Replies

I am very impressed to see that National Review got this one so very right given their record of abandoning conservative ideals and principles and putting party over principle. Thankfully, this is one issue in which conservative principles and the supreme interest of Republican Party for self-preservation coincide exactly. If Bush signs this bill, he will betraying not merely conservative and constitutional principles, but more importantly to many on Free Republic he will be betraying the Republican Party into permanent Congressional minority status. The need for Bush to veto this unconstitutional monstrousity is so great that we should send this article to all of our friends to rouse them to urge Bush to do the right thing. I am convinced that Bush will give in to conservative grassroots pressure if we bring enough firepower to bare, but this pressure must be overwhelming to work.

Otherwise, Bush will follow his narrow and short-sighted political instincts and sign the Democrat Incumbent Protection Act when it arrives on his desk and the Republicans will lose both Houses of Congress permanently in 2004. Then in January 2005, a narrowly re-elected and shell-shocked President Bush will come back to work in January 2005 following a Democrat title wave which will be the reverse of the Grand GOP Victory of 1994 and Bush will be left trying to claim that he is still relevant. He won't be able to get any good legislation passed through Congress. This article is a powerful counter to those Freepers who are saying that signing the Democrat majority bill is a brilliant Bush strategy which takes the issue off the table in the deluded hope that the Supreme Court will somehow step forward and save the First Amendment and the Republican Party and declare it unconstitional. Anyone who believes that is just dreaming. If a Republican Party won't step forward to save the GOP, the Supreme Court will not do so either.

PLEASE call the WH, Freepers. The darn line is busy half the time....hopefully with people opposed to this legislation.

I, George W Bush, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and I will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States." President G.W.Bush (2000-2004)

Read my lips, no new taxes
President G.W.H. BUSH (1988-1992)

Integrity runs strong in this family

"In an extraordinary abdication of his responsibilities under the Constitution, however, the president will probably sign the bill in part because the courts can be expected to find elements of it unconstitutional. This is why his aides think signing it is so clever — Bush gets the credit for going along, while the bill is sent straight into constitutional limbo."