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?
>:-[
To me your solution other than to say, "Im not working with the GOP."
You speak truth, brother!
I am amazed at what some FReepers have sunk to.
Absolutely amazed.
Im sorry, I wont defend what the Repubs have done here (filibuster compromise). You can spin it anyway you like, but we have been sold out. All the time, effort, and money expended to get the Senate makeup we voted for, was just wadded up and thrown back in our faces. If you are okay with that, thats your problem. If it makes you feel better to attack the guy who is questioning the wisdom of defending the betrayal, go ahead. I wont defend it. Our party promised us an agenda we believed in. The agenda begins with the judiciary. This is the main reason we needed the Senate in the first place, our pick for the Bench, remember?? Now we have the Senate we needed and they didnt come through. Yes, there is a time for compromise, but the filibuster issue was not the time for it. The RNC failed us, the Leadership failed us, and it will remain to be seen whether a pi**ed off electorate fails us. No compromise! Or maybe you like seeing the smirk on Bidens face?
And Bobs 1997 seniority date should shield him from calls for his zot, something USUALLY reserved for DU trolls. One of the first members of a CONSERVATIVE forum wonders aloud whether it was all for naught, our work in getting Republicans elected, and some members with considerably less time call for his ouster-THAT was my point..
Well, I have been taking the long view for 40 years - guess I can try a bit longer! :^) Seriously though, the significant problems have only be getting worse. Hope springs eternal...
'Scuse me?
You ain't fit to shine Bob's shoes!
Article to me reads like another typical myopic third party mentality, including the typical splitting of the vote in favor of Democrats.
Get thee behind me, threadnanny!
Eh, read the rest of my posts. I've had some discussion and done some re-reading.
Thank you.
Hmmm. A case could be made that thats who we elected. These republicans have squandered a golden oppurtunity. And all the spin, and attacks here isnt going to change it. They screwed it up..
are you the husband of patricia ireland?
I mean...there has been some progress hasn't there? I don't remember talk radio, internet, GOP control of congress and the whitehouse and most importantly SUVs when Jimmy was President. ; )
I see you've crawled out from under the Murrysville rock once again.
The public has NOT rejected privitization. Unless your position is that people really want to be taxed out their ass?
No action, like you espouse, is the kiss of death for the Ponzi scheme known as Social Insecurity.
Oh yeah, now I remember you. You tried to berate me on another thread where some 1998er who got zotted was pining for the fjords.
Come up with any good names to call me since then?
The smirk on Biden's jowels is perhaps from reading such yearnings for political suicide as yours.
Republicans have been trying to get things done, but do have these moderates to contend with in their party.
Dealing with the moderates beats creating a bunch of jumping Jim Jeffords as independents.
Third parties have been trouble all along though, their enabling of Democrats and their fruitcake candidates have been nothing but trouble.
Many foster anarchy and call it conservatism. What a crock I have found them to be when they post on this site. Often they can be found backing all vice and illegal recreational drug use in the name of the Constitution for fun.
They are a waste of good air IMO.
Go back to sleep. You're having a bad dream.*
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