[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.

[concerned about politics]

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

So vote for YOUR GUY in the next election ?

[thucydides]

This kind of politics doesn't sit well with me either. But with Bush up against the Leninist democrats, the choice is either play hardball or die politically. Maybe what he will do is try a kind of line-item veto (see Congressman Billy Bob's post) on the unconstitutional stuff. In any case the courts will throw it out. I believe the democrats have gotten so corrupt and so unscrupulous that their present levels of political power are a grave threat to the constitutional order. They almost turned us into a banana republic in Florida. Many of us assume the inherent stability of our institutions, but this is based on reasonable acquiescence and moderation, qualities notably lacking in the scorched earth partisan power-at-any-price democrat party. So maybe we should be thinking about all this as a question of the lesser of two evils.