Checks and Balances...
Oct. 15th, 2004 09:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acroyeari've said it before, and i'll keep saying it again.
with a republican congress (even a moderate-republican senate), BushCo can push through almost any agenda they want.
If you're worried about Kerry doing something stupid, keep in mind that the Repubs are hardly likely to lose the Senate. The point of the system is checks and balances, that no one side gets too powerful to run the nation without restraint.
So Kerry is hardly going to get anything of his agenda pushed through without serious debate, discussion, and compromise, AS IT SHOULD BE. Especially his health-care plan (ill-conceived, based too strongly on the canadian plan that we already know doesn't work too well).
Don't vote for Kerry because of what he may or might not do specifically, vote to restore checks and balances and restraints of power...
And ALWAYS consider that the next three supreme court appointees (and there could be that many or more by the time the next term ends) WILL set the tone of the nation for the *next 25 years*. Remember that all of Reagan's appointees ARE STILL IN THERE.
Do you want a supreme court that doesn't give a rats ass about individual rights? the supreme court is our last stand for our rights and the constitution that asserts them and the means by which they are protected.
It is my fervent belief that having Kerry-appointed moderates (over Bush-appointed conservatives with the same attitudes as his own cabinet) is FAR more important to the future of this country than anything else, be it health-care, tax cuts, how to handle iraq. Those are all short-term things and yes they're important, but they'll be forgotten in 5 years. But the impact of a supreme court nominee will be felt for generations.
That court is our lifeline to our children's future, the last check on the mob-rule that has been taking away power of the individual and giving it to the corporations of the world.
with a republican congress (even a moderate-republican senate), BushCo can push through almost any agenda they want.
If you're worried about Kerry doing something stupid, keep in mind that the Repubs are hardly likely to lose the Senate. The point of the system is checks and balances, that no one side gets too powerful to run the nation without restraint.
So Kerry is hardly going to get anything of his agenda pushed through without serious debate, discussion, and compromise, AS IT SHOULD BE. Especially his health-care plan (ill-conceived, based too strongly on the canadian plan that we already know doesn't work too well).
Don't vote for Kerry because of what he may or might not do specifically, vote to restore checks and balances and restraints of power...
And ALWAYS consider that the next three supreme court appointees (and there could be that many or more by the time the next term ends) WILL set the tone of the nation for the *next 25 years*. Remember that all of Reagan's appointees ARE STILL IN THERE.
Do you want a supreme court that doesn't give a rats ass about individual rights? the supreme court is our last stand for our rights and the constitution that asserts them and the means by which they are protected.
It is my fervent belief that having Kerry-appointed moderates (over Bush-appointed conservatives with the same attitudes as his own cabinet) is FAR more important to the future of this country than anything else, be it health-care, tax cuts, how to handle iraq. Those are all short-term things and yes they're important, but they'll be forgotten in 5 years. But the impact of a supreme court nominee will be felt for generations.
That court is our lifeline to our children's future, the last check on the mob-rule that has been taking away power of the individual and giving it to the corporations of the world.
