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Down but Not Out - After Katrina and Scooter, whither the Bush administration?
OpinionJournal.com ^ | October 29, 2005 | Michael Barone

Posted on 10/28/2005 9:07:52 PM PDT by gpapa

BY MICHAEL BARONE
Saturday, October 29, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT

Whither the Bush administration? Two months ago, just before Katrina hit New Orleans, the administration had a game plan that it seemed to be, more or less successfully, executing. Since then that plan has been blown away by hurricanes meteorological, political and, yesterday, legal. In late August, Congress seemed primed to extend the earlier Bush tax cuts. House Ways and Means Chairman Bill Thomas seemed ready to push some form of Social Security reform through his committee and the House. John Roberts seemed headed for easy confirmation to Sandra Day O'Connor's seat on the Supreme Court. Iraq, at least in the minds of administration officials, was moving in the right direction, with new Iraqi security forces coming online and the constitution heading for approval in the election scheduled for Oct. 15.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: barone; bush; bush43; downbutnotout; katrina; scooter
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1 posted on 10/28/2005 9:07:52 PM PDT by gpapa
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To: gpapa
After Katrina [ Harriet Miers ] and Scooter, whither the Bush administration?
2 posted on 10/28/2005 9:11:57 PM PDT by caryatid (There are none so blind as those who will not see ...)
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To: gpapa
My prediction - I'm calling it now:

1) JRB nominated for SC
2) Real tax-reform
3) SS Reform becomes real
4) GWB goes from conservative goat to conservative icon
3 posted on 10/28/2005 9:13:23 PM PDT by al_again
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To: caryatid
[ Harriet Miers ]

Get over it already!

4 posted on 10/28/2005 9:13:39 PM PDT by sydbas
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To: caryatid

There is a very long list of those that have under estimated GWB. Want to join?


5 posted on 10/28/2005 9:14:46 PM PDT by bybybill (remember, the fish come first)
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To: al_again

Add 5) Dems go from outhouse into the privy pit, covered in their own kaka.


6 posted on 10/28/2005 9:16:09 PM PDT by DarthVader (Do something positive for your country today: Punch an America hating leftie in the mouth.)
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To: sydbas; umgud
[ Harriet Miers ]

Get over it already!


The truth hurts? LOL

7 posted on 10/28/2005 9:16:17 PM PDT by caryatid (There are none so blind as those who will not see ...)
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To: al_again; gpapa
4) GWB goes from conservative goat to conservative icon

We're waiting .....

9 posted on 10/28/2005 9:18:04 PM PDT by caryatid (There are none so blind as those who will not see ...)
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To: gpapa

If gas prices keep going down he'll be fine - strangely the thing he probably has the least control over would cause his popularity to either surge or decline.


10 posted on 10/28/2005 9:19:04 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: gpapa

Newt called Joey Wilson a LIAR tonight on H & C.

My prayers have been answered.

Now I want to see that little worm taken down so far that nobody will even remember him.

It's time for GW to take off the gloves! No more Mr. Nice Guy!


11 posted on 10/28/2005 9:21:00 PM PDT by Humidston (TX, don't believe bogus phone call lies! Vote YES on Amendment 2!!!)
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To: Humidston

Joey Wilson a LIAR

I hear a lot people calling him that within the last week.


12 posted on 10/28/2005 9:23:23 PM PDT by DarthVader (Do something positive for your country today: Punch an America hating leftie in the mouth.)
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To: al_again

I've been bitching about W for months now, but I think you could be correct. If this week didn't slap W and crew back into reality nothing will. Knowing his history, I do think he'll come back fighting with a vengance. He's a good decent man who I think we'll be very proud of by the end of his term.


13 posted on 10/28/2005 9:24:29 PM PDT by eddiemunster
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To: Humidston
Newt called Joey Wilson a LIAR tonight on H & C.

The other day on Hardball, Victoria Toensing called him an idiot; something like, "Cheney probably said 'Who sent this idiot to Niger'."

I want to see that SOB drawn and quartered.

14 posted on 10/28/2005 9:28:15 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: caryatid

No the truth doesn't hurt at all but, get over it already!


15 posted on 10/28/2005 9:35:56 PM PDT by sydbas
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To: Howlin
I want to see that SOB drawn and quartered.

I'll race you...

16 posted on 10/28/2005 9:42:05 PM PDT by Humidston (TX, don't believe bogus phone call lies! Vote YES on Amendment 2!!!)
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To: gpapa
President Bush is a decent man,but that does him no good in the D.C. swamp.

He has to say plainly and repeatedly, enough is enough. From now on I want him to be a brawler and a street fighter.Use the power of his office to call out these Leftist pukes who torment us all.

17 posted on 10/28/2005 9:42:55 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: gpapa

I emailed Bush--"You offered the Left an olive branch and they turned and spit in your face , and when they spit in your face they are spitting in mine also. Attack, Blitz them. Avenge your wronged constituency and we will go through hell for you."


18 posted on 10/28/2005 9:43:32 PM PDT by wildcatf4f3 (admittedly too unstable for public office)
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To: Humidston

I'm closer to him.


19 posted on 10/28/2005 9:50:30 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Howlin

Damn.


20 posted on 10/28/2005 9:51:13 PM PDT by Humidston (TX, don't believe bogus phone call lies! Vote YES on Amendment 2!!!)
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