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10-06-05, 06:04 AM
MIA: A Republican President
Written by Dustin Hawkins
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
A Democrat calling anyone unethical or immoral is a lot like Michael Jackson calling someone a freak. This is a party that embraces and defends a former member of the Klan (Robert Byrd), a senator who let a woman drown in his car while he tried to cover his tracks (Bubbles Kennedy), and a sexual predator of a president who lied under oath, bribed witnesses, and denied a woman her right to a fair trial (You-Know-Who). So, yeah, this newly discovered morality is sort of amusing.
The Party of Abortion went hysterical when Bill Bennett essentially restated a claim made in a book tying abortion rates to a drop in crime, a claim he found absurd. Last I checked, this was one of the main reasons that Democrats supported abortion so much. After the apocryphal incest and danger-of-life reasons for needing abortions, Democrats claim that poor, inner city women on welfare who can’t afford to raise children because they will have a bad life and turn into criminals should be able to abort their children. This isn’t the cast of ''Desperate Housewives'' they are referring too. They are referring to young, black, single women in the inner-city. Nancy Pelosi needs to take up her complaints with herself. The Bush White House shows its backbone by criticizing Bennett.
Meanwhile, old pasty white men from Manhattan in the Senate tell Bush he's not allowed to nominate to the Supreme Court a black woman who grew up in 1950s Alabama because they have civil rights' best interest in their hearts, and she would overturn them. Not that I find irony in that at all. Not to worry, though, Bush would nominate a candidate that we know less about than we did of John Roberts in Harriet Miers.
What I gather thus far, is that Harriet Miers is a likeable woman who used to work with Meals on Wheels. She also took over Alberto Gonzales’ place as White House counsel (which isn’t necessarily a good thing). To top off the good news, she donated money to Democrats in the late 1980s, including Al Gore, and was listed as a good choice by Democratic minority leader Harry Reid, all while being spoken quite highly of by a giddy Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York. This is just too much good news to handle.
Grassroots Republicans have worked like hell over the past decade to get Republican majorities in the House and Senate, and to get George Bush elected president, twice, and all we ask for in return is for him to carry out his campaign promises. Instead, he endorses moderate jokes like Arlen Specter over true conservatives in Senate primaries, refuses to veto bloated legislation, speaks highly of Ted Kennedy, does nothing to tighten the borders, and nominates an absolute lightweight (but I’m sure a very nice lady) of a candidate to the Supreme Court.
Harriet Miers leaves very little to get excited about for conservatives, who were recommending for a long list of credentialed constitutional judicial candidates. Bush’s superb selections for the lower court were promising. But by the time Supreme Court vacancies opened, Bush went soft. We have a newly elected Chief Justice who, if we take him by his word, is overly content with not overturning precedent, no matter how bad it is. And we have a newly nominated justice who even the Democrats are already referring to as a likely “consensus” nominee.
With little or no paper trail, and fully lacking any verifiable conservative credentials (and no, I’m not “trusting Bush” anymore), conservatives can’t wait until Democrats start rummaging through hundreds of thousands of personal White House papers just so we can finally learn something about her.
Wading through George Bush’s judicial nominees is like waiting to open Christmas gifts. We see the pretty wrapped boxes, President Bush tells us that we will love what’s inside, but we don’t know what is inside, and if it even properly functions. Meanwhile, the members of the Party-With-No-Morals is excited because, despite having no message and no elected majority, they seem to keep winding up with the best gifts of all.
About the Writer: Dustin Hawkins is a freelance writer and graduate student at Florida Atlantic University. His website is: www.dustinmhawkins.com/ . Dustin receives e-mail at dustinmhawkins@yahoo.com.
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Written by Dustin Hawkins
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
A Democrat calling anyone unethical or immoral is a lot like Michael Jackson calling someone a freak. This is a party that embraces and defends a former member of the Klan (Robert Byrd), a senator who let a woman drown in his car while he tried to cover his tracks (Bubbles Kennedy), and a sexual predator of a president who lied under oath, bribed witnesses, and denied a woman her right to a fair trial (You-Know-Who). So, yeah, this newly discovered morality is sort of amusing.
The Party of Abortion went hysterical when Bill Bennett essentially restated a claim made in a book tying abortion rates to a drop in crime, a claim he found absurd. Last I checked, this was one of the main reasons that Democrats supported abortion so much. After the apocryphal incest and danger-of-life reasons for needing abortions, Democrats claim that poor, inner city women on welfare who can’t afford to raise children because they will have a bad life and turn into criminals should be able to abort their children. This isn’t the cast of ''Desperate Housewives'' they are referring too. They are referring to young, black, single women in the inner-city. Nancy Pelosi needs to take up her complaints with herself. The Bush White House shows its backbone by criticizing Bennett.
Meanwhile, old pasty white men from Manhattan in the Senate tell Bush he's not allowed to nominate to the Supreme Court a black woman who grew up in 1950s Alabama because they have civil rights' best interest in their hearts, and she would overturn them. Not that I find irony in that at all. Not to worry, though, Bush would nominate a candidate that we know less about than we did of John Roberts in Harriet Miers.
What I gather thus far, is that Harriet Miers is a likeable woman who used to work with Meals on Wheels. She also took over Alberto Gonzales’ place as White House counsel (which isn’t necessarily a good thing). To top off the good news, she donated money to Democrats in the late 1980s, including Al Gore, and was listed as a good choice by Democratic minority leader Harry Reid, all while being spoken quite highly of by a giddy Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York. This is just too much good news to handle.
Grassroots Republicans have worked like hell over the past decade to get Republican majorities in the House and Senate, and to get George Bush elected president, twice, and all we ask for in return is for him to carry out his campaign promises. Instead, he endorses moderate jokes like Arlen Specter over true conservatives in Senate primaries, refuses to veto bloated legislation, speaks highly of Ted Kennedy, does nothing to tighten the borders, and nominates an absolute lightweight (but I’m sure a very nice lady) of a candidate to the Supreme Court.
Harriet Miers leaves very little to get excited about for conservatives, who were recommending for a long list of credentialed constitutional judicial candidates. Bush’s superb selections for the lower court were promising. But by the time Supreme Court vacancies opened, Bush went soft. We have a newly elected Chief Justice who, if we take him by his word, is overly content with not overturning precedent, no matter how bad it is. And we have a newly nominated justice who even the Democrats are already referring to as a likely “consensus” nominee.
With little or no paper trail, and fully lacking any verifiable conservative credentials (and no, I’m not “trusting Bush” anymore), conservatives can’t wait until Democrats start rummaging through hundreds of thousands of personal White House papers just so we can finally learn something about her.
Wading through George Bush’s judicial nominees is like waiting to open Christmas gifts. We see the pretty wrapped boxes, President Bush tells us that we will love what’s inside, but we don’t know what is inside, and if it even properly functions. Meanwhile, the members of the Party-With-No-Morals is excited because, despite having no message and no elected majority, they seem to keep winding up with the best gifts of all.
About the Writer: Dustin Hawkins is a freelance writer and graduate student at Florida Atlantic University. His website is: www.dustinmhawkins.com/ . Dustin receives e-mail at dustinmhawkins@yahoo.com.
click here to discuss this article with other readers!
Ellie