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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Selectric II who wrote (118138)	12/20/2000 11:37:30 AM
From: mst2000	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I do bear my social progressiveness proudly -- I merely pointed out that it is a "name" which you have used about 10 times in your posts to me -- I am merely pointing out that it is you doing the name calling, not me. Please do not mistake adjectives aimed at the opinions you are expressing with adjectives aimed at you personally. Your "drift" is something I take to mean "the meaning of what you are saying", not "who you are as a human being". I think the SCOTUS opinion stinks, and your botched and incomplete interpretations of the law and the constitution equally so. I also will assume that you are a decent human being and honestly believe what you are saying, and are not supporting Bush and opposing Gore -- and expressing these opinions -- because you are some kind of neo-nazi who thinks all democrats are commies. That doesn't make me disagree any less with what you are saying. One last thing -- I employ 15 people and am in an income bracket that would make me a prime beneficiary of the Bush tax plan. I just think its fiscally irresponsible, and that his social conservativism, and that of the right wingers who influence him, is bad for the nation. And I worry for the future of our Courts, which are the last place people can go to be protected from the government -- and about the willingness of some ideological conservatives to close off the doors to the courts out of some misguided notion that legislatures are better able to (or more properly vested with authority to) wield the power of government than courts are when confronted with specific factual circumstances, or are more "trustworthy" when they do it. As the SCOTUS decision in Bush v. Gore demonstrates, the Courts are far from perfect. But thank god they are there when the government overreaches and violates the rights of citizens. Good and responsible people can disagree on the issues raised in this case without being sterotyped or without their sanity or patriotism being questioned. That human consideration does not suggest that we should not tear into an intellectually dishonest judicial opinion that will stand as one of the most politically motivated, poorly reasoned opinions in U.S. history, or join in the dishonest reading of federal and state law because we (you) like the result it leads us to.