Democrats push Cass Sunstein nomination (Hunting regs)

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The problem is in who gets to pick the 50 milllion. 

Simple, all the ones who voted for BO, there is no picking, they CHOSE.

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Judge Napolitano on Fox News, mentioned he is farther left than Ruth Ginsberg, if nominated to the SCOTUS.

He's written many books, here's a good one:

The Second Bill of Rights: Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More Than Ever (Basic Books 2006) (paperback edition).

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2008/10/021903.php

Tom Palmer usefully explicated the political thought underlying Sunstein's argument in his review of the book. By contrast with the doctrine of rights conferred by God and nature set forth in the Declaration of Independence, Sunstein holds:

    You owe your life -- and everything else -- to the sovereign. The rights of subjects are not natural rights, but merely grants from the sovereign. There is no right even to complain about the actions of the sovereign, except insofar as the sovereign allows the subject to complain. These are the principles of unlimited, arbitrary, and absolute power, the principles of such rulers as Louis XIV. Intellectuals have assiduously promoted them; think of Jean Bodin and Thomas Hobbes.

Thus Palmer deems Sunstein a "new intellectual champion of absolutism" who advances "the radical notion that all rights -- including rights usually held to be 'against' the state, such as the right to freedom of speech and the right not to be arbitrarily imprisoned or tortured -- are grants from the state."

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He has views that would make him unworthy of a blindfold, and as an academic elitist, and now confirmed to a position of power,
thanks to BHO, this country is declining faster and faster into the abyss..

He is far more dangerous to this country, than just hunting regs....

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"  You owe your life -- and everything else -- to the sovereign. The rights of subjects are not natural rights, but merely grants from the sovereign. There is no right even to complain about the actions of the sovereign, except insofar as the sovereign allows the subject to complain."

This is true, but we do not have a "Sovereign, and we are not SUBJECTS. This is the inherent difference between "Subjects" and Citzens.

Not sure what this means but ;

Posted by Ilya Somin:
Cass Sunstein Confirmed:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_09_06-2009_09_12.shtml#1252619732


   Cass Sunstein's nomination to be head of the Office of Information and
   Regulatory Affairs has been [1]approved by the Senate in a 57-40 vote.
   Sunstein is one of the nation's leading scholars on regulatory issues,
   and there is no question that he is well-qualified for the job. At the
   same time, I also think that Sunstein is wrong about a great many
   important issues, especially in the field of constitutional law.

   That said, I believe that the conservative opponents of Sunstein's
   confirmation are missing the fact that most of his really
   controversial views have little connection to the office he was
   nominated for. On the regulatory issues covered by OIRA, Sunstein is
   actually less statist and relatively more sympathetic to free market
   approaches than are most other liberal Democrats. For example, in his
   book [2]Nudge, Sunstein urges policies that are less coercive and
   paternalistic than those promoted by the existing regulatory state.
   Sunstein also is aware of the serious public choice problems with
   regulation, which he has written about in several publications.
   Obviously, he is still far more supportive of regulation than I am.
   But the relevant comparison from a libertarian point of view is that
   between Sunstein and anyone else likely to be appointed to the same
   position by Obama.