Thank you for all your hard work - and for the ping !!
Posted on 07/01/2003 8:46:22 AM PDT by justshe
He knows that he has to say something provocative to keep it interesting. How many times will people listen to the same thing if it's not even controversial?
The GOP must be thanking God for it's apologists...
This pretty much sums it up....
Thank you for all your hard work - and for the ping !!
Much !!!!!
I am so disappointed that a person as ridiculous as he is is so prominent on FR (frequency-wise).
Actually, he has not signed this bill, although he certainly intends to. It got hung up in the Senate last time.
For example, the Senate last year attached an amendment to a massive defense authorization bill to repeal an existing ban on performing abortions in military medical facilities, except to save the life of the mother, or in cases of rape or incest. In a September 24 letter to members of the House-Senate conference committee on that bill, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said, "The President's senior advisers would recommend that the President veto the bill if it changes current law" on the use of military facilites for abortion –– the traditional formula for a veto threat. The offensive provision was quietly dropped in conference, and the bill was signed into law on December 2.
I'm glad you qualified those remarks.
You can be dismissive of the Reagan Era, as much as you like. The facts are the facts. Reagan was POTUS only 14 years ago. That's less then a generation. I didn't compare PresBush`s political agenda or his public tempermant with that of PresReagan, to slight GW Bush. It was done as a compliment. So don't get so defensive. Long ago George W.Bush said that he greatly admired PresReagan and the accomplishments of his Presidency. (And no, I don't have the exact quote, so don't ask for one.) PresBush has made similiar remarks on several occasions throughout the 2000 campaign and during his time in the WH. Most people think any comparisions of Bush to Reagan, are just fine.
I'll tell you one thing, if Ronald Reagan was POTUS in 2001, there would never have been a 9-11. IMO, of course.
"Constantly" might be a stretch. But, I can certainly identify with those who mourn the weakening and tearing down of our Constitution at the hands of Democrats and Republicans alike (not to mention their SCOTUS appointees).
I can't help but wonder how we'd be ranting non-stop about Campaign Finance Reform and The Patriot Act if they'd been passed and signed into law by Democrats.
It's just that, after a while, it becomes obvious that there will be no real reform until things get bad enough, or the slippery slope gets steep enough. Until then, vilifying the Republicans and Bush as socialists and casting third-party protest votes will accomplish nothing other than perhaps help get Democrats elected.
It's all a matter of perspective. Some see the glass as 2/3 full, others as 4/5 empty. Once there's a big enough hole in the bottom and/or there's only a few drops left, people will wake up and do something. Consider that Al Gore was one robe short of counting and recounting chads until he could manufacture enough votes to win Florida and the presidency. If the decision had gone in his favor, I was prepared to fly the flag upside down (the distress signal) or burn it in my driveway. On the one hand, I'm glad the Constitution prevailed, if only barely. But, the slow march of socialism continues. Revolution will wait for a darker day. To ensure its arrival, Dems will 'Bork' any and every even marginally-conservative SCOTUS appointee Bush might have occasion to throw at them, no matter what race or gender. If he manages to get a Clarence Thomas past them, it will be only by the grace of God. Let's hope Bush has what it takes to appoint a Clarence Thomas.
(Thanks for the kind words. Don't let my lengthy reply discourage you from complimenting others. ;O)
"When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn't like it. "Compromise" was a dirty word to them and they wouldn't face the fact that we couldn't get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don't get it all, some said, don't take anything. "I'd learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: 'I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.'
"If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that's what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.
Ronald Reagan, in his autobiography, An American Life
Well, you mustn't forget that the terrorist types 'tried' President Reagan, too - remember Beirut?
President Reagan's response, IIRC, was swift and sure, and he wasn't too worried about what other countries thought of it.
President Reagan is my favorite president of my lifetime, so far anyway ;-), but we mustn't pretend that he was perfect, or that everything was 100% wonderful during those 8 years.
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