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Originally posted by The Larry Davis Experience
Good point. But you also see the fairly easy dodge on that charge: the great transformative power of watching those antidemocratic liberal judges hastening the demise of the American family unit.
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That line is going to look a lot worse when California courts tell Gavin Newsome to cut it out.
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Originally posted by Hank
Bush doesn't have to do anything more- it will never get through. At some point he can express regret that it didn't get through, but he certainly need not do much else. He can't get 2/3 of the senate to do anything.
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Originally posted by The Larry Davis Experience
But to back off the unequal rights amendment now would be a pretty clear reversal, with no real justification except having received a tepid public response when a roar of approval was expected.
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It doesn't work to get his religious-right base worked up if he doesn't push it. If Bush says nothing and expresses regret in a few months, he loses both ways -- with his base, for throwing them a pretty bare bone, and with independents and young voters, for doing something reactionary.
