Posted on 06/12/2002 1:00:57 PM PDT by OPS4
lasereye: How do you propose to get judges through without the Republicans having control of the Senate?Something that no one ever addresses on these judicial appointment threads. Republicans controlled the Senate for just over four months before Jeffords switched. If Bush's judicial nomineees were so important to Republican Senate leaders, why didn't they approve the nomintions as soon as possible from the start? Or were they dragging their feet and are they now trying to cover their ass?
The GOP has unofficially become the RINO-Centrist-Chameleon Party. Their prime concern now is selling out conservative ideology in time for election-time Democratic votes, save for a bone or two.
Oh, and as for expediting those court confirmations? Naaah -- the GOP prefers to leave Clinton's leftovers continue to wreak havoc on the judicial system rather than rock their political boat.
Please see below. Read the report. BTW, do you live in NC?
On abortion
Even more, listen to what friends and associates say about Dole’s confusing abortion stance. According to Sidney Blumenthal of The New Yorker, during Senator Dole’s failed 1988 presidential campaign, former New Hampshire state senator Susan McLane recalled Mrs. Dole allaying the fears of McLane and other pro-abortion folks over her husband’s pro-life campaign rhetoric, reassuring the pro-abortion crowd that the senator wouldn’t really do anything about abortion if elected.(2) Apparently, Dole’s husband’s ’s pro-life convictions were only skin deep and were to be discarded after securing the White House. And Elizabeth Dole was fine with that.
"That good and honorable people disagree on the subject of abortion… we should agree to respectfully disagree".--Liddy Dole
On highway safety
When candidate Reagan campaigned in favor of abolishing the 55-mile per hour speed limit, it was Dole who fought to maintain it. As James Bovard writes:
"As Transportation Secretary, Dole consistently sought to maximize federal power both over citizens and state governments…as Transportation Secretary Dole fought all attempts to allow states to raise speed limits. Dole was the first Secretary of Transportation to penalize state governments for failure to ticket enough speeding drivers….After Dole cut highway funding to several states, Congress moved to end the 55 mph speed limit."
Dole billed herself as the "Secretary of Safety" and sided with Ralph Nader and other liberals in maintaining that lifting the 55 miles-per-hour rule would be disastrous. Dole even had DOT letterhead printed up with the "55 Speed Limit" logo on the bottom, Ironically, the reality was that after Congress authorized states to raise the 55-mile-per-hour limit to 65, our highways became safer.
Of course now to be fair, this is the same woman that supported, suggested, and helped push through seat-belt legislation. Don't forget airbags. While Reagan was against that, want to take a guess who was for it? Thanks Giddy!!
OSHA
Conservatives have always considered OSHA to be unconstitutional, as the regulation of the workplace has historically been a state and local issue. Moreover, OSHA inspectors violate the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by conducting unannounced workplace searches without a warrant. (27) In addition, the idea of an agency creating regulations without legislative approval was held to be unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court for the first 160 years of the country’s existence – and should have remained illegal were it not for activist judges.
The fines levied by OSHA are, in many cases, so outrageous -- up to $70,000 -- that it has forced some businesses to close down. Over half of its citations are for innocent paperwork violations, and most of the non-paperwork violations are for frivolous items like the employee of a roofing company who received a fine for not wearing a long sleeve shirt. (29)
Nonetheless, Secretary Dole felt it necessary to grant additional power to OSHA. Along with her friends in organized labor, Dole sponsored congressional legislation that greatly expanded the power of OSHA. (30) The non-partisan Employment Policy Foundation estimated that the new OSHA regulations would cost American businesses $50 billion a year in compliance costs alone – on top of existing compliance costs
One would be hard pressed to find a Republican Secretary of Labor who did as much damage to the economy, to our schools, to the private sector and to worker’s rights as did Secretary Dole. She created phony issues such as comparable worth, the Glass Ceiling issue, fabricated issues such as the "child labor scandal" to create media attention, expanded OSHA’s ability to wreck havoc upon the private sector, initiated ergonomic regulations, initiated a program that essentially dumbed down America’s public schools, and finally, ignored the Beck decision, thus allowing the exploitation of workers by organized labor eager to use their dues monies.
Every bit of this info can be found Here. The article referring it is Here. If you think she's conservative you're just going to love the indepth coverage of her statements and escapades at the Red Cross
Go Giddy go!! But wait we're not finished yet!!
She has come out for government subsidies on tobacco. At least she didn't do like Bush and call for an end to the states' war on the tobacco industry only to not follow through. So instead she's going to throw more government money at the problem instead of calling for a fix to it once and for all in requesting the states back off. But wait, we haven't covered the 2nd Amendment issues yet!!
Vowing she "won't shy away from tough issues," Elizabeth Dole said Tuesday it is "wrong" to allow Americans to carry concealed weapons and that she supports mandatory safety locks on guns -- two gun-control proposals that GOP front-runner George W. Bush opposes.
"I think police work is hard enough already. No one should make it harder. I think it's wrong to let people carry concealed weapons," Dole said in a prepared text for a much broader speech on the career paths of women.
“We have to have tough, enforceable laws,” Dole told a crowd in New Hampshire, a strong gun-rights state and site of the nation’s first party primaries. “Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I don’t think you need an AK-47 to defend your family.”
Heck even the NRA doesn't want her!!
"'We don't want to endorse her,' says the ILA policy staffer. 'She's been awful on gun ownership issues, gun control issues. The NRA can't be expected just to endorse every Republican the party puts up
And I'm supposed to vote for her?!? I don't care if you paid me!! She's no better than Erskine Bowles and I don't care what the Republican party does or doesn't get if she gets in office. If the RNC is going to put this type of candidate up for election and expect it to even be a tenth of what Jesse Helms is and still stands for this state, they're no longer the conservative party they used to be. And please don't patronize me with 'we have to win the Senate' or 'it's the lesser of two evils' or even 'it's for the good of the party'. I do have principles and Giddy Dolt doesn't stand for a d#mn thing that I do.
This would be the same Ron Paul, who had to run for a US House seat as a Republican, because as a Libertarian, he knew he would never win the election.
This is the same Ron Paul who ran on the Libertarian party ticket for president in 1988 and got his butt handed to him by Bush41.
This is the same guy you want to run for president, AGAIN! A certified loser, as a Libertarian candidate and a well known party switcher. Paul did a "cut and run" from the Libertarian Party, right into the arms of the Republican Party. Some principles.
You're saying the GOP Senate leadership didn't want his appointments to go through? What possible reason could there be for that? I don't happen to know how many nominations Bush sent to the Senate or when during those 4 months, or how many were approved. But obviously you do. So fill me in on the details.
I also don't know what you mean by "as soon as possible". Approve them the same day Bush sent them? They always have the nominees come before the Judiciary committee and others testify for or against the nominee before they vote on whether to send it on to the full Senate. This obviously takes some time. The committees were evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans in those 4 months. Each committee had a Democrat and Republican co-chair.
Please research and report back to us how many judicial appointees by clinton were blocked by the GOP senate. Compare the numbers if you have the courage.
Karma is a bitch, isn't it.
One upsmenship is why this Country is in the trouble it is in. God Bless America! Ops4
Once we ferret out the DNC voter fraud in CA, WA. and PA, Bush would whip Gore hands down just like he did in Gores home state.
Give it up, Gore lost and the Dems continue to ignore the Countries wishes, for Judicial appointments, This will haunt them in next elections, the freepers will see to that. Ops4
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