posted on August 18, 2001 08:56:04 PM newTo JerkoBush fans: If bushytail is SO great and has done SO MUCH FOR THIS COUNTRY (?????...Between VACATIONS, I guess...). how come he has already lost a member of his own party (giving back control of the House to the...DEMS...), and as of YESTERDAY, has lost his TOP MAN in charge of the "Faith-Based program"...Uh???Uh????
DiIulio, a political science professor whose family still lives in Philadelphia, had originally taken a leave from his regular job to take a six-month position as director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.
One day after releasing a six-month study that found a ''widespread bias'' against faith-based organizations receiving federal aid, DiIulio said he had decided it was time to leave.
``I'm going to do what I said I was going to do and go back home,'' he said in an interview. ``I want to get home, and be with my family and resume some of the community work I miss.''
posted on August 18, 2001 09:20:41 PM new
Soon we'll get to see just how badly the Bush Administration really wants to get the Faith-based legistlation passed by seeing if he'll compromise with the Democrats in the senate. The Senate Democrats said that they'd pass the legislation if the faith-charities who will be receiving our tax-payer dollars must abide by federal regulations -- including allowing homosexuals to participate without discrimination. Now Bush is between a rock and a hard spot (another one), where either he fails to get his legislation passed and fails his main voter block or he must anger his main voter block by allowing homosexuals to be appointed to positions on the Faith-based charitites. It'll be a good test to see if whoever is running this presidency can figure out another good compromise like they did with the Stem Cell decision.
posted on August 18, 2001 09:28:19 PM new
I agree Borillar. I'm sure that President Bush will figure out another good compromise like he did with the Stem cell decision.
posted on August 18, 2001 09:43:01 PM new
Surely by now most people can recognize that the Republican party stands for a borrow and spend government. That's the only way to give (always popular) tax cuts while increasing spending for their pork-barrel programs.
posted on August 18, 2001 10:57:42 PM new
Borillar,
I realize that your "good compromise" comment above represents your continuing effort to give bush credit for something, but it's now beginning to appear that his so-called decision announcement was not compromise at all and was instead an out and out lie:
Returning to topic, the social security commision has been under legal requirement to make their proceeedings available to the public for many years. The bush administration may have found a way around that legal requirement through the trickery of holding such meetings in more than one location simulteneously and has anounced that henceforth those proceedings would be held behind closed doors:
Apparently pressure from the media coupled with the insistance by opposing factions that the public be informed brought such a desparate need to hide the doings of the commission sufficient to ignore existing law.
posted on August 18, 2001 11:03:39 PM new
I was just hearing another analysis on the economy and the expert stated that if the next Quarter also shows a downturn in the economy, we're officially into a Recession. That means that in order to fund all of their pet projects, Republcians will have to chop out Domestic programs like Medicare and other things that they usually target in order to pay for the billions of dollars given to their buddies. That means either going back on every single campaign promise and pledge or they'll have to borrow their way out. Also very unpopular.
I recall that the famous posterboard that showed how quickly we were gettting into debt that was finally removed last year because the situation was so good -- I can hardly wait until it goes back up again to show how they're selling out future generations for kick-backs to buddies programs.
Will there even be a Republican Party after 2002 and 2004 elections?
posted on August 19, 2001 03:09:20 PM newMicrobes... Thanx... Indeed, I meant the Senate....No worry! I do believe the House is still standing...
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posted on August 19, 2001 04:31:02 PM new
KRS, the Stem Cell thing is too new to really run around talking about "cures". The current technology has more imagination to go on than facts. What is really transpiring here is the Camel's Nose into highly unethical behavior to enrich some Corporations who do not even dare to say such things publically right now. Money, money, money, money, money, money, money!
The problem that I have is that we are opening the doors to areas that are completely unregulated by either ethics or legal standards. Surely a clump of five day-old cells is not a human being; but when we do get to the point where we DO define what is and what is not a human being, we will all be traveling down a very dark road that we'll all live to regret.
What about those corporations and scientits jumping around for glee at the idea that we can grow a clone of you to use for spare parts? It will be as "alive" as the clump of five day-old cells that we are talking about right now. How ethical will it be to "kill" it to replace your heart if it malfunctions? Will we grow human beings as property of corporations to do with as they will to maxumize their profits and that includes the "disposal" of clones when their usefulness is ended?
I'm sorry, folks, but I have to state that I am fully, one-hundred percent against Stem Cell research as it stands today. I have seen programs on TV that say that Stem Cells exist in other places than in embryos and the collection of such cells would not endanger the life of anyone -- and such stem cells hold more promiose than the ones under debate right now. So, WHO, really, is this Stem Cell thing all about? It's about tearing down the walls of ethics and laws in order to make huge profits. Sorry, I just don't agree with it.
As far as Bush and Co. meeting behind closed doors AGAINST THE LAWS governing such meetings, I've said on many an occasion right here in the Round Table how amazed I was at the audacity of the politicians to flaunt their crimes right in front of our faces! They do it because they know that you and I can't do anything at all about it. You have a choice of voting in the CRIMINALS from Column A or the CRIMINALS from Column B -- take your pick!
I tell you, the way that the Republican Politicans so openly spit in the faces of their voters never fails to amaze me. The disparaging comments the Republican Politicians make about their very own constituantcy right to their faces and STILL those people LOVE THEM FOR IT! "The American People does not have an attention span longer than ten minutes," is a real insult! "The Voters can't remember what happened six months ago" is also another quote of theirs of them looking down their noses at their very own supporters and giving them a very big insult. Then, we get their supporters, who instead of realizing how their intelligence was just so insulted come around here and repeat it to me, as if it actually is true! Maybe insults from politicians are true for them -- maybe they really are that stupid -- but I just sadly shake my head each and every time I hear them get away with it. I tell you, if a DEMOCRATIC Politician talked that way about the voters of their party, they'd be leaving skid marks down the road where Democratic Voters would be sending them!
posted on August 19, 2001 07:33:31 PM new
If AW charged by the word here at the RT and dropped the final value fee on the auctions where people are trying to earn money, they'd be way ahead of the game. What do you folks think?
