[Texasforever]

...until the court ruled that law unconstitutional as well. So, tell me, where's the difference?

We don't have to worry about that now do we? The fact is that the democrats put this bill up as veto bait for the 2002 election to have an issue to run on and it backfired on them big time. It is better to win than to just talk loud.

[Fraulein]

Again, is it okay to intentionally violate the oath of office -- to sign a bill, like CFR, that the President knew was unconstitutional -- simply because the end justified the means? It seems to me that Bush silenced the dems only at the cost of going on public record as having supported the legislation. There are lots of voters out there who read those headlines, without understanding the so-called 'strategy' behind it, and that may actually end up doing damage to Bush in the long run. At the very least I think that should be a worry.