[GeorgeBerryman]

On the election Bush said he was puzzled that he received only about 11 percent of the black vote, according to exit polls, about a 2 percentage point increase over his 2000 total.

"I did my best to reach out, and I will continue to do so as the president," Bush said. "It's important for people to know that I'm the president of everybody."

Heh... I love that one. "I'm the president of everybody." Damn skippy. The leftist hippies can plunk that down in their bongs and smoke it.

There's a lot here to digest on the President and the gay marriage issue in the senate. The article does accurately point out that there's not enough votes in the senate to pass a marriage amendment. The congress is still closely split and there's too many RINOs like Olympia Snowe & Susan Collins waiting to jump ship on it. I do not believe we'll see the President drop gay marriage as an issue at all - he'll look to the states. Gay marriage was struck down in all eleven states it came up in last November. Do I think ultimately we'll need a federal marriage amendment? Unfortunately yes I think we do. Courts like the 9th Circuit will make this necessary. But we don't have the votes in the senate for it yet. Even after the '06 midterm elections we won't have enough votes for it. We really need to oust the RINOs.

[NorCalRepub]

but many of the so called RINO"s still vote Republican on the majority of issues......there are a few like Snow and Spector that really are major distractions but you can be a Republican and actually disagree from time to time and not be a RINO.......

[TheDon]

Forcing the Senators to vote gives voters a chance to decide if they really do represent them or not.

[Howlin]

about a 2 percentage point increase over his 2000 total.

That's still a big number there.