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Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Will GOP put bipartisanship above Constitution?

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We are now in a kind of political no-man’s-land between an administration on its way out and a new administration taking shape. Predictions are always risky – and nowhere more so than in times like these.  What we can do, however, is assess where we are, and what some of the opportunities and dangers are.  The opportunities are many, which is to say that many things are in desperate need of changing, beginning with rebuilding our dangerously neglected and undermined military forces. The monstrosity of Obamacare needs to be gotten rid of, not just cosmetically adjusted.

Our fundamental freedoms under the Constitution are at stake in the choice of the next nominee to become a justice of the closely divided Supreme Court. We need someone with both the depth and the strength to resist the pressures and the temptations that have seduced too many supposedly “conservative” justices, over the years, into betraying constitutional principles.......Now that the Republicans have won – not only the presidency but also the Congress, as well as most governorships and state legislatures across the country – do they have the guts to do what they were elected to do?

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