[PetroniusMaximus]

Sound like Styne is loosing patience with the Prez.

[OldFriend]

Perhaps if he champions the President his cronies on the cruise will crucify him?

[finnigan2]

"Sound like Styne is loosing patience with the Prez."

- Maybe, and I agree with much of what he says, but when he thinks the biggest mistake that Bush made was five years ago when he proposed a seniors drug plan, Steyn lost me. I mean, Bush may have done a lot of things "wrong", but a prescription drug plan for seniors is on nobody's radar as the worst mistake ever made.
I believe that Bush's biggest mistake was in allowing the MSM to constantly portray the Iraqi war as a failure without devising an effective communication plan to counter it. When the White House lost the propaganda battle, it lost a great deal of it's 2006 mid term clout and may well have lost Iraq to the cut and runners.

[dufekin]

There's an unwritten bargain between the President and the Congress. The President fights the terrorists, and the Congress fights big government. The President's done his end of the bargain, but the Congressional Republicans have performed abysmally, at times even obstructing the War President with cries about terrorists' rights. The only reasons that Congressional Republicans could give to vote for them are: (1) supporting the President against our enemies abroad and (2) the Democrats are even worse. Republicans generally took (1) off the table, at times even acting like liberal Democrats on the defining issue of our time. And the Democrats refused to articulate (2) believably during the campaign season; the Republicans surely wouldn't. Republicans gave American no good reason to vote for them--many defeated incumbents spent their campaigns gloating about odious pork-barrel corrupt spending.

President Bush isn't the problem; he's practically the only elected official in Washington with ANY of our interests at heart, and the time has come for those on this forum to reserve their vitriol for the big-government Congress-creeps who act ambivalent in the war on terrorism yet represent RED districts. Sure, the President's made many mistakes, but Congress has made almost every bad one far WORSE--especially the terrible boondoggle of a Medicare entitlement.