Republicans

Senatorial Quality

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Rick from Radically Inept had a bit of time to watch the marriage amendment debates on C-SPAN today. It was an educational experience:

Oh, I can’t resist this observation from C-SPAN today. I caught a few minutes of the senate debate on the ‘our government should define marraige in our contitution’ act. I got to see U.S. Senator Rick Santorum-Pennsylvania say that the `Federal Marriage Amendment’ had bi-partisan sponsorship because, get this, Senator Zell Miller, Democrat from Georgia is a co-sponsor. Which, as we all know, is the truth on the surface, but look at how his voting pattern rates.
Oh, then Santorum made the idoitic statement “marriage as defined in the constitution.” I would have hoped that a senator, especially a republican senator, would have read the Constitution by now.
And santorum has actually sworn to uphold the Constitution. Yeccchh.
Update (7/13): Norbizness has some more examples of the high quality of this debate.

Where is the candidate?

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From Josh Marshall:

Meanwhile, President Bush’s website also showed lots of pictures of John Kerry caught, as you might imagine, in poses suggesting buffoonery, arrogance, indecision and the like. What the GWB website didn’t have any of was pictures of George W. Bush.
Now, earlier today I noted how the Bush campaign has replaced the front page of their website with a Reagan tribute, with a huge picture of the late president backgrounded with flags, accompanied by links to a Reagan tribute video, links to President Reagan’s most famous speeches and statement of his praise for President Reagan by President Bush.
That’s the Bush website now. (You really need to see it to get the picture.)
Now, how many days of leaving the site that way will it take before people start to see the obvious: that President Bush’s campaign staffers believe that pushing their own guy isn’t a particularly good political strategy and that bashing Kerry or grasping on to Reagan nostalgia is far preferable?

Seems to me that a picture, a brief statement, and a link to a tribute page would be about right. As it is, if you look real hard you might find the link to the campaign page.

Get Rid of Them

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Jim Henley has it right:

HOWEVER. President Bush is no one’s idea of a legal mind. He may have initiated the project that became the memo, but he didn’t draft the thing. High-level government lawyers, most of them undoubtedly political appointees, did that. What that means is that there is systemic corruption in the Republican Party as an institution – “Bush’s Willing Torturers” we might call them. These are people that came up with the idea that the Constitutional phrase “he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed” meant
authority to set aside the laws is “inherent in the president.”
They represent a deadly danger to the American system and they are multiple. It’s not one guy somewhere, it’s a movement. Until the Republican Party roots them out, that Party is the enemy, not just of libertarians, but of anyone who values individual freedom and republican government. From the standpoint of liberty, there can no longer be any justification for preferring the Republicans to the Democrats.

Folks, we should not have to wait until November to get rid of these folks. If congress does not act, if the Republicans don’t come to their senses and choose someone else then the rest of us should just say no. A few million in the steets every day should do the trick.

Mother’s Day Campaign

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This arrived last night in email* from the bushcheney04 campaign under Barbara Bush’s name:

Dear Steve,
With Mother’s Day coming up this weekend, I’ve been thinking about how proud I am of our children.
And it’s with a mother’s pride that I’m writing you today to ask you to support our eldest, George W., and his re-election campaign with a donation of $1000, $500, $250, $100 or $50.
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You can read the whole thing in the extended entry.

Well, thanks for asking but NO.
Instead, I will use my potential donation to do something nice for my Mom and for Mrs Modulator.
Oh, one more thing. Though I don’t agree with its other points I think this would have been a ok message if they had left out the solicitation paragraph. It seems just a wee inappropriate to me to try to leverage a nice thing like Mother’s Day with the fund raising detritus.
*It came to the email address I use to subscribe to most things political.
Again, the entire solicitation message is in the extended entry and the text is unchanged from the original. The campaign apparently can not afford an editor.

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