[jwalsh07]

I find your statement incredible. Bush has put the UN and the dims in a box, there is no way out. The UN will either go along or they become the League Of Nations and the dims are eating their own and are staring on their feet.

The best way to get judges appointed and drilling in the ANWR is to win the Senate in November and that is what Bush is shooting for. He is not King, he is POTUS bound by the Constitution of the United States.

[Polonius]

I don't fault Bush for the UN speech (assuming he's willing to go all the way if the UN fails again), but I do think he's still way too easy on the Democrats.

Take the Homeland Security bill, for example. The worker flexibility issue should be an easy slam-dunk for the administration, but instead they seem to be allowing Daschle to run around calling it a "power grab" without a sufficiently outraged response. The simple answer, which should be shouted from the rooftops until Daschle is embarrassed into shutting up, is that the Democrats are putting the security of their union buddies' jobs before the security of the nation. It's short, pithy and true. Nevertheless, it appears that the Democrats may force Bush to veto the whole damned bill over the issue, or sign it without the increased flexibility — a loss in either case.

[iconoclast]

The best way to get judges appointed and drilling in the ANWR is to win the Senate in November and that is what Bush is shooting for.

I hope with all my heart that this happens.

But, I have feared from the beginning that GWB's good old boy, put an arm around your opponent, techniques ... so effective in TX where a lot of the Dims are more conservative than the Rinos is Congress ... were just plain silly in the leftwing snakepit that is Washington.