Yellow Rose's Garden

the pickings are slim.

I planned on writing a light hearted entry about the Sims 2, but the entries by friends regarding the debate between Bush and Kerry last night spurred something else. I didn't watch the debate. It's usually two guys posturing about what they will do if elected President when anyone with a clue knows they have to have the approval of the Congress and Senate before they do most things. The real laugh to that is that Bush is apparently smart enough to smack Kerry upside the head with that information. Maybe he's not quite as stupid as people thought all these years. After all, Claudius feigned being feeble minded to escape the notice of Caligula.

Yesterday, in a rare discussion on politics in our household, my husband said that voting this year is a damned if we do, damned if we don't situation. At first, he said a vote for Bush could set our son up for being drafted, but a vote for Kerry could cost him his job. Let's be honest, people, we all know how the Democrats love taking money from the Defense Department's budget. That issue has caused me to take serious notice of who was running for what office over the years. A vote against money for the Defense department was a vote against the money that put, and still helps put, a roof over the heads of my children and well as clothes on their backs and food on the table they ate/eat from. It was and is that that is often the deciding factor of who gets my vote. Today, it also helps provide for my oldest grandson.

Later in the day, my husband came back with one of those things that make ya go hmmmmmm statements. He said something about it being Democrats that put the bill to reinstate the draft. I did a little research and found this:
http://www.congress.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:HR00163:@@@L&summ2=m&
The list of names on that bill are as follows:

Rep Abercrombie, Neil [HI-1] - 1/7/2003 D
Rep Brown, Corrine [FL-3] - 1/28/2003 D
Rep Christensen, Donna M. [VI] - 5/19/2004 D
Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy [MO-1] - 1/28/2003 D
Rep Conyers, John, Jr. [MI-14] - 1/7/2003 D
Rep Cummings, Elijah E. [MD-7] - 1/28/2003 D
Rep Hastings, Alcee L. [FL-23] - 1/28/2003 D
Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. [IL-2] - 7/21/2004 D
Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila [TX-18] - 1/28/2003 D
Rep Lewis, John [GA-5] - 1/7/2003 D
Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] - 1/7/2003 D
Rep Moran, James P. [VA-8] - 1/28/2003 D
Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13] - 1/7/2003 D
Rep Velazquez, Nydia M. [NY-12] - 1/28/2003 D
Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes [DC] - 1/28/2003(withdrawn - 6/21/2004) D

While party affiliation is not noted on the information on that addendum or the related bill, http://www.congress.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:SN00089: all the sponsors of reinstating the draft are, in fact, members of the Democratic party. At last check, the President, is in fact, a Republican. Can we say major oops?

Keep in mind that I'm not saying there are not members of the Republican party that do support that bill. I just find irony in the bill being introduced by a group of Democrats, not a single Republican among them, and yet, people are saying that Bush is sponsoring the draft. Anyone else see something wrong with that picture besides me?

Riiiiiiiiiiiiight... using providing for the common defense, as written in the Constitution, as an excuse to reactivate the draft for both men and women, when you don't grasp the Second Amendment is a bit much.