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> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 01:11:22 -0400, Rob Perkins wrote
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> Josh Hill wrote:
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>> While as I said in my other post I do think the press gave Clinton a
>> free ride after Gringrich came in (although I agree with Amy's overall
>> point), I'm not sure why you think the press was wrong in this
>> particular case: it was the Republicans who shut down the government
>> rather than accepting the President's veto and reaching a compromise.
> 
> While I want a pox on both their houses for not reaching a compromise in 
> committee and debate, and letting it get that far, I harbor the somewhat 
> naive notion that if the President submits a budget, and the House 
> passes something else which reaches his desk, that it is not the House 
> which commits the act of "shutting down" because no bill was *signed*.
> 
> Beyond that, I see the whole thing in the context of what happens in the 
> rest of the world, with this weeks events in Thailand and Hungary as 
> timely examples; Gingrich, Dole, and Clinton didn't take long after that 
> to actually do the talking and make the budget, which is far superior to 
> armies deposing the civilian leaders, or demonstrations which topple 
> government institutions through violence.
> 
> I feel the same way about the 2000 Presidential election controversy: 
> The system still worked marvelously because of respect for the judiciary 
> as a court of last resort, rather than guns as the last resort. <<

Frankly -- and I'm being sincere -- I think that guns would have been a 
better solution.  I don't think the Supreme Court should be choosing the 
president, and I'll be out in the streets in my riotin' shoes if they ever do 
so again.

Amy
                                                                           
                                                   
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