Are you suggesting that someone is simple minded for pointing out that this bill was co-sponsored, co-written, and signed into law by republicans?
I don't see where fisftul said anything like that. But since you bring it up, I'll say that it is indeed simpleminded.
This bill was opposed by 80% of Republicans and supported by 95% of Democrats. To harp on the cosponsors as if that's anywhere near as important as who passed the bill and who opposed it, is to deliberately miss the point. It puts your biases before the facts.
Also, and I could be wrong here, aren't judges supposed to be non-partisan? Therefore people are praising the republicans for conservative leaning supreme court justices, that technically aren't a member of the party? That's giving quite a lot of credit to the party.
Judges are supposed to be constitutionalists. Many are not. The SC judges Bush appointed are, and they seemed to have tipped the balance of things back to where they should be, making it possible for rulings like this one and Heller to become reality. It's the courts job to strike down unconstitutional law, and for the first time in a long while we now have a court that's willing to do it. The price for that was a squishy Rep president, and it was worth every penny.
I am curious to know what you meant by this. I hope you don't mean supporting anyone with a "R" after their name. IMO that kind strategy started some of this crap in the first place.
Be honest. Ask yourself how many hours of labor you've put into fixing things this week. Or this month. No need to say it out loud to any of us, but please at least be honest with yourself about it.
Do you actually work towards making things better?Maybe you can understand where I'm coming from here. I get tired of people always criticizing, always complaining, never working, never helping, looking for any excuse at all to blame Republicans for everything. Mostly these peopl talk big on the net but are dead weight for our cause back in the real world. Don't know if that describes you or not, but be honest with yourself about it.
If you're willing to look at things objectively (for instance, by recognizing that McCain/Feingold was a Dem bill regardless of who cosponsored it, or by recognizing that the price for a constitutional Supreme Court is a squishy Rep President), then you begin to see that there is a huge functional difference between Republicans and Democrats.
Back in 2000, if we'd all nitpicked GWB foibles to death and not voted for him, we'd probably still have a McCain/Feingold bill, except that it probably would have been much worse, and we wouldn't have a court willing to strike it down. We tried the don't-vote-for-any-imperfect-Republican strategy back in 2008, and we nearly saw group of Marxists remake the country in their image.
So yes, if the only thought or effort you're willing to devote to the situation is to look at the party, then I absolutely mean that you should always support anyone with a "R" after their name. That's the best way to protect what we have, and hold things together long enough for the rest of us to come up with a more permanent solution.
Now, if you're willing to put a little more effort into things, then there's a whole lot of work you can do to help improve our situation. It requires you to actually work, to get dirty in local politics. It requires you to work within the Republican Party to help make sure that the candidates who have R's after their names are the best ones for the job. The Rep Party is the only vehicle that can be used to get better leaders into office. Are you willing to help out?
At the very least, as a first step it requires you to quit whinging about Republicans on the internet. Are you willing to take that first step?
