"Were a group like this to continue to cooperate this way, we might see the center really take hold," said John Green, a political scientist at the University of Akron. "We're into new territory."
Finally An Independent Center To Hinge
Our American Hopes Upon Once Again!!
Maybe It's Been High Time & Long Overdue
To Clean Up Their Acts A Stay Centered...
Then Respect For Our Senators & Elected Officials Can Return
Centered Once Again On What Is Right For All Americans
& America In General...Right There General!!
The rise of an assertive centrist bloc in Congress could change the dynamic of power along Pennsylvania Avenue. In his first term, Bush largely relied on Republican leaders in Congress to enforce party discipline and got almost everything he wanted.
His stature as the war-on-terrorism president seemed to trump Congress' usual instinct to demand respect as an equal branch of government requiring give and take
Time To Get Back Centered Independent Centrist Respect Again Just Like Was Done After The Left Wing Meenie Weenie Cliton 1990's Administartion & Its Too Far To The Left Hang Ups...Now Its Time To Get Back Centered Independent Centrist Respect Again
From These Right Wing Too Far Out There To The Right Yanker Wanker Bushit's & DeLaid All Over The Place...Clinton should Have Been Impeached & So Should Bush...BOTTOM CENTERED INDEPENDENT CENTRIST LINE!!!
Controlled by center, Congress challenges Bush
By Steven Thomma, Knight Ridder Newspapers
http://news.yahoo.com/s/krwashbureau/_bc_judges_centrists_wa
WASHINGTON - A new center of political power rose up in Washington this week, and it could challenge the White House and leaders of Congress for control of the national agenda.
A newly assertive bipartisan coalition of independent-minded lawmakers first showed itself Monday night in the Senate fight over federal judges, then again in the House of Representatives' approval Tuesday of a bill that would allow federal financing for new lines of embryonic stem-cell research.
Even if this centrist coalition doesn't endure,
(IT Must & WILL ENDURE IN RESOLVE)
its successes this week suggest that the post-Sept. 11, 2001, deference of the Republican-ruled Congress to President Bush no longer is automatic.
"Whether it's a stable governing coalition remains to be seen," said Steven Schier, a political scientist at Carleton College in Minnesota. "It took great duress to create this center."
"Coalitions like this growing beyond White House knowledge and control is what you can expect to see the rest of the term," Schier said. "It's going to vary issue to issue."
On Tuesday, Republican Sen. George Voinovich (news, bio, voting record) of Ohio urged other senators to join him in opposing Bush's nomination of John Bolton to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. "I strongly feel that the importance of this nomination to our foreign policy requires us to set aside our partisan agenda," Voinovich wrote in a letter to his colleagues.
Not all members were centrists. The Senate coalition of 14 included both conservative John Warner, R-Va., and liberal Robert Byrd, D-W.Va. They appeared driven mainly by respect for the Senate's traditions,
(But We Here At The Arena Respect Not Only Senate's traditions But These Two Older Senators For Stepping And Meeting Together In The Center...Hail Both Of Them!!
As Well As The Rest Who Stepped & Will Continue To Step To The Independent Center (Where Most Americans Are Anyway)A True Step In The Right Centered Direction For The Benfit Of All Involved & Americans In General & For The Divine Centered Health Of America In General & All Americans As Well...That Is Their Centered Centrist JOBS!!
Several Republican coalition members - Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine and Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island - hail from the Northeast. Republican voters there are less comfortable culturally with the social-conservative wing of their party, which dominates the South and West. Those senators have a stake in showing voters they won't go along with nominees perceived as extremists.
Conversely, several Senate Democrats who signed on - including Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Ken Salazar of Colorado - represent states that Bush carried in November. They have an interest in proving to voters back home that they aren't prisoners to Democratic-leaning interest groups.
Hail Also To Other centrist senators who routinely buck their party's orthodoxy as mavericks - Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., John McCain, R-Ariz., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine and Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island
( Hail all Five Of These Noble Senators Who Often See The Centrist Light Shining)
What all 14 had in common was a will to compromise despite pressure not to do so from party leaders and their party's most fervent interest groups.
Also In The House The Center Is Gaining Strength & Reappered To Be The Coming Trend For The Future!!!ALLRIGHT HOUSE MEMBERS WAY TO GO ALSO...
In the House, many Republicans followed the lead of Rep. Michael Castle R-Del.,
in backing a bill to increase federal support for stem-cell research. Many declared themselves staunchly anti-abortion but refused to see the stem-cell question through that lens, despite the insistence of Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, and others that the morality of the issues is the same.
The willingness of House Republicans to break with DeLay and Bush is strikingly rare. While the House GOP leadership didn't demand party loyalty on the stem-cell vote - freeing members to vote their consciences - Bush made it clear that he would veto the bill if it passed, yet many House Republicans still bucked him.
The rise of an assertive centrist bloc in Congress could change the dynamic of power along Pennsylvania Avenue. In his first term, Bush largely relied on Republican leaders in Congress to enforce party discipline and got almost everything he wanted.
His stature as the war-on-terrorism president seemed to trump Congress' usual instinct to demand respect as an equal branch of government requiring give and take
More From The Independent Rightly Centered Center To Come...
Strengthening American Resolve & Return To Benefit...
Exit Now Once Again From Sweet Lady Liberty's
Passionsword Arena of Independent Centrist Green Gladiators
Who Are Glad That These Noble Senators Stepped & Re-Shifted Themselves
As Well As The Whole Country Back To The Center
Where It was Founded Upon & Forever Belongs...
God Bless A Centrist America...
"Were a group like this to continue to cooperate this way, we might see the center really take hold," said John Green, a political scientist at the University of Akron. "We're into new territory."
