[Dane]

Makes sense to the insane only. Reelect the people who passed it. Amazing incompetence.

Actually, the insane thing to do is to help Dean appoint two more SCOTUS Justices. Clinton's two appointees voted for this abomination.

[Protagoras]

I won't vote for Dean. So much for that inane comment.

Your heros passed the repeal of the first amendment, now you live with it.

[Flux Capacitor]

----Actually, the insane thing to do is to help Dean appoint two more SCOTUS Justices. Clinton's two appointees voted for this abomination.----

You, and a lot of other people, are missing the point. It was Bush's responsibility to see to it that the decision on CFR would never fall to SCOTUS in the first place, by vetoing the bill as soon as it landed on his desk. The veto -- which Bush has never used -- is one of the most important tools the president has, because one of the constitutional responsibilities of the president is to serve as a check on the legislature when it pushes through asininity like CFR.... and Bush abdicated that responsibility in the pursuit of a political advantage that has never, and will never, materialize.

I am hardly a one-issue voter, and I'll do whatever I can to help ensure that Howard Dean never comes within a hundred yards of the Oval Office. But on the particular issue of CFR, which strikes at the very foundation of constitutional free speech, consider it this way:

---A President Dean, as a hard-core leftist, would certainly have signed CFR.

---President Bush, as a self-described conservative who made certain promises about the issue during his campaign, did sign CFR.

Therefore, on the issue of free speech as it relates to political campaigning, it would make no difference if Howard Dean were president right now instead of George W. Bush.

And if that's not cause for conservative outrage, then Jesus, what is?

-Dan