Justshe made that list from one of my "Southack Says" columns earlier this year, but refined it and as made it more current. So thank her.
Posted on 07/07/2003 9:22:15 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day
In Fantasyland, this would be a good idea. In the real world, it is not. Anyone who challenges Bush to the right will be laughed off by the media and most Bushbots as "extremist" and "hateful". All it would do is make George W seem more "reasonable" by comparison to the 70% out there who aren't conservatives.
And if this candidate really did gain traction (possibly from DUmmies and other hateful Dems seeing a way to attack Bush through crossover primaries), it would just weaken Bush's standing in the general election so we wind up with Clinton II in 2004 (as we did Clinton I in 1992).
The party apparatus is already geared to support George W in 2004. That's not possibly going to change. He has approval numbers that are higher than any other Republican candidate you care to bring up except possibly the further-left Rudolph Giuliani and the even further-left Arnold Schwarzenegger.
After Clinton, Republicans in 2000 clamored for a guy that was "electable". No more Doles, remember? Well, they have him and they don't plan on tossing him overboard. Even if he's not everything we want (and trust me, he's not everything *I* want), he can and will win re-election. Nobody further to the right, at least in 2004, has a prayer of doing that.
Any Supreme Court decision can be reversed by a later Court. Using the Constitution as a form of uber-legislation is, and has always been, a bad idea.
Justshe made that list from one of my "Southack Says" columns earlier this year, but refined it and as made it more current. So thank her.
Although that is NOT to say that many of the items I picked up didn't come originally from your column.
The basis for the list I compiled was actually in a Jim Robinson post from months and months ago and from a list 'chiller' started HERE. I compiled the list from various FR links, as I stated at the beginning of George W. Bush--The First 30 Months.
"I have made every attempt to list as many items as I could recall....or find by perusing MANY threads. I am sure I have missed some items.
*snip*
I have gleaned these items from multiple threads and posts going back over two years on Free Republic. These are NOT listed in any 'time-line' order.
To: chiller
Bush also killed the liberal ABA's role in vetting federal judges for Congress.
GWB signed an executive order enforcing the Supreme Court's Beck decision, too. The Beck decision wasn't being enforced because the Clinton administration signed an EO ordering the department not to touch any cases revolving around it. Thus, the Clinton administration was DEFYING the Supreme Court, yet the press refused to report it (what, "bias" in our media?!). Now the SCOTUS' decision is being enforced, which means that individual union workers can recoup every penny of their union dues that got spent (or gets spent in the future) for political causes/lobbying of which they disagree.
President Bush repealed Clinton's CO2 rules that were choking off electricity production in California (causing blackouts at the time), and GWB also repealed Clinton's OSHA "ergonomic" regulations that were about to put every home-business out of work.
Bush brought back our EP-3 intel plane and crew from China without any bribes or bloodshed, and he has started withdrawing our troops from Bosnia.
Another thing that the press won't repeat is that President Bush signed the LARGEST nuclear arms reduction in world history with Russia this year. Heck, the "anti-nuclear" Lefties in Europe even had the nerve to PROTEST Bush going to Europe to sign that treaty, and still the biased American media wouldn't report the irony.
President Bush's comprehensive review of our military, which was completed just prior to 9/11/01, accurately reported that ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE was our most pressing defense concern. This was the first comprehensive top-down review of our military in years.
Bush has expanded NATO, killed Kyoto, killed the International Criminal Court (for the U.S., anyway), armed pilots, legally withdrawn from the ABM treaty, and presently has CONSTRUCTION in process on the first ten ABM silos in Alaska, so that America will have a defense against North Korean nukes in a little more than a year.
Oh, and President Bush signed into law his campaign promise of the largest Dollar-amount tax cut in the history of the world.
Not too shabby for having an opposition Senate sniping at his every proposal...
56 posted on 12/22/2002 11:55 PM CST by Southack
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...and I think it's available through the Conservative Book Club (Amazon for sure).
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