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To: koan who wrote (8834)	2/10/2012 7:15:36 AM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Respond to of 85487

Obama Gives Ten State Waivers for NCLB On His Own Authority; The Law Does Not Include a Waiver Provision Unconstitutional. This depressive egomaniac arriviste is doing tremendous amounts of damage to a constitutional system which has kept us united for 240 years (apart from the Civil War period). Even worse, nothing in federal law grants Obama the power to issue these conditional waivers. He is unilaterally rewriting federal education policy through selective enforcement. The American Enterprise Institute's Frederick Hess tells the Christian Science Monitor: "NCLB, for all its flaws, was crafted by the US Congress … [but] these waivers impose a a raft of new federal requirements that were never endorsed by the legislative branch. Once this administration opens this door, it’s hard to imagine future administrations not building on this precedent." And last year The Brookings Institution wrote: It is one thing for an administration to grant waivers to states to respond to unrealistic conditions on the ground or to allow experimentation and innovation. ... The NCLB waiver authority does not grant the secretary of education the right to impose any conditions he considers appropriate on states seeking waivers, nor is there any history of such a wholesale executive branch rewrite of federal law through use of the waiver authority. That said, Conn Carroll has a sharp idea: Considering how epically unpopular Obamacare is, this whole sale abuse of a waiver process to fundamentally rewrite federal policy may not be the precedent Obama wants to set. I don't even want to think like this, but if we're playing Lord of the Flies like this, I can see a Republican president waiving compliance with the National Labor Relations Board too. And the EPA. And unilaterally offering a "waiver" permitting a company to drill in ANWR. http://ace.mu.nu/archives/326572.php

To: koan who wrote (8834)	2/10/2012 9:23:31 AM
From: sm1th	2 Recommendations Respond to of 85487

The right wing's new talking point to scare the people about Obama is the French Revolution. You complain about analogy the the French revolution, but just a few posts back you had us in the dark ages with feudal lords and serfs. Is that really more relevant?

To: koan who wrote (8834)	2/10/2012 10:08:41 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

Study: Distrust Of Government A Mental Disorder A study in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry has concluded that distrust of the government is a treatable mental disorder. Known as "AGP" or "anti-government phobia," the study claims: "...that unfounded fear of government is a recognizable mental illness, closely related to paranoid schizophrenia. Anti-Government Phobia (AGP) differs from most mental illnesses, however, in that it is highly infectious and has an acute onset. Symptoms include extreme suspiciousness, conspiracy-mongering, delusional thought patterns, staunch 'us against them' mentality, withdrawal from reality, and often religious fanaticism..." breitbart.tv does this remind you of McCarthyism ?