Day: October 8, 2014
Debate Devolves into Dick-Hunting Tips
I don’t need a semi-automatic rifle to shoot a duck. Maybe you do. Maybe you should spend more time on your shooting range.
— Rep. Rick Nolan (D-MN), quoted by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, to challenger Stewart Mills (R) in a debate.
Former S.C. GOP Exec Says Ebola Victims Should Be Executed
The protocol for a positive Ebola test should be immediate execution and sanitation of the whole area. That will save lives.
— Todd Kincannon, the former executive director of the South Carolina Republican party, said people infected with the Ebola virus “need to be humanely put down immediately,” WPIX reports.
Huckabee Hugs the Right in Response to SCOTUS Gay Marriage Decision
It is shocking that many elected officials, attorneys, and judges think that a court ruling is the ‘final word.’ It most certainly is not. The courts are one branch of government, and equal to the other two, but not superior to either and certainly not to both. Even if the other two branches agree with the ruling, the people’s representatives have to pass enabling legislation to authorize same sex marriage, and the President (or Governor in the case of the state) has to sign it. Otherwise, it remains the court’s opinion. It is NOT the ‘law of the land’ as is often heralded. The courts can’t make law. They can interpret it and even rule that a law is unconstitutional, but they have no power to create it or enforce it.
— Former Arkansas governor, former presidential candidate and former FOX News commentator Mike Huckabee, on his website, lamenting the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear same-sex marriage appeals cases.
Second Term Doldrums
Barack Obama’s second term is getting grim,
His approval’s down and the midterms are looking dim.
The gap in enthusiasm
Is looking more like a chasm,
When Obama can’t even get a beach in Hawaii named after him.
