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?
>:-[
And Perot dropped out of the race, began spouting half-baked conspiracy theories about the Republicans, and tried to make a lame attempt to reenter the race when it was way too late for him to make a real impact. Besides which the guy was a fruitcake.
And don't tell me that I'm over my head because I'm taller than Patricia Ireland who apparently has a few inches on YOU!
See #353 above.
LOL! Now you will be called a "Bot" or worse ya know! :-)
That is not my screen name. I am one of the [near]-original posters on FR, and we started out with our real names [just to show we weren't afraid of the big bad wolf.] I am one of the very few that still uses it.
A fruitcake who took nearly 20% away from GHWB.
The RNC has lost me, (Me! A Die-Hard), how many more has it lost?
I stayed in the GOP camp until now, but I just can't stand anymore of this open borders, big government, borrow and spend GOP. I'm finished with the GOP.
How do you know I am not already?
Worse than the Senate Democrats who illegally leaked Appointee Saad's confidential FBI file?! Worse than the Senate Democrats who leaked CIA field agents names (Senator Leahy), leading to actual agent deaths in the field?! Worse than Senate Democrats such as Senator Rockefeller who illegally conspired to delay one Judge's appointment until *After* a certain trial case had been decided, in order to insure that a Clinton-appointed judge ruled the right way?! Worse than the Senators (e.g. Sen. Kerry) who went to Nicaraga to illegally deal with Communists?!
Worst President in history?! Oh please. How soon we forget Pres Carter giving away the Panama canal, cancelling the B-1 bomber, boycotting the Olympics, turning a blind eye to the French-lead anti-Shah movement in Paris that lead to Khomeni taking over our then-ally Iran, as well as getting caught with a Quarter Million Dollar bribe from Libyan Leader Khadafy in his brother Billy's bank account...
In contrast, the following is what President Bush accomplished in his first 48 months, with several of those months being hamstrung by a Democratic Senate "majority" due to Jumpin' Jim Jeffords' post-election nonsense.
Presidency of George W. Bush -- the first 48 months
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President Bush signing a federal ban on Partial Birth Abortion
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U.S. Forces In Baghdad
Because you're still here.
Amen.
Another day, another clueless rant that tickles the DUmmies pink.
And, thanks to him and people who thought like you, we had to endure eight years of Bubba. Happy now?
Hey, this is Free Republic, don't use facts. It will only enrage the Bush haters. Some on FreeRepublic always have and always will hate President Bush, usually because he won't do whatever they demand on their pet issue. Most likely they didn't vote for him and haven't voted Republican in decades if ever.
not as long as klintoon and jimmah catah is still listed as ex-prezs.
Yes, it does seem as though Reagan's actions / words were somewhat contradictory but I think he probably had to toe the line with big business and support legalizing the 2.7M newcomers during that time frame but he did also point out that " a country that can't protect it's borders is not really a country any longer" (paraphrase). If you've followed some of the material available on the FTAA and it's ramifications on America there's no doubt in my mind that there's a move afoot to create an American Union ala the EU and illegal immigration is the conditioning agent to force us accept the new paradigm despite our opposition.
After watching some of the current machinations regarding the EU's drive for a new constitution and decreasing of individual national sovereignty for it's members it's clear to me that as the FTAA/American Union proceeds we'll someday see a tremendous assault on our Constitution, BOR and our legal system. This new supranational gov't. will have it's own commissions and legions of bureaucrats available to make sure our transition to a third world style banana republic as seamless as possible. Of course all this nonsense started a long time ago but this current push for a hemispheric union has accelerated tremendously under Bush and his cronies.....no matter that countless Americans have been raped, robbed, murdered, etc. by cretins who would not be here if we had a coherent border policy and for that he will go down in infamy.
Nope.
Are you getting the point yet?
I will... I HAVE abandoned the GOP for an option that will someday work.
The GOP has shown itself to be worthless.
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