After pledging to kill our enemies, Newt Gingrich returned to one of his favorite themes: violating the United States Constitution. In Greenville, South Carolina, Gingrich again said that he would ignore Supreme Court decisions that he disagreed with. We have previously discussed the flaws in Gingrich’s legal and historical views, but my concern is that pledging to violate the Constitution would make Gingrich an enemy of our constitutional system. Does this mean that his first act would be to add his own name to the presidential hit list?
Gingrich told the crowd “The president interprets the Constitution as president. If the court makes a fundamentally wrong decision, president can in fact ignore the courts.”
The question is what threatens our nation the most, destroying a building or a constitutional system? With President Obama continuing the claim of absolute power to kill Americans, the added claim to ignore the check and balance of judicial review would complete our shift toward authoritarian powers.
For Gingrich to pledge to attack the Constitution while pledging to kill enemies of our country seems a textbook case of autophobia. It raises the question of what constitutes an enemy to our system.
A personality disorder is defined as an “enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectation of the individual’s culture, is pervasive and inflexible (unlikely to change), is stable over time, and leads to distress or impairment in interpersonal relationships.” Legally, a pledge to kill enemies and then declare oneself an enemy to core principle of the country constitutes a serious and a dangerous disorder in a president.
Source: CBS
I am okay with Newt killing himself.
Bron, last I heard, Marianne was not running for President on a platform of “family values.”
Therein lays the difference.
Elaine:
“Gingrich divorced his first wife, Jackie, as she was being treated for cancer. His relationship with Marianne began while he was still married to Jackie but in divorce proceedings, Marianne said.”
Correct me if I am wrong but isnt Marianne a person of questionable morals as well as Calista for having an affair with a married man? It seems to me Marianne is as black as the kettle called Newt.
Am I missing something?
I saw her once ages ago and it was one of her better shows (read: the music was actually listenable). It was pretty fun. That being said, I’d have rather seen Lou Reed.
Saw one of Laurie Anderson’s “performances”. It wasn’t my idea to go. Like the work of her partner, Lou Reed, better, Gene.
raff,
So did performance artist Laurie Anderson. Unlike Newt, she got fired when she started making things up.
Newt did teach History Ekeyra!
Smom,
Apples and oranges, sweetie. Public beef versus private beef. However, if you want to start in with me though, I’m going to tell you straight out you’re barking up the wrong tree. I’ve done nothing to you nor said anything one way or the other about you – publicly or privately. I told you I don’t have a dog in this fight. Don’t start none, won’t be none.
It is no more pleasant than you and kderosa, Gene. lol
When the person impugned my mental health and the well being of my family, a boundary was crossed. There is nothing to mediate. I will ignore it here to the best of my ability, and we have no contact in the community.
Ekeyra,
From Wikipedia,
“Gingrich avoided the Vietnam War draft through deferments because he was a student and then a father. “Given everything I believe in, a large part of me thinks I should have gone over,” he said in 1985.
Gingrich received a B.A. in history from Emory University in Atlanta in 1965, an M.A. in 1968, and a Ph.D. in modern European history from Tulane University in New Orleans in 1971. His dissertation was entitled “Belgian Education Policy in the Congo: 1945–1960″. … In 1970, Gingrich joined the history department at West Georgia College as an assistant professor. In 1974 he moved to the geography department and was instrumental in establishing an interdisciplinary environmental studies program. Denied tenure, he left the college in 1978.”
“Denied tenure”… Imagine that.
Maybe someone should dust off his dissertation. There might be some gems…
Didnt newt teach history…?
Gene,
Good try!
Smom,
I have no dog in this fight. What is between you two is between you two. I just really wish it would stop. That is all I have to say about that.
pete,
lol
here ye here ye
all hail Emperor Newton the First
(the voices in newts head are getting really loud)
Gene H. It is just strange that some random person with a new name pops up every few days to attack me. I usually ignore them. It started happening after AY and I had that little dust-up on here this fall. This new one went over the edge by mentioning my family in a negative way.
Since no other parties involved have responded in a timely fashion, my effort to mediate is ended.
Now.
I’d really rather that you all simply stop it.
It is okay i know who it is if you know what I mean.
Sorry. That’s not how this works. I won’t tell who any anonymous poster is. even If all parties consent – that is against blog policy and would simply be more work than I’m willing to do. Anyone wishing to reveal their actual identity is free to do so though. I know who both you are and who AY is from offline out of camera communications and I know you two know each other IRL. What I will do is I will simply say if an identity is discrete; i.e. they post from consistent and discrete email and IP addresses.
Mainly, I’d rather that you all simply stop it.