Your attempt to engage Merc in debate by flaming her is notable. You're smart and well read, therefore there's no reason for gutter tactics. Yet you do anyway. Which makes me think that you're more of a schoolyard bully and less of a thinker. Am I wrong?
And no, I'm not a Bengals fan. Just someone that can read a loophole that is a mile wide and clearly pandering to a gossamer electorate that, as of yet, hasn't proven to be the base of the party that is seeking reelection.
You may not like it (in the Horowitz school of Trotskyite "winning is everything" seminar politics V 2.0) but principles mean something. With a slim margin of a lead in Congress the left has proven that they can push their legislation through despite a Republican President. While on the other hand, a slim majority of Republicans have proven to push leftist legislation despite themselves.
I ask you: where's the beef? If not now, when? Think about it.
Parsing obviously tampered legislation is not leadership. Leadership is bold steps with the concern of the unborn foremost in concern.
I haven't seen it yet and I'm not confident that it will appear. And having talked to many conservatives in the flesh they are considering a candidate that will address this issue based on leadership.
Ignore them at the peril of the ever shifting mushy middle.
Just to be sure everyone understands what's happening:
Here we are sitting in front of our computers hurriedly typing out random thoughts/comments/potshots at a 3-month-old article and/or one another's comments.
Meanwhile, over at the other place, they sit in front of their computers madly typing out comments ridiculing our comments to the article/each other's comments.
To complicate matters, some of the people from over there are over "here" and some of us are going back and forth from "here" to "there" and back, even though in fact we're all just sitting in front of our computers neither "here" nor "there." (In more ways than one.)
Now in an unprecented act of cross-forum communication, Luis Gonzalez is taking this surreal situation to the next logical level by lobbing a flame at someone over "there" who presumably is responding in kind over "there" to your flame "here."
Good Lord man! I hope you have the good sense NEVER to pull a stunt like this again! It's way too risky posting messages from one forum to another. . . especially during an ion storm!
You explain it to him, DeSoto. . . DeSoto? Is that you? Wow, since when have you had that goatee?
Oh oh, someone just tried to assassinate Jim. Oh well, at least we all now get to move up in rank.
Oh no, I'm beginning to see it!
The 'gift' The 'gift'
Curse you LUIS! Get us outta here!