many conservatives beginning to care more about power than principles
What I saw in '94 was great chortling of the Liberals as they perceived that they were about to get a strong majority and would finally get control and make the people do this and that. Oh, yeah. Such happiness!
I don't see the Conservatives doing any such thing. What I see is Conservatives strung out over the 50-50 chance that we are going to go back to the Democrat majority and find our natural and Constitutional rights eroding at a rapid pace again. We are close to the razor's edge right now, and we could just slip right over and end up in either 1984 or Brave New World or Walden II, or all of those collectivist, socialist Utopias put together.
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Here's something I wish conservatives would undestand. The Republican congress, both Senate and House, and especially the Senate because of its thin Republican majority, have STOPPED HOLDING OPEN HEARINGS on bills, have shut out the opposing party from conference committees, have radically cut out the deliberate aspect of legislation. This is terrible for the country--and terrible for conservatives. If you really don't trust Democrats as much as you all say you don't trust Democrats, what happens, as is eventually possible given the normal cyclical nature of poltiics, when the Democrats take back control of Congress and continue the anti-democratic precedents the Republicans have set?
It's the same argument for NOT TORTURING--because if you get captured, you have no moral force in keeping THEM FROM TORTURING YOU.
I repeat. The longest the previous Democratic House held open a vote for "arm-twisting" was 15 minutes. This Congress has held votes open for three hours.
Moral equivalence?
Pick your turning point. Whatever it is, there is another before it. Bush said they were not going to criticize a prior admin. They haven't. The prior admin did little but criticize their prior admin. Dems have been attacking for a decade. Republicans have pretty much stayed above that.
Funny.
The democratic Senators have held up confirmation votes for federal judges based strictly on prejudged ideologies and hatred of Christians!) for three years now..........