few in power.
The Progressive mindset is that if they are morally certain and ‘right’ and they are intent on doing ‘good’, then they should have unchecked power to accomplish ‘good’. Anyone who disagrees with them or stands in their way should be silenced or moved aside. Negotiation and compromise are out of the question; either get on board or STFU and get out of the way.
This mentality is exactly what the Founders feared and tried to avoid. The Constitution is designed to confound Progressive methods (actually regressive as it resembles monarchy or dictatorship), and that is why the Progressives detest the Constitution so much.
Jackson is not ignorant of the structure and function of the government, he just sees the Constitution rightly as an obstruction to his preferred problem solving methods and wishes it gone.
Interesting times indeed. Tingles Matthews is all in for a revolution. (see Ace of Spades HQ or the link)
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Anonymous, I disagree that they’re intent on doing “good”. They HAVE an agenda, but there’s NOTHING “good” about it, any more than Hitler’s, Stalin’s, Mao’s or any of the rest of their stripe was setting out on a “good” agenda. Full details can be found under the UN’s Agenda 21, and it’s pure evil. They intend to kill the majority of humanity off, so what we think, feel, etc. is IMMATERIAL to them all. WE are an obstacle to their achievement, nothing more. Jackson KNOWS and doesn’t care that Congress is at least trying to do the job for which they were elected, they’re just as much in the way as the rest of us.
The jackson’s do not believe that the law applies to them.
O would love to take over but ther are two reasons he can’t
1. the military hates him. Who would provide the muscle? The pot smoking lazy worthless sleep to noon occupy my streeters?
2. 75 million armed American citizens
Anybody that suggests something like that should be shot. Those people would be of great help to South Africa and could help them follow the path set out by Zimbabwe.
Because the Left admires the way Hugo Chavez runs Venezuela.
Right- taught well by his daddy- Castro loving Jessie.
“Either Jackson is completely ignorant concerning the structure and functions of our government or he is encouraging its destruction by Obama in order to form a dictatorship”
Either or?
Democrats are both.
You are too kind.
I seem to recall that a one time Chancellor of Germany did exactly the same thing a while ago – and he did get everyone back to work eventually.
Be careful with those comparisons; ESPN is watching and it might not let you watch Monday Night Football anymore.
In the long run (actually not that long – it took only twelve years or so), his policies resulted in the utter destruction of Germany, the country he claimed to love.
The reason we have a Constitution is to keep that from happening by limiting the power of government.
Herman Cain gets it right…
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” This is a quoat from Ronald Regan in 1961. We are already there, look at how much freedom we have lost in the last 50 years.
Everything you say is true, but yours is a rational approach; Jackson’s is the approach of a mental freak.
Unfortunately, his is all too common. That doesn’t bode well for the well being of the nation.
Perhaps the over reaching actions of a counterfeit black illegally certified president has aroused enough traitorous echos among other political opportunists trying to garner minority support for more inherited slave reparations to also get the attention of a now overloaded formerly sympathetic majority. Do wonders never cease with limited bait sparsely divided among incumbents bent on reelection at any cost now exposing themselves to public scrutiny revealing their total lack of patriotic base? Where will they turn when their friendly media becomes their enemy following the consumer dollars of their only support?
Very well said. Obama thinks he’s a “ruler” there is no doubt. Who was it that said “elections have consequences?” Obama is frustrated at the outcome of 2010. If he had played the middle when he had the chance, if he’d focused on unemployment instead of Obamacare, if he’d not put all of his trust in Pelosi and Reid, if he’d brought some independent thinkers into his cabinet instead of the bomb throwers, if he had exhibited personal austerity in times of great lack by eschewing the frequent golf and vacations, if, if, if. If he had done these things he would have become a president. Having done the opposite, he never rose to the level of the office. To be president requires more than winning the electorate. That just gets you into the office. After that, all bets are off.
If we had some meat, we could have a sandwich, if we had some bread.
One and done for the big zero.
Surely you’re not serious! Biggest heist of Executive Power when it perceived that Congress wouldn’t do what corporate donors wanted it to do–pass NAFTA in 1992–was collusion between Bill Clinton (executive) with Republican Newt Gingri8ch (Quisling in Congress). They withdrew NAFTA BEFORE the election that year because of congressional rebellion (afraid to run having voted for NAFTA) saying it would be postponed to next session.
Instead they then brought it up in Lame Duck session after Thanksgiving of that year. When they couldn’t even pass it in the Lame Duck session, they colluded to turn it into an Executive Agreement (only needed 51 votes) and passed it that way.
No different than Obama using EA to get arounde Congressional opposition to a comprehensive immigration bill.
But with NAFTA, you-all (Republicans and your corporate owners) WANTED that so you didn’t mind at all going the Executive Agreement way.
If you and any that agree with your party line bs think that corporations don’t contribute to both party PACs, you’ve missed the boat. History proves otherwise. With media help they’re trying desperately to avoid the emergence of a third party that also will require a sellout for legislated monopoly protection for Wall Street’s inside investors that daily roam and are employed in incumbent’s offices. Both media and party first hacks sing their favorite refrain, the old “wasted vote” bs. The only wasted vote is one cast in hope of some form of reparation from one of the two evils by all subject to indoctrination of a wasted mind.
My comment further down was intended to go right below Black Griffin’s utterly naive (ignorant of history) comment.
Your comment is right below BlackGriffin numbnuts but after all the other direct replies that came in befors yours. Your entitlement mentality does not apply here on this blog. It is “first in first posted” for both comments and replies to comments.
Eggs Ackley !
Perhaps both? We should not permit the election of retarded, ignorant, or emotionally disturbed persons. If they can’t pass Civics 101 they cannot be allowed to run for office. Jackson is a moron and his daddy is a criminal extorter.
U should post congressmens office ### so we can call in let the know how we feel. Any time something like this happen the ### should be posted too
Google is your friend.
1. Google on this: House of Representatives email addresses
This gets you to a Yahoo page: http://dir.yahoo.com/government/u_s__government/legislative_branch/congressional_email_addresses/
2. Click on the list item entitled “Congressional Email Directory”. This gets you to this page: http://www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email.html. Bookmark that page because you can use it to look up other representatives in the future.
To use this page to look up Jesse Jackson, Jr., type his name exactly as follows: Jesse Jackson, Jr.
The comma after Jackson is critical. Then press “Search”. The other way to go is to choose his state (Illinois) and his party (D), and then click on “Search”.
The resulting list includes a link to the individuals’ website. Click on the link and you will get information on how to contact that individual. (Ironically, in Jackson’s case, no email address is shown but phone numbers, fax numbers, and street addresses are provided for all three of his offices.)
The fundamental question/concern is whether or not a large enough percentage of the electorate comprehend that our Constitution was predicated on fomenting gridlock and/or slowing the pace of change in the halls of Congress such that sweeping, radical alterations were next-to-impossible to achieve in short order. Quite obviously, Jackson either: (1)Fails to grasp this fundamental truth, or (2)He does understand it and blatantly ignores it for the purpose of inciting insurrection so as to (attempt to) establish an extra-constitutional type of government, i.e. dictatorship, oligarchy, etc., wherein only a “chosen one” and/or a ruling class preside(s) over national, state and local affairs. Given the apparently significant number of those occupying Wall Street and elsewhere, it would seem there are many who are, like Jackson, either ignorant of our form of government and its intended operation, or alternately, who seem prone to cast aside our government in favor of one far more fearsome and destructive in its reach and effect.
The able bodied can join the military.
AMEN.
Instant job, learn a few marketable skills & subsidized ed to boot. Only prob is: Is the war de jour worth the price of one’s life? A difficult query for some……
Some people are not able bodied to the extent needed for military service, but could work at civilian jobs if those jobs existed.
Here’s an example. I’m over 55, I get around pretty well, and I’m underemployed in civilian life, but the military does not need little old ladies!
Yes Mr Jackson, congress is dysfunctional and YOU are part of it.
This is all uncomfortably similar to the Honduran constitutional crisis, in which, of course, the Obama administration sided with those who sought to disregard the constitution.
Let us never forget. Don’t sweep this under the rug.
Remember Secretary of State Clinton and how they allowed
the Zelayistas to take over the Honduran Embassy in Washington,DC.
How US kept insisting until Honduras let Zelaya come back and did nothing.
How US sided with Chavez and Castro against Honduras. Against
Honduran COnstitution. It is true. And, you can blame it squarely
on Democrats- John Kerry for example.
Did this guy not take an oath to preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States?
If he did, IMHO, he has come dangerously close to violating that oath. Will the citizens of the State of Illinois care? We shall see.
Not enough of the people of IL care or they wouldn’t elect communists with no resume to their legislature and to the US Senate.
Clearly you are a new immigrant to the United States and/or have lived under a metaphorical rock with respect to how elections are managed by The Combine in Illinois. I very much fear that the good people of Illinois (but only the good ones) had little to no voice in electing this oath-violating disgrace. He’s a total waste of perfectly good skin that plenty of burn victims could put to better use than him.
Who peed in your corn flakes, jerk? No, I didn’t climb out from under a rock today and the most recent immigrant to the “US” in my family was sometime in the late 1600s.
I well know the Chicago way, but I also know it only works if it is allowed to.
Art — even if the rest of IL votes in opposition, they still can’t muster enough to outvote Chicago and its legions of the undead.
And then there’s EStL and the corruption in Springfield to give Chicago a little boost…
Coupled with the lack of any real distinction between either of the two parties — in IL they have the thieves’ agreement, and it’s almost impossible for any statesman who really is for the people to manage to make it out alive (sometimes nearly literally).
The common man and woman in IL is hopelessly outvoted (I’m sure there are sections of CA and NY that could concur with this sad reality). Let it serve as an object lesson to the rest of the country — a memento mori of what can happen to a republic when the people in charge realize they can engineer (and organize) things so as to never have to worry about serving the people and the republic ever again.
@unknownjane – I know how hard it is, but the federal courts and all law enforcement even in these days of the Obama Junta aren’t totally corrupted. Rural, Republican county officials get together and sue in federal court alleging that their votes and rights are impacted by the fraud in Chicago. There have to be suburban or exurban DAs that are Republicans who can bring charges against the guys who drive the vans and work the lists at the polling places. Here’s the real problems: First, most Republicans have real lives so they have to do this politics crap on their own time, and, Second, most Republicans hate controversy so they don’t want to be the one who throws the s*(t in the fan. Until we get over the second and have a few professional who can deal with the first, it will be in ourselves not our stars that we are underlings.
Not Wall Street, but Chicago, is the epicenter of US corruption. I suspect that the votes of the Deceased-American community gave Obama his start in politics and kept him there.
Look at who lives in IL-02, the district Jackson represents.
(EXAMPLE: The Nation of Islam’s national headquarters is located there.)
Yes, he took an oath. And by taking the office he violated our Constitution that requires the president to be a Natural Born Citizen. If his father really was Barack Obama, who was never a U.S. citizen, Obama cannot be a NBC. By definition of the term as known by the Founders in the 1700′s, the requirement is for BOTH parents to be citizens. Obama is an example why they put in that requirement. But our politicians are so corrupt they won’t pursue the issue. And the corrupt courts won’t even hear the case on the merits. How close is it getting to Jefferson’s prediction of watering the tree?
The next suggestion will be to employ them as a 15 million man well-armed civilian ObamaCorps to keep the peace because of Obama Van Jones’ revolutionary Occupiers.
Anyone want to wake up before heads are rolling and people are hanging from lampposts for Kos to salivate over?
@8: ” A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. ”
I suggest JJ jr and 0 keep that in mind. Even Japanese Admiral Yamamoto, back in 1941, realized that an invasion of the U.S. was impossible because we are quite prepared to defend ourselves. Recall that the Oath taken by all Officers of the U.S., military and otherwise, requires them to defend the Constitution, “against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
When you control the media, you pretty much get to determine who is the enemy. They’ve already proven that a majority, albeit a small one, are too stupid/ignorant to participate in a republican democracy.
Makes me want some “workarounds” to those parts of the Constitution that the courts purport to extend a universal franchise to people too stupid to live.
When I as in the Army in the mid-80′s I vaguely remember reading a translated position paper by a Soviet Red Army general arguing against an invasion of the US. He stated “…the Americans are a violent people and are armed to the teeth. An invasion of the United States would make Afghanistan look like a picnic with schoolchildren.”
Can anyone confirm my memory of this?
wow
this guy sounds like he is looking for another civil war
Of course he wants a civil war, he’s a leftist. The left loves violence. The left adores violence and bloodshed. Because blood is the only acceptable fertilizer to spill on the ashes from which utopia will grow.
From Hot Air earlier this week: Justice Scalia: “Learn to love the gridlock”
“They talk about a disfunctional government because there’s disagreement… and the Framers would have said, “Yes! That’s exactly the way we set it up. We wanted this to be power contradicting power because the main ill besetting us — as Hamilton said in The Federalist when he talked about a separate Senate: “Yes, it seems inconvenient, inasmuch as the main ill that besets us is an excess of legislation, it won’t be so bad.” This is 1787; he didn’t know what an excess of legislation was.”
Our esteemed veterans, who believe in their oath to protecrt the constitution, are marching on Washington DC 11/11/11. Let’s all join them in support.
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”
JJ Jr. is clearly in violation of his oath of office.
Unfortunately, the oath that leftists like Jackson take, before taking public office, means nothing to them. The power that comes with their office is the necessary tool to subvert the Constitution they swore to defend.
Jobs? Can we look at ObamaCare/RomneyCare as a template to solve the problem? The way to provide health insurance for all was to mandate that people buy health insurance. It is and was complete nonsense. But let’s try to consider it for the jobs issue too:
Require every adult to hire another adult. This will provide at least one job for every adult. Impose a penalty to be collected by the IRS if you do not hire someone. The jobs problem can thus be declared solved. Anyone who does not hire another can be branded a sinful evil free rider.
Would this nonsense nevertheless be less corrupt than ObamaCare, which purposely distorted consumption expense toward health care enterprises to intentionally promote inflation of that segment of the economy? Increasing demand without increasing supply, applying very elementary price theory, causes prices to go up.
Where would the money come from to pay for Jackson’s Jobs plan? Either direct taxes on people or indirect taxes by way of debasement of the currency by manufacturing money. There is no free lunch.
Impeachment, however, for nuttiness is too broad a definition, because most of the work of Congress could be called nutty. The impeachment would have to be reserved for the President if he exceeds his authority, as perceived by Congress — which is one reason why the House has an election cycle of every two years.
If the president actually follows Jackson’s advice, impeachment should be on the table.
I would certainly hope so.
Maybe ‘Lil’ Jesse should go outside the country!!
Why isn’t he in prison just like his former disgraced Governor for the actions he took that got the Governor in prison? I think the Tennessee National Guard (my state) as well as others should go round him up and place him under arrest as a domestic enemy, perhaps others national guards should follow suit for a back up, or as the Volunteer State we will take it on all alone!
Well, your state NG has no weapons and little claim to its other facilities since they’re all federally funded. We maintain a pretense of state control to get around posse comitatus and other inconveniences but the NG is really just a second string federal military. Even the last time there was a confrontation between the states and federal authority, the Southern governors basically had to just snatch the arsenals away from the US because State militias were essentially unarmed.
It’s not only the Congress, Mister, it’s the whole country that is “in rebellion” against the regime that your administration is trying to build. And this rebellion will kick your administration out of power in 2012.
2012 Nobama
2012 NO TO THE TOTALITARIANS
No one can possibly be as stupid as Jackson makes himself out to be. This little game is all about, as others have pointed out, creating a campaign issue for next year. But at the same time it is about Obama and the more radical dems in Congress getting closer to pulling off the long dreamed of end run around Congress and the Constitution; a coup, in other words. The Bamster hopes that independents will blame Congress (Republicans) for forcing him to do these nasty things. This strategy is rather cockeyed, but if you’re looking at a possible political evolution changing election blow-out next year any and everything is on the table. Obama is primed for it; he is already so radical in his thinking that this kind of thing is just the next step.
No, it’s about trying to get enough Leftists to start raising it as an issue–to claim there is consensus for shutting down the government before the election. He’s the second congressman in two weeks who’s called for this.
Jesse Jackson Jr has heard of the Constitution? I’m impressed. I’d be even more impressed if he knew what it says.
Two short years ago the Democrats had complete control of the Executive and Judicial Branch of Government and made things worse. Now Jackson Jr wants more of the same in defiance of the result of the previous election? Is he serious, or a Republican plant to destroy the Democratic Party forever?
I would suggest Mr Jackson consult the dictionary for the definitions of coup and treason.
That nut didn’t fall too far from the tree did it? His father, the Christian in name only shake down artist know as the Rev. Jesse, who not only can’t keep his zipper shut but can’t keep his big mouth shut either.
Junior, whom his father sought to legitimize through serving in public office learned a lot from his dad, he learned that; laws, rules, regulations and even morals are there to be broken because “somehow son, they just owe us everything, so if they won’t give it we’ll just take it anyway we can”.
Hopefully the kids of junior will be used car salesman, something they are well suited for based on the behavior of their father and grandfather.
This man is obviously nuts. These people are already on the Federal dole so why pay them even more. They should be drafted into a Federal workforce and made to work for the benefits they are already getting. Each should be given a uniform and an ankle bracelet for radio monitoring. Certain jobs should be assigned to them like knocking down rock outcroppings, digging ditches, fighting forest fires, draining swamps and recycling raw material at waste dumps. To guarantee their safety on the job armed guards should be posted to protect them.
Some how I feel that this would create jobs, business opportunity faster than anything. One thing is for sure, the number on the federal dole would decrease rapidly.
Jackson Jr. is proving how stupid and incapable he is to be a member of Congress. If he thinks Obama can go out of constitution, he tells us of his ignorance. Why can’t he try to run for a position in Hugo Castro’s Venezuela? Here in US, we stand by our constitution and Obama or Gobama cannot short cut this.
So apparently the people who voted for the members of congress must be suppressed. If they can’t suppress the voters with intimidation by the black panthers then by golly gee they will do it from the perch of executive power.
Gosh, Jesse Jackson Jr. really is dumber than a box of rocks.
There clearly is a civil war going on at the moment, it has been all but declared by the left…and non-leftists are still not engaged.
There is an attempt to overthrow our system of government, to breach any rule, regulation or constitutional hurdle…treat them as nothing more than a minor hurdle to scale.
The leftists have declared war on capitalism, have declared war on right to work, have declared war on truth in media, have declared war on our border protections, have declared war on energy, declared war on Wall Street, have declared war insurance, have declared war on “the rich”, have declared war on persons of a certain color, religion, have teed up “enemies” at an alarming clip.
Czars and czarinas make up their own rules and ignore representative self-governance. The ‘nuclear option” has been invoked.
We can continue to pretend that free market America is not under brutal daily assault. We can pretend that our mass communications vehicles are not lined up to propagandize our capitalist destruction. We can pretend that subverting the Constitution is merely a minor infraction. We can pretend that Soros, Ayers, the New Party, the Midwest Academy, the Cooper Union crowd did not precisely outline this battle plan.
We can pretend all we like.
But, the leftists aren’t pretending. They are playing for keeps.
And at the federal level not only are we losing, we’re not even on the same field. We have a bunch of fat, lazy old fools who continue to insist that mortal enemies are “my friend.”
I think you’re right.
Yes, that really is Jesse Jackson, Jr.’s picture next to MORON in the dictionary.
Is it racist to call Jesse Jackson Jr. a moron?
No, just honest.
Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution says,
No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law …
How could the pay checks be legally written without Congressional authorization? Oh, sorry, I forgot who’s running the Treasury.
This is what you get when you send incompetence to Washington.
The stupid thing about this is that, as usual, the typical person doesn’t know his history. Congress was never in “rebellion” during the crisis that led to the Civil War. A *minority* of Congress disagreed so strongly with the majority that the crisis came to a head when the majority got their President elected. That minority was a splinter group from one of the two political parties at the time (the Democrats). They weren’t just upset at their minority status in Congress, they were also pissed that they couldn’t even control the National Convention and nominate someone for President who shared their values (mainly being rabidly pro-slavery). When the convention nominated someone who had invented the compromise doctrine of “popular sovereignty”, essentially letting territorial voters, when they organized themselves into a state, decide whether slavery would be legal in the state, the pro-slavery advocates went nuts. They walked out of the convention, held their own, and nominated their own candidate, which everyone knew was essentially an act of political suicide. When splitting the Democratic Party elected a Republican President, as everyone knew it must, they seceded.
That situation has almost nothing to do with ours, beyond the similarity in that the Democrats back then were fools, and they still are today. And now we know (if we didn’t before) that Jesse Jackson Jr. is a flake and an idiot. You said we should be nice…this is nice. I usually don’t speak anywhere near as kindly about people who talk about overthrowing my government. Idiot is the *kind* word.
This man took an oath to uphold the constitution. Speaker Boehner, please do your duty. This is not a trivial matter.
I agree with #29. If Obama went outside the constitution, he would be deluged with demands from his constituents. He is a fool but I don’t know if he’s that big a fool.
Folks, you’re falling for Jackson’s trick. It’s just a calculated stunt: he wants publicity so he makes outragous statements. He does so every so often, to keep his name in the headlines.
True.
I remember when Jesse Jackson Jr. said he wanted to amend the Constitution to add a whole bunch of new rights to the Bill of Rights.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0yi08qqwLQ
Absolutely, just like his daddy-Castro loving Jessie.
Things must be more quiet domestically in the USA that one would guess from the headlines.
You see, usually, when there is some notorious crime / natural disaster / corporate takeover / any event that makes the national headlines which involves black people in any way whatever, Jackson poses in front of the first cameraman that comes along and shouts “racism!”.
Let’s take a notorious crime (Jackson’s forte, it seems). If the *criminal* is black, Jackson says he is innocent and prosecuted because the police is racist. If the *victim* is black, Jackson says he could have been saved if the police came sooner but it didn’t do so because the police is racist. If the *cop* is black, Jackson says his attempts to stop the crime were ignored by the police higher-ups because the police is racist. If the *chief of police* is black, Jackson says he’s an “uncle Tom” told to ignore the crime because *his* higher-ups are racists.
What if *all four* are black? That just shows the police is four times as racist, of course! Er, how can the accused both be innocent and the police be racist for not arresting him sooner? Well, Jackson doesn’t bother with logic.
If he is reduced to “advising” Obama in this way it means no other such opportunity showed itself for a while — a good thing.
Another example of Obama ignoring the constitution is the ACTA treaty. It seems he thinks he can sign it without Congressional approval. Senator Ron Wyden – a Democrat no less — is calling him out on it:
See: http://activepolitic.com:82/News/2011-10-13/U.S._Senator_Wyden_Raises_Questions_About_ACTA_Implementation.html
http://wyden.senate.gov/download/?id=f20e3fd3-f2f1-4fc2-a387-570a575700d6
Not just any Democrat, but one of the most liberal Democrats in the Senate. But hey, O-Dufus has proven he can get away with going to war without Congressional approval, he’s proven he can implement any durned law he wants even if Congress refuses to pass it, so why not international treaties?
The only reason he won’t get impeached is the GOP is terrified the wagons will be circled around the poor put-upon soul and he will win re-election on the sympathy vote.
Just the same, Congress needs to keep his feet to the fire on nonsense like this until Fast and Furious, Solyndra, and his own incompetence take him down.
Would it be impolitic, or even viewed as a threat, to send him a sword? Or a razor blade and a bottle of bubble bath?
Jesse,
A President is not a King. A congress has every right to block his wishes. What’s the use, Jesse, you studied Rules for Radicals, not the Constitution. Just stick with calling anyone who opposes Obama a racist, at least that makes a little more sense than declaring martial law.
Winston
Well, it’d be an interesting precedent, this could have come in handy for the governors of Texas and Wisconsin when large numbers of legislators avoided their duties by leaving the state. Good idea Jesse, maybe next time we can even prevent them ever returning!
Obviously, y’all, the syphilis that has affected his father’s brain is also now affecting his.
Putative father. I see no resemblance between him and anyone else in the elder Obama’s family, even allowing for Stanley Ann’s lily white features. She wasn’t very choicy, by all accounts. I’ve often thought there were other candidates in her circle. There’s more to that non-forged, non-altered COLB than just place of birth, I think.
At first glance, it seems like the ultra-left needed a refresher course in how the constitution works. The truth is they know the constitution and despise it. I never thought id see the day when republican democracy would be on the ropes, like it is now everywhere in the world. Europe, Russia, Latin America, Democrats ect. have given up on it. How fast people forget, what tyranny is.
He should be removed from office immediately for blatently violating the uniform oath of office.
The nicest thing I can say about JJ Jr. is that he is a political hack prostituting himself for welfare votes.
JJ Jr. – Full blown Nazi.
What African country is Jackson from? The one with all the Commies?
All African nations are overrun with Commies, Muslims, or both.
That is why Africa is such a mess. Ideology has consequences.
It’s a national emergency! The enemy is at the gates! Our Leader must be given and must exercise special extra-constitutional powers to save the nation! Sieg Heil!
Godwin did not expose a logical flaw. He observed and articulated an inevitability, based on history and human nature.
However, I don’t think there is a provision for a “national emergency” in our Constitution. But there was in that other one.
Is it Nazi week on PBS in Chicago?
Why is this tool not in jail? Oh he’s a Chicago politician.
“what african country is jackson from?” that would be illinois i believe. the one with all the history of crooks, thieves and murderers…. and our own el presidente. speaking of crooks and adultry, just look up the internet info. on this guy.
if i had a history like this congresscritter, publicity for making treasonous remarks would be the last thing i would want to do. but then again, it all depends on the class of people you are trying to speak to.
this kind of rhetoric more than a year out from a democratic asswhuppin, and the venom of hatred is already running in the streets, constantly stoked by the race baiters. better get ready folks, this is going to get messy.
Relax, these progressive jack-wagons are not going to do anything except steal some color TV’s and kill some of their own anti-2nd Amendment, clueless, ignorant east and west coast liberal sheepeople. 95% the U.S. Military isn’t on board with a Communist Revolution to overthrow the Constitution (gays in the military and repeal of traditional military retirement aren’t real popular Democrat positions with them – not that the current Muslin-friendly and semi-Communist Administration were too popular to begin with). Most Americans have been arming themselves to the teeth IAW the 2nd Amendment and will lawfully defend themselves under the 4th Amendment and in self-defense. Let’s just impeach the Indonesian Candidate for Fast and Furious or vote him out of office in 2012. America might still have slim chance at a rebirth.
He’s gones outside the law on alot of things. Obama and half the democrats should be in jail
The biggest dangers to our republic always come from the left. If JJ jr understood the Constitution, he would understand why it’s in all of our interests to stand by its principles. Didn’t he swear an oath when he went to congress?
@Art Chance
“When you control the media, you pretty much get to determine who is the enemy. They’ve already proven that a majority, albeit a small one, are too stupid/ignorant to participate in a republican democracy.”
I think you must have meant DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC.
No, I meant what I said, a republican democracy, you know that funky old idea the Founders had. When I think of Democratic Republic, I think of things like the German Democratic Republic, you’ll recall East Germany, the DDR.
Mr. Jackson,
As you are well aware, Obama has gone outside the Constitution in regard to Libya.
Admiral James Stavridis, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander: Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah fighters are among the Libyan rebels currently receiving support from the US and its NATO allies. This was confirmed by one of the Libyan rebel officers, Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi, who leads one of the Al-Qaeda units.
There is mostly silence about the horrors taking place against Libya’s blacks.
STOP the GENOCIDE of Blacks by the U.S. backed Libya rebels!
The Obama-supported rebels left in charge are now conducting a “large scale cleaning in the areas under their control with the extermination of all blacks in the capital”, according to The Independent.
Barbaric atrocities, kidnappings and ruthless genocide of blacks in Libya by US/France/NATO backed Al-Qaeda linked rebels has been going on for months.
US/NATO who have waged war for months for the Al-Qaeda
linked rebels-who murder our troops in Iraq-are RESPONSIBLE for stopping the genocide.
US/NATO are also responsible for rescuing the many
terrified blacks kidnapped by the rebels, including the kidnapped black children who have been horrifically abused by the black-hater Muslim rebels.
Blacks must have human rights!
STOP THE GENOCIDE!
If I was ever inclined to have an all-powerful tyrant…Obambi sure wouldn’t be my choice.
Nobody wants a sissy as tyrant.
Big surprise, Jesse Jackson Jr. is just as big a fascist as his old man.
Would this, could this be a plan to finally fund Obama’s Civilian Security Force?
Kid’s not insane: he is just ignorant and badly blindered by social, economic, cultural and familial localism. Does anyone think for a moment he would have any position in society other than a low or middle level management job – at best – if he were not the son of a well known professional minority shake-down artist?
The kid is a railroad fan among other things: he has used public monies to erect grandstands along tracks where he and his fellow hobbyists can gather to watch and photograph trains as they pass by.
People in the railroad industry refer to such people as “foamers.”
It’s not just Jesse Jackson Jr. It appears that POTUS maybe listening. He needs to be told that this constitutes “A High Crime and Misdemeanor.”
America, don’t put your head in the sand. Restore this country back to constitutional principles. Christians, don’t sit back and be fatalistic because you believe all the modern end time prophets. Take a stand and fight for what is our God given rights in this great country of ours.
Congress is not in rebellion any more than the Confederacy was in rebellion. The Confederacy had constitutional right of secession, and the Congress has a constitutional right to act on behalf of their constituents. Mr Lincoln wanted to centralize the government and Messrs Obama/Jackson want to seize the resulting centralized gov’t, putting the reins in the hands of the executive.
Jackson does not suggest where that $3.404 trillion would come from for his five-year plan. Nor does he suggest why he should not be fired if Obama were to assume dictatorial powers and not be constrained by a Congress. If Obama can act without Congress, why do we need Congressmen?
I think Mr. Jackson needs to get a “bi-lingual” copy of the US Constitution because whatever he thinks it means in whatever language he’s trying to read it in is not what the Constitution says. I’m sure he is really sincere, just confused. Wait for his humble apology soon to the confusion.
I think John Boehner should resign, if he does not take action to remove Jesse Jackson, Jr, from Congress.
And a guy who use to be a friend said ; “your plan to make people disappear will be branded as a ‘raciest effort’ because of the number of black government officials who would just be gone!”
Suffering fools is such a task – and that fool is off of the ‘share my ammo during the dark times list’.
I want my tobacco barn filled with as many treasonous bastards as it will hold – be they colored – black – white or even puce – and what is amazing to me is the nationwide interest that my thoughts on ‘just gone’ have stimulated .
I mean website suggestions – money and volunteers – all coming out of the woodwork!
Oh – and recipes for feeding the occupants of the barn – you wouldn’t believe some of the cost saving ways of preparing chitterlings!
I know that the daily cost for housing these creeps would be far below the figures for Guantanamo’s per head costs.
Keep stocking ammo and medical supplies for your home – and know that soon I’ll be asking for any old vegetables and dried bread to strengthen a stew that we are developing for the barn folk – we are calling it
Chitterling Pot Pie and serving it with a watered down Pork extract!
Remember – It’s not about race!
What it is – is about a race to head off Obama and his Socialist – Communist cohorts – it’s about stopping this political nightmare that the progressives have been building for years – through their manipulation of the educational system and the union structure in the USA.
The race is on!
Did it just strike you, that this individual, Jesse Jackson, Jr, probably does not possess a three digit IQ?
Yes, it is possible for individual Congresspeople to be genuine nincompoops. Many voters, bless their hearts, carry a childlike idea that someone who is able to get into elective office must possess a decent modicum of intelligence, even if you don’t like them politically. That is not the case. Most of these candidates _hire_ the capable people who get them into office. Little Mr Jackson did not get his money through his own labors.
Jesse jackson jr is just as crazy as his old man. Obama does not follow the Constitution now.Hey Jr. boy what your preaching is treason, just as duimb as the old man too!
Just imagine the ruckus from the MSM if someone – say Michelle Bachman – had said this during the Bush administration.
The unintended consequence of what JJ Jr. proposes is that, if successful (i.e. accepted), it would have established a prescedence for the President to usurp power from the other branches of government (does this sound somewhat familiar, maybe Chavez?) and lay the groundwork for a plot that would result in a totalitarian state. We’d all be dependent on the character and intentions of whoever was President and that is asking for a tremendous amount of faith.
The question would be if the deadlock (and problems) were occurring during George W Bush’s administration would JJ Jr. have made the same suggestion? I think not. If it is good for Obama to do it, then why not Bush? If it would be unacceptable for Bush to do it then it is equally unacceptable for Obama, irregardless of what you think their intentions would turn out to be. You don’t always get to choose who exercises absolute power. Be careful what is wished for.
This is nuts…but then again, I don’t know to many liberals that are on the truly sane side of being. Jackson, you are lost and obviously don’t think liberty means anything unless it is offered by the government. Just like your father, you are a waste of time.
Our rights come from our Creator, God. Our government comes from us, its creator. We must obey God, or else. Government, our creature, must obey us, or else. Or else time in November, 2012. This will be our last chance to save the republic. Don’t blow it!