Comments by "" (@indonesiaamerica7050) on "PBS NewsHour" channel.

  1. Brian Haskings Do you understand why? Apparently not. Sometimes Congress passes laws that are not obviously unconstitutional but in the end the conflicts between legitimate foreign policy decisions from the President end up ensnaring people that are faithfully defending the Constitution and lawful orders. If government actors are caught in between Congress and the Executive Branch you can't necessarily criminalize that. That conflict should be resolved with impeachment proceedings, not punishing underlings that followed lawful orders. This is the implication of what is known as "political question" doctrine or conflicts with Congress that are "nonjusticiable." Put another way, they could have been lawfully pardoned or otherwise protected at any time by the President. The President can "break" the law because the President has prerogatives that allow him to interpret it. Sometimes Congress is just dead wrong or they are only setting up parameters as "law" that can then be used in impeachment proceedings against EB actions. The same language can also lawfully restrict everyone else just as the plain language would lead you to believe. The President's prerogatives come directly from the Constitution and can't be impeded by Congress or the courts. Those prerogatives have the most legitimacy in areas of foreign policy and national defense. There is no conflict with those powers and the doctrines of divided government and checks and balances. That is explicitly how we organize "government" powers under those doctrines.
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  9.  @Cavallaro2376  Brian Haskins : @Indonesia America Indonesia America "From 2009 until 2017, Democrats attempted to pass multiple anti-outsourcing bills and Republicans blocked each one. " So? Everything that you think you know about the world and your "political enemies" you learned from leftwing morons. All of your dialectics are inherently mendacious because you don't know what your thought leaders are actually trying to accomplish and you have no idea what the range of dissenting points might be. Republicans are generally against interventionism other than policies that clearly support the rule of law, including legitimate national defense needs. Being pro or against "outsourcing" as controlled by DC must follow that framework. But because of the New Deal interventionist state everyone like you thinks that DC politicians must choose from this menu of fake choices that are designed to point to the supposed "wisdom" of FDR's "Brain Trusts" governing paradigms. I'm not "for" or "against" outsourcing. The rule of law protects freedom to enter in to relationships with anyone in the world. I'm for those freedoms until they erode the rule of law and national security. And then I'm about taking a minimalist approach (with respect to the protected liberties of free people) that actually solves the problem. Therefore I am against, for example, all importation of manufactured products from nations that don't have legitimate elections. And I am also against importing manufactured or high value products from nations that don't control their criminal gangs such that it negatively affects our national security and or the rule of law. Given that elections are a key component of the rule of law, I am basically suggesting that we do not trade with nations that do not also have their own legitimate rule of law government paradigms unless they are our allies and that trade supports their efforts to establish peaceful rule of law governing paradigms. When it comes right down to it that makes for some hard questions to ask. But there are clearly mistakes being made since WWII ended. Thinking is so hard for you lunatics.
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  17.  @Cavallaro2376  Brian Haskins 7 minutes ago @Indonesia America "The president of the United States is NOT above the law." You're hopeless. Who said anything about "above the law"? The police are not "above the law" eitehr but have special prerogatives need for law enforcement. Idiot. "Nixon thought he was above the law until he was forced to release tapes proving that he was aware of the Watergate cover-up. Then reality hit home and he was forced to resign from office." Nixon understood the US Constitution far better than you. Nixon in fact did not have to turn over anything. He chose to go along with an advisory ruling. The only way to force POTUS to do anything is to remove him and swear in the new POTUS that then orders whatever it is deemed as the lawful resolution/action. You don't even know how to cite historical precedents to make your points because you don't even understand your own...doctrines...or thoughts I guess we should call them. Richard Dawkins would call them "leftwing agitprop memes." "Above the law" is a meaningless term when I clearly already discussed prerogative that pertain to executive actions and any agent or office's specific legal prerogatives. PREROGATIVE, civil law. The privilege, preeminence, or advantage which one person has over another; thus a person vested with an office, is entitled to all the rights, privileges, prerogatives, &c. which belong to it. PREROGATIVE, English law. The royal prerogative is an arbitrary power vested in the executive to do good and not evil. Rutherf. Inst. 279; Co. Litt. 90; Chit. on Prerog.; Bac. Ab. h.t.
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