[Willie Green]

Who's misleading Bush?

[Willie Green]

ping

[KevinDavis]

Whatever.....

[stainlessbanner]

A review of the speech before the President speaks? Jumping the gun a little.

[Common Tator]

No one is misleading Bush.

Willie your problem is you are in the minority.. the small minority. You have all the political clout of a drunk running for president of the Woman'c Christian Temperance Union.

Willie you have spent a lot of your life bemoaning the fact that no elected politican will ever do what you want. Boo HOO HOO you cry... they Sob sob always betray you.

Someday you may figure out that to get a politician to do what you want, you have to get a majority of the voters in your corner.

Instead of changing public opinion you keep looking for a savior. Every time you think you've found a saviour Willie, he tells you to go to hell.

[o_zarkman44]

Obviously the angry emails and the outcry over proposed immigration rules have been screened out by Presidential Advisors. GW probably thinks public opinion is on his side on this and the other issues like medicare reform. But I wonder if GW is allowed to read any newspapers or email addressed to him? We have to get the message of our displeasure and outrage past his advisors smokescreen in order to gain his attention to the real American attitude.

[keri]

Aye. Add me. Don't know how long I'll be here, but add me anyway.

His Medicare prescription drug plan will bankrupt generations of Americans. His plan for illegal amnesty threatens to bankrupt America itself.

Never fear, though. Corporate "America" will come riding over the hill just in time. (believe that?) I believe there's as much money to be made in the destruction of a civilization as in the building of one.

[Godfollow]

mmmmmmmmmmmmm... Pat's been there... had no imagination... made others see him as angry... his sister? welllll... said some good things I thought... I kinda like him... I'll stick with GW... I like him better... ya, the prescription drug thing... the immigrant worker thing... least-ways the dems don't own those issues... I think in pragmatic sort of way those things won't count for much in the long run as we head toward the end of the world... I like Bush

[HairOfTheDog]

One day you will wake up, go outside, look around, and find that this country is still a pretty damn good place to be.

I hope it is soon! Life is short.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Bump...

[eskimo]

Wow, notibly absent from this post is any input from any Dem/GOP groupies.

Do you suppose they are all at the party "regroup" meetings?

[raybbr]

And millions of loyal Bush followers will be listening intently:

[The_Eaglet]

Of course, there's a duality in "towering." It can mean, as no doubt Mr. Bush's handlers intend, "extraordinary." But it also can mean "outrageous," as in going beyond proper bounds.

President Bush has become an expert in the latter.

Those "proper bounds" are the Constitution of the United States, which reserves powers to the states and the people which are not specifically assigned to the federal government in the U.S. Constitution.

[Who is John Galt?]

It appears that no one here has bothered to read the "message" that Mr. Hamilton deemed so offensive. The text of Thomas Jefferson's First Annual Message can be found here:

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/presiden/sou/jeffmes1.htm

After reading the "message," two things become quite apparent:

1) Mr. Jefferson's views were quite similar to those of many modern conservatives and Republicans - and indeed, Mr. Jefferson referred to himself as a "republican;" and

2) Mr. Hamilton would be much more at home with modern liberals and Democrats...

;>)

[inquest]

"The message of the president, by whatever motives it may have been dictated, is a performance which ought to alarm all who are anxious for the safety of our government, for the respectability and welfare of our nation. It makes, or aims at making, a most prodigal sacrifice of constitutional energy, of sound principle, and of public interest, to the popularity of one man."

I'd be interested in your comments on this one. This is an interesting sentiment coming from Mr. "Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government". It seems, however, that as soon as one of his political opponents gets the job, all of the sudden he gets a tad uneasy about potential abuses of executive power ;-)

[justshutupandtakeit]

Plenty of nonsense within that statement.

[CharliefromKS]

What "union"? We're just a bunch of special interest groups formed to look like states.