Posted on 05/16/2006 7:44:15 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Totally incorrect.
Mark Steyn: another unreasonable Bush bashing troll
oh the horror
WHAT!! The devil pushed the computer. Not once but twice. It,s not incorrect but correct.
Something terribly wrong happened right after the 2004 election.
All the wind went out of the Bush administration's sails.
Perhaps 4 years of intense criticism found a home.
Since that November, this administration has chosen poorly on nearly every decision.
They are truly out of touch with the American people.
Perhaps they SHOULD have read the polls more often.
The Dubai Ports deal was a fiasco!
Now their stance on immigration insults the brave and law-abiding mass of good Americans.
I feel almost the same now that I did at this stage of the Clinton administration.
And I have been a staunch Republican conservative for the past 26 years.
I've never seen a better imitation of the Keystone Cops than this bunch in the White House!
They operate in slow motion....always.....always reacting too late or not at all to unwarranted attacks from the opposition.
If only the President would meet with any 6 FReepers for an hour a week !!
He could not do any worse than he does now.
"Something terribly wrong happened right after the 2004 election.
All the wind went out of the Bush administration's sails."
He came out and said for Social Security reform "I'm going to use all my political capital."
Fine if he wants reform, but to say this risking "all" his capital was risky.
And he never actually presented a plan on paper.
"I'm going to use all my political capital."
That surplus appears to have turned into a deficit in fairly short order.
There will be SS reform or it will vanish.....
I've invested as if there will be no SS for me when I'm ready and now I don't have to worry.
Clinton started his first year with "gays in the military" followed by "Hillary care" and it was the most serendipitous thing that could have happened to him...he was saved by defeat in the 1994 Republican congressional landslide.
Newt Gingrich and the freshman revolution kept spending under control, reformed welfare and successfully reduced capital gains taxes significantly.
And that bum, Clinton got the credit!!
Talk about a Forrest Gump president........he was there at the right time.
Bush has had nothing but bad luck.
His one shining domestic victory...tax cuts and a booming economy making millions rich from property and stocks has been overlooked.
It's so sad how such a decent man squandered all the goodness he brought to the office.....
and now he is reviled.
gee. i seem to remember everone going gaga about ten or twenty million boomers retiring.
I'll go with Carter's "Malaise" speech, because it was such a disappointment--at least to his supporters--after the media had raised such high expectations about it.
This speech was supposed to re-invigorate Carter's sagging presidency. He had spent several days at Camp David crafting it, and I recall watching the presidential helicopter carrying him back to the White House, where he would deliver it.
When it was over, I knew that Carter would be moving out of the White House in 1981.
No I don't revile him, but the President and the Admin do not seem to be able to put a foot straight since the 2004 election. From the Dubai ports deal, to Harriet Miers, to not being committed to getting their message out, and to this wishy-washiness on illegal immigration, it's been a mess. And the bottom line is that I don't think anything will come out of Congress on immigration till the next session, and maybe not till after 2008. And that's probably a good thing. What good will some six-hundred page bill do other than create another bureaucracy? Someone will run in 2008 on an anti-illegal immigration platform (Tancredo?) and if they do well their stand will have to be adoopted by the party as a whole, or we'll have a credible third-party candidate.
Maybe the five years of unrelenting, vicious, unprecedented, daily attacks from all points of the MSM compass have had an effect.
One-hundred-ninety-three million..... Simply staggering! The country as it now exists would cease to be! These senators better get their heads out of their asses!
A fine effort, indeed...
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