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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (1525)	1/31/2001 1:37:08 PM
From: Mephisto	Respond to of 93284

It doesn't look like Senator Kennedy has enough people to support a filibuster. What's ironic is the Senator from Wisconsin who opposed Ashcroft's actions and positions over the years voted for him because he thought the President should have his own man even though he noted that Ashcroft had attacked many Clinton nominees. When you get right down to it most of the Senators don't care what kind of person they put in the position of AG. They do it for the President regardless of Ashcrofts actions over past 25 years and his beliefs. about integration, guns and abortion. Let's not forget that people of Missouri kicked Ashcroft out of office last fall either. If they didn't want him to represent them, why should we stuck with him?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (1525)	1/31/2001 3:29:29 PM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

Texas and others are already into trouble for misusing tax payer funds for religious purposes: "Government should never fund religion," Mr. Goldsmith said. "It can fund the soup, it can fund the shelter, it shouldn't fund the Bibles." Mr. Goldsmith acknowledged, however, that it would be difficult to detect groups that misuse government grants. "Is it possible to move the money on the other side of the line? Of course," Mr. Goldsmith said. Some of the constitutional issues the administration faces are foreshadowed in the lawsuits filed against states since the start in 1996 of a provision in the welfare bill known as charitable choice, the legislation championed by John Ashcroft, then a senator from Missouri, that allowed religious groups to contend for government contracts to help welfare recipients adjust to the work world. Texas, for example, gave $8,000 to the Jobs Partnership of Washington County, a program that required participants to study Scripture and taught them, in its own words, "to find employment through a relationship with Jesus Christ." Now the state is being sued in Federal District Court in Austin by the American Jewish Congress and the Texas Civil Rights Project, which claim that the Jobs Partnership bought Bibles for students. In evaluation forms, a third of the program's students said they had been pressured to join a church or change their beliefs. "The government was funding a program where religion is built into the warp and woof," Mr. Stern said. "Religious indoctrination is the essence of the program, and we think the essence of the First Amendment is that government cannot fund that sort of effort." Another significant issue is that the White House initiatives, like the charitable choice rules, allow groups that receive government money to discriminate based on religion in deciding whom to hire and fire. The Kentucky Baptist Homes for Children, which receives financing from the state, is being sued for firing one of its counselors after a picture of her at a gay rights parade appeared in a photography exhibit at a county fair. The agency said it had the right to dismiss an employee it did not consider an appropriate role model. The suit, now in federal district court in Kentucky, is being brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State." Excerpt from Nudging Church-State Line, Bush Invites Religious Groups to Seek Federal Aid By LAURIE GOODSTEIN From The New York Times January 30, 2001 nytimes.com