Posted on 01/18/2007 7:47:15 AM PST by neverdem
Bush did not weasel - read your statement of his comment.
McCain put his finger to the wind!
Vote? Don't you mean veto? The President doesn't get a "vote".
"We know it's unconstitutional. Why doesn't anyone say that?"
So was the CFR law. Still is.
"We have no one in Washington other than George Bush, the most hated man in the U.S.A."
Then conservatives have no one in Washington.
You're way off base. You, along with a number of others, don't appreciate how conservative this president is. Since 1932, there has been only one prez as conservative or more conservative than Bush, and that's Reagan. Ike, Nixon, Bush I, and Ford were all moderate Republicans. Kennedy was a somewhat conservative Democrat. Some people expect that every conservative pol will agree with them 100% of the time. On abortion, gun rights, taxes, judges, and other issues, they don't come any more conservative. Even though he's a big govt guy, I guarantee you that he's further to the right than any future president will be.
"He admit he's " = "You admin he's"
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When judging someone's political bent, you should look at the entire spectrum of their views. The Prez is a staunch social conservative and a major tax cutter. That makes him conservative. If he believes in spending more money on fields like education, so be it. Even conservatives must be pragmatic. According to your rationale,someone like Rudy Giuliani could could be considered a right winger if he believed in small govt and had liberal social views. Just as long as he were a " fiscal conservative", right?
Among his many other faults, not the least of which is that he's two-faced, McCain hates the First Amendment and will do anything he can to stifle free speech. He's a nightmare.
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Ah! I believe that would be McCain-Feingold.
And picking Miers wipes out all of the other conservative judges he selected, right? Like Janice Rogers Brown and Priscilla Owen. Like Sam Alito? Roberts? Not to mention dozens of others throughout the federal court system. Face it babe, that was the weakest part of your argument. And calling Islam a "religion of peace" is neither here nor there when assessing someone's political stripes. That was something stated for consumption in the Muslim world. After all, since we have troops in their thousands in two Muslim nations, it makes sense to reassure people of that faith that our fight isn't with their religion, but with extremists. Think about that.--Mark
And don't forget, Reagan had big deficits too, but our deficit is only 1.9% of GDP right now, where as in the 80s it averaged over 4%.
I have a certain nervousness about candidates who slide to the right to position themselves for a primary. I prefer candidates who START there and are firmly rooted.
"Imagine what he could have gotten done if he had had support of our elected GOP congress? But, lo, they prefer their buddies in congress and will squander their time attempting to please the democrats."
I'm no fan of the GOP. Actually, that's understating the point. In my view the GOP is the one organization in America most responsible for frustrating the hopes and aspirations of conservatives. Of course there are individual Republicans who are quite good and whom I admire.
One contrast between the Democrats and the Republicans is that my party does actually make some attempt to represent it's left wing constituency. The same cannot be said about the GOP and it's conservative constituency. Given the choice between a Democratic division in front of me and Republican division behind me, I'll take the Democratic division in front of me.
"What a waste of an opportunity, what a waste of the conservative donated money. All they are fit for is to pad their own pockets, to further their own careers and to undercut our agenda."
Pretty much. And it got to the point where their craven opportunism was noticed by even the most uninterested voters. That's the single biggest reason why the GOP lost the election.
It's interesting how the lamestream media as well as conservatives have bought into the lie that it was the war in Iraq that cost the GOP the 2006 election. The media's own election polls indicated that the biggest issue on voters minds was not Iraq, but corruption. But that seems to have been conveniently forgotten by a left wing that wants to retreat from Iraq and by a GOP that doesn't want to focus more attention on it's own internal mess.
"We probably would do better to quote the First Amendment exactly:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Thanks for posting. I like it so much, I posted it again!
And to think one of the founding fathers thought the Bill of Rights weren't necessary, since they were "obvious" from the rest of the Constitution. I shudder to think of what this nation would be like without them.
What is "obvious" changes over time.
And if you honestly think that trading Sosa to the Cubs was an honest answer, I've got a bridge to sell you...
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