[avacado]

I too thank President Bush!

Thank you for two Conservative Supreme Court judges. I only wish the people "teaching" the Republicans a "lesson" would realize that they screwed themselves for a 3rd Conservative Supreme Court judge.

Thank you for reducing the income tax rate for everybody. In my new tax bracket I have 8% less taken from my paycheck and can afford more for my family.

Thank you for the strong leadership in facing the Hussein Regime and the Taliban/al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.

Thank you for sticking to your guns on the NSA program and the prosecution of captured terrorists.

And thank you for leading this country to a booming U.S. economy.

[California Patriot]

Bush does deserve respect and thanks, but we also have to recognize that he has largely failed as a conservative leader -- and is increasingly failing as a defender of our security and civilization. It's perfectly true that he didn't campaign as a serious conservative, but nonetheless, that's what we needed, and we don't have it.
It's equally true that he was dealt a lousy hand by the 2000 Senate losses, the Jeffords betrayal, the media, Hurricane Katrina, most of the Euros (not to mention the Russians and Chinese), the MeCains, Grahams, et al in the Senate, and many other things. But it's also true that Bush played his hand poorly in many cases.

It's time to move on. This is a broken presidency that will produce very little good in its remaining two painful years. We need to find more serious conservative leaders and heal the badly injured conservative movement, as well as the sickly Republican party.

[Les_Miserables]

"Thank you for two Conservative Supreme Court judges. I only wish the people "teaching" the Republicans a "lesson" would realize that they screwed themselves for a 3rd Conservative Supreme Court judge."

Just for clarity, what decisions has this court made that can convince us that the new jurists are the types of conservative judges most of us hoped for? Seems to me the "jury" is still out on these two and as for the third, well he could nominate Harriet again, sure to get Reids support.