Alert: Senate to vote on radical Koh nomination
The Right’s best legal minds have been exposing radical leftist Stuart Koh, President Obama’s State Department legal adviser nominee, for months.
On Wednesday morning, the Senate votes.
From the folks at No Koh:
Harold Koh has been nominated to be the State Department Legal Adviser, a position that would make him the voice of the United States around the world on international legal issues. Koh is, however, a major champion of “transnationalism” – the belief that Americans should use foreign law and the views of international organizations to interpret our Constitution and determine our policies. He believes that the United States needs international permission in order to defend itself, even from imminent threats. Koh has gone so far as to refer to the United States as part of an “axis of disobedience” – along with Iran, North Korea, and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq – in reference to America’s alleged repeated violations of international law.
Where we are: The Senate vote on Koh is scheduled to take place Wednesday morning, June 24th. Because Senate Majority Leader Reid has filed a motion to invoke what is known as “cloture” – which would limit debate on Koh’s nomination, his supporters will need sixty Senators to vote in favor of the motion on Wednesday morning. If Koh gets sixty yes votes, he will effectively be confirmed for the State Department Legal Adviser post.
The number for the Senate switchboard – which can transfer you to the offices of both your Senators – is (202) 224-3121.
Please let your Senators know your views on this nomination.
Take time to make a call and make your voices heard.
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God, this Administration makes me sick.
How did our country produce so many anti-American bastards?
Liberal education endoctrination programs…courtesy of the NEA lobbyists and your US Government.
O/T – still waiting for a thread on the Babs Boxer “call me senator” fiasco.
Well, sorry you missed it.
I HAD to fix that…
Not cool. Choose another word, please.
Harold not Stuart
On June 23rd, 2009 at 11:20 pm, RogerCfromSD said:
God, this Administration makes me sick.
How did our country produce so many anti-American bastards?
IT is not that there are so many, just that Obama knows all of them.
How did our country produce so many anti-American bastards?
Good question and no easy answers, my best SWAG is a combination of: the 60’s children are in charge of the colleges, and a move from education to indoctrination.
Hey what does it matter if little suzy can’t read but can put a femdom on while little paul can put a condom for some safe sex.
Unfortunately the great masters of literature of Plato, Shakespere, et al have been replaced by Tupac, Mary Angelou and Dice.
GSP
“This is Sparta!”
P.S. Retfireman #5 is correct; I live next door to a group home and while they may be mentally challenged they are the best neighbors I have ever had.
Republicans and if there are any left, Democrats with some residual brain function, need to block this disgrace Koh. They need to do with him what the liberals did to hundreds of Bush nominees.
Refuse to allow an up or down vote. Shove their obstructionism right back in their pathetic faces.
Are transcripts available from the Koh nomination hearings? It would be interesting to see how he responded to questions concerning this ‘transnationalism’. Certainly, he was asked about it by the Senators on the committee.
Found this quote from the flow of links provided, I really like it.
Ooops, my bad, forgot attribution –
we conservatives sat in our recliners, thinking “as long as it doesn’t mess with my life…who cares.”
The next question should be, is posting our outrage on a blog going to satisfy us?
Obviously not, as evidenced by the tea parties. And they are just the beginning.
As I recall… I’ve spent very little time, if any, in a recliner. For the most part, I’ve been working to support my family and doing those things that are required in day-to-day life. Including voting for those people that share my ideals and being somewhat vocal about the related issues.
But if I understand your point… no… most conservatives haven’t spent a lot of time at protests or looking for ways to con gullible young people into going to protests “to oppose the establishment”.
As was stated here often, most people here have little free time to wander down to DC to march on a specific date.
And while there may be a degree of “as long as it doesn’t mess with my life” going on, I don’t agree that this is the predominant attitude among conservatives.
I’m not sure what you mean by satisfy, but posts here do serve a purpose. Yes, it lets us vent some amount of frustration. But it also lets us hear the thoughts of others and reminds us that the whole country hasn’t gone mad.
And more importantly, it reminds us that we need to be involved as much as possible to prevent forces that want to change this country into a fascist nightmare from reaching that unstated goal.
I don’t just write on this blog, I also write my congressmen, sign petitions, attend tea parties and talk to everyone I can to enlighten them. I’ve converted my entire family to conservatism and 2 of them are teenagers, very conservative.
It helps to read blogs and vent to make sure I’m not just totally “out there”. I get your point though, we have to do more than just vent we have to be active in some form.
I already wrote to my senator (Mel Martinez) last month. Naturally, I received a computer generated response letter in my snail mail. I gave the guy a succinct description of WHY Harold Koh should be voted against, and yet Martinez told me that he would bring, “an interesting viewpoint” and that he was “qualified”. I paraphrased most of that but…Really? REALLY, Mel?
How about doing us all a favor and go crawl into a hole somewhere? The guy either NEVER votes, or stabs his constituents in the back. I hope my state is smart enough to vote in Marco Rubio as Senator in 2010, rather than the “Republican” Charlie Crist.
Simply put: Because of the effectiveness of psychological operations conducted by the Marxists over the last 100 years or so. Their aim was to take over the cinema (e.g. sensuality cartel), state-run education (e.g. illiteracy cartel), and infiltrate the church. How do you think they did?
“By psychopolitics our chief goals are effectively carried forward. To produce a maximum of chaos in the culture of the enemy is our first most important step. Our fruits are grown in chaos, distrust, economic depression and scientific turmoil. … With it you can erase our enemies as insects… Use the courts, use the judges, use the Constitution of the country, use its medical societies and its laws to further our ends. … And bring to Earth, through Communism, the greatest peace Man has ever known.” ~ Lavrenti Beria, Lenin University, in a 1933 address to a group of American/Marxist Psychology Students
“The family in crisis produces the attitudes which predispose men for blind submission.” ~ Max Horkheimer, former President of the Frankfurt School (Marxist think-tank)
“Literacy is the greatest obstacle to socialism.” ~ John Dewey (“Father of Progressive Education”; taught by G. Stanley Hall, who drew greatly from Ernst Haekal’s erroneous ideas dealing with embryo development)
“To prepare society for psychological control, the very soul of the individual must be destroyed in its youth by disturbing it with evil via forced schooling and media.” ~ György Lukács (learned from Dewey)
“I saw the revolutionary destruction of society as the one and only solution to the cultural difficulties [Christianity].” ~ György Lukács
“A quiet revolution can be dispersed throughout a culture over a period of time to destroy it from within. Mass psychology and media can break the traditions, beliefs and morals and the will of a nation so there is no possibility of resistance.” ~ Antonio Gramsci
“Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.” ~ Antonio Gramsci
“The civilized world has been thoroughly saturated with Christianity for 2,000 years and a culture based on this religion could only be captured from within. By winning cultural hegemony, men could be made to love their servitude.” ~Antonio Gramsci
“Until man is convinced that the world has been abandoned by God, there will be no revolution.” ~ György Lukács
“Of all the arts, the motion picture is the most important.” ~Vladimir Lenin
“This weapon [cinema], which cries out to be used, is the best instrument for political propaganda, which cuts into the memory and may be made a possible source of revenue.” ~ Leon Trotsky
“We are obliged… to make amusement a weapon of collective education. The cinema competes with the church. This rivalry may become fatal for the church. The cinema liberates you from the need of crossing the church door. Here is an instrument we must secure at all costs.” ~ Severneya Pravda
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
I think that sums it up pretty well
That is absolutely chilling! I am picturing a theater full of teenagers watching a “propaganda” film aimed at their age-group, all staring at the screen like a bunch of zombies, taking it all in like little computers being downloaded with junk. Multiply that by millions and there you have it. The brainwashing of our youth. It has been done and we are paying the price.
Koh may be to the left of MM (is it possible to be to the right of MM?), but he’s solidly in the center of US legal thinking. He was agreeing with a Supreme Court ruling in saying that foreign laws should influence court thinking. The UN charter, which the US has agreed to be bound by and therefore has the force of law within the US, says that no member country may invade another without explicit authorization. It is a stretch to say that the existing UN resolution authorizes an invasion.
This man represents American legal thinking. That doesn’t mean he represents your thinking or the thinking of the Heritage Foundation.
lgm – do you believe in absolutes?
Besides Koh, Anthony Kennedy seems vaguely Tranzi, possibly because he vacations in Europe a lot. Ginsburg is hard core transnational, believing international treaties (even ones not ratified by the US), laws and case precedent are at least the equal of the US Constitution, and I suspect Sotomayor also leans Tranzi.
Hmmm, the Chinese and Russians have vetoes on the UNSC.
Ergo, not matter what the threat, or transgression, the UN will never authorize force against the Chinese or Russians, or their client states, like North Korea or Iran. Iraq was a client state of France, another nation with a veto.
Only a complete f-ing moron would put “The Global Test” of the UN ahead of American national security.
BTW, outside the Security Council, in the General Assembly, the UN has plenty of time to criticize the one democracy in the Middle East, but rarely, if ever, criticizes true dictatorships.
that pseudo man reid invoked cloture says alot, and this country should never interpret the Constitution based of what foreign laws say or what international organization’s believe the world should be doing. the US has helped most of those foreign countries that now have very twisted views of the world and how it should be run. interesting since most of the countries that push the hardest, were little more than fodder to invading forces and their views of the world would not even be their own, if the US had not gotten involved.
So lets apply the forigen law from Saudi Arabia that women should be forced not to drive.
Just one example of why your view LGM is complete crap and proves you to be anti-constitution
lgm…We are a sovereign nation!!! The laws of other countries do not apply here. What part of that don’t you understand? Would you really like other countries to be able to tell us what to do and what laws we must abide by? And is the U.S. actually bound by some U.N. Charter before our own laws and possibly against our own interests? Highly doubtful. If everything thing you claim you want this country to do should come to pass, you would be very very oppressed and would not like the result. Would you then re-think your moronic viewpoint? Or are you just too far gone into moonbat country to be able to comprehend this? These people do not have our best interests at heart. When are you going to wake up?
lgm is apparently off trying to figure out what an absolute might be.
LGM please provide rationale for letting the UN charter trump the US constitution. Thanks.
http://zinalaws.tripod.com/ZinaLaws/
Hey LGM, lets apply THIS law in the USA.
GOOD one sonofdy…
That will be the day…
Laws against fornication? The entire city of Hollywood, California would disappear into the prison system. Hmmm…not a bad idea.
The mark of a true troll is he disappears when asked a question he can’t answer.
BTW, has “I hate my country” been banned yet? That is by far the most annoying of all.
LGM exactly what part of the UN charter should over-ride what part of the US constitution? Which do you think should be the ultimate document controling this country?
Come on, let us know.
Oh no, that was waterspout. He got banned at the end of last year but he was WAAAAYYYY over the top.
Oh, can’t do anything about North Korea, the Chinese won’t approve.
North Korea threatened Wednesday to “wipe the United States off the map”.
So, the Tianemen Square approach to peaceful political demonstrations is perfectly legal in the USA. Glad to know you’re such an intellectual heavyweight. Glad to know you will help safeguard liberty.
we were offered squishy, dem lite candidates from the G.O.P. to combat the left wing goal to make America a socialist beckon in he!!.
So, if North Korea wipes one of our cities off the map, would Obama then do something? Somehow, I doubt it. He is a worthless tool of George Soros and Soros won’t lift a finger to protect this country. I’m glad Soros is so old, if you get my meaning. But unfortunately, the damage he has done is lasting.
The USSR and its American fellow travellers have been hard at work since at least the 1930s to subvert the US, and have done a darned effective job at it.
Did you know Henry Wallace almost became President during World War 2? He was replaced as FDR’s VP before the 1944 election by Truman because Democrat party officials, worried about FDR’s health, didn’t want a Communist on the ticket. Before serving 1941-45 as VP, Wallace had been FDR’s Ag Secretary, toured Stalin’s Soviet Union, and fell in love with Stalinism.
He split from the Dems in 1948 to form ‘The Progressive Party’, opposing the Dem’s anti-Soviet policies. George McGovern was a campaign volunteer, and Wallace’s campaign chair was an NKVD agent, and Wallace knew, and approved.
The second generation of Communists started taking control after the 1968 elections, and by 1972 were able to nominate McGovern.
Don’t blame the national GOP for squish Republicans like McCain. That was a product of open primaries, like New Hampshire. The state parties need to amend the rules.
It’ll be worse in 2012, the Dems won’t be voting in their primaries, Obama as incumbent will face little opposition unless he has completely and obviously screwed the pooch and is unelectable.
Obama’s deputies will direct their people which Republican will be easiest to beat, and the Dems will vote in the open primaries in droves.
As flawed as McCain was, he still should have won, because Obama was ‘The Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers’, an America hating Communist, but the Obama press lackies refused to investigate Obama’s extreme leftism, his ties to ACORN, or his ties to Communist and Palestinian terrorists, and allowed Obama to portray himself as a non-political super-bright post-racial rock star.
conservativesRus said (#27):
Absolutely never say never. What brought this on?
b-cat said (#36):
Influence does not mean determine. Lots of what courts do is determine what is “reasonable and proper”. Judges look to reasonable and proper opinions on these matters that come from advanced thinkers inside and outside out borders. The hardest core strict constructionist can’t think that a robot can interpret the constitution.
That is precisely why we have a Constitution, to provide a clear course as to what is reasonable and proper. You throw that away at your own peril. You list judges and “advanced thinkers” as though that is not at all subjective. Just who are these advanced thinkers that we are to all hold in such high esteem?
LGM, I not you did not answer any of the questions reguarding the constitution vs the UN charter. Or any of the questions about sovernity.
I wonder why. Did the talking points memo you cut and paste from not cover that?
So if you get the right judge, using tanks to disperse dissidents is AOK with you????
It would appear that a “living, breathing” Constitution is no longer enough, doesn’t it?
EXCEPT – why on earth does the national party let state(s) that don’t (or haven’t) voted R get to decide who the candidate should be. If NH had to produce R electoral votes or lose their head of the line primary spot, I think you would get different results.
So if you believe in absolutes – they why on earth do you believe in “squishy” law? Try as you might, you CAN NOT have it both ways.
sorry – #46 – they -> then
65 Votes for Koh. I want to know who the 4 or 5 treasonous bastards are.
I expect treason from the 58 or 59 Demonrats that work in the Senate.
I certainly do blame the GOP for offering up nothing but squishy Republicans, there were no hard nosed Republicans running, none. Not asking for perfection from them all, but at least come close to what the GOP is suppose to stands for.
Agree the open primaries were a big problem and loom to be even bigger in years to come. Now who does that responsibility fall on, maybe the Republican State Committees for allowing such nonsense in the 1st place.
This is a fight to save our country, it is not time to be fence sitting and trying to appease everyone…fight and fight hard just like the dems have done and will do.
Duncan Hunter seemed good on the issues to me. Paid for law school with the GI Bill after serving in Vietnam. Pro-border security.
I sent his campaign money. CNN et al ignored him at the debates.
The GOP doesn’t select candidates. If they did, Ron Paul wouldn’t be one of them. People file papers, and enter.
You need money or name recognition, and it helps if the media likes you. All worked in favor of McCain, especially as the other clear RINO, Giuliani, badly managed his campaign and the people who either were or at least claimed to be conservative split the vote. The open primaries were the bad icing on the bad cake, as far as giving it to McCain.
Look for Collins or Snowe to run in 2012, and look for the Obama team to direct their supporters to vote for them in New Hampshire. Team Obama will quietly support the Republican most noxious to the base. KoS and DU will make it clear who the young socialists should vote for.
IMHO, Texas or Oklahoma should start the primary season. Not a once conservative state polluted by Massholes like New Hampshire, that allows cross-over voting.
I want to know which 4 or 5 Republicans voted for cloture over the Koh nomination.
I can guess, the two Maine ladies. McCain is a little less squishy since his loss. I don’t think it is him.
Whoever voted for transnationalism and against the US Constitution needs to be targetted for primary defeat.
In the end, every Democrat* and eight Republicans voted for cloture on Harold Koh’s nomination for legal adviser to the State Department. The Republicans: Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), Mel Martinez (R-Fla.), Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and George Voinovich (R-Ohio). Three of them — Gregg, Martinez, and Voinovich — are retiring in 2010. All of them except for Alexander and Hatch represent states won by President Obama last year.
WTH happened to Hatch and Lugar?
Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul,I had to step away for a few hours. I assume your last few comments were directed at me. I should have been more specific when I criticized the “squishy” Republicans. That being said, your right there were three quite solid conservatives in the race initially. Two didn’t have much of chance due to as you say, the open primaries. That would have been Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo. The other being Fred Thompson, who campaigned like he wasn’t sure he wanted to win…maybe that’s he’s southern laid back way, but it didn’t sell.
The GOP may not select the candidates, but they sure can push and promote “their boys” like McCain, along with having some control over these “open primaries”.
Hatch should have retired 4 terms ago, that was he original pledge, two terms and retired, guess the good life was too good to go back home. He’s been going left since the amnesty debacle. The rest are RINO’s from the start.