Guns are dangerous! Some out of control
Border Patrol agents used them to wound
an innocent Mexican drug smuggler!
Posted on 03/13/2008 9:33:41 AM PDT by kiriath_jearim
In preparation for oral arguments Tuesday on the extent of gun rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court has before it a brief signed by Vice President Cheney opposing the Bush administration's stance. Even more remarkably, Cheney is faithfully reflecting the views of President Bush.
The government position filed with the Supreme Court by U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement stunned gun advocates by opposing the breadth of an appellate court's affirmation of individual ownership rights. The Justice Department, not the vice president, is out of order. But if Bush agrees with Cheney, why did the president not simply order Clement to revise his brief? The answers: disorganization and weakness in the eighth year of his presidency.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
C’mon, when you are a uniter not a divider, you let your justice department do the career civil service thing. Everyone knows that!
Interesting headline. For a moment I thought Cheney was after the White House doves again...
Talk about schizophrenic.
I wonder who really is piloting the ship down there.
Weakness of leadership is not something that took President Pollyanna 8 years to perfect.
Perhaps the single most glaring weakness of this administration has been its inability to control the bureaucracy. Bush has an MBA yet shows little to no talent for managing the departments over which he allegedly presides. When his underlings aren’t contradicting his professed principles by their bumbling they are deliberately working to undermine him. And it seems that nothing at all is done to rectify the mess. Firings are rare to non-existent.
Maybe I just don’t understand how the bureaucracy works but it seemed like Clinton managed to bring his appointees and their minions into line.
I won't disagree that Bush could have done a much better job of controlling the bureaucracy, but Clinton didn't have to bring his appointees and the bureaucracy into line. They were already there.
Good God...What a bunch of double talk.
” a Republican administration finds itself aligned against the most popular tenet of social conservatism: gun rights, which enjoy much wider agreement than do opposition to abortion or gay marriage.
Promises in two presidential campaigns are being abandoned...”
My money’s on Dick Cheney! :D
Thanks for the ping. Say your prayers for 2008. McCain gets supported only by social conservatines willing to hold their noses. That’s ditto for libertarians, IMHO. I’m still scratching my head about how the GOP got stuck with this RINO, and the dems are having a fight between Trotsky and Stalin.
I’m still scratching my head about how the GOP got stuck with this RINO, and the dems are having a fight between Trotsky and Stalin.
‘Nuf said !
“In preparation for oral arguments Tuesday on the extent of gun rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court has before it a brief signed by Vice President Cheney opposing the Bush administration’s stance. Even more remarkably, Cheney is faithfully reflecting the views of President Bush.”
OK... I’m confused. What is the Bush Admin stance, and how could Cheney “oppose” the Bush Admin stance and yet “faithfully reflect the views of president Bush”?
That makes no sense to me.
To cut to the chase, the Bush Administration (specifically his Solicitor General) submitted a brief that is luke warm to the Second Amendment..."luke warm," probably being a generous description. This was done in spite of Bush's ostensibly pro-2nd Amendment views, which apparently only Cheney really cared enough about to speak up for.
Got it?
Guns are dangerous! Some out of control
Border Patrol agents used them to wound
an innocent Mexican drug smuggler!
Thanks Joe! That clears it up!
The same way we just got stuck with another one (McCain). Bush was the lesser of two evils...Gore or Kerry would have been a much worse nightmare to live through...IMO
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