As some of you may be aware, according to the President and Congressional Republicans, a bill does not have to pass both the Senate and the House to become a law. Forget your sixth grade civics lesson, forget the book they give you when you visit Congress - "How Our Laws Are Made," and forget Schoolhouse Rock. These are checks and balances, Republican-style.
As the Washington Post reported last month, as the Republican budget bill struggled to make its way through Congress at the end of last year and beginning of this year (the bill cuts critical programs such as student loans and Medicaid funding), the House and Senate passed different versions of it. House Republicans did not want to make Republicans in marginal districts vote on the bill again, so they simply certified that the Senate bill was the same as the House bill and sent it to the President. The President, despite warnings that the bill did not represent the consensus of the House and Senate, simply shrugged and signed the bill anyway. Now, the Administration is implementing it as though it was the law of the land.
You strict interpretation right-wingers should be completely pissed off by this, and you should be calling for Bush's impeachment if not his head. Where is the outrage?
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Nadir: I agree with you on this point, I agree that it is illegal, and I agree that some of these charactors should face prosecution. Count me as outraged.
I am so disgusted with the republicans that I can barely promote them at all. I disagree with them on most social issues, but have supported them because I agree with their official financial views. But they have let me down, down, down with their spending, and their abandonment of a flat, simple tax and privatized SS.
Except for black repo candidates, I'm voting for candidates from the Libertarian and US Taxpayers parties.
Why in the hell are you voting for black republicans? Voting for someone because they are black is almost as bad as not voting for someone because they are black.
I practice some personal affirmative action. As much as I despise fat-cat, jive-ass preachers, I'm going to vote for Keith Butler to be my republican senator purely because he is a black person running as a republican.
So you despise him as a jackleg minister who exploits the members of his church, but will support him with a flock of the entire state?
There is nothing logical or intelligent about that at all. Voting your ideology but against your personal interests and against the interests of the rest of us is irrational and irresponsible. The republicans are taking all of us to the cleaners - you included. You continue to vote for them even though they have proven that they do not practice the economic policies they preach - your stated reason for supporting them.
Tom, are you reading this? What's wrong with your brother?
I do think that Kieth Butler is a jackleg minister. But I think that having a black republican senator will advance the urgent cause of breaking the black mindset of supporting liberal politicians and causes at a rate of about 90%. Even though Butler might not in the short run get us closer to shrinking the size and activities of the fedl govt, privatizing SS, lowering and flattening the fedl tax system, school vouchers, etc., in the long run it can get us there by swaying more blacks to consider these options.
Having black mayors has not increased black voter turnout in most elections - a few races excepted. Just having a black face isn't a guarantee of support by black folks anymore. See your heroes Clarence Thomas, Condi Rice, Alan Keyes, etc.
Butler is like other opportunistic blacks who are turning to the Republican party because Democrats take republicans for granted, and the field is too crowded. A black republican can enrich himself in ways that a black democrat never could.
That won't make him a better policymaker. It will make him a better crook.
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