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

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (632583)	9/26/2004 12:39:39 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"But the liberals are in no position to fault him for giving him what they have wanted for a long time." So what? We really NEED at least one group of politicians to stand up for fiscal conservatism and smaller government! Right now, both branches of the Republicrats are busting the bank... but reality cannot be suspended, only delayed for a short while. Eventually economic problems (of the '70-s era 'Stagflation' variety, or a dollar collapse of the Argentina or Russia variety... or perhaps just the slow drip, drip, drip of declining economic indices) will be the headlines. [If it's not involved in inter-state commerce then the Feds have no authority under the inner-state commerce clause of the Constitution.] "The feds nevertheless claim jurisdiction because distributors MIGHT send it across state llines." Correct, un-Constitutional expansion of Executive power. "CA has been butting heads with the feds for some years over medical marijuana, and Oregon over assisted suicide. The feds so far show no sign of retreating." True --- but they have lost every single court case thus far. Eventually (next term, I believe) the Supreme Court must settle these matters and either OVERTURN all lower court decisions, or hand the administration & Ashcroft a stinging rebuke. "If they have legal authority in ALL of these areas, then they have controlling authority in everything... and the States might as well disband their governments, because the feds can claim authority over all economic and non-economic actions. The federal gov't at this point HAS in fact claimed jurisdiction over everything. Like it or not." If so, then our Constitution no longer has meaning... and a Putin-style Authoritarian government (where the Executive branch dominates all the other local, state, and national government sectors) cannot be far away. [Now try to get Cy to take this test.] "AFTER you teach him to read and write. :-) He uses a different Constitution than I. His is disposable at will." "--- Funny. Also, seemingly supported by the evidence. The first 10 amendments are still in mine. They must have disappeared from his. His "Let's intern all the Democrats" violates several provisions of the Constitution- -provisions the Founders put in purposefully precisely to preven the sort of thing he wants." <G> I believe he would be a willing 'brownshirt-type' recruit for most ANY Strong Man who promised to 'keep the trains running on time' (regardless of whatever philosophies the Strong Man ennunciated). If the American Revolution had failed, he'd be sucking-up to the King of England right about now.... Or, as Leonard Cohen said in a song: "I obey the orders of the Chief." Cy's a joiner.