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?
>:-[
Depends on the poster, and whether they check someone's profile before they launch their tirade.
Well, that's fine. But the GOP didn't become the majority without my help/votes and yours. We handed them every branch of government that we as voters could. We did our part.
They didn't!
So that's it. I quit. I'm backing another horse, even if I won't see the CP gain significant power until I'm an old man.
Time to start acting like a "Real Conservative" instead of just flapping my jaws about it.
one other thing. I understand your frustration but think back to the mid 90's how things where. We have come a long way and we have to do more that is obviously clear.
You see: you are unable to read and are in away over your head.
George Bush is in my opinion likely the very best president of my lifetime. The right man at the right time.
I realize that many think that about Ronald Reagan, but I like this guy a lot. Probably I was just not paying enough attention during the 80's.
I think that the man (W) is awesome.
Wish that were so....
Unfortunately, with the exception of the FEC, all that has already happened and seems to only be getting worse. I agree with the bottom up approach although that does not seem to be working either - ie. elect conservative Republicans. I still hold out hope however, just getting a bit impatient (throw in agry as an aside).
Well Bob....I'm living proof, that it IS possible.
I'm I always happy? Nope.
Is being a Republican..sometimes like living with your mother-in-law? Yes. And that ain't easy.
Right now it's the only viable game.....And I'm dealing with it.
Good night Bob....
Not for me. I'd rather lead than follow.
Newbie. ;-)
Good Lord! Were you after Esquire?
Because we are getting screwed on the domestic front by the guys we helped put in office?
With regard to the fillibuster, thank the seven turncoats who voted to compromise with the rats.
Were you in Tallahassee harranguing the courts during the attack of the Gorons in 2000? Florida FReepers were!
I can't recall anything having to do with Esquire from my early freepin' days, if that's what you mean..
I hope I'm right anyway.
Utopia is just around the corner. It has been there every since recorded history.
You see: you are unable to read and are in away over your head.
I guess you’re clinging to the fact that you used the word “may” in your title. Fine. I guess I erred in assuming that one wouldn’t take the time to write an emotional, fact-free diatribe based on coming events unless they had a reasonable expectation that those events were going to occur. You got me, I guess.
But I would suggest that the next time you want to post something that is a poorly-written lump of illogical and speculative bullsh#t based on half-assed assumptions and inane hypothetical conjecture about events that are never going to happen, you should put that caveat in the title.
You may have to edit that disclaimer down a bit, for space reasons.
-"Because we are getting screwed on the domestic front by the guys we helped put in office?"-
That could be it.
We can certainly agree on that!
As to Estrada, I don't know what Bush was thinking. All that I know is that - from Estrada's point of view - I bet he wishes he had never heard of George Bush.
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