The Danger that is George W. Bush

Washington Dispatch ^ | August 4, 2003 | R.J. Cogburn

[gcruse]

Fill your hand... ;)

[gore_sux]

Last time I checked, Reagan didn't exactly keep the budgets tight and tidy, and oh by the way didn't he grant amnesty to aliens?

Presidents can only fight so many battles; Reagan fought and finished the Cold War, Bush's sole purpose is to START the process of wiping out the militant Islamic threat to the U.S.

Everything else is negotiable.

[VxH]

" all advocate and encourage the need, all welcome the presence, of the government's role."

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An apple tree does not produce oranges.


"You will know a tree by the fruit it produces."

[Dutchgirl]

The education bill, the farm bill, the faith-based initiative, the Medicare bill.....all advocate and encourage the need, all welcome the presence, of the government's role. We are told that the government has a responsibility to leave no child behind.

I think Ann Coulter got it right in her book when she said "Shrub" would choose his fights: abortion, the judiciary...maybe I am being played like a Henson Muppet, but these are the issues that will drive me back into the voting booth--and a strong national defense. I may ot 100% trust GWB, but I trust Rummy and Condi and even Snow...

I think GWB has a talent for putting the right people in the right spot. If there must be fanatics in government, let them be people who are fanatical about duty...

[Gracey]

THANK YOU, PRESIDENT BUSH

We LOVE YOU and appreciate you.

THANK YOU for all you've done for our country.

THANK YOU that Goron is not our president.

THANK YOU for caring enough about our country ...that you will go to any means to protect it and its citizens.

[kesg]

Under George W. Bush, the debate has been returned entirely to that of the time before Reagan.

Uh, wrong Bush. In fact, the debate began to return to its former state during Reagan's second term, around the Iran-Contra period.

More generally, the problem I have with editorials like this one is that it totally drops the relevant political context. Am I really supposed to believe that Dubya is more "dangerous" than, say, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Howard Dean, ad nauseum? Dangerous to whom, and for what reason?

[Gracey]

and DEAR PRESIDENT BUSH....

I'm sorry that we had 8 years of Clintonistas. That had Clinton cared about our country the way you do he would have pursued the Islamofacists in 1993 the first time they tried to bring down the WTC. Then there was our embassies, the Cole, Oklahoma City bombing. The Clintonistas did nothing except give you this huge problem that got out of hand simply because he didn't care about the USA, about her citizens.

THANK YOU President BUSH for caring for me, for future generations, for my children, for the USA.

[Texas Federalist]

I agree that Reagan's budgets were not best. But he was working with a Democratic Congress and used his veto power often. Bush has a Republican congress and has not used his veto power once to keep spending in check. In fact, he has exerted political pressure to increase spending when without his influence spending increases would have been defeated in the House (e.g. the Medicare bill).

[gcruse]

I'm with you in that mode of thinking. National security keeps me in the voting booth. All else is manna for kvetching.

[kaktuskid]

Not to mention the quotas on Japanese cars and motorcycles during the Reagan era

[TomB]

Didn't Reagan sign into being and entirely new cabinet postition?

[Marianne]

BTTT

[gcruse]

I was thinking maybe Dept of Energy, but googling gives that to Carter. Maybe someone else knows.

[SandRat]

Where's the BARF alert???

[Scenic Sounds]

Department of Veterans Affairs (1988)

[gcruse]

Ah, thanks.

[gcruse]

Where's the BARF alert???

Training wheels are on aisle four.

[beckett]

Under George W. Bush, the debate has been returned entirely to that of the time before Reagan...

Absurd. Just a poorly crafted argument all around.

[Scenic Sounds]

Do we have still another Freeper writing columns for Washington Dispatch? This is a very nicely written piece.

I acknowledge that President Reagan spent a lot of time talking about how government was more a problem than a solution, but I honestly don't think that, if he were President today, he would actually govern much differently than our current President, particularly in the realm of domestic issues.