[Protagoras]

The bill gets packed away in Dassholes desk drawer until....A new president comes along and will sign it, and for his trouble, the biggest 2 proponents of the bill,McAnus, and the Mainstream media, Bash the living crap out of him, rekindle their love affair, give him an asspain primary in'03-'04, and use the issue to cost him ground in the middle against his Dem opponent in '04.

I see it now,,,, sign something unconstitutional in order to prevent someone else from theoretically siging it later. Sounds like a sound strategy to me.

Sounds like you care more about strategy than rights. That would put you in lockstep with him.

[NittanyLion]

I see it now,,,, sign something unconstitutional in order to prevent someone else from theoretically siging it later. Sounds like a sound strategy to me.

Perhaps Bush should ask Congress to send him bills in opposition to each of the Bill of Rights. If we're strengthening the Constitution, let's not do it piecemeal. < /sarcasm >

[hobbes1]

Like it or not, in this day and age, Politics is Strategy.

Being right is no consolation for losing. Ask those principled Aholes in Washington State how they feel their interests are being served by Senator Cantwell.

Net gain of one in 02, means the Senate will be ramrodding steadily more conservative judges to higher and higher courts. No blue slips, no character assassinations. That is called Effecting REAL CHANGE. What you and the others are doing, and hiding behind principle is called POSING.