Posted on 04/25/2005 12:07:45 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day
I'm just waiting for the Republican Party to call me for a donation. I pity the person on the other end of the phone because he/she will get an ear full.
Ever read the recent notes from Ted Olson on the subject?
Sorry, doesn't make backbones stiff, only other parts of the body.
Laura is hotter and at least as smart as Ann Coulter.
The "Gelding Old Party" will lose both the House and the Senate majorities next year unless they get their collective acts together.
runaway spending, illegals, judges...three strikes and yourrrr out!
The GOP doesn't appear to have a clue as to how to operate in the Majority...
add me
I honestly beleive there are some who want to return us to the stone age in many aspects. The world had changed since those great leaders wrote those words. We shouldn't abandon their intent, but we need to address todays realities.
Say What! Joesbuck, have ya been drink'in the water out of the Boston Harbor? OK, so you were Kerry's speechwriter.
Sure, its called paying your bills.
First off, they are wrong when they say 90% of bankruptcies are due to medical bills. They are not unless you count drug addiction, alcoholism, and gambling addiction as "medical".
Second thought: just tell them to go tear up their credit cards if they don't like the rules of the road. Nobody is forcing them to use credit cards.
Sure, its called paying your bills.
First off, they are wrong when they say 90% of bankruptcies are due to medical bills. They are not unless you count drug addiction, alcoholism, and gambling addiction as "medical".
Second thought: just tell them to go tear up their credit cards if they don't like the rules of the road. Nobody is forcing them to use credit cards.
But that document is amended, de facto, everyday by some Judge. In effect, the dems are amending that document to require a supermajority for federal judges. Can and should the Constitution be amended? Yes on both counts. But, our founding fathers made it so that willy nilly amending the Constitution is not easily accomplished. Hence why the document itself provides for a DEMOCRATIC process by which it can be amended.
No, as a matter of fact, I haven't.
All I'm saying is that we are supposed to live in a representative democracy, so the people we ELECT make the laws. The judges are supposed to INTERPRET, not make their own laws.
I'll let others add them. I don't want to hog ALL the bandwidth, nor take all the fun.
Very true.
Even if they got what they wanted, and in reality they really don't want it, they would still be unhappy.
Right. For if they got what they wanted, they'd lose what they "righteously" complained about. What they complain about is precious to them.
There is a class of people on both sides that thrive on outrage.
Right again.
Without outrage, they are no one.
Amen.
Quote: "I honestly beleive there are some who want to return us to the stone age in many aspects. The world had changed since those great leaders wrote those words. We shouldn't abandon their intent, but we need to address todays realities."
Then do so via the DEMOCRATIC PROCESS provided for within the Constitution (drafter amendment, 2/3 vote of both houses, followed by ratification), not by de facto rulings of the Courts. The Constitution may be a "living document" but it is only such if its current text is respected, instead of willy nilly ignoring the parts that are terribly inconvenient in order to obtain a result that "feels" right.
I seem to remember that we all felt the Supremes would knock down campaign finance reform which was enacted by our representative democracy, yet many felt was unconstitutional.
Have you heard about the latest trend? If you receive any RNC or GOP request for $ in the mail, send it back to them with NINE PENNIES taped to the paper. Write on it: "NOT ONE DIME until you vote on the Constitutional Option!" Feel free to add your own editorial comments as you see fit.
And if a few people fit into this category, how does this observation add to this discussion?
Most people who worked hard to get the president elected and a Republican majority in Congress expect them to accomplish the goals for which they were elected.
What's the point of them taking up space in Congress if not to do their JOBS?
Placemark.
Gotcha.
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