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Originally Posted by Professor S
On O'Reilly, Jon Stewart literally said Pres. Obama shouldn't treat Congress and an equal branch of government.
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No, he said:
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O'REILLY: All right, so you think he's doing OK in some areas?
STEWART: Certain jobs.
O'REILLY: And not OK in others. Give me a not OK.
STEWART: I think he has decided that Congress is an equal branch of government. Huge mistake. You can't just walk in there as the next guy and say, let's go back to…
O'REILLY: Power sharing.
STEWART: …three equal branches.
O'REILLY: No good.
STEWART: No.
O'REILLY: Right.
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Originally Posted by Professor S
Who gets to make that decision? You? Stewart? Stein? Suddenly we're going to ignore one of the fundamental tenants of America's founding and simply be a half-dictatorship because you and few like you agree more with the President right now? Because the left feels it knows was best for the American people even if the large majority vociferously disagrees? Most of the greatest horrors ever committed by man were for "the greater good", a statement that causes more fear in me than any other.
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A couple of quotes (that you hand picked) without context from political comedians and you're afraid the left is abusing our political system? How am I supposed to take you seriously? All either suggested was that Obama use the bully pulpit as effectively as Bush. I find pushing Healthcare through congress pretty tame in comparison with how Bush ran his war.
You complain about a president that the large majority disagrees with? Show me one. Certainly Obama's approval has been fluctuating, but come on. If that sentence (slightly reworded) had been posted 4 years ago, I might have taken you seriously.
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The funniest part is, do any of the left actually think they know better than the founders? The sheer arrogance of the left when it comes to the Constitution astounds me. If they cant get their way with the Constitution, they feel no reason not to ignore it completely. It's the thought process of a child, not an adult.
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No, what's funny is that you raise our founders to the level of Gods. To question their infallable wisdom is apparently blasphemous to you. You've taken two statements from 'the left' that fit your view, without regard for accuracy or context, and twisted them to fit your post. One, as you say, a humorist. The other, a comedian turned political commentator. There are a lot of people over the years that have thought that they knew better than our founders. It seems entirely plausable that our founders wisdom might lose its validity to time. Being patriotic doesn't mean blindly doing things the way they've been done. It means caring enough to do the best for your country and its people.
Regardless, it's not what's happening here. And I can't take you seriously.