Call the WHite HOuse to Thank Bush for CFR!!!

[Maceman]

For what good it will do, I just called the White House switchboard (202-456-1111) and conveyed my extreme outrage at Bush for not vetoing CFR when he had the chance.

I hope you all will do the same.

BTW, the operator told me "you are not alone."

Let's shut down the WH switchboard with howls of protest.

If I wasn't still even more terrified of the Democrats than I am of the Republicans (albeit barely at this point), I would never support Bush in '04 after this.

[proud American in Canada]

f.y.i.: if any one wants to work to get this thing repealed--to have a law proposed the FIRST DAY that Congress meets again this January, here's the place to check in:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1038470/posts

Please pass this along to any Freepers you know who want to do something about this assault on the most basic of our freedoms.

[akbaines]

I sent him a letter yesterday.

[akbaines]

You're going to stop voting then?

[akbaines]

In the last few months President Bush has done quite a few things to alienate his base voters. Nevertheless I will still be voting for him. Overall I think he has been a great war time President and there is not one other candidate that I would trust our national security to. We all need to realize that the biggest issue we face is focusing on keeping the terrorists out of our country and keeping the war off our home ground. Also remember that PEOPLE ARE NOT PERFECT, they will make some decisions that are not always wise. I feel that President Bush is the Rock that we need in this war on terror and if any of you think that the terrorists and their insider advisors aren't doing everything they can to get the American people to desert the one man who is standing up to them you got another thing coming. ALL other issues pale in comparison

[WOSG]

This is a part of an international conspiracy to take away our freedoms and assualt us with bad music.

Surely this explains Sheryl Crow. I cant think of any other reason.

[WOSG]

Mr bird you are correct about the political calculus.

But there is also the political calculus that says if we wanted a president who would sign CFR, push for massive entitlement expansion, and keep increasing govt spending with pork and welfarism, we'd have voted for Gore.

This is triangulating away our freedoms. Bad policy is never good politics.

[WOSG]

Now would this be the seven judges placed by Republican Presidents on SCOTUS, or just the other two?"

It would be the removal of the two Socialist Democrat judges - Ginsburg and Breyer - appointed by Clinton, who are consistently anti-freedom and anti-Constitutional.
And the removal of the 2 Liberal RINO judges - Stevens and Souter - who are incredibly Liberal and should never have been appointed.

These 4 are the heart of the problem. OConnor never used to be this bad, I think some Liberal clerk is slipping in some cr*p in her decisions in her dotage. She has become alas a total RINO Liberal.

Kennedy at least was consistently pro 1st amendment this time.

The 3 Great Ones - Scalia, Thomas, Rehnquist - should be cloned and kept on the bench as long as possible.

[jim35]

Remember Ross Perot? All the pundits blame the first George Bush for losing the election, but it was of this "third party" candidate, that we got 8 years of Clinton! Voting for someone in an obscure unknown party to punish GW is the surest way to give Dean the presidency, then you'll see what the difference is but by then it will be too late!!!!

[Leatherneck_MT]

"To steal one from the occasional recovering liberal---it wasn't me who left the Republican Party, it was the Party that left me."

Hard to disagree with this.

[af_vet_1981]

It is time to start removing judges.

That is the only appropriate response to the judicial tyranny imposed on the Republic. Impeach and remove judges. Start slow and grow until the problem abates.

[af_vet_1981]

There is no way I will support Howard Dean or any other traitor taking the WH in 2004.

[WOSG]

You are correct that we should make sacrifices for our freedoms.

It's really not much to ask, some extra change or some time - in comparison with those who gave their *lives* for freedom.

I think though that removing yourself from the field of 2-party combat is a fine way to be wholly ineffective politically.

We Conservative Republicans need more folks like you to do battle with the RINOs and Liberal Republicans in our midst, and keep the Republican party conservative.
Dont give up on the party that has sent more conservatives to Congress, the senate and state houses than any other party. The party that has championed tax cuts, pro-life issues, that nominated and support the GOOD GUYS on the USSC - Rehnquist, Thomas, Scalia. (Just think, if we had Mondale or Dukakis as president, this would be a 9-0 vote against freedom!).

Our problem is 2-fold: Democrats who are against freedom, and RINO Republicans who follow 'me-too' liberalism to try to deflect from Democrat attacks.

One place where conservatives make a stand against RINOism in the Republican party is in the Republican Assembly organization. This works to make sure the *right* kind of republicans are nominated and supported.

http://www.al-ra.org/
http://www.virginia-gop.org/
http://www.thevanguard.org/ara/
http://www.ctra.us/ - the one I'm in, if you're in Central Tx, c'mon and join.

I'm sure there is a club in your area and if not, go ahead and start one.

[My2Cents]

Really, when? Source and link?

It appears some of our Bush-bashing friends here on FR suffer from the same malady that the Democrat candidates for President suffer from...They fantacize that Bush said something (something he never actually said), and then attack him for the supposed statement. I don't know if this tendency is the result of delusion, or is simply dishonest.

[No Blue States]

Agreed. Yeah i Remember Ross, I even liked him at 1st.

A wise freeper here taught me that the whole motive to be into politics is to win elections for your guy, what good is voting my principles if i lose? that doesnt get ANY of my agenda pushed forward. Worse it could put a radical lefty in charge. No one can satisfy all my political needs. Not Even Bush or some 3rd party.

As in the CA recall (even though a Texan doesnt have a vote in it), i learned there may be a conservative that i would like to vote for but who cant win. So i would have voted for Arnold. For the simple reason that he was the candidate closest to my beliefs who had a CHANCE to win.

Nothing but Victory (even piecemeal)for my agenda is the motive for my politics.

therefore..BUSH/CHENEY 2004

[af_vet_1981]

Our problem is 2-fold: Democrats who are against freedom, and RINO Republicans who follow 'me-too' liberalism to try to deflect from Democrat attacks.

3-fold

We need to impeach and remove judges to restrain judicial tyranny and send them a message. We need to change the rules so we can do that by referendum based on certain cases they decide.

[RuleOfLaw1]

When you can go to prison for speaking out against a federal politician 59 days before an election...if this is not an "extreme" violation of the Constitution - I don't know what is. Surely, the Founding Fathers are spinning in their graves.

[Tauzero]

"it would seem that ANY campaign finance law enacted by Congress or the states when such became the vogue in the mid-1970s would be a violation of the First Amendment"

Well, duh.

[WOSG]

Hmmmm...let's do a quick tally sheet: President Bush signed the Partial Birth Abortion Ban, the first significant roll-back of abortion rights on demand since Roe v. Wade. President Bush gave us a significant roll-back in the tax increases signed into law by his own father and Clinton. He has provided bold, courageous foreign policy leadership in this post 9/11 era. He overthrew the Taliban and Saddam Hussein. He is the first U. S. president to essentially tell the United Nations to go pound sand. He withdrew Clinton's signature on the International Criminal Court Treaty. He pulled the U.S. out of the Kyoto global warming accords. He has told our make-believe "allies," France, Russia, Germany, and Canada to go pound sand as regards Iraq. He has put the safety and security of the American people above all other issues on the too-crowded presidential plate. Although most experts say it is a matter of when, not if we will be hit again here at home, thanks to this president's leadership, we have not experienced another 9/11 or anthrax attack. Although not well-reported, his administration has made some significant improvements regarding immigration in areas where he doesn't need to go hat-in-hand to Congress. Among the improvements is a very large cut in H1B visas. (Yes, I am among those who would essentially like to see the border sealed and would even like a moritorium on legal immigration. Nevertheless, this administration has toughened immigration regs where it could under current law.) Despite all the Leftist caterwauling about the economy, and despite the terrible hit we all took on 9/11/01, this president has held steady in his economic policies. As a result, the economy looks on the verge of roaring back in '04.

Wolfstar, good list... you are right about immigration enforcement. there are improvements in the administration that are quiet victories. many other quiet victories include how we have stepped away from pro-forest-fire national forest policies, how we have made demands for pro-free-market policies and open govt in exchange for foreign aid, how we have gotten rid of radical leftists in places like the civil rights division of the DoJ, how we have enforced obscenity and other law violations, how we have put positive conservative policies in place at the FCC, FERC and in our energy policies. Lots of little things that add up to a big difference with the liberal Demos. Significant tax cuts, the first since Reagan years, is another biggie that changes things in a fundamental way, for the economy and Govt policy. To me, that is HUGE. You cant be a conservative and not want tax cuts.

[WOSG]

"Yes! He's been nominating conservatives!
To Federal Court positions. And I give him credit for that.
But there is no way he will do so with SCOTUS justices"

Bush said his favorite SCOTUS Judge was Scalia.

Mine too.

If he nominated someone close to Scalia, I'd be thrilled.

... but I'd settle for someone conservative enough that 39 Demon-crats (Kennedy, Schumer etc) want to filibuster.