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Taking Command in Crisis, Bush Wields New Powers
The New York Times ^ | 01/01/2002 | ELISABETH BUMILLER with DAVID E. SANGER

Posted on 12/31/2001 6:28:14 PM PST by Pokey78

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To: gramcam
You have hit my pet peeve! This article referred to President Bush (once, maybe twice) but used Mr. Bush (a diminutive effort) 30 times!

CNN news service, that one of our local talk shows uses, only refers to President Bush as Mr. Bush. I've been meaning to send an email off to CNN - thanks for reminding me how mad it makes me.

21 posted on 12/31/2001 8:48:32 PM PST by WHATNEXT?
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To: Askel5; MHGinTN; Ms. Antifeminazi
Bush said right off the bat that overturning Roe v. Wade was not in his vision during the campaign. He realized, as I do, that this is going to take time. The culture has to be changed first.

I am not sure what your Russia tangent has to do with anything. Guess it just needed to be thrown out?

I never EVER would have argued vehomently, or even tepidly, that Bush's daddy was pro-life.

Dubya is not his dad.

I am watching as he changes perceptions and works towards changing the culture. I am pleased with the progress so far.

Anyways, go paint N'awlens (or however is the proper way to pronouce it) red.

This year, conservatives will find a way to work together. The optimist in me demands it. We will pave the way to save lives.

It is the most important issue of our time, even while the nation is focused on terrorism.

22 posted on 12/31/2001 8:50:48 PM PST by Hugh Akston
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To: YaYa123
Could these two reporters be any bitchier if they tried?

Yes. They could be Askel5.

23 posted on 12/31/2001 8:54:43 PM PST by M. Thatcher
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To: Pokey78
What bothers me is that the nation has been propelled into a wild goose chase for one bearded camel-like man that will inevitably last for too long and will have the duped cheering and sighing the whole way through. Our funds will trickle into the military... our men and women will fight overseas... and the nation will continue in this quasi-war state, while people run around in their trendy patriotic fashions, blessing the president and the "fight for freedom". If the government was serious about fighting terrorism, Osama would have been paste on the cave wall months ago, and all the organizations would be gone already. But this fight will never end... big brother has made their "Emmanuel Goldstein", and the proletariat is none the wiser.
24 posted on 12/31/2001 9:02:41 PM PST by RobertFrost
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To: Pokey78
An administration official said Mr. Bush had not meant to be rude, just uncompromising. "It was also a test of who was going to be paramount, the legislature or the executive, when it came to spending," the official said.

Well, according to the Constitution, it's supposed to be the Legislature.

But let's not let the Constitution get in the way of supporting Bush...

25 posted on 12/31/2001 9:09:39 PM PST by John R. (Bob) Locke
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To: Hugh Akston
Bless you, Hugh, you have seen the deeper truth! The nation will need a change of perspective to get behind efforts to change abortion policy in America. To affirm life, individual lifetimes begun at conception, will require even literary works that offer the truth in differing genres that reinforce/affirm the illimitable value of the individual human being even found in the womb at their most vulnerable.

This year just begun will be one of the most crucial years in America's history, as the trials present for solution by a people united, for the democrat party knows a united people present the most danger to the divisive methodology of their party power plays. This year will be hallmarked by efforts to divide the people, efforts by the closet socialists, the democRAT party. The issue of protecting individual lifetimes begun and running already in the womb (to last in that borrowed womb for only a few months, as measured against a lifetime alreay begun) will be a crucail gut check for the pubbies. If the pubbies meet the challenge openly and honestly, the people will embrace life; if the RATS succeed in obfuscating the truth of preborn individual life, the nation will be corroded beyond repair ... and the year 2002 is the decisive year of note.

26 posted on 12/31/2001 9:14:50 PM PST by MHGinTN
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To: M. Thatcher
I'll ditto that.

Interesting how Askel5 has focused on the 6th commandment exclusively. Seems not to have noticed there are 5 commandments before it. If I read Askel5's "French" abreviations correctly, he already violated the 3rd commandment. Wonder if God is dyslexic. Did God mean to put our language (3rd) ahead of killing (6th)? Could it be an error in Exodus? Do our words actually matter to God?

27 posted on 12/31/2001 9:41:53 PM PST by Kay
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To: RobertFrost
What bothers me is that the nation has been propelled into a wild goose chase for one bearded camel-like man that will inevitably last for too long and will have the duped cheering and sighing the whole way through. Our funds will trickle into the military... our men and women will fight overseas... and the nation will continue in this quasi-war state, while people run around in their trendy patriotic fashions, blessing the president and the "fight for freedom". If the government was serious about fighting terrorism, Osama would have been paste on the cave wall months ago, and all the organizations would be gone already. But this fight will never end... big brother has made their "Emmanuel Goldstein", and the proletariat is none the wiser.

Once more...and pray they understand.

28 posted on 01/01/2002 2:16:29 AM PST by KDD
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To: Pokey78
Wow. The NYT is developing a nearly fetishistic obsession with "Mr. Bush's new powers."
29 posted on 01/01/2002 2:29:18 AM PST by angkor
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To: KDD
Once more...and pray they understand.

You are imprisoned by your paranoia. What a rotten, fear-filled, miserable existence you live.

I invite you to lose your chains, crawl from the dungeon of your despair, and join the rest of us in the light who rejoice in the magnificent freedoms we enjoy in this great country.

30 posted on 01/01/2002 8:27:52 AM PST by Kevin Curry
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To: KDD
thankyou.
31 posted on 01/02/2002 8:22:26 PM PST by RobertFrost
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To: Kevin Curry
How about this...

how about all of us keep ourselves from getting caught up in fervor, and rather than sit around and enjoy what few freedoms have been left to us, lets continue fighting for the ones we lose day after day. Isn't that what we are here to do?

32 posted on 01/02/2002 8:24:11 PM PST by RobertFrost
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To: Kevin Curry
You are imprisoned by your paranoia. What a rotten, fear-filled, miserable existence you live.

And you are a cowardly twit Kevin.

I'll stand with Reagan and these words spoken by him:

Well, I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers.

This idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except the sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.

You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or right, but I would like to suggest that there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down--up to man's age-old dream--the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order--or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism, and regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.

In this vote-harvesting time, they use terms like the "Great Society," or, as we were told a few days ago by the President, we must accept a "greater government activity in the affairs of the people." But...the full power of centralized government--this was the very thing the Founding Fathers sought to minimize. They knew that governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose..

Ronald Reagan, urging voters to support Barry Goldwater, addresses the nation in "A Time for Choosing," October 27, 1964.

I've been a member of The Republican Party for over 30 years here in Fla. I've worked on Jeb Bushs campaign and am in charge in transporting nursing home voters to the polls in a 3 county area for the RNC. I have a large extended family, many whom are not politically astute and who depend on me to advise them. It is arguable that my efforts produced more then the number of Republican votes for G.W. than he won Florida by. We barely won this election. Traitors like like you will insure that it will be the last election the GOP wins. You don't lose 30 year veterns and former YAF members and remain viable in conservative politics. Of course I know you hope to make up the difference with all the liberals such as yourself who will flock to the GOP filled with admiration for Big Daddy Government. Go suck an egg you dolt.

33 posted on 01/02/2002 11:30:33 PM PST by KDD
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