You mean, if I press like this, I can Taze my opponent?

It doesn't matter where he was born.  Even if someone could prove conclusively that the docs are fake, the machinery of govt can't move fast enough to oust him.  The only way to oust him is 2012 and we need indies for that but they don't buy the birth argument. Focus on it, we lose.  For O this is a calculated move.

Why today? We're all talking about it while Rome burns--an executive order sits on his desk requiring businesses bidding on federal contracts to disclose political contributions of its executives; our military/intelligence command has been upended; and Bernanke gave a more serious speech about the economy than Obama's anti-silliness speech (which, if so silly, why did he talk about it?  Oh, and then ran off to Oprah?)

He cannot win on the economy but we can! So he's distracting us from real issues and will say, "I'm talking about kitchen table issues while cons are acting like clowns talking about my BC which I produced already, and, as if that weren't enough, now they're disputing its authenticity."  He'll laugh his way to a second term.

Sorry, Aaron, but you cannot look at Jefferson as speaking to the intent of the framers when he wasn't there.  That's like saying you can rely on the opinions of Ronald Reagan as to the intent of a national law that was signed when he was Governor of CA even though he wasn't part of the debate on that law.  Maybe he even wrote letters to his friends in Washington expounding on this or that aspect of said law, but still, those are his opinions as an outsider and are not part of the legislative record and are not probative as to intent. That's just absurd. 

If Congress has the power of the purse, it isn't monarchical. 

How do we get this Concert of Democracies on the table?

Stuart Creque:  It would be best for the Republicans instead to set the terms and timing of an inevitable shutdown, by making one more CR demand just a bit bigger than the Dems can swallow. Make the Dems choke on it - and point out to the voters how weak and helpless the Dems are as they splutter and gasp. · _{Mar 28 at 11:41am}

This is a start...the only problem is what someone else pointed out about getting the message out.  We will ALWAYS lose to liberals no matter what Fox News or talk radio or the internet accomplishes.  The conservatives will always sniff out the truth.  The target audience is the independents/disgruntled Dems.  Republicans have to be united but sadly the lines in the sand have already been drawn.  We better figure out how to satisfy the tea party contingent without having to go all out Rand and Ron Paul and how to be strategic at the same time...we don't want another O'Donnell/Castle situation.  The tea party lost on that one because of principle trumping strategy.   The Rs have to respond to the TP and the TP has to mature politically.

I have to confess that I am stuck onthis one as both a tea party fire away kinda gal and a strategically-minded do what you can republican. When Star Trek's Capt. Janeway was in a seemingly all or nothing situation of killing the Borg in a different time but not making it back to the present she came up with solution And wAs able to have her cake and eat it too. Can we think out of the box here? How can we get the most cuts today, come off as loyal to the people and make the potential negatives fall on Obama limiting his chances for success in 2012. This is key folks and if we don't get it we lose in 2012.

The point is that Jefferson wasn't part of the debate on the framing and so his comments are his interpretation and as irrelevant to the intent of the framers as are mine. Lawyers consider the plain meaning of a statute and legislative intent when interpreting legislation.  If Joe Senator wasn't part of the debate, his interpretation is bubkis.

What your point doesn't explain but John's does is 200 years of Presidential war-making--including Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates--that pro-Congress advocates claim are extra-constitutional and to which our Congresses have turned a blind eye.

Constitutionally rogue presidents and impotent Congresses? Yoo finally offers insight into why this phenomenon, that has gone unchallenged for 200 years, has come to be and it makes more sense than attributing incompetence to the Congress and extra constitutional flights of fancy to the Presidents.

I love that name.  I've been collecting names like that for a few years now.  Here are some of my favorites and they are for real, not made up :

Nancy Nipples who works at a creamery in Seattle.

Dr. Payne, an anesthesiologist.

Father Church, a pastor.

Mr. Landsea who works at NOAA.

At the risk of getting slammed, motherhood is indeed the most important role a woman can undertake, if she chooses it. Feminism wasn't about women having to work or having to bear children, but allowing women the choice.  Having three degrees and a high-powered law career in NYC, it took me years after having my kids, to realize what a gift it truly is, how hard it truly is and any grief I ever got about having children and giving up my career to raise them, came almost exclusively from women.  For years my working female friends, esp'ly the ones who had children and continued to work, never missed an opportunity to let me know how unappreciated my work was and ridicule what it was I did.

I agree with all of your comments. At the San Fran Tea Party we inject a lot of humor into our events and try to apply MLK's "creative extremism" approach to much of what we do. I just hope we're not overlooking the seriousness of some of the issues we face today and the fights we have ahead--fights where boots on the ground are critical to success. 

Nope, but there's an idea.  Maybe I should unionize the tea parties and collectively bargain for some good bennies.  I'm sure the handful of liberals, who do pay taxes, won't mind at all. 

Obama is clearly afraid of Romney.  It's his way of knocking him out of the race before it even starts.  

I know you didn't ask but I have to respond. 

What a maroon!  Bugs, of course.  In addition to being a quick wit, he is perceptive, brazen and a cynic.  He's also self-reliant, a survivor and strategic in his thinking.  Let's not forget that he has an appreciation for fine opera and classical music.  And the dude is a panic.

I agree he knows what he is doing w/ an endgame in mind.  I am not familiar w/ him calling his admin the New Founding...could you direct me to where you read/heard that? I must have missed that one. Thx.

Thanks, R.J.!  Great report! We should stay connected...Sally  

  Does it seem to anyone else that these people are using other people's children as hostages to leverage more money from the state treasury when there is no money left?

No, you are spot on.