Posted on 01/17/2003 4:09:44 PM PST by TLBSHOW
White House Brief Stops Short of Bush Speech
January 17, 2003
Folks, I really don't relish the next words, sentences, and paragraphs, which you will read on this page or hear from my mouth in the audio links below. There is some angst today in the conservative legal community over the University of Michigan case and the brief filed by the Bush administration late Thursday night near the midnight deadline, and how this brief differs in scope from the president's amazing speech.
Now, the mainstream press, of course, is late to pick up on this. We have several wire reports, which I read on Friday's program that lead with lines like, "President Bush is siding with white students in the most sweeping affirmative action case…" And they don't think they're biased? President Bush is siding with white students? No, President Bush is siding with the Constitution. It's the Fourteenth Amendment, which is being largely ignored by those in the mainstream press. He's siding with the Constitution, not siding with white students or white people or white anybody.
That being said, our legal advisors here at the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute have read the brief filed by the Bush administration. We've studied it, and this position is not nearly as sweeping as that taken in the president's speech. In short, he does support overturning the policy of Michigan, but stops there and goes no further. The administration's brief contends that the admissions policy at Michigan does violate the Constitution, but the brief does not say that the use of race violates the Constitution. And that's the key.
Race-based anything violates the Constitution. No such discrimination is allowed, but the brief doesn't attack that, it only attacks the specific admissions policy at the University of Michigan. The Constitution does not outlaw all forms of discrimination, but it does prohibit discrimination based on race, and in some cases it discriminates or prohibits discrimination based on gender and religion.
The brief does not challenge racial preferences in college admissions. It accepts, in fact, the fact that race-based diversity is a constitutionally proper goal. So in the brief, as opposed to the speech the president made, the administration is not opposed to the goal, but merely Michigan's practice by which it was achieved.
Here is the upshot: The president's compelling speech certainly suggested he was taking on the whole issue of race-based preferences. This is why everybody was so excited. This is why you want a conservative in the White House, to stop a mess like affirmative action. It pits groups of people against each other and it stigmatizes people who benefit from it. There's nothing positive about it. The president's opponents predictably in their criticism certainly suggested that he was taking on the issue of race-based preferences.
After hearing the president speak, and from that reaction from the left, the press, pundits and all the rest of us concluded that Bush was challenging racial preferences in college admissions. But his administration's brief - I'm sorry to say, folks - doesn't do that.
Listen to Rush...
(…compare media reports of the president's position, with the actual brief) (…continue the legal analysis of the brief filed by the White House)
Read the Articles...
(AP: Bush Brief on Affirmative Action Due) (USA Today: White House to oppose Michigan policy of race-based admissions) (Reuters: Bush Lawyers Urge Top Court to Back White Students)
Read the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution...
You were STUNNED? Don't make us laugh. You were listening to Rush to figure out what you thought today.
Rush will be proved wrong about this -- AGAIN.
And you haven't been right in so long nobody's interested in what you think.
took me an hour to decide if i should post this.
Oh, yeah. We ALL believe you tried to hard.
Is Rush's opinion now considered breaking news?
Answer it. And not with a cut and paste.
Tell us HOW George W. Bush can END this lawsuit.
If you do say so yourself? You sound just like Bill Clinton. MEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMMEMEMEMEMMEMEMEME
Somehow I doubt that.
You have to remember, It was Todd who forced Bush to submit this brief to begin with, He said so himself.
So we can all blame Todd now, He was the one who pushed this and "Stunned" Rush
My God, I believe I need to watch "One flew over the Coo-Coo's Nest" so that I can understand Todd's logic
1) Affirmative action, etc., is wrong and inconsistent with Brown.
2) Brown has been twisted around that statement from it I quoted.
2) Unravelling the liberal barber's pole of Brown will follow neither Bush's speech nor the Univ. of Michigan case. The Court don't work that way. And neither do national politics. Limbaugh and his "EIB legal team" misconstrued the amicus filing to mean what it doesn't say.
Affirmative action is not germane in this case. Univ. of Michigan enrollment policies are. Bakke killed quotas. Michigan will kill race-weighted enrollment preferences. It will not kill "diversity," which Brown upheld (in 1950s language). The President upheld Brown's statement for "diversity." That and affirmative action are very different.
The Administration is shrewd. And effective.
I don't often compliment DemocRAT strategy, but I do admire their sheer patience...
I'll buy that. I know for sure that I would not be patient enough to be a good president.
IMHO, our most unwilling to compromise president was also our most disasterous -- Woodrow Wilson.
One
Affirmative may be justified
Take from one give to another
The goal is to be unified
Take my hand be my brother
The payment silenced the masses
Sanctified by oppression
Unity took a back seat
Sliding further in regression
One, oh one
The only way is one
I feel angry I feel helpless
Want to change the world
I feel violent I feel alone
Don't try and change my mind
Society blind by color
Why hold down one to raise another
Discrimination now on both sides
Seeds of hate blossom further
The world is heading for mutiny
When all we want is unity
We may rise and fall, but in the end
We meet our fate together
One
The only way is one
I feel angry I feel helpless
Want to change the world
I feel violent I feel alone
Don't try and change my mind
If imput from Bush was so important why wasn't he invited to file a brief?
My expectation ran high once Chucko was eliminated in the election. I no longer hold those expectations. No longer can I tell any of them apart.
I feel like I am at the ball game, hungry, and the hot dogs are going for 7 bucks each ......
Well, that makes it all different; if he mentioned US, then he's right. (Isn't that how you do it?)
ANSWER #90!
ROFLMAO!
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