Per the WSJ:
President Donald Trump’s “constant fear-mongering’’ about terrorism is “irresponsible and dangerous.’’ He needs to “stop attacking the legitimacy of the judiciary.’’ He picked an attorney general with “anti-liberty” positions on surveillance and police seizure of property.
Those tough assessments come not from one of the president’s critics in the Democratic Party, but from a conservative Republican House member whose district decisively backed Mr. Trump in the election.
… snip…
Mr. Amash says his opposition is based on principle, as a libertarian concerned about government overreach and adherence to the Constitution. While many Republican lawmakers hold similar beliefs, Mr. Amash has been an especially outspoken proponent of smaller government, even on issues—such as reducing surveillance—where his views put him out of step with the more mainstream elements of the GOP.
“To me, it doesn’t matter whether it’s a Republican in the White House or a Democrat in the White House. I have a duty to defend liberty, defend the rule of law and protect the rights of all of my constituents,” said Mr. Amash.
Nice to see some principles on display. And one of the few politicians I don’t mind voting for. As always, more detail in the article.
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102 responses to “Justin Amash Emerges as Leading Critic of Fellow Republican Donald Trump”
Somehow I doubt he’ll get as much media love as John McCain.
I suspect the closest thing they will come to supporting Amash is something along the lines of:
Somehow I doubt he’ll get as much media love as John McCain.
Meh, he’s insane, his wife is loaded (and was quite the dish once) and that spawn of his is what happens when Soave eats an entire bottle of estrogen and cortisol.
Of course he won’t, he is arguing from principle.
Amash has very easily become my favorite person in Congress.
Wonder if he challenges Debbie Stabenow in 2018, or does the Michigan GOP truly go full retard and nominate Kid Rock or Ted Nugent?
He could probably make the jump to the senate.
I mean, has the election of Trump indicated that full-retard doesn’t get results?
Well, you could argue the Dems went full retard with Hillary and a lot of people went full retard trying to stop him.
Except, as we all know, two colliding retards cancel each other out, and yet we were left with Trump after this election.
Oh the retardity!
Remember this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksIXqxpQNt0
Vote for me you stupid dumb fucking hicks, I’m gonna shut down your employers so you don’t have to work any more. PS I totally love guns now. Vote Hillary!
Sounds like Buck Shwartzmore
Every time I listen to that piece I flash to the miners bar and coal mine scenes from “Zoolander.” How could she not have carried WV and the rust belt with that message. “You Proles better get happy with being retrained as call center or day care employees cause I will take your jobs and send your tax dollars to Solyndra 2.0.”
Watch the video. You’ll enjoy it.
And don’t forget the sequel where she promised $3B or something to help all the unemployment her policies were gonna cause.
Leon, Thanks for that video. I think the first 2:30 should be sent to the DNC Candidate Education Forum so they can coach their newcomers on running. Leave off the end and they’ll never get the joke.
Andrew Heaton is one of my favorite libertarian comics, along with David Angelo.
Do Ted Nugent or Kid Rock even live in Michigan any more?
I don’t know about Ted Nugent but I saw on Dan Rather’s show Kid Rock lives in a double wide trailer (I’m not lying) outside of Nashville. He may have other places but that is where the interview was. His reasoning was pretty much that was all the space he needed and why would he pay more for space he didn’t need. And if the place ever got destroyed he could replace it in two weeks.
The Michigan GOP tried to primary him with a more mainstream candidate. You think they’d ever support him for Senate?
Ooh, I got my first “first” here! Everybody else must be busy narrowing their gazes.
Sorry, same rules apply. You need to quote something.
I thought the rule was that first just had to be topical, not that it had to quote.
Can we get a ruling here?
Morning, afternoon, and nighttime links need a quote.
Quotes are definitely extra points to a topical comment.
A topical? I thought it had to be a suppository.
*swiss impression*
Oral. Duh. You *do* know where you are, yes?
You disgust me. You have FAILed your fellow Glibbets. You must know commit seppuku; you have dishonoured your family Game.
No; I don’t know commit seppuku.
*sigh*
Someday, Fyodor, someday…
Point!
+1
It isn’t a “quote” it is formatting.
1. Must be chronologically first that satisfies the following 2 criteria
2. Must be relevant to the links
3. Must have formatting of some kind, bold, italics, block quote, etc.
These came about because Fisty was first and lazy, then when we gave him shit about it he was first and not lazy…sucked.
Don’t go all JATNAS on me, bro.
Where is he anyway? I never minded him…kinda long winded but its kind of right there in his name.
I like him. He took my taint-withering verbal assaults and didn’t back down. His pieces are mostly thoughtful.
I’m a traditionalist – must quote one of the links, not merely refer to it.
Mr. Prosciutto is just jealous that he wasn’t first.
Yes.
I get a kick out of your little patriotic bacon avatar and lower case name.
Lower case denotes that a name means nothing. Patriotic bacon denotes I’m tasty on the inside and will protect your freedom(supposed to). I actually googled bacon-magic and found this artist’s rendering of a “bacon wizard”. I like wizards. *eats crayon*
Chevy Chase is one of my favorite SNL comedians.
Who?
-current SNL viewer
Big League
He needs to “stop attacking the legitimacy of the judiciary.’’
I don’t recall Trump ever doing that. He “attacked” one judge for one decision. Not the same thing.
Plus, the judiciary isn’t above reproach. First, Amash needs to establish that there are no grounds for attacking the legitimacy of the judiciary. Good luck with that.
Fellating the judiciary isn’t a pro-liberty position, it’s a pro-authority one.
What makes the 9th Circus immune from criticism, anyway? Maybe I’ll order one of those fancy black robes so all of my actions become above reproach. It’s the magic of uniforms.
Just make certain you wear something under it.
Now I don’t want one anymore. No wonder there aren’t so many libertarian justices. We’d put the free back into free-balling.
More concerning is the example he chose is one where the judiciary made claims about the Constitution that were invented whole cloth.
Yea, you would think that the adversarial nature of the three branches of government would naturally spawn contention between them. Now, Trump saying bad things about judges amounts to a temper tantrum as opposed to any substantive ideological statement, but I digress.
The modern American judiciary, particularly the SC, is just a modern day House of Lords.
Yet it’s still important that we have it as a backstop against legislative overreach.
Yet it’s still important that we have it as a backstop against legislative overreach.
__________
Yes, remember when the Court struck down Obamacare and the Patriot Act? Such stalwart defenders of liberty!
The damage done by the last century of jurisprudence is the destruction of the American Constitution as an actual law. What they should have been doing is striking down all these laws with the admonition “if you want to do this, you need to pass a Constitutional amendment.” Instead they have invented emanations of the penumbras.
The Court is not a guardian of liberty.
The damage done by the last century of jurisprudence is the destruction of the American Constitution as an actual law.
This cannot be emphasized enough. The judiciary was supposed to be the last line of defense. Instead, they have become enthusiastic collaborators.
Our judiciary isn’t quite that inbred, yet.
A link for those without a subscription.
Fuck. Sore-ey!
Daddy kissed your boo boo.
Thanks, daddy!
That link works and I have no idea how you didn’t SF it.
well now this looks dumb.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Hell if I know.
Protip: If you ever want to read a subscription-locked WSJ article, copy the URL and paste it into Google, and then click on the result.
Thank you very much, I have that problem quite often.
You can also Google the title and follow a resulting link
Amash in one of the only good Congress-critters. Good for him.
There must be 200,000,000 Trump critics in the USA and Europe alone. Amash beat out a lot of competition to be the leading one.
I just read that the WSJ is the favorite newssite of Der Stormer–has anyone else seen this?
Maybe we should take their maunderings with a mountain of salt?
Because, let’s be honest, do we want Justin Amash mavericked by the shrieking press?
He’s probably too sensible to let himself believe they actually want to do anything but use him up then throw him away.
Also, he’s mostly right in the excerpt, so go be a thorn in Trump’s side, Amash! [Random fluctuations in space-time continuum] bless you!
[Random fluctuations in space-time continuum]
These euphemisms are quite integral.
Holy Shit…Where the hell is Swiss
Did you just tell him to go flucc himself?
Would.
He’s got a wedding ring on! Have you know shame?
Oh, she knows shame.
Pics?
It’s a sad affliction. I hope they find a cure for those poor people soon.
Obligatory.
Yes, totes would. Amash is a hottie. And that one time when he had that beard…
Public apology,
I, bacon-magic, want to apologize publicly for going to the other site and plugging this one. My heart was in the right place. I like all of the commenters there and most of the writers so just wanted to include everyone.
No one questions your sincerity. Sincerely. 😉
Thanks!
If I questioned your sincerity, you’d get cat buttholed.
These euphemisms…
You’re planning to make him do penance, right?
As punishment, bacon-magic, you must spend a 12 hour period in a back and forth argument with Shriek. Have fun.
*commits seppuku* I’m out. I don’t have the literary prowess or the anti-retardation powers that ya’ll have.
I’m glad you told Sparky what for. What a prick.
I do want to say Sparky is a class A douchebag, though.
*open arms*
I like all of the commenters there
Oh, I bet not.
*most
Amash just took a bite out of General Cheeto.
Now Canada is wondering if it will get its own Trump. I’m currently watching two heads talk about the ‘viability of populism’ and what it ‘means to be Canadian’.
Ooof.
Does Canada have to imitate everything we do? I mean, srsly.
Sigh…
I know I harp on it all the time, but… Montreal becomes a sanctuary city
So yes, we do. But we are still so much better than you because Tommy Douglas Vimy Ridge Trudeau Sr.
*Checks clock*
Dang. I had compiled 8 or so links during the day today to share this evening (only 1 of which showed up on another site’s PM).
Ah well.
Have a splendid evening, glibertarians.
that page shows up at a more reasonable time.
For the West Coast! Finally our time to shine!
“tea time links”
I saw an interesting article that a national holiday for the Presidents is not worthy of a free people. In my opinion Williamson correctly argues that President’s Day should be abolished. Extra history points for proper references to SPQR.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445013/presidents-day-imperial-cult
Technically, it’s only federally recognized as Washington’s Birthday (observed).
Welp, looks like I found out where the cool kids are hangin out. I like what I see so far. Probably going to leave the TSTSNBN forever like I did Slashdot in ’03 for the formerly non-mentioned site. They’ve been infested with the same morons.
Maybe Brooks can be reincarnated here. He used to be funny when he was alive.