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

To: ThirdEye who wrote (252155)	4/30/2002 11:34:51 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

I gigged the other side of the aisle similarly about two-three weeks ago, making a legal case for Jeb "Clampett" Bush to get the heave-ho from the governor's mansion in Tallahassee based on the Supreme Court drugs/public housing ruling. I believe Ariana Huffington was one of the first to apply the case to the Florida Bushes, and I basically just took her argument and ran with it on this thread. I was amazed that several vitriolic right-wingers, including Neocon himself, took the argument so seriously, even going so far as to argue the legalities of the high court ruling. Of course, all I was doing was throwing some political cow pies in their general direction by arguing that, based on the high court ruling, Jeb Bush and family should be evicted from the governor's mansion. Having said that, there's something hypocritical about Jeb Bush shedding tears about his own family situation while playing the GOP "let's get tough on drugs" schtick for all it's worth.

To: ThirdEye who wrote (252155)	5/1/2002 8:55:54 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769667

On this thread, you are actually one of the reasonable ones. Maybe that is why I was surprised at the use of that particular jab. In flappy's case, he pushed the formula several times, so I got irritated. Since he tried to defend it straightforwardly, I was honestly not sure he was "just making a point". Since I do not follow Jeb Bush's record closely, I have no idea if he is hypocritical or not. It is not hypocritical to treat crack differently from other drugs, considering that crack inspired a resumption of gang violence in the '80s and early '90s, that has mainly eased because the gang members either were killed or arrested. The disparate impact argument is a crock, since racism was not the motivation for "get tough" policies, violence was. Only if Jeb Bush advocates harsh penalties for people in closely similar situations to his daughter (i.e., abusing prescription medication) is he a hypocrite, and that I do not know.......