Jeb Bush will present Hillary Clinton with the 2013 Liberty Medal this fall in Philadelphia. “Former Secretary Clinton has dedicated her life to serving and engaging people across the world in democracy,” Bush said in a statement announcing the award. “These efforts as a citizen, an activist, and a leader have earned Secretary Clinton this year’s Liberty Medal.”
COMMENTS:
My, isn’t that nice?
Mark my words, the old-guard Republican hierarchy is already busy engineering Bush’s
Republican nomination in 2016, just as they did Mitt Romney’s and John McCain’s
nominations before.
TODAY’S QUERIES & ANSWERS:
Q. I was astonished to hear that Newt Gingrich is going to
work for CNN. What gives? (Tania ~ San Clemente, CA)
A. He’s going to host a new version of “Crossfire.” They’ll have S.E. Cupp on there with him
representing Conservatives, and Stephanie Cutter and Van Jones representing Liberals. I’m sorry, Mr. Speaker, that I championed
your candidacy. Anyone who would go on
the air with Van Jones under ANY
circumstances has lost my respect.
Q. What’s your opinion about Obama’s saying that he shouldn't
have to call Putin to get his hands on Snowden; that’s for people on lower
levels of government to do? (Wesley ~
Oroville, CA)
A. Humility is not one of Obama’s faults. Besides, when you suffer from delusions of
imperial grandeur, such a move is beneath one’s dignity. Lah, dee, dah.
Q. Justice Scalia almost went over the top with his
criticism of the Supreme Court ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act. Now that the dust has settled a bit, do you
agree? (Beau ~ Sand Point, ID)
A. There are two sides to this. One is the legal side regarding
Constitutional equality: you can’t allow heterosexual married couples to have
benefits that are denied to gay married couples.
In that regard, the Court was correct in overturning the DOMA. However, I do not believe that government
should be sticking its nose into a matter of religion, and marriage is shrouded
in religion. As to the overall gist of things
and as Justice Scalia so eloquently iterated, "Today's opinion aggrandizes
the power of the court to pronounce the law.
It will have the predictable consequence of diminishing the ‘power of
our people to govern themselves.’” He was
joined in his dissent by Justices Clarence Thomas and Chief Justice John
Roberts, while Justice Samuel Alito wrote a separate dissenting opinion.
TODAY’S QUOTE:
"Some will rejoice in today’s decision, and some will
despair at it; that is the nature of a controversy that matters so much to so
many. But the Court has cheated both sides, robbing the winners of an honest
victory, and the losers of the peace that comes from a fair defeat. We owed
both of them better." ~ Justice Antonin Scalia on the recent Supreme Court
decision regarding DOMA.
TODAY’S VIDEO:
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