GOP slams Bush policies at retreat

The Washington Times ^ | 2/6/04 | By Ralph Z. Hallow and James G. Lakely

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Growing frustration over President Bush's immigration plan and lack of fiscal discipline came to a head behind closed doors at last weekend's Republican retreat in Philadelphia.

House lawmakers, stunned by the intensity of their constituents' displeasure at some of Mr. Bush's key domestic policies, gave his political strategist Karl Rove an earful behind closed doors.

[csvset]

Main Entry: Pan·gloss·ian
Pronunciation: pan-'glä-sE-&n, pa[ng]-, -'glo-
Function: adjective
Etymology: Pangloss, optimistic tutor in Voltaire's Candide (1759)
: marked by the view that all is for the best in this best of possible worlds : excessively optimistic

[Ches]

"Is so and don't bring up the birth of the GOP!"

Yes! Let's just keep bringing up the afterbirth.

[nopardons]

ROTFLOL............okay, okay, " uncle ". :-)

[Lady Eileen]

The interview I linked to on post # 733 is superb please take time to check it out.

[Sabertooth]

It just might cost the president the election though and that would NOT " send a message" nor " teach a lesson " to anyone at all!

If such a thing did cost the President his reelection, then you would be correct, because it would mean that President Bush did not learn the lesson of 1992.

Voters are stiff-necked and ornery, and if they get the feeling a candidate takes them for granted, they're perfectly capable of telling that candidate to take a walk.

You might not like it, and I might not like it, but there it is.

[sauropod]

;-)

[hellinahandcart]

I'm a fighter, but I'm also pragmatic. :-)

IMO, the pragmatic thing to do would be to stop YELLING at someone who's already said several times, once on this very thread, that he's voting for Bush.

[sauropod]

ty. I did not understand the reference. 'Pod

[nopardons]

I was right here in '98 and was watching the MfJ, from a hospital bed, waving an American flag, cheering all of you on. I had planned on going, but.............

[sauropod]

I was prevented from going by an ex-wife (long story).

[nopardons]

I read the article, but I'm not the one who is sleeping.

[hellinahandcart]

Pan gloss is that nonstick stuff that wears away after you've scrambled a few hundred eggs in it.

[sauropod]

I thought that was Teflon ;-)

[nopardons]

Pay that junk no mind.An awful lot of people here, neither understand politics, nor know that the president has said, repeatedly that he's NOT replacing Cheney.

[sauropod]

How many Nyquil have you popped tonite? just wondering

[sauropod]

Never mind the man behind the Halliburton curtain.

Boo!

[csvset]

I learned something new today. Panglossian isn't something you hear everyday.

Pangloss for president in '04!

[hellinahandcart]

It was the way they were salivating at the prospect that bothered me. Not the possibility that Bush would actually do it.

[nopardons]

Since I don't know what Haldol is, I can't have run out of it. Haves YOU run out of your supply, or just run out of any other form of refutation, other than insult and personal attack ?

[Minuteman23]

Thanks for the post. Maybe there is hope after all. (Love your screen name)