Solemnly Swear

"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of the President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Alas, President Bush has already indicated that he will sign the blatantly unconstitutional Campaign Finance Reform bill and may have signed it by the time this is posted.

Is this disastrous? Well, yes, in a way, but the world won't come to an end. It is another erosion of our constitutional government, and unbecoming a President who knows better and originally led us to believe he would veto the bill.

How ironic it is that President Bush — of whom advisor Karl Rove said relative to Bush's Pickering nomination, squelched by Daschle et al, "they are starting a fight with the wrong man" — is acting like the "right man" to pick a fight with.

How ironic it is that Pickering, nominated to an appellate bench for his conservative background, is now an appointee of a President whose conservative and constitutional credentials have been so easily sacrificed to expediency.

When Papa George welched on his no new taxes pledge, one could just visualize him sitting around with his advisors before the fact, as the cynics said "where they gonna go? — meaning conservative supporters. Well they found out, didn't they. Ross Perot helped them learn the lesson.

The question for Bush Junior is not exactly "where they gonna go," but rather where a few conservatives are not gonna go. Which is to the polls on election day. Just how few, or many, is yet to be seen.

Dubya will have given up the constitutional high ground — for nothing in return, and there has been a cost already. We can only guess what the final cost will be. And we can pray, hoping he might have changed his mind.

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