So, what ever happen to Republican goals?

[Zkribbler]

I mean things like...

1) The balanced budget amendment,

2) Term limitations,

3) No judicial activism - the Rehnquist court has overturned more acts of Congress than any other,

4) No nation building,

5) Law & order - a slap on the wrist for Microsoft's monopoly and still no Enron prosecutions,

6) Decentralized government, with power being redistributed back to the various states.

[Static Universe]

7) They were going to make sure our children is learning too.

[DRoseDARs]

1) The War on Terror and getting in good with the President.

2) The War on Terror and getting in good with the President.

3) The War on Terror and getting in good with the President.

4) The War on Terror and getting in good with the President.

5) The War on Terror and getting in good with the President.

6) The War on Terror and getting in good with the President.

As politicians will tend to do, when a member of their party is President, they'll try to maintain party cohesion and not "rock the boat" for fear it might make them look bad come the next elections. Hell, even the Democrats are largely guilty of this, though a few politicians on both sides are breaking ranks. In any case: Integrity and campaign promises be damned, there's a war being fought! Either you're with them or you're with the terrorists.

[Berzerker]

3) No judicial activism - the Rehnquist court has overturned more acts of Congress than any other

I thought judicial activism was about re-writing the Constitution, not overturning Congressional actions that violate the Constitution. If it's the latter, we need more judicial activism since virtually everything Congress does violates the Constitution.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Re: So, what ever happen to Republican goals?

Originally posted by Zkribbler
I mean things like...

1) The balanced budget amendment,

They were never serious about this, especially since it first showed up under Reagan, who never once proposed a balanced budget in his 8 years in office. Ronnie asking for a balanced budget amendment was a lot like the psycho in a slasher film begging the cops to "stop me before I kill again."

2) Term limitations,

Those are for the other guy.

3) No judicial activism - the Rehnquist court has overturned more acts of Congress than any other,

As well as overturning a boatload of judicial precedents. This is one of the more bald-faced GOP hypocrisies.

4) No nation building,

You mean like in quasi-anarchic Afganistan? Or are you referring to the lack of a clear post-Saddam strategy, even as we gear up for war? Rest assured, whatever else the Bush administration is doing they're not nation-building.

5) Law & order - a slap on the wrist for Microsoft's monopoly and still no Enron prosecutions,

No one involved was either poor or black, silly.

6) Decentralized government, with power being redistributed back to the various states.

That's actually proceeding slowly on the domestic front, as planned.

[MRT144]

please we all know republicans are hypocrites. democrats are too but in a much less threatening and more humorous way...

[SlowwHand]

Now that AL Sharpton and Gary Hart are going to run, all will be well.

[Lefty Scaevola]

Re: So, what ever happen to Republican goals?

Originally posted by Zkribbler
I mean things like...
5) Law & order - a slap on the wrist for Microsoft's monopoly and still no Enron prosecutions,
.

Do not read very well do you, there are already coviction (by guilty pleas) in that situation.

[Imran Siddiqui]

1) The balanced budget amendment,

2) Term limitations,

Both were deep sixed by democrats, especially Term limits. But Newt did get in that limit on committee chairs passed (somehow).

[-Jrabbit]

@ this question.
Bush's balanced budget = Clinton's national health care plan.

Political promises are made for one reason only -- to gain power.

Once in office, all bets are off.

'Twas ever thus...

[Zkribbler]

Re: Re: So, what ever happen to Republican goals?

Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola

Do not read very well do you, there are already coviction (by guilty pleas) in that situation.

Oh I read very well. After Microsoft was convicted by the U.S. Justice Department under the control fo the Democrats, and after Microsoft donated about $500,000 to the Bush campaign, the U.S. Justice Department under the control of the Bush administration settled the action by having Microsoft give a dab of their propietary software to competitors. A vicious slap on the wrist if ever there was one.

Originally posted by -Jrabbit
@ this question.
Bush's balanced budget = Clinton's national health care plan.

Political promises are made for one reason only -- to gain power.

Once in office, all bets are off.

'Twas ever thus

Clinton tried hard to get national health care passed. However, the combination of fierce Republican opposition plus a nationwide campaign of disinformation by the "health" lobby caused his proposal to fall a few vote short in the Congress

[Imran Siddiqui]

Clinton tried hard to get national health care passed.

If by hard you mean passing it off to your wife and then running away from it as hard as you can.

Clinton pushed national health care as hard as Bush II pushed vouchers.

[DinoDoc]

This is an amusing thread.

[Thud]

We are still moving toward decentralising government. For example, overturning Roe vs. Wade would give the power to decide on abortion back to the states.

Yay Republicans!

[Zkribbler]

...And the proposed ban on partial-birth abortions would return it back to the central government.