Posted on 11/15/2004 1:04:53 PM PST by hinterlander
What is your way of taking care of it?
The jury is still out on that; but Specter has managed to manipulate this to the point where IF he gives them the answers they want, he's in.
You and everyone else.
That very well could be the truest statement on FR in weeks.
We are a moral country on the whole and they just do NOT "get it." Nor can I imagine any way in which they can make their case that they now "get it," can you? I have really been giving this some thought as to how they can now claim to be the party of America, Ma, and apple pie; I can't get there! (Of course, my mind doesn't work like theirs, so I may be missing something!)
Thanks for the reply. I guess I just don't see it as "backing people into a corner". Dobson's approach is exactly my own. After all the work we did to get the GOP majority into power, they owe us. We did our job, now they must do theirs -- it's that simple. From all the years I have spent as a political activist, one thing I know for sure is how these elected officials tend to immediately take their positions for granted as soon as the elections are over, and off they go doing whatever they please. That isn't going to fly this time, and it's about time they were more held to task to do their duty.
One word: agenda.
"in expectation of a particular agenda?"
In this case it's the exact same thing, isn't it?
Very wise words from someone who has fought the good fight. Thanks.
I suggest that everybody on the right side of the aisle get that message real quick - everybody, including Snow, Chafee and the other lukewarm Bush supportin' RINOs.
How about Norm Mineta?
He a civil servant?
How about that CIA director that told Bush finding WMD's was "a slam-dunk?"
Civil service a protection for fools like that?
Give us a GOOD reason Bush shouldn't have purged all the Clinton carryovers - and don't say four years wasn't enough time to find them.
Somewhere, somebody is hitting the abuse button..........LOL.
:-)
I respect Michael Barrone and the Pew Research Center, but that's simply not true. According to the actual exit polling data from 2000 and 2004, members of the so called "Religious Right" --- Christian Conservatives/Evangelicals/Born-Agains --- almost doubled their turnout in 2004 from 2000.
Just for the record.
In 2000, of the ~106 million Americans who voted, 14.84 million identified themselves as part of the Religious Right and 11.87 million voted for GWBush.
In 2004, of the ~118 million American who voted, 27.14 million identified themselves as members of the Religious Right and 21.16 million voted for PresBush.
I'd say the Religious Right was instrumental in reelecting PresBush.
You should have listened to the first hour of Rush today. He explained that given the closeness of the 2000 election and trying the whole "new tone" thing, the president was much too conciliatory to the Dems. He also said now that there has been a decisive victory the president will be more aggressive and pointed to what's going on at CIA as an example of the new aggressiveness.
For whatever else Arlen Specter has done, he deserves defeat, but I think he did us all a favor in defeating the Bork nomination:
Has anyone here read the numerous editorials authored by Bork over the last few years?
His opinions are more than just a little scary.
Not just by evangelicals, Republicans have to get good judges on the courts.
Specter isn't the key if the cloture rule is changed, but OTOH if it isn't he will be.
If Republicans don't get good judges confirmed they're through. That's just a statement of fact.
I am with you on that; it is my understanding that he HAS to provide the White House with proof that Bush will get what he wants, or there are senators waiting to pull the trigger.
As I said, I pretty much think it's a done deal, so there's not too much we can do about it; senators are a weird (creepy) breed -- and I mean ours, too; they believe they are "masters of their universe," if you will) and are always looking out for each other. I was even told that they will welcome Kerry back with open arms, regardless of the lies he has told.
Considering what he said right after the election
That was stunning, wasn't it? Talk about a king!
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