# Impeach Earl Warren **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 29, 2012, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeach-earl-warren/626658 "2012-06-29T03:41:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Batfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Batfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batfish)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeach-earl-warren/626658/121 "2012-06-30T16:07:04Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > … Democratic control of the Senate. I agree Democrats do have a majority… but _control_? I’m skeptical. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeach-earl-warren/626658/122 "2012-06-30T16:16:47Z")
I know it’s only jokes, but can we not advocate nuking the south? We should _fuel-air bomb_ them. Why the fuck should the sane people in the country have to deal with radioactive cousin-fucker particles raining down on our cities? ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeach-earl-warren/626658/123 "2012-06-30T19:49:18Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > I also never said “anyone who disagrees with me must think I’m a Republican”. I assumed YOU thought so in an earlier post, mostly due to the tone and nature of this board in general. Please, I try as hard as I might to engender a bi-partisan spirit in any discourse I might have. I also realize that the two parties are often obstructionist in nature and that it isn’t helpful. Whoa! This is the pit! No fair trying to be reasonable. If you want that kind of action, take it to Great Debates. This is where they say Fuck, what kind of Moron follows that kind of Asswipe set of beliefs? Very important distinction! Like wearing a Giants cap at a Dodger game. (General agreement, by the way. It is the _duty_ of the minority party to be obstructionist, at least to a degree. Some of us feel that the current brand of Republican obstructionism has ceased to be sufficiently moderate. They’ve lost track of the ultimate goal of seeking what is best for the whole country, and act solely upon narrow partisan self-interest. And then they have the balls to complain that Obama’s killing jobs!) ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeach-earl-warren/626658/124 "2012-06-30T20:16:06Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Whoa! This is the pit! No fair trying to be reasonable. If you want that kind of action, take it to Great Debates. This is where they say Fuck, what kind of Moron follows that kind of Asswipe set of beliefs? Very important distinction! > > Like wearing a Giants cap at a Dodger game. > > (General agreement, by the way. It is the _duty_ of the minority party to be obstructionist, at least to a degree. Some of us feel that the current brand of Republican obstructionism has ceased to be sufficiently moderate. **They’ve lost track of the ultimate goal of seeking what is best for the whole country, and act solely upon narrow partisan self-interest.** And then they have the balls to complain that Obama’s killing jobs!) 😃 Yeah. The bolded to me seems especially true. And I hate it. Nor do I understand it. Why aren’t there any modern day Henry Clays anymore? ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeach-earl-warren/626658/125 "2012-06-30T21:57:54Z")
Because Clay would likely be ousted in the primary by some (confirms forum) fucking Tea Party nutter. And branded a socialist to boot. Even if he could survive the primary, he’d likely be up against someone from the America-First-Know-Nothing-Monster-Raving-Loony-Party who would split the vote. Much safer to toe the party line in the first place — after all, as we well know, the primary duty of a politician, whatever his or her leaning, is to get elected. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeach-earl-warren/626658/126 "2012-06-30T22:29:26Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > It is the _duty_ of the minority party to be obstructionist, at least to a degree. But, it is also the duty of any conservative party not to exist, to any degree. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeach-earl-warren/626658/127 "2012-06-30T22:41:51Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > I meant federal income taxes. I have seen wildly varying reports as to what percentage of citizens actually pay taxes on their income. Which really isn’t all that pertinent to contributing a “fair share”. As it turns out, the labour of the bottom half of the country already contributes a fair share to the top earners. Even the unemployed keep things competitive since it makes it easier for an employer to kick someone out for failing to meet a certain standard. The current economic system is a trickle up one, where the richest continually grow richer. The system of taxation does not even assuage that to any great degree and the richest want to remove any mitigation of the possibility of regression. It makes more sense to look at the quality of life impact various rates of taxation > [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > I just wonder how America is going to pay for this. As other people have pointed out,socialist medicine is cheaper and insurance is still an option in other industrialised nations. The other option is just rescinding the requirement of hospitals to treat patients, which’d please the social Darwinist crowd, but would have serious effects on quality of life for other citizens. The ensuing riots, epidemics, relative deprivation and whatnot would probably lead to a far less productive workforce and a lowering of the quality of life for all Americans - though as with everything in the country, such impacts would be highly regressive (with a greater impact on the poor). One of the countries with the highest quality of life indicators (Japan) also nears top on [debt to GDP ratio](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_debt) (far higher than the US), playing a perpetual three card monte with finances. Norway gets by just fine with under half of the US’ debt to GDP ratio, socialist medicine and high quality of life indicators. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeach-earl-warren/626658/128 "2012-06-30T23:10:38Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > But, it is also the duty of any conservative party not to exist, to any degree. This is fantastic. I’m stealing it! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeach-earl-warren/626658/129 "2012-06-30T23:18:13Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > 😃 > > Yeah. The bolded to me seems especially true. And I hate it. Nor do I understand it. Why aren’t there any modern day Henry Clays anymore? Perhaps some people remember that Clay ran for president four times and always lost. And that the most famous [“Clay Compromise”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compromise_of_1850) don’t look good in hindsight. ---
**Author:** ![Philliam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/philliam/32/3011_2.png) [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeach-earl-warren/626658/130 "2012-07-01T22:30:11Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Fucking brilliant way to get in a cheapshot at the South, fucktard. If you weren’t a mod, you’d have made my ignore list for this bullshit. Bite me in fee simple absolute. I’m not a mod - you can bite me in fee tail. (I’ve got a Black’s Law Dictionary and don’t usually use just to be snarky). Get over yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeach-earl-warren/626658/131 "2012-07-01T23:34:42Z")
> [@Philliam](#): > > I’m not a mod - you can bite me in fee tail. (I’ve got a Black’s Law Dictionary and don’t usually use just to be snarky). Get over yourself. Wake me when people are biting the Statute of Trusts. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeach-earl-warren/626658/132 "2012-07-02T01:20:35Z")
> [@Philliam](#): > > I’m not a mod - you can bite me in fee tail. (I’ve got a Black’s Law Dictionary and don’t usually use just to be snarky). Get over yourself. OK. I have to know what that means. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeach-earl-warren/626658/133 "2012-07-02T01:33:48Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > No, I’m not allowed back at K-Mart. Not ever. They are…unforgiving. ☹ That’s what you get for this [crap](http://toysruscoupons.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/toysruscouponshalo.jpg). Bastard. ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeach-earl-warren/626658/134 "2012-07-02T01:39:40Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > What’s wrong with nuking them _in_ 1945? Mutually assured destruction, that’s what. [U.S. Intelligence Confirms: The Hillbillies Have the Bomb](http://www.theonion.com/articles/us-intelligence-confirms-the-hillbillies-have-the,1116/) Been saving that headline from _The Onion_ for a long time. 😃 Actually the Southerners at Oak Ridge, TN had the processed uranium in 1945. The Yankees had the plutonium at Hanford, WA. A carefully thought out separation that has kept the peace for years. ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeach-earl-warren/626658/135 "2012-07-02T02:04:21Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > … > > I’ll lay odds there will be such billboards erected within the week saying “impeach John Roberts.” In those same hotbeds of pointy-headed ignorants. What is the [Impeach John Roberts](http://www.facebook.com/pages/Impeach-John-Roberts/117568134965881) Facebook page if not the modern day billboard? Didn’t take a week for that. What do you win? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeach-earl-warren/626658/136 "2012-07-02T02:28:05Z")
Sorrow. Despair. A dark sense of forboding… ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeach-earl-warren/626658/137 "2012-07-02T21:09:04Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > OK. I have to know what that means. My take is that **Philliam** just told **Oak** to bite him and all of his descendants, forever, each generation in turn, until the end of time. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeach-earl-warren/626658/138 "2012-07-02T22:11:58Z")
> [@Iggy](#): > > What is the [Impeach John Roberts](http://www.facebook.com/pages/Impeach-John-Roberts/117568134965881) Facebook page if not the modern day billboard? > > Didn’t take a week for that. What do you win? 86 likes? :rolleyes: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeach-earl-warren/626658.md?page=6)