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Ohio’s Renegade RINO’s
– By Chuck Busch

I am stunned at the performance of Ohio’s two senators this week. Here I thought the Republicans had won the “right” to determine diplomatic and judicial policy after gaining the majority vote of the people and thus assuming the presidency and the majority in both the House and the Senate. Both Senator Michael DeWine and George Voinovich have risen to national attention much to the exasperation of conservative buckeye voters by opposing their party leader’s appointments.

DeWine joined with six other renegade RINO’s (Republican in Name Only) to secure an unwarranted compromise with seven liberal Democrats that “permitted” the vote on three of President Bush’s judicial nominees but preserved the unconstitutional obstructionist tactic of denying the candidates their guaranteed right to be voted on through interminable filibusters. The status of seven other nominees was left undetermined, as was the precise meaning of “extraordinary circumstances” which would invite a filibuster. To his credit, Senator DeWine stated that he would vote to end filibusters if the practiced was abused again as it most clearly has been for the last four years ………..
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