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The Neville Chamberlain Republican Senators
self | 5/24/05 | exit82

Posted on 05/24/2005 4:52:19 AM PDT by exit82

We have seven Republican Senators who have betrayed their party, their country, and the Constitution.

They have accomplished "peace in our times" by allowing the Democrats to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat in regard to the judicial nominees.

They have not only sold us out, but they sold us out for no gain. All they have accomplished is that the filibustering of nominees has merely been kicked down the road, to a time and place of the Democrats' choosing.

The filibuster, they tell us smugly, will only be used in "extraordinary" circumstances. To the Democrats, if a Bush judicial nominee is breathing, that is extraordinary.

From this point on, it is hereby decreed that these seven Republican weiniemeisters are to be hereby referred to as the "Neville Chamberlain Republicans" because, at great cost to the country and their own party, they have capitulated to an enemy bent on destroying them, in order to gain a false peace of no value.

Let history judge them rightly.

You are now free to return to normal Freeping. Thank you for your attention.


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To: exit82
  1. Assume that President Bush nominated the best candidates possible for the judiciary, and note that the Dims did not invoke the "extraordinary circumstances (EC)" option.
  2. Justices Owen, Brown, and Pryor gain approval to the circuit bench.
  3. One or more justices of the U.S. Supreme Court retires,
  4. President Bush nominates the best candidates possible (Owen, Brown and/or Pryor) to the SCOTUS.
  5. Dims face a choice:
    1. Invoke the "EC" and look like even bigger fools as they filibuster
    2. Watch silently as Owen, Brown and/or Pryor pass on the floor of the Senate
  6. Note to Dims: Don't play poker with Dubya

81 posted on 05/29/2005 6:44:54 AM PDT by Thom Pain
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To: exit82
The people remain the ultimate check and balance and reserve that right to themselves.

But that's just a short step from government by referendum, which absolutely leads to demagogic tyranny. The Checks and Balances in the system are partly there to protect it from the insanity of democracy. As I see it, there is no way around the problem, once we have to resort to direct referendum, the Republic has failed.

82 posted on 05/29/2005 1:46:56 PM PDT by Pelayo ("If there is hope... it lies in the quixotics." - Me)
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To: Pelayo

The ultimate check and balance is a new government by revolution.

That's how America started.

The people don't need a referendum sanctioned by the present powers that be.


83 posted on 05/29/2005 4:24:08 PM PDT by exit82 (You see, I've been to the desert on a horse with no name--then I found FreeRepublic.)
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To: Pelayo

The ultimate check and balance is a new government by revolution.

That's how America started.

The people don't need a referendum sanctioned by the present powers that be.


84 posted on 05/29/2005 4:24:16 PM PDT by exit82 (You see, I've been to the desert on a horse with no name--then I found FreeRepublic.)
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To: exit82
We need a list please!

I sent Thume money to defeat Dasshole and this is how he repays me!

I will now send money to defeat him next election.

85 posted on 05/29/2005 4:27:58 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Thom Pain

Thom, you have discounted the tremendous spin by the Rat favoring media that keeps the average Joe in the dark.

The Dims came off as huge winners this week. The Dims don't care about looking like fools, because they know their media shills will spin it to their advantage. And the Dims cannot be counted on to honor any so-called agreement.

If this is poker, it isn't being played very well. Two judges are now in limbo that should have gotten a vote.

The principle that a President's nominees have a right to be voted on has been lost for the time being.

The Dims need to be put down, politically speaking, on this issue.

And I'm still waiting for a Republican, poker playing or not, that has the balls to do it.


86 posted on 05/29/2005 4:29:01 PM PDT by exit82 (You see, I've been to the desert on a horse with no name--then I found FreeRepublic.)
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To: Polyxene
Of course, if the GOP gets really desperate, they can go begging to George Soros!

Some of them already are. Check out the Republicam Nain Street Partnership and its "Main Street Individual Fund," which Soros gave to.

Local News for Sunday 3/28/04
Group with Houghton ties raised money from Bush critic
- Funds go to entities created by Main Street Partnership that raise soft money.

By JOHN MACHACEK
Star-Gazette Washington Bureau
jmachace@gns.gannett.com

WASHINGTON -- A group supporting moderate Republicans, led by New York Rep. Amo Houghton, has pocketed $50,000 from George Soros -- one of President Bush's harshest critics -- even as the GOP tries to stop the liberal billionaire from helping Democratic-leaning groups pay for anti-Bush ads.

The Soros connection has put Houghton on the spot at home. Conservative Mark Assini, a Rochester-area county legislator hoping to challenge the veteran congressman in a GOP primary this fall, accuses Houghton of betraying Bush and the Republican Party by "partnering" with Soros.

But there are also questions about whether groups such as the Republican Main Street Partnership, the organization that Houghton helped establish and now finances, should use different entities to raise "soft money," unlimited amounts of unregulated cash from corporations, labor unions and wealthy individuals like Soros.

http://www.mooregop.org/gannett_RMSP_and_MSIF.html


87 posted on 05/29/2005 4:48:28 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: exit82
The ultimate check and balance is a new government by revolution.

And do what? Set up the same system all over again? Any revolution will have to be a popular movement, which means greater democracy, which means in the long run more socialism just as in Europe.

88 posted on 05/29/2005 8:00:52 PM PDT by Pelayo ("If there is hope... it lies in the quixotics." - Me)
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To: exit82
Wait'll Dubya nominates Robert Bork!

And George Allen has what it takes in '08.

And I know you are probably right, but I need some glimmer of hope...

89 posted on 05/29/2005 8:35:58 PM PDT by Thom Pain
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