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Bush Aims To Forge A GOP Legacy
Washington Post ^
| 1/30/5
| Thomas B. Edsall and John F. Harris
Posted on 01/29/2005 10:09:32 PM PST by SmithL
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"Investor class." Yeah, I like the sound of that.
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posted on
01/29/2005 10:09:32 PM PST
by
SmithL
To: SmithL
Too bad many GOP voters are on the verge of breaking away over the immigration and spending issues.
Otherwise this BS theory makes sense.
I fear that 2006 could be for the RATS what 94 was for the GOP...
To: SmithL
Many Democrats and independent analysts see a methodical strategy at work. They believe the White House has expressly tailored its domestic agenda to maximize hazards for Democrats and tilt the political playing field in the GOP's favor long after this president is out of the White House. Given that Clinton was only interested in helping himself, the Democrats must view it as shocking that a Republican President is actually trying to help his party.
To: Veritas et equitas ad Votum
Breaking away to where?
I'm also bothered by open borders and overspending, but I am not contemplating leaving the GOP and letting the DemonCraps deep six this country.
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posted on
01/29/2005 10:26:31 PM PST
by
tomahawk
To: SmithL
The Washington Post is only NOW figuring this out? LOL
To: Veritas et equitas ad Votum
"Too bad many GOP voters are on the verge of breaking away over the immigration " You've been spending too much time on FR. The Buchanan/Tancredo crowd is still well less than 1% and the people in the polls who say they're agin illegal immigration will also say they support President Bush's proposal to fix the situation.
The only risk is to those fast zipper little congressmen who can't think beyond pandering to racists. But they can be replaced.
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posted on
01/29/2005 10:41:13 PM PST
by
bayourod
(Gun grabbers won't stop with "ASAULT" weapons nor anti-immigrants with "ILLEGAL" immigrants.)
To: SmithL
So far the legacy (long term) is deficits larger than Carter's budgets.
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posted on
01/29/2005 10:42:27 PM PST
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: Veritas et equitas ad Votum; jveritas; bayourod; Once-Ler
Too bad many GOP voters are on the verge of breaking away over the immigration and spending issues. Too bad for you the only people who are "threatening to leave the GOP" are a bunch of self proclaimed "true conservatives" that probably haven't voted Republican except when Buchanan was running (and getting soundly crushed like the loser that he is).
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posted on
01/29/2005 10:55:16 PM PST
by
COEXERJ145
(President Bush has a plan to deal with illegal immigration, Tancredo would rather complain about it.)
To: SmithL
Tom Daschle would be deeply saddened...but everyone now ignores the opinion of this EX-Senator. ;-)
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posted on
01/29/2005 10:56:31 PM PST
by
peyton randolph
(CAIR supports TROP terrorists)
To: Doctor Stochastic
To you great chagrin, President Bush will remembered as one of our greatest President ever. He will remembered as the President who lead us to victory in the war on terror.
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posted on
01/29/2005 10:59:32 PM PST
by
jveritas
To: Doctor Stochastic
So far the legacy (long term) is deficits larger than Carter's budgets. just wait until this year's budget battles start and everybody's pet entitlement doesn't get its standard 9% bump,,, then the real moaning will begin.
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posted on
01/29/2005 11:01:09 PM PST
by
CatAtomic
("If Tom Landry isn't in heaven, we're all in trouble." - Roger Staubach)
To: Veritas et equitas ad Votum
In 2006 the GOP win more seats in the Senate and the House, like what we did in 2002 and 2004, of course to your great chagrin.
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posted on
01/29/2005 11:01:30 PM PST
by
jveritas
To: COEXERJ145
Too bad for you the only people who are "threatening to leave the GOP" are a bunch of self proclaimed "true conservatives" that probably haven't voted Republican except when Buchanan was running (and getting soundly crushed like the loser that he is). That is an excellent point. Where are the immigration crusaders? Who is the national figure who stakes his claim on the issue of immigration. The last one was Buchanan who got his hat handed to him. When the issue of the day was deficit reform Perot almost took it to the White House and look how fast the Republicans and rats lined up right behind him. Tancredo is out there standing in 7 inch Gene Simmons platform boots scream at the top of his lungs and waving his arms frantically and nobody has heard of him.
Some Freeper isolationist was barking a figure of 80% of America want illegals removed from America and yet there is no figurehead for this political powerhouse issue.
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posted on
01/29/2005 11:20:31 PM PST
by
Once-Ler
(Beating a dead horse for NeoCon America)
To: Once-Ler
Some Freeper isolationist was barking a figure of 80% of America want illegals removed from America and yet there is no figurehead for this political powerhouse issue. If that was the case than neither Bush nor Kerry would have won the election and someone running one immigration as their only issue would be in the White House. At the very least there would have been enough write in votes for Tancredo where it would have shown up in the overall results and he would have been pushing it from November 3rd on.
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posted on
01/29/2005 11:23:59 PM PST
by
COEXERJ145
(President Bush has a plan to deal with illegal immigration, Tancredo would rather complain about it.)
To: SmithL
They believe the White House has expressly tailored its domestic agenda to maximize hazards for Democrats and tilt the political playing field in the GOP's favor long after this president is out of the White House. That must be bad. It is exactly what the Democrats have done for years.
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posted on
01/29/2005 11:49:09 PM PST
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all things that need to be done need to be done by the government.)
To: SmithL
Many Democrats and independent analysts see a methodical strategy at work. They believe the White House has expressly tailored its domestic agenda to maximize hazards for Democrats and tilt the political playing field in the GOP's favor long after this president is out of the White House.More likely, Bush's strategy is to do what he thinks is good for the nation, not the party. But I shouldn't expect the Left to wander into that thought process.
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posted on
01/30/2005 12:29:02 AM PST
by
Fenris6
(3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
To: SmithL
It would be great 2008 present to see the Democrats go the way of the Whigs. I can't wait!
Denny Crane: "I want two things. First God and then Fox News."
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posted on
01/30/2005 12:30:56 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: SmithL
GWB's main strength, other than that he stands for something, is that he is without hatefulness, same as Pres. Reagan and Lincoln (and FDR). That's what will allow for a legacy, if someone of like character follows him.
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posted on
01/30/2005 12:33:01 AM PST
by
kenavi
("Remember, your fathers sacrificed themselves without need of a messianic complex." Ariel Sharon)
To: SmithL
My favorite Stephen Moore quote:
The Bush agenda lies "at the wonderful intersection where good policy is good politics for Republicans and conservatives," said Stephen Moore, president of the Free Enterprise Fund.."
Indeed. Its a wonderful intersection where we get to see the implosion of the Left.
Denny Crane: "I want two things. First God and then Fox News."
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posted on
01/30/2005 12:35:23 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: COEXERJ145
Too bad for you the only people who are "threatening to leave the GOP" are a bunch of self proclaimed "true conservatives" that probably haven't voted Republican except when Buchanan was running (and getting soundly crushed like the loser that he is).
Open border nutcases, once again proving how clueless you really are. Blackbird.
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