Nah we got a few good people in office for 40 years of voting. Don't give up so easily! 
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?
>:-[
>>He and Frist had better make good one way or another.<<
Or what do you see happening?
Oh woe is Bob...
You need some help thinking and writing
Man, you paint quite a depressing picture.
I've posted here on the "Compromise of the 14" quite a lot this week. I am very disappointed also, but I feel that, for myself, I have to do something other than give up. I don't know what that is, exactly, yet. Unfortunately.
I can only add that it IS distressing to see Bush and the Republican leadership in such an apparently weak position. Hard to imagine this was the same crew (more or less) who faced down the terrorists.
I hope to God we are not attacked again. But what will we say looking back at all this if we are?
Nah we got a few good people in office for 40 years of voting. Don't give up so easily!
Now get out of the way, find a corner, and cry yourself a river so the rest of us can get back to the fight.
Unfortunately, there is a lot of truth in this... Just hope that things change before it becomes too late.
I'm beginning to think we should all just do shots...
"The worst prez in history" is so far over the top, that's it's hard to take seriously a mentality that would embrace that level of hyperbole to express frustration.
Childishness or senility come to mind.
What a ringing endorsement! :-)
I actually started posting in about '95 or '96, and was one of the first to insist on registration.
Here's the bottom line on what happened this week: because Frist threatened the nuke option, the first nominee has now been confirmed.
I don't give a damn whether he's Saint Anthony himself. I love this country as much as anyone and I ain't giving in just cause 7 fence sitters went yellow.
Worse? Well, it depends on what the word "is" is, or what the word "worse" is.
I don't buy that Bush is "worse" than Clinton, but the FACT remains Bush is a worse fiscal trasher than Clinton. Clinton did not come anywhere near Bush in fiscal waste. Bush has pushed the envelope of fiscal lunacy on social welfare spendig into the ionosphere.
Clinton did not guard the borders any better than Bush, but don't we expect a Republican to protect our sovereignty? Bush thus becomes "worse" in the eyes of many true conservatives because he should be held to a higher standard.
To say Bush is a disappointment fiscally and on national sovereignty is a galactic sized understatement.
You must remember Robert Byrd, then...
Yeh,.......yeh,...that's it!
After 8 years of a total do-nothing presidency (19992 to 2000), now we have the most transformational president of modern times.
I've been around too long to worry about what newbies say about me. They are the ones who keep saying they don't mind paying a bit more in taxes... I've seen them come and go.
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