PARTY TIME!!
As we prepare for the President's SOTU, we should THANK President George W Bush for his vision, courage and integrity:
"THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT"
By Christopher Chantrill
American Thinker
"As you deliver your State of the Union speech tonight, Mr. President, and enter the sixth year of your presidency there is something I want to say.
It is “Thank you, Mr. President.”
You have achieved three important things in the last five years, Mr. President, and that’s as good as it gets.
First of all, you have responded to the challenge of Islamic rich kid Usama bin Laden and his twisted observance of the Turkish defeat at the gates of Vienna on 9/11 back in 1683.
Secondly, you have put our American wealth-creation machine back on track after the scare of the Great Tech Bear Market of 2000 to 2003 when the NASDAQ declined by over 75 percent.
And now it looks as though you have ended the poisonous Bork era, the twenty years of shame in which liberal interest groups made sport of assassinating the characters of conservative Supreme Court nominees.
Three big things, Mr. President.
They say that a president should limit himself to three big things for his time in office, else he will dissipate his energies on ephemera. That puts you in the home stretch already, you fortunate son"
You can read the rest of this commentary at
http://americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5207
"COURTS"
By Jayson
PoliPundit.com
"It’s been five years since Prez Bush first was sworn into office.
Regarding the all-important federal courts, here’s a synopsis of what’s been accomplished:
1) SCOTUS
John Roberts and Sam Alito.
I love it.
2) Federal Appeals Courts
Thus far a grand total of forty (40) of President Bush’s nominees to federal appeals courts have been confirmed. That does not include John Roberts’ prior confirmation to the D.C. Circuit or DHS Secretary Chertoff’s former seat on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals.
Among the more noteworthy of these jurists:
Janice Rogers Brown and Thomas Griffith of the D.C. Circuit (who give conservatives a solid and lasting majority on the country’s second-most-important court),
Priscilla Owen of the 5th Circuit (a Sunday school teacher who’s so feared by the far left they forced their Senate puppets to filibuster her nomination back when Tom . . . um, Tom D . . . . er, Tom Dash . . . well, you know, was running that caucus),
William Pryor of the 11th Circuit (if Giuliani also was a social conservative, he’d be just like Judge Pryor),
Michael McConnell of the 10th Circuit (one of the more intellectually-gifted judges in memory),
Mike Fisher of the 3rd Circuit (a brass-knuckled former state attorney general),
Richard Wesley of the 2nd Circuit (once a conservative state legislator),
Steven Colloton of the 8th Circuit (a former prosecutor who worked under Ken Starr during the Whitewater period).
There are still nearly three full years remaining in this presidency.
As alluded to above, the GOP Senate has been confirming on average eight appeals court judges per year.
Republicans and conservatives already control the vast majority of the federal appeals courts.
3) District Courts
Over 150 of Prez Bush’s trial judges have been confirmed.
* * *
Elections *do* matter, Buchanan.
Try to keep that in mind when Nov. 2008 rolls around."
-- Jayson
http://polipundit.com/
Glad you could stop by before your son's game, Deb! (Hope he wins!)
Make sure you come back later too........and thanks for that great article!
As we all know, the MSM will use their pre-SOTU coverage to verbally assault the President. Their weapon of choice: BOGUS polling data.
The following information will help us combat their impending lies and distortions:
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE:
Presidential JA Ratings Before the SOTU:
Reagan. . . . .Clinton. . . . . Bush
'88 49% . . . .'00 64%. . . . . '08 ?
'87 48% . . . .'99 69%. . . . . '07 ?
'86 64% . . . .'98 59%. . . . . '06 43%
'85 64% . . . .'97 60%. . . . . '05 51%
'84 52% . . . .'96 46%. . . . . '04 53%
'83 37% . . . .'95 47%. . . . . '03 60%
'82 47% . . . .'94 54%. . . . . '02 84%
http://poll.gallup.com/content/?ci=21205
Average JA Ratings:
51.7% Reagan
57.0% Clinton
58.2% Bush
Range:
37%-64% Reagan
46%-69% Clinton
43%-84% Bush
JA in 40s or less (before SOTU):
4 Reagan
2 Clinton
1 Bush
JA in 50s
1 Reagan
2 Clinton
2 Bush
JA in 60s or above
2 Reagan
3 Clinton
2 Bush
As you can discern from this comparative data, President Reagan's JA ratings fare poorly when compared to Clinton and GWB. In fact, Clinton's ratings exceed both Reagan and Bush during his second term (to date). AND WHAT SHOULD THIS TELL US?
JA ratings do not a legacy make!! [Did any of you actually remember that President Reagan sported such low ratings before 4 of his 7 SOTU speeches (and for that matter, the entire year following the speeches)?! Of course not.
LEADERS make tough decisions which can temporarily lower their JA ratings; LOSERS avoid difficult actions to keep their JA ratings as high as possible. The former are remembered well by history; the latter become mere footnotes!
Fortunately for us, PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH is a leader; history will remember him well!!
DJ DRUMMOND provides an excellent analysis of recent MSM polling data at
http://polipundit.com/index.php?p=12202#more-12202