This article below was written some months ago, but as the 2008 election moves closer, it serves as a reminder of how the laws can be manipulated by the liberals grabbing for power. Depending on the vote spread this fall, a spectacle similar to the 2000 election is entirely possible. There is no guarantee that any court will make the waters clearer or smoother than was done the last time. The judges at the various levels seemingly don’t know much about our Constitution. They use case precedent known as stare decisis which is used to conveniently subvert the clear meaning of the Constitution by using former decisions to render new ones. Had the U.S. Supreme Court not ruled as it did in 2000 (though wrong in the way they applied the law), the courts would have had a free hand in overturning constitutional election laws when the outcome didn’t suit them. The Florida debacle would have been the law of the land.

Hatred does many things to people and causes them to want revenge even though it will destroy everything they claim to want to protect. The hatred the liberal Democrats and their followers hold for President Bush defies reason. On the one hand they say they want to protect he nation and then on the other, when the President acts, they rage like the demented inmates in the insane asylums. What has caused the rage that will consume all of us if they have their way?

The answer is simple. Al Gore lost the 2000 election and Kerry lost in 2004. The translation is loss of power and the ability to enact a godless, enemy loving agenda. The one fact that sticks in their craw is that the laws worked to stop Gore’s unconstitutional presidential power grab aided and abetted by the Florida Supreme Court. One of the most infuriating facts is that two of the Supremes, Sandra Day O’Conner and Anthony Kennedy voted with the three conservatives to create the five votes needed to stop the unlawful (and unconstitutional by Florida law) recount in all the counties. Those two Supremes were wishy-washy (O’Conner is gone now), but after a fashion they upheld the Constitution much to the chagrin of “no controlling legal authority” Gore and his crowd. This fiasco was clear proof he doesn’t care for controlling legal authority or ethics for that matter.

Katherine Harris, the Florida Secretary of State at the time, followed her state’s laws and certified the voter counts from each county as specified by Florida law. The United States Constitution makes it plain that individual states have the right to create election laws which by design takes such actions out of federal jurisdiction. (The Voting Rights Act is the exception but it doesn’t apply in the case at hand. No one was denied the right to vote no matter what the mouth, Jesse Jackson, alleged.) However, when it became clear that Gore wouldn’t win by honest means, he and his henchmen turned to the Florida Courts and eventually the Florida Supreme Court came to his aid, and set aside the election laws which would help Gore steal the election if he was successful with his chicanery.

Did the Florida court have the jurisdiction by law to set aside the work of the legislature which designed the election laws of Florida? The answer is easy with one word, no. There is only two possible ways that the court could rule against Harris and the laws as they stood on the books, and that is (one) if she had acted unconstitutionally by not following the laws as written, and (two) if the laws themselves were faulty; that is, being unconstitutional in the beginning relative to the Florida constitution. Neither of those conditions existed. That the Florida Court had no power to set aside constitutional laws made in conformance with the Florida Constitution and the U.S. Constitution, under the delegated powers to the states and people doctrine (Ninth and tenth Amendments), is conveniently ignored by the liberals.

When the U.S. Supreme Court justices stopped the unconstitutional vote recount in Florida, they set themselves up for the condemnation that continues to this day that they installed George W. Bush in the presidency. They did no such thing, but the liberal hate mongers won’t give up. The court did the right thing even though the reasoning was wrong; in that the recount couldn’t be completed in time to certify the electors to Congress by the deadline. The proper ruling would have cited the fact that all that was done in Florida was according to law and that state’s constitution; that there was no violation of the U.S Constitution except that the Florida Supreme Court ignored the fact that the Florida Legislature established elections laws according to lawful procedure protected by the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, and that the Florida Court had no power to change the provisions.

Of course, none of the above matters when hatred is so great that facts, reason, and logic are shoved aside to appease runaway emotion. The name of the game is power and the liberals lost it. Thus, we see the all consuming hatred for the President held by the Democrats. In Sorting It Out, the liberals will continue on their vengeful track even to the extent of putting all of us in harms way, and that includes them as well.

09-06-2007 DEC