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May 16, 2005
A rueful day for America
Republicans control the U.S. House of Representatives and it looks as if they’ll do so until at least the next redistricting in 2010.
Republicans control the U.S. Senate by a large margin. If anything, they’ll increase that margin in 2006, when more vulnerable Democratic senators face reelection than Republicans.
Republicans control the White House until at least early 2009.
And Republicans control the U.S. Supreme Court. If you don’t believe it, simply recall Bush v. Gore in 2001, when the Supremes ruled it would be unconstitutional merely to COUNT ALL THE VOTES in Florida.
It might seem as if Republicans dominate America. But they don’t. If all of Florida’s votes had been counted or recounted, George Bush never would have been elected.
If only 65,000 votes in Ohio had gone the other way in 2004, John Kerry would have been elected instead of George Bush.
Public opinion polls are clear: Americans have major doubts about President Bush on the war in Iraq and Social Security reform.
We are a closely divided nation.
NEVERTHELESS, George Bush and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist talk as though there is only one political party in America.
For Pete’s sake, it may seem that way. The Senate has confirmed 210 of Bush’s 218 judicial nominees.
Are Bush and Frist really saying that the Senate should confirm EVERY nominee submitted by the president? If that were the case, why should the Senate have any voice at all. If the Senate were expected to be a lapdog for the president, why go through the meaningless exercise of confirmation?
Maybe it’s because years ago wiser heads envisioned that we need consensus, not a small majority, to do certain things, like appoint judges for a lifetime.
It is such a sad day for America.
Posted May 16 2005 @ 05:46 AM
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