Selling your Soul to the Devil

I honestly don’t understand why they are so surprised that the President is going back on his word here. After all, this President has lied about so many things. Why should this be any different?

When you make deals with someone of questionable moral character, you shouldn’t be surprised when he stabs you in the back and runs with what he can get from you (your votes).

They got exactly what they voted for. If it weren’t so painful for all of us to have to deal with in the next four years, I would say to them, you got exactly what you deserved. But, we are all stuck with it.

President Bush may pay a price for pandering. Social conservatives are disappointed that Bush is making Social Security reform and economic issues his priority while essentially ignoring one of their chief goals: passage of a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

Some religious conservatives say the “political capital” that Bush has claimed as a result of his re-election should be spent on promoting a marriage amendment since, they believe, they played a vital role in the victory.

A coalition of major conservative groups recently warned Bush’s top political adviser, Karl Rove, that some of the capital could be at risk unless the president pushes Congress to approve a marriage amendment.

“We couldn’t help but notice the contrast between how the president is approaching the difficult issue of Social Security privatization where the public is deeply divided and the marriage issue where public opinion is overwhelmingly on his side,” the coalition, called the Arlington Group, said in a letter to Rove. (source)