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I agree Congress often cites interstate commerce when there isn't always a clear interpretation there. But commerce is only one aspect of what you posted. IMO, the abrogation of rights by individual states is the larger issue and has been since our birth. Anyway, I thought you summed it up nicely from where I sit.

Work in progress. Gaping five-hole. GO SABRES!!!

You have succinctly framed the biggest reason for expanded Federal government since our founding. Genie is out of the bottle and can't be put back in.

Mea culpa! I only read one of his posts that mentioned coke and assumed it was Kane given the thread title.

Sounds remarkably like the player we traded for him, only Bogo brings far more sand to his game GO SABRES!!!

You give garbage a bad name by comparing his crap to it. I'm surprised he hasn't asserted that Kane snorted coke with Auston Matthews in the bathrooms of the high school Matthews didn't attend.

When Kane disappears for huge stretches of games like Zadorov did last year, I will entertain the comparison. Dude brings it every game. Zadorov doesn't know the meaning of the phrase. GO SABRES!!!

Fight against mental health? I liked it better when we were fighting against mental illness.

I appreciate the point about evolving parties. Makes me laugh when I hear far right wingnuts citing Lincoln's Republican party as their own when they were the leftist progressive party of its day. Or when they cite Southern Dixiecrats as representative of the Democratic party of the 1960s. Quick rant: if I read one more screed about Bork getting voted down in the Senate because he was a conservative, I'm gonna barf. Visit the PPP forum at TwoBillsDrive if you ever want to have those hopes dashed. I'd call it a cesspool of I was into insulting cesspools.

If Bylsma puts Moulson on the Eichel line instead of Bailey, I am going to have to have a word with him. Don't make me do that, Dan. GO SABRES!!!

Getting back to our previous exchange regarding how lower court rulings will prevail in the event of a 4-4 SCOTUS, has anyone done the research on what cases are pending and which of those the lower courts ruled in favor of a more desired outcome for liberals? Might be interesting.

Right, and I lament that fact. It wasn't always like this, either. I think it is a reflection of our modern day values. We value corporate success more than we value the American worker that lessons that.

Maximizing profit is the goal, so yes. But I don't conflate economic systems with governmental systems. And you can't force companies to have a patriotic sense of duty to its workers. Especially when foreign widgets are so much cheaper than American widgets.

I laughed because of the post immediately after yours.

Yes and no. Yes, in that American companies with American ownership, American leadership, and American investment, continue to produce all sorts of stuff.... overseas. No, in that the American labor force that once was the backbone of those American companies with American owners and American leadership, was usurped in favor of foreign countries. I use to think that American companies had a patriotic responsibility to her people. How naive was that? They are phucking turncoats and traitors. Every last one of them. But as long as Wall Street and the shareholders are making do in ever increasing record numbers, nobody gives a crap. But hey, these great patriots sure know how to turn out a TV ad, don't they? Just show a flag while Sam Elliot does a syrupy voice over and we are all good.

Assuming the SCOTUS continues to rule along ideological lines with 4-4 decisions, then the lower court ruling is automatically upheld. I don't mean to suggest that lower court judges don't also rule along ideological lines, but their ruling now seems to carry more weight. For instance, had Scalia passed before the recent EPA verdict was reached, the lower court rulng would have prevailed and there would be some very disgruntled energy industry players. I have to believe political players that had a certain faith in favorable SCOTUS outcomes previously no longer do.

Seems to me this will put some downward political pressure on the lower courts in the meantime.

I think his next goal will be realistic with a reasonable chance to be achieved. GO SABRES!!!

Am I to understand that Norway and other European countries aren't free market capitalist economies? That those governments that tax and spend on certain social programs for their entire citizenries don't also favor entrepreneurship and free market economic policies? C'mon.

I feel sorry for the Blue Jackets come Friday. GO SABRES!!!

Get him in a room with his ex-teammate, Jack Eichel, instead. GO SABRES!!!

PINCH ME! GO SABRES!!!

Qualified might be a better word than worthy. And your vote is certainly worth more than someone who chooses not to.

That was nice. Much appreciated. I was focusing on the national debt in my post, but Reich's lesson on the deficit is related in that Republicans like to use the deficit as another fiscal boogeyman come election time. I still chuckle when I remember Cheney telling us all how deficit spending is actually a good thing. One thing I can give him credit for is that he was honest and didn't duck a tough question when asked. He readily admitted that all judges bring their own biases to their decisions, good or bad. And that all judges were activists to some degree or another. I didn't like most of his decisions, but I appreciated his candor in discussing them. "I'm not crazy," is just one example of many with him.

I think the national debt has been a boogeyman long enough. Fact is, we owe most of that money to ourselves and we haven't been negatively impacted in any dramatic way because of it. I've heard for years that if we don't get it under control then interest rates will sky rocket. Really? How long have we had record low interests rates now? As for foreign creditors what, are China, Japan, and other foreign holders going to call in their markers all of a sudden? Highly doubtful as they would risk major negative impacts on their own economies. Indeed, they keep buying more and more US Treasuries! Gotta keep those US exports strong.