Text 13057, 90 rader
Skriven 2005-05-29 21:56:35 av Gary Braswell (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 13027 av John Hull (1:379/1.99)
Ärende: Washington "Mod-squad"
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John Hull -> Gary Braswell wrote:
 JH> 28 May 05 18:32, Gary Braswell wrote to John Hull:

 JH>  John Hull ->> Gary Braswell wrote:
 JH>>> 27 May 05 23:10, Gary Braswell wrote to John Hull:

 JH>>>  John Hull ->> THURSTON ACKERMAN wrote:
 JH>>>>> 26 May 05 23:30, THURSTON ACKERMAN wrote to LEE LOFASO:

 TA>>>>>>>> The recent success of the Washington "Mod-Squad" of moderate
 TA>>>>>>>> Senators avoidance of a Congressional freeze-up by the
 TA>>>>>>>> minority Democrats, displays which tail is wagging the dog
 TA>>>>>>>> these days in the Congress at least.

 LL>>>>>>> Hooray for Senator Landrieu (D-LA) and all 14 Senators who
 LL>>>>>>> stood up for America!

 TA>>>>>>>> We Democratrs should really worry that Senator John McCain
 TA>>>>>>>> may become the Republic presidental candidate in 2008!

 LL>>>>>>> A Vietnam War Hero running for President?  Gosh.  Didn't we
 LL>>>>>>> have the chance to elect one of those Vietnam War heroes last
 LL>>>>>>> time around? Oh.  I get it.  McCain is a REPUBLICAN Vietnam
 LL>>>>>>> War Hero...

 TA>>>>>> But he is a rarity; a Republican who thinks of someone other
 TA>>>>>> than himself!  Kinda reminds me of Ike the more I think about it
 TA>>>>>>  all!

 JH>>>>> John McCain isn't qualified to be president, and he sure as hell
 JH>>>>> is no Eisenhower!

 GB>>>> While I would agree McCain is not Eisenhower, but then neither is
 GB>>>> Bush, or is that the yardstick for being qualified to be
 GB>>>> President?

 JH>>> McCain can't hold a candle to Bush, and before you start, I don't
 JH>>> care if you like everything Bush does or not.  The difference is
 JH>>> that Bush has stood up for the things he believes in and made no
 JH>>> compromises in doing so.  McCain turned tail and stepped back from
 JH>>> the fight when Reid and the rest of them snarled.  Bush will stay
 JH>>> the course, and ultimately win the war.

 GB>> McCain has stood up for things he believes in too, they just may
 GB>> not all be lock-in-step with the party line.

 JH> Don't give me that crap.  What McCain stood up for was to allow the
 JH> Democrats to run roughshod over the Constitution.  The rules on
 JH> filibusters have been changed 7 times over the two hundred odd years the
 JH> Senate has been running, so there is NO rule or tradition or anything
 JH> else that prevents the rules being changed again.  There has never, in
 JH> the 216 years since the Constitution was adopted, been a filibuster of
 JH> an appellate level judicial appointee, and for the Dems to say otherwise
 JH> is simply a lie.  McCain and his crew bought Reid's bullshit hook, line,
 JH> and sinker.  The rules change by Frist would have stopped the Democrats
 JH> from violating their constitutional obligation on an up or down vote for
 JH> presidential nominees.

For some reason you don't read my posts well. I said he had stood for things he
believes in, he did it when he ran for President and it cost him.

As for your hyperbole above, if he stood up for the Democrats, he would have
agreed with them and tried to broker no compromise.


 JH> You can't possibly be that stupid, Gary, to think that the Democrats
 JH> entered into that agreement out of any honorable or altruistic motives.

Hey John, newsflash for ya. I don't trust either party. Its always the party
first.

If the Democrats break the agreement, then they will suffer for it.


 JH> They are desperate to keep Republicans from appointing strict
 JH> constructionist (or originalists, if you prefer) judges who will counter
 JH> their attempts to make liberalism the defacto legal state of mind at the
 JH> federal level.

I am well aware of the motives behind all this, John.


 JH> Less than a week after entering into that much ballyhooed agreement,
 JH> Reid and his cronies violated it, and political talking heads on radio,
 JH> TV, and the internet have been talking about it non-stop.

I know.

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