Senate Panel OKs Measure Defining a Journalist
This is a lion posing as a house pet.
Say good bye free speech, freedom of the press, we hardly knew you...
Before you go freaking out, you should think for a minute. A law like this will probably be considered unconstitutional.
So, I'm trying to understand why this is necessary - before this, was there an issue?
Yes...there was an issue for the Senate Democrats. They want to be able to control the media.
Senate Panel OKs Measure Defining a Journalist
This is a lion posing as a house pet.
Say good bye free speech, freedom of the press, we hardly knew you...
So, I'm trying to understand why this is necessary - before this, was there an issue?
Yes. I would bet that this is being proposed because of wikileaks. Many are saying that they are not really news journalists in order to find a way to prosecute them for reporting on the happenings of our government without letting the 1st Amendment getting in the way.
Like I told Guy, I thought Obamacare was too, but, you see where we're at with that...
Yeah, I thought that way about Obamacare too, heh, silly me...
Yes, silly you. If you thought the Affordable Care Act was unconstitutional then you didn't understand how the constitution works.
Wrong. The fact that it was a tax was well known and the expected result by people who understand the relevant issues.the issue at bar wasn't what the decision was based upon. The SCOTUS made the god damn law up as it went along. It should have been deemed unconstitutional and sent back and refiled as a tax not reinterpreted as one.
Wrong. The fact that it was a tax was well known and the expected result by people who understand the relevant issues.
It was well known to people in the know. I can tell you that i myself saw the outcome years in advance. Not because I have any prophetic abilities, just because I applied some basic understanding of constitutional law. The role of the supreme court is uphold the will of the legislature if at all possible. The fact that it functions as a tax means it is constitutional, even if it is not called a tax. There was no basis to strike down the law.Sure it was buddy...:thumbs:
You and Judge Wapner had it all figured out...
Before we [re]define "Journalist" - shouldn't we re[define] "Journalism" first?Senate Panel OKs Measure Defining a Journalist
This is a lion posing as a house pet.
Say good bye free speech, freedom of the press, we hardly knew you...
Wrong. The fact that it was a tax was well known and the expected result by people who understand the relevant issues.
Like these guys?
This might come as a surprise to you, but there is often a difference between what politicians say and reality.
It was impolitic to call it a tax because enacting it would then be characterized as "raising taxes." But that's merely wordplay. The substance of it is a tax, it really doesn't matter what Obama called it.
So, your sense is that the President lied?
Yeah, pretty much. I would say he bull****ted.
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