The Bush Tapes

[mrmitchell]

I'd rather be Hunter S Thompson than President

(except for the dead part)

[Ramo]

Zombie Hunter S. Thompson

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Douglas Wead is is schmuck just like Linda Tripp. Both need to burn on what ever level of hell is reserved for betrayers and rumor mongerers.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe
Douglas Wead is is schmuck just like Linda Tripp. Both need to burn on what ever level of hell is reserved for betrayers and rumor mongerers.

The Joe McCarthy/Roy Cohn level.

[Pekka]

I think he has every right to uphold the current laws and speak against drugs and not be hypocrite. People make mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes and so has Dubya. It doesn't mean he doesn't believe drugs are bad for you.

I have smoke pot. And I didn't like it. I got caught smoking pot. I got fined for doing it. Does it mean I'm a drug addict? No. Does it mean I will do it again? No. Most definitely not, because it's not even beneficiary for me. Does it mean I can't be trusted? No. On the other hand, I know what pot is, I have smoked it and that's it. If I speak against pot now, would it make me hypocrite? No. If I sentence someone for smoking pot, hypocrite? No. I was sentenced to fines too. Then again I wouldn't sentence someone for just smoking pot, if you ask me, go ahead and have fun.

Then there are people who say you shouldn't condemn drugs unless you have tried it yourself, so you know what it's about. Mixed messages, again, I don't think the two are connected as many claim it is.

[Traianvs]

Originally posted by Dissident
you guys are crazy!

Bush just can't repeal all the drug laws. He'd probably be impeached. You are overstating the power of the president. The president just can't do what he wants.

The president can just about do everything he wants within reasonable limits. Maybe he can't pardon millions instantly, but he has the power to change the policiy of the government about this. He has the power to actually change things. If he doesn't have that power, then who does?

Besides via manipulation and playing with the media in the right way it's possible to do anything, such as ... say starting a war...

[Wezil]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
... a person who pisses away all his talent in a stew of substances before finally blowing his own brains out.

The man you refer to was probably 1000X more successful than you will ever dream of being. Way to piss it away HST.

[Drake Tungsten]

I guess we'll see, won't we?

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
This so called "success" is such a joke. Just look at Mr Bush's ventures with oil companies - one failed company after another. Such a success.

It was a success for him. He made boatloads of cash and it was only the investors who lost everything.

[Berzerker]

The way George Bush and his cronies trashed John McCain speaks volumes about his version of "Christianity" so nothing he does surprises me, including punishing millions for doing what he did.

[Lincoln]

Everyone in politics in the United States is a 'Christian'. The word means nothing. I saw John Ashcroft compromising his so-called beliefs during his confirmation hearings and I thought, what a hypocrite. Jesus said to turn the other cheek also. Why doesn't Bush forgive all the terrorists who blew up the trade center?

Answer:

The whole idea of Christian America is a big joke. All the real Christians here were killed off by the Indians years ago.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Jefferson believed there was a horizontal set of checks and balances, with the three branches checking each other, though only "in their own sphere of action." The Judiciary could overrule a lower court on a case. It could not, in his opinion, rule on acts of the Legislature or Executive. The Executive could refuse to implement a law it believed to be unconstitutional.

But he didn't do a damned thing to put his ideas in place. When Chief Justice Marshall declared there was such a thing as 'judicial review', Jefferson didn't decry it to the rafters. Instead he was happy that he didn't have to give the judgeship to the midnight appointee and went on his way. His lack of opposition to Marshall's decision, overturning portions of the Judiciary Act of 1789 lay the groundwork for the Supreme Court's immense power today.

The A&S was a big issue in the election Jefferson won several months before being sworn in and he said he would not enforce it and the above was his rationale.

He wouldn't have to refuse to enforce it (which was a power the executive reserved even after judicial review was in full swing, btw... it didn't involve declaring anything unconstitutional, however), he could just let it die without renewing it.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Trajanus
The president can just about do everything he wants within reasonable limits. Maybe he can't pardon millions instantly, but he has the power to change the policiy of the government about this. He has the power to actually change things. If he doesn't have that power, then who does?

It's called Congress. President doesn't have the power to change jack domestically if Congress isn't on board.

[Berzerker]

But he didn't do a damned thing to put his ideas in place. When Chief Justice Marshall declared there was such a thing as 'judicial review', Jefferson didn't decry it to the rafters. Instead he was happy that he didn't have to give the judgeship to the midnight appointee and went on his way. His lack of opposition to Marshall's decision, overturning portions of the Judiciary Act of 1789 lay the groundwork for the Supreme Court's immense power today.

Thats nice

He wouldn't have to refuse to enforce it (which was a power the executive reserved even after judicial review was in full swing, btw... it didn't involve declaring anything unconstitutional, however), he could just let it die without renewing it.

When he gave his rationale for ignoring the A&S it was still in effect, he was merely explaining why he would ignore it once in office. Look again at what he said if you think he wasn't declaring it unconstitutional...

"The Executive could refuse to implement a law it believed to be unconstitutional."

He was talking specifically about the sedition act.