Posted on 10/10/2005 4:55:14 AM PDT by StoneGiant
The enemy is the House and the Senate, not the President. The president gets the blame for everything and the elected legislature likes it that way. According to the U. S. Constitution the elected legislature that WE the PEOPLE elected are in charge. From George Washington to George Bush this has been the way it is. Yes, does the President ask for things that he thinks he need to conduct the day to operation of the Country, yes. The President signs the Bills into law that the legislature that WE the PEOPLE made. If he vetos them they can override the veto. If you don't like what is going on go after the real enemy, the House and the Senate. You and I put them in Washington, make phone calls and write letters and tell them they need to listen to us because WE put them there. If you don't like this okay, more people need to see that WE the PEOPLE put them there and we have to let them know that we can take them out and put others in especially some of those that have been there for twenty and thirty years. WE are the government not them, the elected legistlature are supposed to do what WE sent them there to do.
Big government borrow and spenders are not now and have never been conservative. They are neocons. Neocons are generally socially conservative, but are only fiscally conservative when it comes to tax cuts.
Note to Christians who voted for Bush: This is the end result of voting PRAGMATICALLY. Pragmatism is a secular-humanist methodology, not a Christian one. It is an attempt to manipulate the future (if we vote for Bush, this will happen, or this other thing will not happen, etc.) - to play god, if you will. But God and only God can control the future.
In a Republic such as ours, wherein God gave us the privilege of choosing our leaders, the blame for bad leadership falls squarely on the people who elected them. Will people learn from this? I am not optimistic.
Perhpas the Whigs were wondering the same thing in 1854...right before hopeless divisions destroyed that party forever. I am hoping for such a division in the Republican Party -- it may be just what the doctor ordered.
We have proved we can be better Democrats than the Democrats.
Bush has as much to do with small government conservatism as the Moon has to do with cheese.
And I fear that we will
Prepare for Clinton presidency Part Deux
Can you say "Madame, President? I knew you could"
NO WAY that Madame Clinton will be voted President.
Hopefully we will have a true conservative to vote for in 2008 instead of RINO "most popular politician to Republicans" McCain.
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