Posted on 03/24/2005 3:29:58 PM PST by carl in alaska
Another apt analogy. Politicians are our patrons not our representatives.
I agree. it would be different if the polls were flipped the other way, but they aren't, and this plan would be a nightmare.
I see you're being extremely obtuse.
If the religious right expects politicians to represent them to the degree that they're presently demanding, then they'd better generate enough votes to keep those representatives in office and elect new ones. If they don't do so, then the politicians who represented them will lose the next election, and a group of politicians who do not represent the religious right will win the next election. More to the point, the politicians who lost the election would not ever trust the religious right again.
How so? Where all the people Clinton pardoned "federal" issues? I think not.
Jeb Bush has no political future.
I was just noting that he calls himself a moron, moron.
I have a long way to go to be as obtuse as you are. You actually buy the idea that the "religious right" delivered wins to Bush and the GOP. Funny, in 2000 it was the NRA. Bush I lost in '92 because of "read my lips." In '80 it was "an end to the malaise." What kind of dolt actually thinks there is a "religious right?" Moral values may have had a significant role last election but it's laughable to think only church going Christians voted on them.
Actually, I don't--their contribution is sharply overstated. I'm saying that the "religious right" is taking out a huge loan of goodwill, and that they will be expected to make good on their end of the deal. If they don't, they're going to be seriously hosed.
Well it won't hurt to bad since "they" don't exist. LOL
Republicans are wimps--scared of Democrats and mainstream media. They haven't done squat about illegal immigration, affirmative action, appointing conservatives to the Supreme Court, or reducing the size and power of the Federal government. Bush is being led around the nose by Vincente Fox and Hispanic pressure groups. His Treasury Department is even encouraging banks to set up accounts for illegal aliens in direct violation of the law that prohibits businesses from deriving commercial benefits from illegal aliens. What bother to vote for these people? They are merely Democrat-lite.
A voice of reason!
Ask yourself that question, your ilk is killing the vote margin you need to stay in power.
Stuffit poo
Ok send me the thirty pieces of silver.........</sarcasm>
So many vigilante articles, so little time.
It's cute watching the liberal end of the GOP make threats.
It restored state civil rights. But the president cannot pardon state crimes. Try again.
Re: post #160:
"In relevant part: "Under the Constitution, only federal criminal convictions, such as those obtained in the United States District Courts, may be pardoned by the President. In addition, the President's pardon power extends to convictions obtained in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and military court-martial proceedings. However, the President cannot pardon a state criminal offense."
Spycatcher: next time, get your facts straight before calling into question someone else's intelligence, lest you demonstrate failings of your own.
After all, does anyone here think the founders would have granted the president the power to overturn state or local court decisions with a pardon? C'mon...
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