Bush marks anniversary of disablities act (Barf Alert)

CNN ^ | 7/26/2003 | CNN

[Satadru]

WASHINGTON (AP) --President Bush marked the 13th anniversary Saturday of the Americans With Disabilities Act with a name change for a committee and a push to promote equality for people suffering from mental illness.

Bush changed the name of the President's Committee on Mental Retardation to the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities the same week that a commission he created recommended a campaign to bring the mentally ill more into the mainstream.

[Satadru]

As Nietzsche said, "Conservatism is dead, you and I have killed it." Our Republican President keeps expanding the size and scope of the govt. Does he realize that he has no Constitutional authority to do that, and every Constitutional prerogative to veto anything that is unconstitutional? I hope people will wake up and realize this fraud.

[RJCogburn]

care for the mentally ill must go beyond medication and managing symptoms to helping people find jobs, go on dates and live productive lives.

If the Bushbots could tear themselves away from the "Day in the Life" thread for a bit, perhaps they can arrange a dating service here.

And since mental illness is defined in a subjective manner, basically by voting what is mental illness and what is not, they can perhaps start a daily thread right here on FR for mentally ill conservatives.

There is some craziness goin' on, for sure.

[El Conservador]

Bush hater alert!!!

I demand a ZOT!!!

[RJCogburn]

Bush hater alert!!!

I demand a ZOT!!!

Could be I'm just looking for a date.

[Satadru]

I really think most of the Bushbots are actually Democrats. A lot fo Democrats have infiltrated within Republican ranks to really push their agenda. Bush's so-called triangulation (read strangulation) has expanded the size and scope of the govt not seen since FDR. Even his expansion of the govt for the War on Terror is totally superfluous. We have a complete ineffective Dept of Homeland Security that doesn't even combine our largest law enforcement and intelligence agency. His spending orgy has dwarfed Clinton's. I am sincerely praying for his defeat in 2004.

[RJCogburn]

I am sincerely praying for his defeat in 2004.

I'm not ready to go that far, though I agree with the rest of your comments. Still, it is hard to imagine how any Dem (other then the special case of the Clintons) could be more harmful on the domestic side, the tax cuts excluded.

[Courier]

"Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities"

Half a dozen Washington agencies were vying for this name.

Nip and tuck between the Immigration and Naturalization Service and _________(redacted)

They couldn't decide and didn't want to waste the new stationary.

[Satadru]

What tax cut are you talking about? Most of it will not even take effect until Bush is out of office. Bush didn't want to be fiscally restrained by the tax-cuts, so he had most of it back-loaded so he can spend as much as he can in his first term hoping that acting like a Democrat will get him elected. Well, it wouldn't work for someone like me, who voted for him the first time around but will not be conned again.

[You Dirty Rats]

Veto?

What is a veto?

I don't recall hearing anything about a veto.

The President doesn't have a veto.

Show me ONE time the President has used the veto.

[Satadru]

The President has a different version of the Constitution than you and I. This is the most polite way to say it, since the last time I hinted at the mental incapacity of the President, my post was zotted.

[PoisedWoman]

and mandates access to most public places such as restaurants, stores and businesses.

I have a couple of handicapped (is that a non-PC word? sorry.) friends who have benefited from this act.

But I also have two friends who owned stores in tiny Mendocino who went out of business because they could not afford the expensive modifications (to overkill gubmint standards) to their wee little shops. The building owners had made sure leases contained a clause that any changes mandated by the govt would be at tenants' expense. The corker is, Mendo has cracked, broken, lumpy sidewaks where there are sidewalks at all, so people in wheel chairs rarely went to that town....nevertheless, the store owners were obliged to add expensive wheel chair ramps, rails, etc. while no such changes were required of the city.

[joesnuffy]

Considering some of the real whacOs in the mental health profession and at the Univ. level helping to make policiy in the APA...
Then they have a big policy meeting (Convention) to re-write their Diagnostic & Statistic Manual
(DSM) to basically determine who and who is no longer sane or insane...
Stroke of the pen...law of the land...cool!

[ohioWfan]

I really think most of the Bushbots are actually Democrats.

ROFLOL!!!!!

And YOU, buddying up to card carrying Communists, quoted on a Communist board, and not having a rational thought in your head!! What a JOKE you are!

[ohioWfan]

There is some craziness goin' on, for sure.

Yeah.....the craziness is voting for some obscure third party loser and risking having a RAT in the White House.

Talk about mentally ill.......

[RJCogburn]

Good planning by Bush, then, otherwise we might have a deficit approaching $500Billion.

[irish_lad]

My father who contrated MS benefited greatly by these laws and so have numerous people who are either wheel chair bound or physically/mentally handicapped. MOST of the accomodations that business' make for the disabled are relatively inexpensive (ergonomic equipment).

I'm a proud Bush supporter but I'm also disappointed at some of the insensitive F*CKS on this site. Try going just one day in a wheel chair to see how the others experience barriers in our society.

Jesus Christ, is the spending of the almighty dollar more important than accomodating someone who is having trouble in this world. I was hoping better from fellow Republicans.

[ohioWfan]

I don't think Satadru is a Republican, lad. He hates us.

[timm22]

Yeah.....the craziness is voting for some obscure third party loser and risking having a RAT in the White House.

Yeah, with a RAT in the White House we'd see all kinds of government expansion!

.....oh wait, nevermind....

[RJCogburn]

Wow! I was right!! (I don't want to brag but I do love it when I'm correct) You really are a Bush syncophant, over here visiting this thread from "the Day in the Life"

245 posted on 07/26/2003 7:11 PM EDT by ohioWfan

Well, now that you're here, what about my dating service suggestion? Your boy celebrates such an idea, as the article on this thread points out.