[thucydides]

Posters to this thread are characterizing this as a great republican defeat. I don't think so. It has become apparent that the republicans enjoy such a huge advantage in hard money that the democrats would never pass an increase to it on a stand alone basis. Now, I think the republicans are counting on the courts to throw out garbage and leave the increase in hard money in place. As for the democrats, they had assumed Bush would veto it based on what they regard as the laughable republican commitment to principle, giving them an issue for the fall ( poor babies, they have nothing to run on ). Now they may be hoist by their own petard.

[MamaLucci]

Posters to this thread are characterizing this as a great republican defeat.

For me, it's as simple as "oaths mean something". ALL of these politicians swore an oath to uphold and protect the constitution.
Most of this bill is demonstrably unconstitutional, and should have been laughed off of the House floor,
yet, it's heading to the President's desk to be signed into the law of the land, or to be vetoed.
Members of Congress have not upheld their oaths, will the President?

[ImpBill]

Let's see Republicans getting a monetary advantage in "hard money" trumps the 1st Amendment to the Constitution and Republican advantage means Congress and the President can ignore their "Oaths of Office" and pass Constitutional Amendments without going through the Amendment process as dictated by the Constitution.

Somehow that doesn't sit will with this citizen. It is a sad day indeed when people that claim to want to conserve the Constitution are as willing to wad it up and use it and their Oath's as toilet paper in the same way as our previous Administration did.

Republican/Democrat ... Democrat/Republican ... same/same. Anything for political power and screw the citizens for whom the Constitution was written in the first place.