Posted By: Dauric  on Thursday, May 22, 2008

When did the Republican party becomes such a bunch of whiners? I am a Republican and I notice that the party I belong to is represented by people who whine.

"Activist Judges". I don't think I've ever heard a Democrat say that, and frankly it grinds my gears that any judge a republican doesn't agree with is "Activist", like they're wearing tie-dyed robes and flower garlands. It's not like there's been no conservative activist judges favoring private corporations. What? You mean you haven't heard of the Kelo case regarding eminent domain, where a home was taken from private citizens to give to a private corporation, because the taxes were better from the corporation? Yeah, Activist Republican Judges ran roughshod over the fourth amendment's protections against unlawful seizure.

Here I reference the comments section of Dennis Prager's last article here, wile an unscientific survey to be sure, the vast majority of people either support gay marriage rights as part of a legal contract, or don't care.

Those of us who don't care one way or the other, think that the Republican Party would be better served by their "Traditional Platform" of fiscal sobriety and limited government, rather than attempting to inject government and religion in to bedrooms across the United States.

Do we really have nothing better to do as a people? Has the federal budget been balanced without anyone being told? The National Debt must be gone and the value of the dollar will return to it's accustomed heights so we can all buy gas at reasonable rates?

No? It hasn't? So... Gas is still around $4.00 a gallon huh? And electric cars still aren't in showrooms ready to buy?

No? Well, for this much outrage to be directed at a judicial ruling that affects 4% to 10% of the population (depending on the study you cite, some go as low as 1% or 2%) then many of the more outrageous injustices in our society must have been rectified right? College Tuitions are now based on the pay for the kinds of jobs you can get with hat degree and the demand for people to be in that field, rather than simply being a number that was higher than it was last term? No? Ohh, I know, the mortgage debacle has been rectified. Not that either? Ahh, corporate laws have been rectified and the Enron and Tyco scandals could never happen again. Still no huh?

Well, I'm running out of things to be outraged about since none of the previous stuff has been fixed yet, My outrage is all booked up on more immediate, important and wide-reaching injustices.



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