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Posted on 05/25/2005 12:12:22 PM PDT by Bob Ireland
President George Bush has not distinguished himself by fighting for his judicial nominees. Indeed, the way he treated Miguel Estrada, he is arguably worse than the Democrats in the Senate.
Now seven Senators have made a deal to run the Senate, and they claim that it would be best for the President to get in his Presidential Yugo and drive down to the Senate Building carrying his hat in his hand to get his judicial nominees pre-approved.
If President George Bush accedes to this power grab, he will go down as the worst President in history.
The United States Senate gave up its legislative power to the federal courts; now the Senate proposes to usurp Presidential powers. Where is our Constitutional Republic in all this?
Previous Presidents have called Senators over to the White House and 'jawboned' them with political goodies to get them to support their agenda. George Bush, instead, called Ted Kennedy over to the White House and allowed him to write the Education Bill. Kennedy responded by saying that Bush had woefully underfunded education, and iced it by calling the President a murderer and a war criminal. Bush does not jawbone Olympia Snowe or Lincoln Chaffee; instead, he closes military bases in Trent Lott's Senatorial District.
It is impossible to be a Republican today because as a voter you send representatives to Washington who BETRAY you repeatedly. Even when the majority of the country votes for Republicans and traditional values, 'Republicans' tell us that it is important to let the minority rule the country, and traditional values are trashed.
I AM NOT A REPUBLICAN
Well, I used to be a Republican. I have been betrayed so many times I have lost count. The Republican Party of Florida re-districted me out of the Congressional District in West Orlando [where I live] and placed me in WEST JACKSONVILLE - nearly 100 miles away. There are three Congressional Districts in West Orlando, but I am assigned to West Jacksonville... a district so gerrymandered that some portions are only as wide as the center line in the middle of the highway.
There is no good reason for me to be a Republican; there is no good reason for me to vote any longer. All my votes, all my campaigning for traditional values, all my fighting against the Democratic oligarchy siezing power in this country has resulted in my own people disenfranchising me by gerrymandering me out of representation in Washington [Well, true, I have Bill Nelson... I remember Bill Nelson: about 1983 he said on local radio that Christians should not be allowed to vote since they are incapable of thinking for themselves, that they must be told how to think.]
Yep - that is what all my voting for 40 years has netted me.
If I voted for Joseph Stalin, at least I would get exactly what I expected. At least if the Democraps win, we know they will finalize the overthrow of the Constitution and set up their socialist tyrannical dictatorship. If that does not motivate Americans to do what is necessary to re-establish freedom, then what have I been fighting for anyway?
>:-[
Anything to support that statement?
Republicans are, after all, The Stupid Party. Whenever I get real mad at them I try to remind myself of that fact.
At one time this was a website where very spirited discussions took place and where walking in lockstep was not required and intellectual midgets would not threaten to zot anyone who did not spout the party line. Bush is a disappointment, if you can deny that with a straight face you may be living in a fantasy world.”
That was not the starting point of this “spirited discussion.”
The initial salvo was that Bush is the “worst president in history” and it is now “impossible to be a Republican.”
If you’re going to chastise the over-the-top responses, you should not minimize the ridiculously over-the-top premise they were responding to.
"Worst in History", however, just shoots down any and all credibility with me.
I get the feeling that the only reason you're still here after posting this emotionally-driven yet factually-flawed opus is because you're a 1997 freeper.
A 2005 newbie would have been zotted by now.
Good rant, Bob.
I may not agree with every jot and tittle, but I share your disgust with the way our leaders are squandering the hard-earned political capital we've entrusted them with.
Nice 'keyword' list.
While my level of disappointment has not risen to the same level as yours, your points are well taken and understandable given the anti-climactic way all this occured at the last minute and then scumbag-Reid's taunting, in-yo-face, comments afterwards.
...or as a friend of mine says: the things you see when you don't have a gun!... ;-)
Now, that's the best suggestion I've heard yet! This will be the only recourse conservatives will have before long.
Thank you, Yoda
You've always called it like it is and you haven't changed in that respect, thank God for that.
As for Gonzo?
Haven't seem him around for quite some time, truth be known.
Then again reading some of the inane crap being said to you I could guess why he doesn't come around, anymore.
The place has morphed into a "Barrytown" if ever there were.
Don't drop that right, y'hear!
...this Bud's for you my friend, salute! ;^)
Look at the keyword list.
and goes to Capitol Hill for pre-approval
Bush never agreed to such nonsense and never will.
Those “moderate” dingbats in the Senate have as much power to force this nonsense on the executive branch of government as you and I do.
Just because you read it in a newspaper doesn’t mean it’s true.
I don't entirely agree with Bob Ireland's rant, but I don't entirely disagree with it, either.
The problem you have is you do not engage in hero worship and blind approval as do so many on here especially those who are the first to scream for a zot. Not a one of them can refute anything you stated. All they can do is ridicule. The equivalent of the "R" word the lefties use so often. Just today Bush made the claim that adding the full two thousand authorized border patrol agents would be too much of a strain on the border patrol. What kind of bizarre thinking is that? What the hell is going on? We have guys dying to secure the Syrian/Iraq border but we don't give a damn about ours?
Bob,
You have two choices: Democrat or Republican. Pick a side or it will be picked for you.
He was the best actor in Ep3. :)
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Hee hee... This may be the highlight post of my rant-thread!
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