[Necrovore]

I am beyond disgusted and do not think Congress will step up to the plate and stand up to the Judiciary. What are our options now?

[Founding Father]

Options. There is one. Vote against every damn republican in '06 if they bow down and kiss democrat ass again. Republicans, in the end, are no different than dems---THEY WANT TO BE RE-ELECTED AND STAY IN POWER. Take away pubbie power by kicking many out of office with the rest being in the minority----then you'll get their attention.

[YOUGOTIT]

We may have to start a new party. The problem is that we would have to wait years to get anyone elected to the Senate so that judges would be appointed that would uphold the Constitution. By that time the country and our freedoms would be gone. But then they are going anyway so why not try. If we can get the majority of the American People to take back their country the new party might have a chance. At least we would try and save our freedom from the left-wing fascist and the do nothing Republicans.

[Vicomte13]

"I am beyond disgusted and do not think Congress will step up to the plate and stand up to the Judiciary. What are our options now?"

It is obvious what our option is.
If the Republicans will not press through the slate and change the composition of the judiciary, they will have welched on a key campaign promise, the whole REASON for the Christians to have supported them en masse for so long in the first place. The Republicans will have gotten every tax cut and drilling in Alaska, but not used their power to get the judicial slate.

Most Christians are not rich. If taxes went back up to Clinton levels, a lot of Republicans would be hurt, but actually, the Christians would be the least hurt of them.

If the Republicans prove faithless, the Christians option is to simply stay home in 2006 and 2008. This will effectively hand the government back over to the Democrats, but guess what? If Republicans don't fulfill their campaign promise on judges when they have the power to do so, they are liars and no better than Democrats. Because it will mean that there is no hope of Roe ever being overturned. If with the power, Republicans won't give the victory to the Christians that they have been fighting for for 20 years, Christians have to do the same thing to Republicans that fiscal conservatives did to George H W Bush when he welched on his "No new taxes pledge."

This will mean handing Congress back to the Democrats by Christians staying home. That will mean higher taxes, which will especially fall on the Republicans who have gotten their agenda almost in its entirety. The Christians will be the least hurt.

And that will make the point to the Republicans that George H W Bush's defeat in 1992 made to them regarding taxes: if you lie, you lose power and your constituency stays home.

All that said, the Republicans AREN'T going to welch. They are going to press the nuclear option button and put in President Bush's strict constructionist judges, and those judges will eventually, once they reach a critical mass, overturn Roe v. Wade.

But if the Republicans don't, Christians need to stop contributing and stay home en masse in 2006, because it will mean that they have been betrayed, and there is no better purpose served by voting for someone who lies to you than there is in voting for someone who is bent on doing bad things. Both things have the same result, and are equally bad.

Fortunately, the Republicans have more principles than that.
They will invoke the nuclear option, soon.
Support them to the hilt when they do.
If they don't, shake the dust off of your sandals and leave them behind.
There is no "middle way", and there should be no pretense that there is.

[Milhous]

What are our options now?

Make recalcitrant Republicans pay a political price.

Senate RINOs

Term Expires	Name	State
2006	Snowe	ME
2006	Chafee	RI
2008	Collins	ME
2008	Hagel	NE
2008	Warner	VA
2010	McCain	AZ

[Leatherneck_MT]

I am beyond disgusted and do not think Congress will step up to the plate and stand up to the Judiciary. What are our options now?

It's quickly becoming apparent that the only option we have left to stave off judicial tyranny is the 2nd Amendment.