You want `em, get them elected. But don't complain when the votes don't go there because you ran off like some two-year old in a hissy fit!
Let it be understood that your rant is in response to a couple of simple questions...
Could anything cause you to lose (your faith in President Bush)?
Is there any line you'd draw?
Speaking of hissy fits, God forbid anyone suggest that there might times when the President needs to be reminded who he works for.
It's that simple. Those are the lines I have drawn at present. I like a lot of what Ron Paul says, although I disagree with him strongly on foreign policy and legalization of drugs. I'm probably a neoconservative/libertarian hybrid.
The fact is, right now, we only have about 205 decent or better people in the House, and maybe 45 decent or better Senators. The good news is that in the House, we've got leadership that will do the right thing at least 90% of the time. We don't have that in the Senate.
Quite frankly, the President has done pretty well for the most part. My big beef is the camnpaign finance bill, but at the same time, this thing will be dealt with permanently by SCOTUS. Congressman Billybob is very sure we can get just about everything in Shays-Meehan tossed.
We've got to pick our fights carefully right now. And frankly we've got that border security stuff in the House that Senator KKK is holding up in the Senate. And we get to kick his butt on two counts as opposed to one.
I learned in 1995 we were not going to get everything we wanted, and if we pushed too hard, we'd get our butts handed to us by the media and the Dems. On the other hand, I think that if we apply the lesson of the parable of the old bull and the young bull, we'll win big now and down the road.
But we have to be realistic here. We need numbers and we need to back the President over this Social Security mess that Gephardt and Matsui are trying to start. Because if the Dems win Congress in 2002, and if they add the White House in 2004 with Hillary, Gore, or anyone else like that, it is 100% over.