That's telling. Indeed.
You seem passionate. Yet you don't have a bit of passion about the coup d'etat that occurred when Jeffords jumped and made Daschle the truly illegitimate (read: not by the will of the voters) Senate Leader. Jeffords paved the way for Daschle's obstructionism (read: Judge confirmations in committee). Any rebuilding of our military now must go through Daschle because of Jeffords.
In many, many nations, what Jeffords did would have caused a civil war!
You can slam Bush for ANYTHING
, yet what occurred with Jeffords illicits no concern from you whatsoever?
My, my.
What incredible nonsense. Show me just where in the Constitution it says that a politician isn't allowed to change parties. Oh, I know, he was elected essentially under false pretenses. That's true; but if you sacked every politician who did that, neither party would be able to fill a city council.
99% of the Congress, including your precious Republicans, violate their holy oath on a daily basis to support and defend the Constitution. I don't hear you calling for civil war about that!
I wonder if you would be so upset if Jeffords had switched from Democrat to GOP and gave them control of the Senate. I bet I wouldn't hear the word "illegitimate" come out of your mouth then.
This is all about Party over country. You think I'm too hard on Bush? Take this crap over arming pilots. John Magaw (who made this ridiculous decision) is in the executive branch of govt. OK, pop quiz, who do people in the executive branch work for? Ding Ding! That's right, the President. So why hasn't he done anything about this?
I'll spare you the trouble of answering, I've heard the line from the apologists so many times I know it by heart. "Gee, he has to do that, because if he upsets the Brady Bunch that'll upset the soccer moms, and Representative Zoop will lose his seat. So it's just tactics, comrades, tactics." In other words making sure that the guy who's polishing the seat of that chair with his butt is wearing a lapel pin with a picture of an elephant on it is more important than the lives of the taxpayers riding in those planes.