Boy when these professional Republican politicians are running for office they swear up and down that they will protect the Constitution, defend the borders, lessen the size of the government, anything they think you want to hear just to get your vote. Then as soon as they win they take a
HARD LEFT TURN! It makes me sick! Is this how a President with an 80% approval rating leads the country?? What will we get if his ratings fall to 60%, outright communism??
I get the feeling that it's all a big shell game, and the outcome will always the same regardless of the party! These cynical ba$tards must be laughing their heads off over the pain they are causing to the people who marched in the streets in support of the President! There isn't a dimes worth of difference between most Repub's and demoRats that I can see lately and it will be a cold day in July before I rally and protest again for a man that signs away my God-given right to free speech and makes jokes about it then rewards law breaking illegal immigrants and pumps millions of dollars into the stinking teachers unions with the help of Teddy(the swimmer)Kennedy!
As far as the next elections are concerned, unless things change in a big way, I'll be sitting them out because if the choice is demoRat leftist socialism vs Repub leftist socialism I vote for NONE OF THE ABOVE!
Bye.
It is all about the election my friend that has the rats in full mode
The bill signing that never was
In just what contempt President Bush holds the successful bipartisan efforts to stem the flood of unlimited, uncontrolled campaign money that has reduced the U.S. political system to the status of an Oriental bazaar was made abundantly clear when he signed the bill. There was no ceremony, including no cameras, which excluded from the White House the chief Republican sponsor, Arizona Senator John McCain. Congressional leaders learned of the signing only after the fact. The president said petulantly that he was not happy with the legislation, which bans the unlimited "soft money" donations from corporations and individuals.
The signing ceremony
preceded by a few hours a two-day trip to South Carolina, Georgia and Texas to raise some $4 million for Republican candidates
and two lawsuits filed in federal court challenging the just-signed legislation -- one by Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and the other by the National Rifle Association.
Mr. Bush's unblushing action in dismissing the years-long efforts to regulate campaign donations and his immediate trip to the South underscored his apparent intention to observe the will of the people expressed in Congress without closing ranks behind the senators and members of Congress who had been successful making the long-held dream a reality. But most members of the House and Senate will not be perturbed by such cavalier behavior;
their doors will be knocked on and their phones ringing the next time he needs their votes on something else.
Voters are another matter. When they see cleaner elections of unbought politicians becoming a reality, they will remember who has the better interests the nation at heart. Republicans are in charge of the House by only handful of votes now after years of successively smaller majorities and the Senate is in Democratic hands. And Mr. Bush's leadership, even on his conduct of anti-terrorist campaign, is coming into question, while GOP leaders' arguments that even to question is to help al-Qaida are more and more meeting a doubting electorate.
The prospects for increased Democratic and independent voter skepticism are growing brighter,
and Mr. Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld are being called to account for their conduct of the campaign -- an accounting that is badly needed. It is the duty of the political opposition to question, as Senator Robert Byrd, the crusty constitutionalist from West Virginia, has pointed out and even more the duty of the people's leaders to answer, just as the Congress finally answered the people's demands for a more responsive, less corrupt way of conducting electoral politics.
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