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Tarnished Legacy ( If the president does not veto this bill ) Rush Limbaugh
rushlimbaugh.com ^ | 3/20/2002 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 03/20/2002 5:39:00 PM PST by TLBSHOW

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1 posted on 03/20/2002 5:39:00 PM PST by TLBSHOW
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To: TLBSHOW
This whole thing makes me sick to my stomach. Dammit Bushie! End it here and now.

I am consoling myself, because there's a slim chance that the case brought to challenge this bill might finally bring enough support to toss the whole system. Buckley v. Valeo...the works.
2 posted on 03/20/2002 5:43:26 PM PST by July 4th
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To: TLBSHOW
The "networks" are reporting that Bush WILL sign this unconstitutional bill into law.
3 posted on 03/20/2002 5:44:57 PM PST by lawdog
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To: TLBSHOW
Where does it say in there that Rush no longer supports Bush?
4 posted on 03/20/2002 5:46:35 PM PST by Howlin
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To: TLBSHOW
As much as I support Dubya, he will be diminished in my eyes if he signs this.

This bill is naked tyranny!!
Sic Semper Tyrannis

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Jamais reculez un pouce á tyrannie!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! Never give an inch to tyranny!)

LoanPalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

5 posted on 03/20/2002 5:47:39 PM PST by LonePalm
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To: *CFR list;*Silence, America!
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6 posted on 03/20/2002 5:48:19 PM PST by Free the USA
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To: lawdog
It feels like election night all over. Damn it.
7 posted on 03/20/2002 5:49:45 PM PST by TLBSHOW
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To: TLBSHOW
FOX(y Lady Laurie Dhue) just reported that Bush will sign it next week. AAAAARRRGGHHHHH!!!!
8 posted on 03/20/2002 5:51:16 PM PST by RFP
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To: TLBSHOW; dittomom; Molly Pitcher; DJ88; Wphile
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9 posted on 03/20/2002 5:51:18 PM PST by RAT Patrol
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To: TLBSHOW
"It feels like election night all over. Damn it."

I thought the same thing.

10 posted on 03/20/2002 5:52:38 PM PST by the Deejay
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To: TLBSHOW
I predict that all the cowardly members of Congress and including the President will be unelected, even recalled pretty soon. We are sick and tired of the BS they keep heaping on us. Now is the time for action. I say get rid of all of them. We can do that, you know. In the 80's, Las Vegas, Nevada got rid of the entire city council in one fell swoop; and we can too.
11 posted on 03/20/2002 5:54:50 PM PST by freekitty
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To: Howlin
I share everyone's desire that Bush should veto this bill. But we have to look at the long term prospects. This is just one more issue that the Rats DO NOT have to run on. One by one, Bush is depleting their issues. Pretty soon they will have to run on school lunches again. Remember, we have to have Republicans in office if there is any hope. Even if we have to give a little.
12 posted on 03/20/2002 5:57:15 PM PST by paul544
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To: freekitty
Also, remember if one side can do it so can the other. Isn't it terrible to know that your own Government is against you and not acting in your best interest? That's sick. These people in government and Hollywood and where ever else think they are flying high. There is always the other side of the coin. And the higher they are; the harder they fall.
13 posted on 03/20/2002 5:57:55 PM PST by freekitty
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To: TLBSHOW
Any congressman that knowingly votes for this
unconstitutional monstrosity needs to be de-elected.
If I may coin the term.
14 posted on 03/20/2002 5:58:25 PM PST by chainsaw
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To: TLBSHOW
Unfortunately, we all know what the hand sign with middle finger extended upwards from palm of hand means, but it is especially vulgar when government officials gleefully extend it towards "We the People" and some of these characters have the audacity while giving us this obnoxious hand signal are crossing their fingers behind their yellow striped backsides in hopes that the men in black robes will unanimously use their fists to crumple the paper this cheapshot legislation is printed on and flush it down the good Senator McCain and Senator Feingold's thrones.
15 posted on 03/20/2002 5:59:54 PM PST by harpo11
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To: paul544
Yes, let's create a totalitarian welfare state. The Democrats will have NO issues to run on because they'll already have everything they ever wanted. Great idea, paul. Just super.
16 posted on 03/20/2002 6:00:20 PM PST by Sloth
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To: paul544
I think what Bush is going to do is sign the bill as it and let the Supremes take it down. This way the RATS can't use it against him in 2002 and he can get McPain off his back. Bush is a smart guy. He knows that the bill won't stand up against the Constitution. It's all part of the strategery!
17 posted on 03/20/2002 6:02:55 PM PST by TonyWpi
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To: July 4th; TLBSHOW; OldGlory
"I am consoling myself, because there's a slim chance that the case brought to challenge this bill might finally bring enough support to toss the whole system. Buckley v. Valeo...the works."

It's maddening, isn't it?

Here's something else that consoles some. The leftists are having fits because they think Bush and Rove are outsmarting the Marxist/DemocRATS:

"Karl Rove's Wedges" by Harold Meyerson

Some doctrinaire conservatives are growing a bit cranky over the ideological impurities of George W. Bush. California Republicans rebelled when he promoted the candidacy of Richard Riordan -- Horrors! An electable moderate! -- for governor. Free-market ideologues blanched when he supported protections for the steel industry. "Steel tariffs are not just anti-market," grumped Sebastian Mallaby in The Washington Post. "They make no sense on their own terms."

Actually, they make sense and then some. Karl Rove -- the man behind the curtain in all matters political at the Bush White House -- understands all too well that busting up the Democratic coalition and building an enduring conservative majority in the United States requires the administration to build any number of alliances with its ideological opposites. While the Democrats remain devoid of any strategic direction, Rove is busy developing a whole new series of wedge issues to pick them apart.

Much was made during the 2000 campaign of Rove's appreciation of Mark Hanna, the late-nineteenth-century industrialist who, as the political genius of the McKinley operation, remade the Republican Party. Hanna not only persuaded the CEOs of his day to invest mightily in the party, he also dashed the designs of the William Jennings Bryan Democrats to restructure American politics along lines of class. Running against McKinley in 1896, Bryan began with a base of support among farmers and sought to bring industrial workers to his column as well. Hanna's strategy was to align voters not by class but by sector. Industrialists and urban workers both benefited from the tariffs that McKinley championed, though Bryan's farmers most certainly did not. Even though those industrialists paid their workers a miserably low wage, Hanna found common ground between these two conflicting classes -- and there built a Republican coalition that lasted for more than 30 years.

Follow the Bush White House over the past few months and it's apparent that Rove grows more Hanna-like by the week. At bottom, the administration remains the pluperfect expression of class politics: crafting a tax cut for the wealthy, bailing out airlines but not their workers, pushing fast track. But Rove knows that an administration devoted solely to the care and feeding of the rich is not politically sustainable. So he's developed a series of discrete policies that appeal to distinct groups in the electorate by sector.

The steel tariff is one of these. It runs counter to the administration's overall free-trade policies, but it also stands to erode Democrats' support among unionized industrial workers in such swing states as Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania.

Immigration policy is another of Rove's sectoral opportunities. It's also a necessity: Rove has long been convinced -- rightly -- that absent a successful outreach strategy to the fast-growing Latino electorate, Republicans are doomed. Since the opening days of the administration, Rove has concentrated particularly on liberalizing immigration policy with Mexico -- and not even the clamor for greater border security since September 11 has deterred him from his mission. As with the steel tariff, he's been dealing with a business-labor coalition: businesses in search of more immigrant workers, unions bent on organizing them.

As a result not just of September 11 but also the recession, the domestic pressure to increase immigration has waned, but the Republicans are still negotiating with unions and other immigrant advocates for more modest liberalizations. Consequently, Congress is now poised to extend an amnesty covering many thousands of undocumented immigrants, and to make legal immigrant students eligible for Pell Grants.

What Rove is doing is coming up with a new generation of wedge issues. Bill Clinton took all the old GOP favorites -- crime and welfare in particular -- off the table. Rove is responding by finding new ways to pick apart the Democratic base -- and with party strength so evenly divided, it doesn't take much to tip the balance one way or the other.

Rove's strategic initiatives stand in sharp contrast to the Democrats' torpor. While Rove has shown himself willing and able to deviate from core GOP policy to cut into the Democratic base, the Democrats have been unable even to formulate a core policy, let alone deviate from it. Uncertain whether to stand for fiscal discipline or a real prescription-drug benefit, divided over how and whether to question the president on our expanding and amorphous war, paralyzed by the tax cut that all too many of them voted for, they call to mind Lincoln's description of a Union general in the aftermath of a battlefield defeat. The general, Lincoln said, was wandering around "confused and stunned like a duck hit on the head."

That's our Democrats. Alas, that's not Karl Rove. [end]

Volume 13, Issue 7.April 8, 2002 of an EXTREEMLY left-wing publication linked from Rush's web site.

18 posted on 03/20/2002 6:03:21 PM PST by Matchett-PI
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To: paul544
This is just one more issue that the Rats DO NOT have to run on. One by one, Bush is depleting their issues.

Yes, by coopting them! Why would I vote for Bush if he was going to sign liberal legislation? He's supposed to be a conservative - he should act like one.

19 posted on 03/20/2002 6:03:25 PM PST by NittanyLion
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To: TLBSHOW
One important consideration here is that this bill is not merely unconstitutional (like the endowment for the arts or the federal education department) it is anti-constitutional -- that is, it is not just a usurpation of authority not recognized in the document, it is deliberately in direct opposition to the Constitution.
20 posted on 03/20/2002 6:03:44 PM PST by Sloth
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