Posted on 07/13/2004 10:08:31 PM PDT by hattend
Just remember that Bill Frist is not our friend, as most of the GOP is not. He's already trying to force people to buy insurance, force!
I can't stand the liberal lapdog media.
Force people to buy insurance? How?
I expected they would run for the tall grass. Principled people in Washington are few and between.
It's not Frists's fault. In part it is the consequence of the 17th amendment. The state legislatures are no longer represented in Washington DC. State governments are just one of many interest groups that congressmen and senators rely on for support in their election campaigns. The states legislatures not being represented in Washington DC must now take the inititive and pass resolutions calling for a constitutional convention.
I am interested in the House's attempts to use what is, I think, Article 3 Section 2 of the Constitution to try and remove marriage concerns from the federal courts' jurisdiction.
I wonder though, if something like this were to pass, would federal courts ultimately have the power to decide if the Congress has the power to strip them of jurisdiction over marriage. I can't see this erroneusly labeled 'conservative' Supreme Court going along with that, so bizarrely the Courts may tell the Congress that they don't have the autority to remove things from their purview.
This can't be what the Founders had in mind; that the Sup Court could have so much power over this country.
It's a typical socialist, democrat tactic, Sen Santorum.
We need to form a 527 and go after every politician who voted no on saving children from the stigma of growing up without a Real Dad or Mom.
Well I don't like that either. But I'll take his support on the marriage amendment.
We need to elect libertarian-leaning (not too much) CONSERVATIVES. Not moderates.
and it is Frists fault. HE proposed it, nobody made him.
It's not. I strongly recomend David Barton's Original Intent for a complete exposition on the subject.
Santorum is a conservative. He was mocking the left.
Or describing them to a "T"
Queers have no business raising children. It's child abuse, pure and simple.
What they do in their own bedrooms, well I don't care because I don't want to spend my tax money to warehouse them in state or federal prison cells.
I agree. Can you imagine what a disaster that would be? We would end up with a Soviet-style constitution that grants as "rights" all sorts of welfare programs and that would deny the freedom of speech, religion, RKBA, property rights, etc. The hard left would take over any Constitutional Convention because they have convictions, the mainstream left would go along to force in their pet issues, and half of the Republicans would meekly give up, I'm afraid.
yup. The GOP is just a sad waste of oxygen at this point.
Time to check who you want to have in the congress....
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