"Checks and Balances"

[Kevin Spidel]

I need some help here. We as a community need to research and post quality responses from Republican leaders when we asked "Where are the checks and balances" when the repugs had Congress and the White House.

There is a lot of that line coming from Repugnats on the media "there is no checks and balances."


Let's get are Hannity, Limbaugh, etc quotes together and answer them back with their spokes people!

Help me find a few... I know they are out there.

[Skidmore]

1. The "check and balances" they seek are ideological right now.

What needs to be reestablished is the checks between the different governing branches. They are also neglecting that ideological sensibilities do not exist at a 50/50 balance point in society and they have become the minority. If they want to be in the majority again, then they need to speak to all the people, not just a few hatemongers.

[Kevin Spidel]

2. yes but

that is not as fun as throwing back the response to their questions by people they blindly follow. So much fun trowing stuff back in their face. Trying to get a collection of great quotes to get to tons of bloggers and hopefully get some mainstream msg points.

[FSogol]

3. Here's one

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3852767&mesg_id=3852767

Its the GOP daily talking point

[Kevin Spidel]

4. nice but

good meme... but curious to specific quotes of hypocracy in regards to majority not good when white house is the same party

[gratuitous]

5. "Up or down vote"

"Will of the people" "Mandate" "Majority rules" Oh, they used them all back in the day, even when their advantage was whisper thin. It was certainly a lot of fun to be a Republican from 2002 to 2006 or even 2008. The party could do any old thing it wanted to, and just laugh at anyone who objected. They launched two invasions, politicized every function of government, spied on the American people, interfered in the Schiavo affair, oh it was a grand time! And while we all were analyzing their foolishness and pointing out the flies in the ointment, they were racing ahead creating another new reality.

Will this be a lesson to the Republicans? Will they understand concepts of balance and fairness? Will they grasp the value of negotiation and cooperation? Reply Hazy; Ask Again Later.

[Kevin Spidel]

6. exactly

but quotes would be so sweet. I am having trouble chasing them down.

[gratuitous]

7. A little googling

I googled "up or down vote" and came up with this USA Today editorial penned by none other than Dr. Videotape Diagnosis Bill Frist:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-05-15-oppose_x.htm

Oh, how sacrosanct then was that "up or down vote" when it came to George W. Bush's judicial nominees! Dr. Frist for some reason elides over all the Clinton judicial nominees who never got a committee hearing or a committee referral, whose appointment withered on the vine of Republican indifference to seating nominees put up by a Democratic president. But my, oh my, what a difference a few years made, and Dr. Frist was in high dudgeon that Democrats weren't just rolling over for unqualified nominees picked for their political views rather than any consideration of their judicial experience or temperament.

I'll check for some more Republican situational ethics later.