"bb" wrote in message

Ok, Bush won the Presidency. But, he certainly didn't win a mandate
for his extremist policies.
A) I never heard anyone claim that W received a mandate in the election of
2000.

B) W received his mandate on the morning of September 11, 2001.

C) You may consider some or all of his policies "extremist", but that is
your personal opinion, not general fact.

There has been no attempt to consider the
desires of the majority of voters who didn't vote for the rascal.

D) It may have slipped your attention, but we do not live in a democracy,
wherein the voters are consulted on virtually all matters. We live in a
Constitutional Republic. We send elected persons to staff the government
and to make decisions according to their best judgment. If we don't like
their judgment, we vote them out the next time around. This business of
consulting focus groups, or directly polling constituents, prior to any
decision-making, is, in my view, an abdication of responsibility under the
Constitution.