"I'm tired of President Bush's nice guy/pushover routine."
What makes you think it is a routine?
I think ihe is a pushover. Look at the drug bill.
A quote I spotted in a GEORGE WILL piece: ***......Suppose someone seeking the presidential nomination had, as a governor, signed the largest tax increase in his state's history and the nation's most permissive abortion law. And by signing a law institutionalizing no-fault divorce, he had unwittingly but substantially advanced an idea central to the campaign for same-sex marriages -- the minimalist understanding of marriage as merely a contract between consenting adults to be entered into or dissolved as it suits their happiness.
Question: Is it not likely that such a presidential aspirant would be derided by some of today's fastidious conservatives? A sobering thought, that, because the attributes just described were those of Ronald Reagan....****
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/opinion/16881853.htm