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To: EagleUSA
Those were notably: Social Security reform, illegal immigration solution, reduced size of government, and squelching radical government spending. He failed MISERABLY on all these counts. IMHO, the attitude of the voter would have been vastly different if he had delivered AS PROMISED.

He didn't and we lost

While I agree that those things were promised and not delivered, I would point out that the President can't do those things by himself, the Congress must do the work. The Republican Congress, particularly the Senate, failed miserably to do so.

In no small part because so many of them think *they* should be President. Ignoring the fact that no Senator has been elected President since John F. Kennedy in 1960.. and I don't know how long it had been before then. I'm old, but not that old. (Johnson had been a Senator, but was elected after inheriting the Presidency after Kennedy was killed. He beat a serving Senator, Barry Goldwater, Similarly Harry Truman had been a Senator before being tapped as FDR's VP in '44)

192 posted on 11/13/2006 9:29:43 AM PST by El Gato
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To: El Gato

The Republican Congress, particularly the Senate, failed miserably to do so.
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Yes, we can thank the RINOs for their undying loyalty to liberalism and socialism. Washington quit working FOR the American people quite a while back and now focuses on personal empowerment at any price to the American citizen, their freedoms and taxation. We worked hard to give a President and a Congress a two-term majority after decades of socialist domination and look at what we got. Our majority betrayed by RINOs (McCain etal for example) so that we were hamstrung on getting very serious issues worked on like tax reform, SS reform --- all the things that the socialists hold dear for their empowerment.

Such a tragic picture we are looking at now.


194 posted on 11/13/2006 11:09:06 AM PST by EagleUSA (T)
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