[Wright is right!]

"Sometimes, principled leadership means signing crap like this, to make sure it gets killed in the courts vs. hoping it never comes up again."

Let me tell you why President Dubya signed "this piece of dung." One reason and one reason only - SIGNING IT FOREVER REMOVES THE ISSUE FROM THE DEMS. The Dems gave up the issue in return for a bill. Although they have preferred having the issue for years, this year, they made the strategic blunder to trade that issue for a flawed bill.

What will now happen, which would NOT had Bush vetoed it, is that the courts will declare it unconstitutional. Net result - the DEMS will have lost BOTH the bill AND THE ISSUE.

That's why he signed it. He avoids the media whitewash, which was sure to have been massive (since they haven't gotten anything to stick to him in 9 months), and he defeats the Dems by taking the issue away from them and exiling it to the trash heap. Damn fine West Texas strategery, if'n ya ask me.

Any time you can surgically remove an issue from the Dems, it IS a victory.

Michael

[RAT Patrol]

Doesn't it make you slightly uneasy that your post #97 is built on fiction? You have no way of knowing that. You are guessing. I am not saying it isn't a logical guess, but it has about as much hard fact backing it up as the accusation that Corporations are purchasing legislation. Ziltch!

[Patriotic Rich]

I Hope you're right on that post 97! I'm thinking along the same lines.

[wcbtinman]

re:post 97

You had better pray that Sandra Dipstick O'conner suddenly gets religion. Thanks for supporting a decision to be made about my freedoms by this bunch of pantywaists on the USSC.

[steveegg]

I could've swore that the original incarnation of Social Security was declared unconstitutional. That didn't stop FDR and the Senate DemonRATs from packing the Supreme Court to pass the exact same thing knowing that they now had a majority. The Borking of every Bush nominee to the federal appellate court and the impending Borking of every last Bush nominee to the Supreme Court, which will continue until he leaves office, is simply an effort to repeat history.