Posted on 07/03/2003 9:48:22 PM PDT by Pokey78
I once worked in government. On my first day, I raised my right hand and swore to uphold the Constitution. I thought I knew what that meant.
Recently we have gone to war in Afghanistan, Iraq and a few other places, at least in part to advance democracy and promote our kind of constitutionalism. A foreigner might then ask: What exactly is your Constitution? Now we know the answer. The Constitution is whatever Justice Sandra Day O'Connor says it is. On any given Monday.
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No Republican pays when they go into business for themselves. Specter, Olympia, Chafee, McCain and sometimes Collins work the best deal for themselves, party be damned. Yet ... would Bush imagine blocking that New England Dairy Compact that Jeffords sold his soul to pimp? Would Arlen Specter or Lincoln Chafee be vigorously opposed by a primary challenge?
I ran into my Senator Norm Coleman at one of the Wild playoff games, and I've met him numerous times and I told him how proud I was watching him operate on the Floor and in Public appearances. Then I told him how disappointed I was that his vote defeated the ANWR drilling bill. I told him he betrayed the President, who needed a win badly at that time - he was under seige regarding Iraq etc - when Bush put his time, his support and his office behind Coleman's campaign. Bush won the day for Norm. Coleman said "I promised in the campaign ..." I said "Nobody who voted for you did it because of that pledge. In fact, 99% of your supporters would celebrate your policy reversal."
It's too common. These guys fear their local editorial boards and enviropsychotics more than they do the President, their Party apparatus or their voting constituency.
That lack of party discipline is probably admirable in a principled way, but it's a real deficit when the Democrats are fighting like Hamas bomb throwers who get their orders from Allah through some camel's butt.
Charles Krauthammer has his sayings wrong. An emotional political appeal, especially in the context of Southern Segregation politics, is not to “unfurl the bloody flag”, but rather to “wave the bloody shirt”. According to the website listed below:
In the years that followed the American Civil War, there was a debate over the fate of the defeated Confederate states. Abraham Lincoln actually favored a relatively easy treatment and readmission into the federal union while the so-called "radical republicans" in congress favored a more punitive treatment with troops occupying the southern states, what came to be called the reconstruction. Opposed to the "radical republicans" were the democrats who had supported compromise even before the war. This battle was fought both in the congressional halls and the elections that filled those halls and it became the habit of reducing each conflict to a single issue: The War. And “The War” was reduced to the slogan "waving the blood shirt". Many believed that the bloody shirt was just a symbol. In fact, while it was symbolic, there was also a real bloody shirt, a nightshirt, but still a shirt.
The (night) shirt in question belonged to a federal agent named A. P. Huggins who served as tax collector (always a popular job) and school superintendent in a town in Mississippi. One night he was dragged from his house and beaten by the local Ku Klux Klan and then ordered out of town. This incident was used to justify the occupation of the southern states by federal troops and ultimately for voting republican rather then democratic. Benjamin Butler (R-MA) waved the actual “bloody (night) shirt” from this episode in congress during a speech requesting that the president be given the right to send troops to southern states to enforce the federal authority. Subsequently other bloody shirts were used to raise the emotions of the voters rather than deal with the issues.
They need a taste of their own medicine. I'll help fund that kind of organization. It has to be organized and well funded. Relentless in challenge to the liberal nerve center of public unions, trial lawyers, non-profit bagmen and Gay/Lesbian smear salons. Urban Baptist Money Centers, vote day registration/cigarette giveaway scams ... take it to them.
Street protests are needed because they are fun, lively and cocktails quaffed in fellowship post event is never a chore.
The rubber hits the road within the institutions each party controls. Democrats do all their work moving tax money through their hierarchial client network. The work in the offices of the ACLU, the County and City Economic Development, Community Service and Civil Rights bureaucracies, in Attorney Generals offices where AGs strategize with trial lawyers, in Emily's List disbursement sessions and within the offices and ranks of the public union members we employ. The bond houses that lend money to our government offices. In Hollywood, on Wall Street, at GLAAD. We're paying them to scheme to grab more of our money and more of our freedom.
Not only do they pick our pockets, but they are contemptuous in the process.
railing against the evils of affirmative action/quotas, providing an eloquent and impassioned indictment of affimative action both from a practical and constitutional standpoint.
O'Connor turned to him with a smile and said, "Why, Nino, how do you think I got this job?"
Case closed.
Things don't change. A white male jurist has NO CHANCE at the next SCOTUS opening. "Solicitor Olson, you're really not what we had in mind."
I don't care if the next one is a purple and green trisexual, as long as they have Thomas' view of the Constitution.
Or Mrs. Souter begged Sununu to get him an out of town job. ;-)
The thing about W is, IMO, his intentions in nominating a Hispanic or Black Female to the Court are non-political. He wants visible role models for kids struggling in diseased urban cultures or with language, culture and assimilation challenges. He wants a success story that's identifiable. It's not about pandering for votes I am certain.
He'll find a world class talent who belongs there.
Let's look at the Clinton diversity mob. First is corrupt rapist "First Black President" Bill Clinton himself and his shrewish white soulless love-killer Hillary. Who else? Clinically insane Jocylen Elders, corrupt Ron Brown, corrupt Mike Espe, corrupt Henry Cisneros, one step ahead of Denver posse Fedrico Pena, Respectable Rod Paige, corrupt Betty "she's beyond reproach - evidence destroyer" Currie, super corrupt Eric Houlder, corrupt Cheryl Mills, corrupt and obnoxious Maggie Williams, Army feminist moron Togo West, Hypercorrupt Special Envoy for Extortion and Kickbacks in Africa Jesse Jackson and Super Corrupt Clinton Leftover beau Vernon Jordan, 5th Column Race Baiter Bill Lann Lee, Little Rock Faxing Monster Charlie Trie, Chinese spy and Part Time Commerce Department DNC Fundraiser Full Security Clearanced Riyadi bagman bachelor rounder John Huang and Ugandan Bovine grazer Janet Reno and her attendant Inuit/Pygmy Donna Shalala. Bill Clinton's Tantra Massages courtesy of allegedly Latino Jerry Rivers.
Don't ANYBODY bitch about our plight today. How bad was that era? Think: Ricky Martin
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