[DoughtyOne]

I agree with your assessment, and it doesn't please me to feel compelled to view the Bush administration in this light.

One of the most troubling aspect of this is that "conservatives" (and I use that term very loosely), are plenty happy to facilitate this travesty of constitutional adherence on the part of the president.

IMO we should all be advocating strong support of Bush's policies with regard to Iraq. He deserves that support, and it's good for the nation.

On the other hand we should to a man and woman be skewering him in no uncertain terms with his refusal to adhere to his oath of office as it applies to protecting the states against invasion.

That this hasn't and doesn't take place has told me that "true conservatism" is all but dead in this nation. As long as it's our guy, the U.S. Constitution means nothing more to these pretenders than a role of toilet paper that someone who will go un-named at this point, uses to wipe his butt with.

This is truly demoralizing. Our team is basically no team. How sad it has been to find this out.

[Happy2BMe]

From out of the past . . sanity and integrity call out to us . .

"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."

"Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star", 149 May 7, 1918

[Reagan Man]

We are in basic agreement on this one.

As I said just last night to another FReeper.

"While the President has done a remarkable job in prosecuting the WOT and while his tax cuts for American workers advanced a major component to the agenda of the conservative movement, the President has failed to hold down social spending and limit the growth of the federal bureaucracy."

"If the President doesn't stick to his word and nominate conservative jurists to the USSC who are in the mold of Scalia and Thomas, he will have let down conservatives once again."