[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I just built this set of links:

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Some serious reading:

PRESIDENT CLINTON VIDEO, December 16, 1998 Sadaam has nuclear arms, poison gas/bio weapons.

Statement of Senator John D. Rockefeller IV - On the Iraq Resolution - October 10, 2002

Remarks of Senator John Kerry on Iraq | October 09, 2002 |

Larry Elder: Were we misled? (about Iraq's WMD)

[DestroytheDemocrats]

Wow, what a great column! There is truth to what he said. Lucky for us the Dems are being so goofy and blindly striking out at Bush with stupid insults and old charges like the AWOL thing. All this is just boob bait for the Bush haters. Serious independent voters ignore it and probably don't think either Bush or Kerry look that good right now. So Bush has a chance to knuckle down and get back on track which he needs to do.

[Huck]

But if the president is to win a second term, and if it is to be worth winning, he must begin again to speak plainly and accurately, not just less foolishly than the make-believe Bryans.

Nicely done. A stinging critique of the Bush Administration's most serious flaws.

[varon]

Leave it to George Will to write a column based on reality and not emotion.

Is the white house staff blind or arrogant that they can't see Dubya's shortcomings?

[RJCogburn]

This president's certitude that $400 billion "is enough to meet our commitments" for 10 years under the new Medicare prescription drug entitlement was followed by a one-third upward revision of the estimate.

Demonstrating....?

It is surreal for a Republican president to submit a budget to a Republican-controlled Congress and have Republican legislators vow to remove the "waste" that he has included and that they have hitherto funded.

GWB has done great harm to the principles and perception of the Republican Party

Two post-1945 elections -- one a landslide, one a cliffhanger -- produced dramatic spending surges. Lyndon Johnson's 1964 rout of Barry Goldwater created in Congress the first liberal legislating majority since 1938. Pent-up liberal demands produced, among much else, Medicare. There is no such obvious explanation for the spending surge since 2000, other than the possibility that deficits are one way "compassionate conservatism" defines itself.

GWB has been an enormous disappointment.

[hotpotato]

Wartime demands hard choices and sacrifices, and a president who is steady, measured and believable.

Will has read my mind.

Californians: click on image for more info

[Prodigal Son]

In the last year of Bush's second term, or of John Kerry's first...

Sobering thought.