Subj : Re: Katrina rumormongering
To   : alt.tv.nypd-blue
From : scribe
Date : Tue Sep 13 2005 06:54:02

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.nypd-blue

> topcat wrote:
> No disrespect taken. I think the Republican party has moved WAY too far
> left. But does that mean I should go out and vote for people even MORE
> left?


You should vote your conscience, no matter where you stand.


> I'd be *almost* as upset if someone like Whitman got in as I would be
> if Hillaryous got in. I'd like to see someone like Rick Santorum run
> and win. Or someone like Newt Gingrich. The so-called moderates (Rudy
> Guiliani, Arnold (who, as you know, can't run) are just people looking
> to try and please everybody. That's not only impossible, it's  wishy-washy, imo.


Wishy-washy works in Washington...on both sides of the aisle.

One of the reasons I like L&O the last four years (more than the
others) is we get to experience the political musings of one Fred D
Thompson (who I understand has a hand in writing his dialogue).  One
rerun last night had a sage observation.  "without a war on something,
folks can't get elected."

It speaks to the fickleness of the American voter, as well as my
previous observation that Americans have the memory of a sand flea.
Today, our elections (and legislation) are driven by events and spin:
not real issues.

BTW, if Fred ever decided to run for Prez, I'd vote for the man in a
milisecond.  Old school conservative, believes in government staying
out of our everyday lives and doesn't subscribe to the du-jour bullshit
that current conservatives hand their hats on.

He be da man!


> The so-called 14 moderates who stopped the vote to change the rules in
> the Senate did nothing but cause the issue to be moved to another time.
> It needs to be settled. Is it okay (Constitutional) to filibuster judge
> nominees or not? Because of the "moderates" we still don't know. That's
> why we vote for representatives (I thought), to put issues to bed, not
> pass the buck to the next Senate. Unfortunately, we see way too much of
> this from the current Republican leadership.


It will never be settled Constitutionally TC.  The votes aren't there,
either on "the hill" nor in the states.  And when they think about it,
the Republicans aren't going to screw with that process because even
though they be top-rail right now, they know one day they be bottom
rail.  So Bush tries to do an end-run (cloture-wise).  Thing is, if he
does, in a year or three once someone sues, it'll be declared
unconstitutional.


> Oh, and it is becoming harder and harder to believe you're a true
> conservative if you don't like Rush. The guy is fighting for our cause
> everyday. I think everyone has had to make some adjustments in their
> thinking in a post 9/11 world. I don't think we'd be in Iraq if it
> weren't for 9/11. Now, my hero, Pat Buchanan hates the fact we're
> there, and in this instance, I have to disagree with him. Especially
> after watching that movie "The Flight That Fought Back" last night. As
> I was watching that movie, had I been President, the speech I would
> have made on Sept 12, 2001 was coming clearly into my head...


I have no respect for people who talk out of both sides of their mouth.
 He did so before his titgot  caught in a wringer (the pain killer
addiction).

And my issue with the Republican party at present is mostly (but not
completely) with our president (and the organization he has built that
exxentially insulates him).  There's a parallel in my views of him and
the general's line from Good Morning Vietnam when he spoke of Richard
Nixon.

"He lugs a trainload of shit behind him that could fertilize the Sinai.
Why, I wouldn't buy an apple from the son of a bitch and I consider him
a good, close, personal friend."

Now I don't consider him a "close, personal friend"...but I know the
man (and his father).  Being a Republican with (a little) money and
living in Dallas, you couldn't help but encounter "dubya": especially
in the 80's and early 90's as I did through my (now ex)-wife (she was
in-da "awl" bidness) and when he was the front man for our local
baseball team.  I even worked with him a few times, most intimately,
when producing the "Welcome Home" parade after Iraq-I.

He is a moral man without (what I like to call) an "enterprise
compass."  He just doesn't understand how things get done because he is
without a curious spirit.  Dubya has no skills when it comes to working
 through a problem sequentially to its logical conclusion.  I remember
one time when we were "just visiting"...he told me he doesn't hold up
his end when it comes to cleaning house..because "I don't have the
patience."

nuff said.  Gotta go to work:-) - gnb

.