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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (4457)	7/29/2005 8:53:48 AM
From: Rock_nj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

Do you honestly believe Bush or any president has sway over SC decisions? No, I don't. I'm on your side on this one Brian. No need to be confrontational when someone is agreeing with you. Do you even read my posts?!? I said, "even when it is beyond their control", so how could I be blame Bush or think he can sway the SC? I'm talking about public perception (which isn't always fair), and I said "fair or not". It obviously isn't fair for Dean or anyone else to blame a poor SC decision on Bush or conservatives, especially since it was the liberals on nthe SC who made this poor decision. I do think that since Bush and his party now control the mechanisms of government in DC they could certainly pass new laws to make taking property on the local level harder to do. For example, they could ensure that local land owners have proper access to the legal system. They could withhold federal funds from eminent domain projects that abuse the power of eminent domain. They could pass a law spelling out eminent domain as only encompassing the right of government to take lands for public works projects and ban the practice of giving eminent domain land to private interests. Of course, that would wind up in the courts, and perhaps go back to the SC, but that's how the legislative and excutive branch can affect the laws that govern our society. Perhaps the SC would uphold this law and the definition excluding eminent domain's use for giving to private interests would stand. I suspect there are some wealthy conservative interests that are actually very pleased with the recent SC decision on eminent domain. It gives them a free hand to seize property and redevelop it at a profit. Are these guys really going to push Bush and the Republican Congress to fight against this abuse of eminent domain?