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Friday, July 16, 2004

Ho Hum, another flip flop threatenting the nation's security by Bush...: "President Bush last Friday threatened to veto the Senate's version of authorizing legislation for the new Homeland Security department, which could delay creation of the massive new government agency"

President Bush has threatened to veto the $87 billion for military expenses in the war against terror and reconstruction in Iraq if Congress makes part of the Iraqi reconstruction package a loan.

President Bush in March of 2001 drew a line in the sand, this time on health care. He threatened to veto a bipartisan bill to protect patients' rights. A bad one in his view is the bill cosponsored by Republican Senator John McCain, along with Democrats Edward Kennedy and John Edwards. That bill would allow patients more freedom to sue their doctors and HMO's.

Bush Flip-Flop on Patients’ Bill of Rights May Have Been Driven by Campaign Donors

Bush Touted Texas Law Passed While He Was Governor; Now, He Opposes It

posted by Dave on 12:51 PM | 0 comments link

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Tuesday, July 13, 2004

From Bill Frist:
On Friday, the Senate began debating a constitutional amendment to protect marriage as the union of a man and a woman. I expect we'll have a vote on Wednesday morning.(Editor: As opposed to Senatorial discussion of Homeland Security, the collapse of the Army, airplane and port security, health care for Americans, the declining state of the economy, or other issues that might have some relevance to the American people)
Many Americans are surprised that we need to have this debate at all. Over and against 5,000 years of recorded human experience (Editor: he apparently still believes in creationism), activist judges in Massachusetts have overturned marriage as a covenant between husband and wife. And liberal and conservative legal scholars agree that unless the Congress acts to protect marriage, same-sex marriage will be extended nationwide.

Children do best with mothers and fathers. We're fooling ourselves if we think children will be held harmless by destroying marriage as the union of a husband and a wife. Marriage and family are the bedrock of society. (Editor: How about the rule of law?)
The question is no longer whether the Constitution will be amended. The question is only how it will be amended and by whom -- activist judges or the people. (Editor: True legal scholarship at work here)

My vote is with the people.

My question is simple. How can someone as obviously unlogical as "Dr" "Cat-Lover" Frist have ever made it through medical school? I have a feeling it's the same way our Fearless Leader got through Harvard Business School.

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