>>...as 99% of your posts on SI are purely political in nature -- are they not?<<
Not even close, in fact I more and more post on non political threads as evidenced by the same link you included. I bookmarked this thread as an investment thread it is not, it is Now a Bash Bush all the time thread, so it is now the ONLY political thread that I have bookmarked but not much longer.
How do you explain the global warming occurring on Mars? Have we (man) caused it?
Bush never ran on a platform of reducing spending and reducing government. However, I am a conservative, so I also have issues with some policy's of Bush.
>>They allowed America's future to be mortgaged away in return for the illusion of wealth via a "feel-good" Housing Bubble, "0% Financing" on their SUV's and Luxury Cars and Tax cuts for the investor class.<<
Bush didn't make folks take money out of their increasing property value to spend on their lifestyles, in fact this practice did not 1st occur with the Bush administration, in fact none of the practices of the US population are new events with the Bush administration. With the left why is it history began Jan 20th, 2001?
On the other hand, I've never participated in this practice of refinancing my home to buy toy's, have you? Did Bush make you do it?
The other day you posted an article on a national ID and added the scare threat that this was the "mark" of the Beast. Why? I didn't read anywhere where it asked you to Worship Bush as GOD and denounce Him? Is it common practice to use unsubstantiated scare tactics when a person doesn't like a policy? Yet, you also chastised the border control. Wouldn't a National ID help? I looked at the back of my "State" id (my Colorado Drivers license) It had a magnetic strip on it, OH-MY-GOSH! I also had my finger prints taken for my license. Bet you have the same thing in your state and didn't think twice. I didn't have to pledge my faith to Roy Romer, who was governor when I moved here, and I wasn't told to denounce my Christianity and put to death for remaining true to my faith.
Also, "most" cars do not track where you are as you alluded in another post. If you have a GM onstar, it does, if you have a car with GPS, it does, if you have a transponder for toll road payment, it does. All of these are optional, in fact you can go to a store and buy a GPS separate from your car, no registration of your name is required, so you can have GPS technology without having your nefarious activities tracked, just don't forget to turn OFF your cell phone ( I believe cell phones are still optional, aren't they?).
Here's an article for you to note that I agree with on principle about today's political climate, not necessarily just the subject that this particular article was written about.
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For the Left, it's only democracy when they win
by Ben Shapiro
townhall.com
Mar 15, 2006
Last week, Gov. Mike Rounds of South Dakota signed legislation prohibiting abortion in the state except in cases where the mother's life is in danger. The bill passed in the South Dakota Senate, 23-12. It passed in the South Dakota House of Representatives with flying colors, 50-18. Members of both political parties voted for the bill; the bill's chief sponsor was Sen. Julie Bartling, a Democrat.
Naturally, Planned Parenthood has pledged its opposition to the law. Sarah Stoesz, CEO of Planned Parenthood in Minnesota, South Dakota and North Dakota, states that Planned Parenthood will gauge public feeling about the bill before choosing whether to litigate. "We haven't decided yet. We're trying to sort out our strategy," she explained.
For Planned Parenthood, this should be an easy decision: Either the law is unconstitutional, or it is not. If the law is unconstitutional, filing a lawsuit is the only systemically correct decision -- after all, the judiciary is supposedly the proper protector of individual rights. If the law is fully constitutional, it is disreputable to consider litigation as an alternative to the political process -- filing a lawsuit to overturn fully constitutional public decision-making you don't like is antithetical to our system of governance.
But this is what the American left has become: For the left, democratic processes are valid only when they win. If the left loses in the political process, they sue. The people are no longer integral to the process; politics is a heads-I-win-tails-I-sue scenario. When respect for the American people means so little that republicanism itself becomes secondary to certain political end-goals, our system of government is in serious trouble.
Yet if the past few years of politics teaches us anything, it is that for the political left, end-goals trump American democratic processes every time. "Democracy isn't democracy," the left argues, "unless we win." That has been the message of the Democratic left since the 2000 election. How often have we seen the slogan "NOT MY PRESIDENT" plastered across a picture of George W. Bush? How often have we seen radical leftists declare that Republicans routinely steal elections? How often have we seen MoveOn.org members compare President Bush to Adolf Hitler? How often have we heard prominent Democrats like John Kerry describe the Bush administration as a "regime"?
Republicanism cannot survive such all-out assault. The principle of majoritarianism requires that communal decisions be respected, even as minorities try to persuade majorities to change their policies. Constitutional laws created through a legitimate political process are not binding only for those who vote for those laws. When leftists refuse to accept that President Bush is their president regardless of whether they voted for John Kerry, they undermine American republicanism.
I don't like Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY), and I wouldn't have voted for her were I a resident of New York. Nonetheless, she remains a U.S. Senator, and her vote in the Senate is just as legitimate as that of Senator George Allen (R-VA), with whom I generally agree. I didn't like Bill Clinton, and I wouldn't have voted for him. Nonetheless, he was my president. When President Kennedy was shot, Republicans and Democrats alike mourned. Americans mourned because Kennedy was our president. He was America's president, not Democrats' or Republicans'. The same was true of Clinton, and the same is true of George W. Bush.
I fear that today's left disagrees. Were President Bush assassinated, thousands of leftists the country over would pop open champagne before realizing that Vice President Cheney was next in line. Then they'd go to work attacking Cheney's legitimacy.
The American democratic process is worthy of respect, whether or not we like the results. It is worthy of respect because the American people are worthy of respect. The decisions Americans make through their political processes are legitimate as long as they are in concert with the Constitution. Today's left disagrees. Today's left agrees with the British headline the morning after the 2004 election: "How could 50 million people be so stupid?"
The American people are not too stupid to be trusted with important issues like abortion. They are not too stupid to be trusted with deciding who becomes president.
Last week, 2000 Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore told a Palm Beach County, Fla., audience, "I truly believe that American democracy faces a time of challenge and trials that are more serious than we have ever faced." Gore is right -- but it is he and those like Planned Parenthood that threaten the fabric of American republicanism.
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