OOOPS !
Posted on 03/25/2002 11:16:37 AM PST by Pay now bill Clinton
Bush Will Sign Campaign Finance Bill
Mon Mar 25,10:19 AM ET
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) said on Sunday he would sign landmark campaign finance reform legislation with only a slight hesitation, reflecting his ongoing concerns about the measure.
The legislation to reduce the influence of money in politics won final congressional approval last week, and Bush has pledged to sign it soon.
The bill would ban unlimited contributions known as "soft money" to national political parties, limit such donations to state and local parties and restrict broadcast ads by outside groups shortly before elections.
Former independent counsel Kenneth Starr, whose investigation of Bill Clinton's sex life resulted in the president's impeachment in 1998, is to lead a legal challenge that will seek to knock down most of the measure as unconstitutional.
Bush said he felt the campaign bill did not fully address the need to require identification of who is funding so-called independent groups that introduce "scurrilous, untrue" television advertisements in the last days of a campaign, as he said happened to him in his 2000 presidential campaign.
"I've always thought that people who pump money into the political system, we ought to know who they are," he said.
Bush said that nonetheless the "bill is a better bill than the current system," but that some parts of it might not stand up to a court challenge.
OOOPS !
That said, I will not forgive Bush for this travesty. I have heard all the so-called "reasons" why he will sign the bill. But the fact is that he is participating in the most blatant and direct assault on the US Constitution that I have seen in my lifetime. This is a disgusting outrage.
Now when I see him on TV, I have to hit the mute button just like I did for Clinton. Because now whenever Bush talks about freedom, I think about him cavalierly taking an axe to the Bill of Rights, and I know he is full of shiite. It makes me heart-sick.
I am very, very upset about this. Don't tell me to get over it because I don't intend to. Ever. And I don't think any other patriotic American should ever get over it either.
Bush # 1. "READ MY LIPS, NO NEW TAXES!"
Bush # 2."NOT OVER MY DEAD BODY WILL THEY CURTAIL YOUR FREE SPEECH ! "
BTW, welcome.
To begin with ...
"I SWEAR TO DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION FROM ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC"
The day Bush cavalierly signs legislation that he knows to be Un-Constitutional he become a DOMESTIC ENEMY of the Constitution.
BTW, Bush never said " I will never sign legislation damaging to the Second Ammendment" either did he?
So we can feel safe knowing he won't do just that as well ?
Boy haven't OUR expectations sunk ...
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