Bush comment on the USSC Eminent Domain decision:

[NewYorkerfromMass]

There isn't one. Yet.

However, George W. Bush should be made to publicly comment on the decision.
Because he is the poster boy of private corporations who personally benefitted from eminent domain.
Yes. He should be made to go on record to either defend the decision, putting himself at odds with his base- or to attack it- making himself into the biggest hypocrite in the solar system.

STOP talking about everything else and ask him this.
STOP talking about Rove.
STOP talking about DSM.

We should demand Bush go on record as to whether he agrees or disagrees with the decision- because either way he is screwed.
Make this a priority. Today.

[KansDem]

1. Here's some ammo...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3930110&mesg_id=3930110

Important info, although still a self-promoting plug!...:blush:

[bahrbearian]

3. Thanks

[cthrumatrix]

2. SILENCE speaks volumes ---- when they are upset they "spin"

[NewYorkerfromMass]

4. Dammit! This is a "Deer in the Headlights" opportunity

I can sense the fear- they SOOOOOOOOOO want to avoid this.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

5. link to other thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3936728

[Czolgosz]

6. I posted this elsewhere, but I'm re-posting it here because this should be

something we ALWAYS bring up whenever we discuss eminent domain.

So as far as I can tell,

1. The Republican dominated court wrote an opinion
2. which was signed by a majority of Republicans
3. which favored big businesses over individuals.

Which part of this is surprising to you?

This is business as usual.

Take the interesting example of one underachieving oilman from west Texas. This is a guy who drove a few oil companies into the ground and then wrongly used his insider knowledge to avoid taking the financial loss personally and ultimately violated SEC rules about reporting the matter. Turns out, this guy was a failure at everything he touched, but his daddy was a big shot politician.

The Texas Rangers baseball team wanted to build a new stadium in Arlington, Texas, and they wanted the government to take land away from Texas families to build the stadium. But the Texas Rangers didn't have the political clout to do this until they came up with the genius idea of selling part of the team (for pennies on the dollar, it was a real sweetheart deal) to this failed oilman with the politically connected daddy. This was basically a Texas version of the deal where the Libyan government hired Billy Carter to help them negotiate the purchase of transport planes while Jimmy Carter was president.

This deal completely screwed the Mathes family out of their land in Arlington, Texas. In fact, the Mathes family didn't even get a one fifth of the fair market value for their land which they were kicked off.

The result? Well, the failed oilman was well paid for helping screw the Mathes family out of their land. The Texas Rangers got the failed oilman $14 million for the part of the team it sold him for only $600,000 (which is a hell of a lot bigger payoff than Billy Carter ever got). In 1993, the Houston Chronicle newspaper asked the failed oilman if he deserved credit for the stadium, he said "When all those people in Austin say, 'He ain't never done anything,' well, this is it."

I don't have to tell you who the failed oilman was, do I?