"Should President Bush Sign the Campaign Finance Reform Bill Into Law?":
Day 6, 05:44 PM EST (Results are delayed 15 minutes)
Total Votes: 34,201
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Posted on 03/25/2002 11:16:37 AM PST by Pay now bill Clinton
Bush Will Sign Campaign Finance Bill
Mon Mar 25,10:19 AM ET
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) said on Sunday he would sign landmark campaign finance reform legislation with only a slight hesitation, reflecting his ongoing concerns about the measure.
The legislation to reduce the influence of money in politics won final congressional approval last week, and Bush has pledged to sign it soon.
The bill would ban unlimited contributions known as "soft money" to national political parties, limit such donations to state and local parties and restrict broadcast ads by outside groups shortly before elections.
Former independent counsel Kenneth Starr, whose investigation of Bill Clinton's sex life resulted in the president's impeachment in 1998, is to lead a legal challenge that will seek to knock down most of the measure as unconstitutional.
Bush said he felt the campaign bill did not fully address the need to require identification of who is funding so-called independent groups that introduce "scurrilous, untrue" television advertisements in the last days of a campaign, as he said happened to him in his 2000 presidential campaign.
"I've always thought that people who pump money into the political system, we ought to know who they are," he said.
Bush said that nonetheless the "bill is a better bill than the current system," but that some parts of it might not stand up to a court challenge.
And I am entitled to believe there is more than one way to get there; I'm against this bill; it should be vetoed, IMO.
That, however, does not mean that Bush's approach is WRONG, nor does it mean that anybody who agrees with him is wrong.
And they still "claim" to love this country.
Do some "man on the street" interviews in China, Cuba or Iraq and confirm it for yourself.
After I've done all I can do, and if Bush says he's going to sign it, what's MY next move? Elect a Democrat? I don't think so.
Call it wrong.
Like all attacks on our Constitution.
They are always wrong, therefore this is wrong.
"Should President Bush Sign the Campaign Finance Reform Bill Into Law?":
Day 6, 05:44 PM EST (Results are delayed 15 minutes)
Total Votes: 34,201
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I trust George Bush. Sue me.
Assume your premise that 100% of the House and Senate vote for a bill, and the President signs it. What makes you think that prevents a Supreme Court review? It does no such thing.
Any person, any group, that think the law is unconstitutional can get a lawyer, go to court, and challenge. If they have enough money, and patience, they can take the matter to the Supreme Court. And if the Court agrees with them. the law is then dead.
You're talking to someone here who has, along the way, sued Ford, Carter, ABC, CBS, NBC, the FEC, and the League of Women Voters, among others, God Himself could not stop a court review of any law, unless he followed Shakespeare's advice, "First, kill all the lawyers."
Is that clear enough?
Billybob
I don't think it's my place to say he's wrong. You all can do that.
Donchya know that Dubya will oook bad is he doesn't sign this, would you rather have gore, it's all a trad for the libs-you will see, since when does the president and congress have anything to say about the constitutionality of a bill, you're a bush basher, the sc will knock it down anyway-so stop crying, blah, blah, blah..
Do some "man on the street" interviews in China, Cuba or Iraq and confirm it for yourself.
Uh I can't do "man in the street" interviews in China, Cuba, or Iraq. They don't have a Supreme Court to redress their grievances and a Court that can finally put nutty ideas such as banning politcal ads 60 days before an election to rest forever.
Bingo!!!
I watched every debate, I don't think anyone, except Alan Keyes,
ever mentioned the Constitution. At least not as if they
understood any of it.
okay.
Yes (7,783) (23%)
No (26,418) (77%)
And it's whispered that soon
If we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason
And a new day will dawn
For those who stand long
And the forest will echo with laughter....
Yeah, well, the forest is echoing with laughter, all right. Laughter at all the people who talk about the "democratic values" our society is based on. This is why the smart alecks are always pointing out that we are NOT a democracy, we're a REPRESENTATIVE REPUBLIC.
Bush will sign. F#ck us. We're just "the people."
Mark W.
I don't care so long as he is right and the outfield catches it. If he is wrong then I'll be upset with him for making the wrong call. Seeing that its his a$$ on the line then for now I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
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