Even ultra-conservative Scalia to the right of Gohmert and Tenthers

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The question of earmarks came up, whether or not the cons utionality of earmarks would be considered cons utional [sic],” Bachmann told reporters

( for a lawyer, Mic e has the Gift of Silver Tongue!

"cons utionality .. would be considered cons utional" )

“It’s up to Congress how you want to appropriate, basically,” Scalia told the members, according to Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX). “He pointed out historically, like when Jefferson was president, [Congress] said here’s a big pot of money, you decide where it goes, and Jefferson ended up paying up a big hunk of it to the Barbary Pirates.”

“He said, ‘States rights? Fuhgeddaboudit!’” said freshman Rep. Joe Walsh (R., Ill.), a self-described “tea-party guy” who came to Washington “to storm the gates.”

Mr. Walsh mentioned a couple of other surprises, including Justice Scalia’s view that the line-item veto, desired by some conservatives, is uncons utional.

Moreover, “stare decisis—he’s okay with that,” Mr. Walsh said, using the Latin term for following legal precedent. . . .

Freshman Rep. Steve Southerland (R., Fla.) asked about the cons utionality of the Obama administration’s so-called czars. Justice Scalia said the president is en led to hire advisers, and if that’s what czars were, there was little problem

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/01/25/scalia-tentherism/

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I guess that crazy Bachmann and tea bagging assholes weren't expecting such "lessons" from Scalia.

Of course, Scalia overturned 100 years of stare decisis by voting Corporate-Americans the right to free speech to corrupt elections and disenfranchise Human-Americans.

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He has a point with most of those issues cited; but yeah, the corporate one was about as activist as one could get.

And lol Bachmann -- why the do Republicans think it's a good idea to have her respond to the State of the Union address? Or have they just given up after two miserable failures. Or is it a George Costanza "do the opposite" gambit?

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not to start another thread on Mic e O'Bachmann

Bachmann: Founding fathers ‘worked tirelessly’ to end slavery

"But we also know that the very founders that wrote those do ents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States," Bachmann added, claiming "men like John Quincy Adams... would not rest until slavery was extinguished in the country."

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/b...essly-slavery/