Posted on 06/04/2002 9:20:43 AM PDT by johnqueuepublic
Even up here, where something like 1/3 of registered voters are Independent, and they are all the same, too. Then there are Greens and Libertarians, who really are different, but in the minority. That leaves RightWhale all by himself, registered R, but kind of bemused at the alternatives.
Well tour, far be it from me to correct you on Constitutional matters, but Article 8, section 11 calls for the Congress (not the Senate acting alone) to declare war.
This is what was done on December 8, 1941.
But in 1951, Harry S Truman went into Korea under the aegis of the United Nations, calling it a "police action". Unless I am mistaken, there have been no formal Congressional declarations of war since.
However, Congress holds the purse strings, and if they don't provide money for any given military activity, it will wither on the vine.
Bush 41 was abandoned because he showed no predilection to a cohesive conservative vision whatsoever. Though a good and decent man, raising taxes was merely one outward expression of hs lack of ideology. George W. is better at this than his father, though he is still lacking a great deal.
I welcome them too, as long as they become a part of the conservative, moral vision of the Republican Party.
I wish this guy would shut up. He tells too much truth. ;)
I've sent this one on to my State Rep. Maybe it will keep him from being demoralized by the local dems.
Freedom Is Worth Fighting For !!
Molon Labe !!
Because we know that human beings are corrupt and tend to corrupt what they touch, we wish to keep government as small as we can to protect against tyranny and a loss of freedoms. To keep government small we have to keep taxes low. Low taxes encourage economic growth and charitable giving unencumbered by government shackles.
This, then, forms the core of conservatism - human freedom limited by law that stem from an unchanging moral code that in turn comes from God.
If the badguys manage to detonate even a dirty bomb, make a stinger type missile attack against the capital, all bets are off - the economy goes into free fall, martial law is declared, you name it the sky is the limit
I have nothing but contempt for Limbaugh now, Hannity, Michael Savage and the rest of these imbeciles who would cut the legs off Bush just to spike their ratings.
Screw them I will never listen to them again.
What is it with you Libertarians, deal with alqaeda? You dont even believe in defending your own borders. Mecca into Las Vegas, that is hallucinatory, you cant conceivably know anything about radical islam.
Fortunately the Libertarian party has $2.03 in the till and no prospect of even electing dog catchers.
I was thinking of China and Taiwan; Pakistan and India since the Pakistanis had obtained nuke technology from China on Clinton's watch; North Korea; the International Criminal Court treaty which Clinton signed, etc. I wasn't necessarily thinking of massive terrorist acts on our soil. But my point is that anyone paying attention during the Clinton years saw danger building in lots of areas while that (expletive deleted) was having himself a riproaring good time on his extended frat party. I don't think there are words strong enough to express the depth of my disdain and disgust for that man.
The truly sad thing is how quickly so many people forget. We now have a truly decent and good man in the presidency, but all some can focus on is areas in which they disagree with him. They'd rather ditch a good man who's doing his level best to protect this country, and risk getting someone as bad as or even worse than Clinton because their expectations are impossible for anyone to meet. It isn't possible for any two human beings to agree 100% on anything all the time, but that is what some demand of this president.
Main Entry: con·ser·va·tism
Pronunciation: k&n-'s&r-v&-"ti-z&m
Function: noun
Date: 1835
1 capitalized a : the principles and policies of a Conservative party b : the Conservative party
2 a : disposition in politics to preserve what is established, b : a political philosophy based on tradition and social stability, stressing established institutions, and preferring gradual development to abrupt change
3 : the tendency to prefer an existing or traditional situation to change.
The founders were NOT conservatives as many today think of the term. When they wrote the Constitution, they had only recently overthrown the old British order, something so exceedingly radical that it had never been done before in history. Some were small 'r' republicans who argued for a weak, minimalist federal government but reasonably strong state governments. Thomas Jefferson is the most prominent proponent of this view. Others were outright statists as we understand the term today. They wanted to eliminate the states entirely and have only one unified country with a strong federal government. Alexander Hamilton is the most prominent of this group, and he even went so far as to propose a hereditary monarchy during the first Constitutional Convention.
A number of compromises were written into the Constitution in order to accommodate and balance this wide range of views. For example, elections for the House were based on proportional representation. Representatives were to be elected directly by the people. But in order to protect states rights and provide a check on the power of the federal government, each state, no matter how large or small, was to have two senators, and they were to be appointed by their state legislature. This is called the Great Compromise because it balanced the concerns of small states and large, and balanced direct federal elections with the selection by each state of two agents (senators) to act on the state's behalf in the federal structure of government.
I like it! Whatever keeps the Damocrats out of the White House.
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