White House Letter: Criticism of Bush leaves conservative in the cold

Herald Tribune ^ | FEBRUARY 12, 2006 | Elisabeth Bumiller

[nopardons]

You've obviously missed a very great deal!

But to save bandwidth, I suggest that you read ALL of the Paul threads in FR's archives.

He has a very small group of sycophants here, but the rest of us aren't Libertarians and don't care for his almost perfect record of voting with the Dems.

[nickcarraway]

My problem is he made a small tax cut, but he's made what amount to huge increases. For example, the prescription drug plan alone is going to be a liability like the Great Society and the New deal wrapped into one. Plus, I don't think he went to the mat for conservative justices. He wimped out. Where is Miguel Estrada?

[nopardons]

Your crystal ball is cracked.

[nopardons]

McQueeg has NO chance of wining the '08 GOP presidential primaries.

[Czar]

"Bush spends worse than most liberals, has created lots of new entitlements, has signed the atrocious CFR legislation, and ignores bread and butter conservative issues like immigration and border security."

A nice, brief summary as to why conservatives are both disappointed and enraged. We have every right to be.

[Galveston Grl]

It sounds like he has his panties and high heels in a knot about something.

[nopardons]

It's ONLY people like your d-i-l who love McLame and say that they'd vote for him.

McQueeg has recently been on a fund raising/talking tour and was given the COLD SHOULDER, everywhere he went! Even the far left GOPers, in New York state, didn't pony up any bucks for him and so, McInsane cut the tour short!

[CWOJackson]

I've noticed that the MSM has started something new. They are publishing more and more articles with the term "conservatives" and the "right" in their titles...all of them at issue with the President.

Then when you read the article "conservatives" and the "right" usually turn out to be the fringe or only a minor group that don't really represent American conservatives.

[rwfromkansas]

I used to like Bartlett, but he is just another guy with an axe to grind. Not appealing at all.

[nopardons]

McQueeg is NO Bob Dole! It is NOT ever going to be "McLame's time"! Nobody owes him the space.

[CWOJackson]

"Bartlett, a domestic policy aide at the White House in the Reagan administration..."

That alone should tip you off. pat buchanan claims the same thing. I'm beginning to think "domestic policy aide for Reagan" is short for "disgruntled ex-flunky that never amounted to anything on their own and now want to grind an axe".

[nopardons]

Very insightful of you; nailed it in one...as usual!

[RHINO369]

Bush is not a conservative and hes not a liar either. He did what he ran on, and for that I respect him. I wouldn't have voted for him if a better candidate ran, but I was too young to vote in 00 and in 04 it was either a commie or a moderate republican who was strong on defense, I think I made the right choice voting for Bush.

Bush is not a conservative because every chance he gets to make government bigger, he takes it. His discretionary spending is threw the roof and his defense spending as percent of the budget is small, even though we are actively fighting a three front war (global terrorism, Iraq, and terrorism inside our own nation), that we aren't winning. He creates a new bureaucracy to fight terrorism instead of giving the CIA and the military intelligence the green light to murder these fanatics on their own turf, anywhere they are in the world. He signs a bill restricting our first amendment rights to political speech before an election, the very time when those rights are most necessary. He created a entitlement program that gave FDR and Johnson beyond the grave wet dreams. He promised to sign the assault rifle ban, showing he doesn't respect the right to bear arms. His solution to every problem, from 9-11, to Katrina is to through big government money at it.

We've had 8 years of this, 8 years of government growing exponentially, and I don't think we can handle another 8. I will not vote for Rino, even if he is running against Hillary. I'd rather have 2 years of her terrible policy to scare America into a redux of the 1994 revolution, and 6 years of gridlock, so capitalism can fix itself, than 8 years of a slow bleed, when at the end, republicans thank their leader for what they would have revolted against if Hillary proposed it.

[saveliberty]

I can't blame him for believing that SCOTUS would overturn it. Sure it was a mistake. He's human but he's still doing a great job in a very difficult time

[COEXERJ145]

I hope the Republicans suffer huge defeats in the House/Senate in 2006!

Thank you for showing everyone else that you're an idiot.

I think I'll use it as my tag line for a while.

[nickcarraway]

I can't blame him for believing that SCOTUS would overturn it.

Please explain to me why he would sign something he didn't believe? CFR was not even in the top 15 issues voters were concerned about. What did he gain by signing something he gave his word to the American people he wouldn't? The fact is he didn't win a single vote for that, but he made a lot of people in the media who hate him and never vote for him happy.

As someone who voted for him twice and campaigned for him a lot of time in 2004, I think he is entirely misguided caring so much about what people who will never like him think, and ignoring people who do like him. That doesn't work, and President Bush would be better off not pursuing it.

[saveliberty]

Oh my gosh! So you can't see that the tax cut generated lots of business and how many consecutive quarters of growth?

As for it not being enough, that's a difficult sell to both parties in Congress right now.

And yet Iran can blow us up at any time now, so sure I'd agree with the President's priorities by dealing with Iran (which no one else would on his terms) and then dealing with reducing the growth rate of entitlements and making the tax cuts permanent.

Where were you when he made recess appointments of Pickering? Estrada bowed out as the Dems made his life a living hell. They did the same to JRB and he went to the mat for her as well. Bush did nominate Estrada and you won't concede that the process is too horrible for good people to want to compete. They ruined him and you make the statement that infers that Bush is at fault. What do you think this is, a cake walk?

I love Ronald Reagan, but thanks to him we had who on SCOTUS? Reagan doesn't meet your standards,who does?

Good luck with that.

Where were you when he made the recess appointment of John Bolton? Who was blocked by Dems BECAUSE of his warnings about Iran. Now John Bolton has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for it.

Where were you in September 2002 when the whole world knew that President Bush was in over his head in going to the UN to persuade them to enforce the existing sanctions against Saddam Hussein? When he spoke at the UN, there was an audible gasp of shock that he made a phenomenal case and a brilliant speech which forced the UN to affirm existing sanctions.

It's fair to not like the Medicare program or other policies, but I disagree with your inference that he falls short.

[xrp]

Nah, I think you're the idiot, a cheerleader, Bushbot and all around waste of oxygen.

[saveliberty]

Because he was leveraging political capital.

I think that he has a better grasp of who is "friends" are than you realize. Did you read or see Andrea Pelosi's movie about his 2000 campaign?

He gets it.

I don't need him to be perfect to appreciate him.

At some point, you can decide to appreciate the President you have or mourn the one that you don't.

[nickcarraway]

Recess appointments are an admission of defeat. Recess appointments mean Hillary gets to replace them as soon as she is elected. Yes, Bush nominated Estrada, I give him credit for that. But he let him twist in the wind, instead of fighting for him. The fact is Bush has a the best Senate numbers a Republican has had, so he can't complain. He didn't fight for his nominees. Look at Bolton, he even backed down on him and made him a recess appointment. The fact is, Bush is going to have the least impact on the judiciary of any president ever. The next Democrat president gets to replace all his recess appointments on a permanent basis.