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To: TimF who wrote (10422)	1/30/2006 10:03:14 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541753

Did you read the article carefully?....consider this passage... <<...Too often are good ideas attacked, not on their merit, but on who is sponsoring them. Equally, bad ideas are adopted merely because they are proposed by an “ally.” The Bush administration’s policies both good and bad are attacked by Democrats, merely because they are the president’s policies. Republicans on the other hand, have given Bush a wide berth, where they would have closely constrained a Democratic president. The result is a president who has no check, as the Republican congressional majority acts as a rubber stamp, where it is consulted at all by the administration; and the Democratic minority is ineffective at raising dissent as they are perceived as pusillanimous partisans whose views are only informed by spite and envy. Pointing to this failure Gore said, “Though I sympathize with the awkward position in which these men and women were placed, I cannot disagree with the Liberty Coalition when it says that Democrats as well as Republicans in the Congress must share the blame for not taking sufficient action to protest and seek to prevent what they consider a grossly unconstitutional program.” Gore -- both in his words and his alignment with the Liberty Coalition and its transpartisan approach -- showed that he understands the difference between partisanship and principle. The only way to improve the fortunes of all is to secure the principles on which our government is founded, not the distribution of spoils and power to one party or the other. He reminded us that we cannot only think of when our own side is in power, because we do not know who will come afterwards and it may be that we trust them a much less to wield the powerful device of government that we have created. That is why the rule of law is critical – it puts everyone under the same rules – no exceptions even for the very powerful...>> freeliberal.com