Posted on 05/22/2006 6:16:18 PM PDT by M. Thatcher
Thank you for posting this. Very well considered and well stated.
Agreed and thanks.
"Non-defense discretionary spending will have skyrocketed by almost 28 percent. Government agencies that Republicans were calling to be abolished less than 10 years ago, such as education and labor, have enjoyed jaw-dropping spending increases under Bush of 70 percent and 65 percent respectively."
And that was in the first three years, so you can't blame Katrina either. Reagan was overridden vetoing a pork laden highway bill, but at least he had the principles to veto it. Bush epitomizes Sowell's observation: "If the Democrats were to propose that all Americans leap off a thousand-foot cliff, moderate Republicans would come up with a compromise proposal that three-quarters of us leap off a 500-foot cliff."
Quite frankly, he should thank God that for historical purposes that he was the one in office on 9/11. If it han't happened, what would his track record have been at this juncture?
We likely wouldn't have gone into Afghanistan or Iraq where 80% of his political success has eminated from.
If consciences includes buddying up with longtime libs and dissenters of what makes America great, namely Ted Kennedy, then no thanks! Ted Kennedy is one of the greatest internal enemies that this nation has ever known.
‘Compromise was a dirty word to them and they wouldn’t face the fact that we couldn’t get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don’t get it all, some said, don’t take anything.
‘I’d learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: ‘I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.’
‘If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that’s what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.’
Unfortunately, the 75 or 80% that Bush has settled for are all the amenities. Meanwhile, lost in the negotiation appears to be the health and welfare of the nation at large making the "window dressing items" moot!
President Bush’s immigration policies have not changed materially since he was Governor of Texas.
Unfortunately the world has!
So do I and I don't mind your saying so either. Obviously that is the 25%!
And it is not a personal attack to tell someone the hard truth: you guys are turning into "cult of personality" drones. You seriously are. If you're getting weepy and choked up over our president, and some of you are, that's a problem. That's not thinking and that's not conservatism. If you freak out when someone says something that mild, you have a problem.
Look at the end of that blog: he's a president before he's a conservative. Hello? This is a good thing?? No, I have to say, I can't figure out where you get off telling me I'm incapable of debate when you're the one who is trying to shut down anyone who has any thoughts on what Bush could do better.
A lesser man probably would have just chucked it and walked away by now.
I vehemently disagree. But that's fine.
I know precisely what Reagan did and did NOT do as president. It drives me crazy, to have to keep posting the FACTS, the good with the bad, whenever one of you mythographers of of RR go into your song and dance; but, I do so, to keep the debate historically and factually correct.
The facts are, that Reagan DID have one of the Houses, during part of his presidency. It is also CORRECT, that unlike the purists here, he knew that some compromise was necessary, in order to get anything done, that he wanted done. You are now excusing him things, by saying that "Congress double crossed him". Fine, WONDERFUL, even; yet I bet that you don't do the same for GHW Bush, when he was bulldozed into raising taxes, BY THE CONGRESS, and keep on yammering about the "NO NEW TAXES" line. GAME, SET, AND MATCH! ;^)
Oh yes, this President Bush has a *wink, wink...nudge, nudge* majority in the Senate. So, of course, he, unlike Reagan should be able to just get anything and everything passed. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahaha
BTW.........Reagan NEVER said or did anything whatsoever about "securing" our "borders", by which, of course, you mean the one we share with Mexico, because none of the others matter an iota to you and your ilk.
That is one of THE best articles I have ever read. Thank you for posting it. The person whose hame you use for your screen name would be very proud.
I picked out the above sentence in an article of gems, because I so fervently agree with it. I am disgusted beyond measure by what is happening.
I stand with President George W. Bush. Period.
I'll take this opportunity to publicly give my support for President Bush. I thank God for our President and I keep him in my prayers.
If so, then calling president Bush a "traitor" and worse, isn't "savaging", in your lexicon, I guess.
Perhaps the first cogent thought you have voiced in this thread.
Myself, like you most likely, have a budget to adhere to and the pork projects set my hair on fire. But it's Congress I put the blame on, not the President's Office on this one. But that's just me. :o)
Glad to learn that there's at least one among us who knows what men dead around 200 years would or would not have done.
Is channeling dead presidents yet another "real" conservative talent?
Let me buy you a clue...ALL presidents bring us mixed results.
I'll keep this beautiful and informative article around to read when the anti Bush floaters, who get tired of talking to each other, latch on to unrelated immigration threads and spout their hate and ignorance. I am humbled by the reminder of just how much President Bush has done for America and her citizens.
Thanks for the *ping*
Sorely needed and does my heart good to read. God bless President George W. Bush!!
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