Posted on 03/21/2002 3:39:09 AM PST by mountaineer
I've wondered if some of those stirring things up and expressing such outrage are actually disrupters from the 'dark side'. They would do anything to lower W's ratings in the polls.
Well, if you live in the country, you don't really have a choice. The SCOTUS is the only constitutionally empowered branch to adjudicate. Bush has to execute laws-- even if he disagrees with them or their constitutionality. The only branch the public respects on adjudication is the SCOTUS. Would you believe Clintoon or Al Gore or Tom Daschle if they declared legislation constitutional? Of course not, and neither would most Americans.
This bill has been around for like 8 years. It is not going any where. If Bush vetoed it, the Democrats and McCain would spend the next months up to November talking about how that politicians who are pupperts of corporate interests (Bush, Senate and House GOPers who voted against it) don't want the legislation. They wouldn't try to fix the bill. They want this as an issue more than anything.
Imagine if this November, the midterms go as they have historically for the past 70 years (except for a year of FDR's and Clintoon's administration) and both the House and Senate go Democrat. Imagine if Gore wins the electoral vote and not just the popular vote in 2004. These aren't far-fetched. Gore would sign this law in Feb. of 2005 and we'd be right where we are now-- with the SCOTUS having to kill this. The GOP wanted line item veto, but SCOTUS killed it (do you hear people campaign on line item veto anymore?). The SCOTUS killed separate, but equal, they killed gun-free school zones in 1995. A President can't kill an issue and Congress can't. Only SCOTUS.
McCain is going to have a legacy of authoring partially unconstitutional legislation. Bush in his statement on the bill said that he thinks there are questions of constitutionality on this that SCOTUS has to rule on.
525 posted on 3/22/02 3:48 AM Pacific by GraniteStateConservative
And if you're still down about all the vitiol, read last night's Daily Does from rintense; we had some GOOD discussions about Bush and CFR.
Has Spring sprung yet in the Western Carolinas?
Thanks for the link.
With 70's and even 80 degree days recently, spring just came. Maples are turning red, rose bushes are budding,pussy willows are blooming as are buttercups, narcissus, forsythia, breath-of-spring. My iris, day lilies, and caladia are coming up too....plus energetic weeds. No azealias yet, however. I've seen a couple of dandelions and violets as well. My sap also rises in the spring.
However, I think people have their undies way too far in a knot over this. I'm not about to bail out on Bush even though I think he blew this big time. H*ll, that's why we're a team and all in this together - our goal is to defeat the Dims, not fracture into a thousand different splinter groups so that they kick the tar out of us in the next election.
I need another Mimosa.
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