DarkWing,
Have you been coaching Fred again?
Optimism. It rocks.
One thing I don't think we'll hear about from the MSM is articles about Bush trying to "create" a legacy. His legacy will write itself.
George Jr. is smart.
This is very interesting. I had no idea that Uncle Fidel is still trying to export the Revolucion. Of course the media never reports this. What are we doing to undermine Chavez, I wonder? I hope we're doing something.
CAFTA is not a political win for our party - all you need to do is look at the posts here, a decent percentage of republicans are against it. and certainly no Dems are coming over to the other side over CAFTA.
what the Bush SS "reform" going to be - removing the earnings cap limit, and raising the retirement age?
We hope so...:)
Wow, too bad GW wasn't working this hard on securing our borders!!!
Tax reform yes, Social Security no. The administration can't win on SS. It is a waste of political capital to continue that fight (in fact a mistake to begin it at all, but no one's perfect). Tax reform and other growth oriented policies can win. Bush should concentrate on that and the war.
But but but her thighness just spoke at Aspen and said the economy was in a shambles.
More ... what the administration *should* do on Social Security is to start laying the ground work for the blame to fall on the Dems when the revenue starts falling short.
This is bad news for the American economy.
President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, are desperately trying to undermine the democratically elected and mostly pro-American governments of Central America. They would like to see the Marxist Sandinistas regain power in Nicaragua, for instance, and Chávez is pumping money from his country's oil wealth into that project, among others. (He also provides cut-rate oil wealth to Castro's Cuba.) Both Bush and the democratic leaders in Central America believe CAFTA will bolster their economies and strengthen them against leftist radicals of the Castro/Chávez ilk. Thus, in his address to House Republicans, the president devoted much of his speech to this issue.
I hate that all the time we are helping other countries at our own expense by sacrificing our wealth, our economy.
To qualify for a trade agreement with the United States, countries must adopt the practices of democratic capitalism, which means a treaty might achieve what it took a war to accomplish in Iraq.
Exactly. We are sacrificing our own economy to give other countries freedom and capitalism. But what about America? I generally hate democrats, but they are the ones who seem to be concerned about our own interests in this case. They are the ones who oppose selling out America's businesses.
Lame Duck! Riiiight. Sounds to my like Bush was misunderestimated again...or should I say still.
Which brings to mind a pet peeve. It is the media that started the chatter of being a 'lame duck'. Now the media announces it was too soon to make that call. Why is the media allowed to determine when someone is a 'lame duck'? Even by conservatives? For record I don't believe most Presidents are lame ducks. They have enormous influence just due to the office they hold, what we are speaking about here is their image. For some reason people believe image = reality. It IS true some can be more effective than others at new legislation in a second term, but few Presidents would ever be so badly off politically that they are impotent.
With John Roberts as his nominee, the president is on his way to transforming the Supreme Court into the conservative body that Republicans have dreamed about for decades.
LOL Fred has sure come around. He wasn't too happy or optimistic at first. Nice to see he's realized this was a good selection.
Meanwhile, the economy is so robust that Democrats rarely mention it.
Always a sure sign that we're performing at the highest level, if Dems no longer speak of a subject.
Is Bush a lame duck? He sure is. He may be the most energized and successful lame duck in the history of the modern presidency.
Well, I've always stated those that write him off are making a BIG mistake. His support among his base is higher than Reagan's at this time in his Presidency. G.W.B. is smart enough to understand in a country majority right of center, with increasing Republican majorities, that he has influence these people in majority "red" sectors need to win their re-elections. Without the base support they are nothing. This is his biggest capitol.
And I still maintain people who said S.S. and private accounts in some form is dead, will eat those words.
As to CAFTA, I remain undecided, but the aspect of countering Castro and Chavez is it's biggest selling point from my perspective.
That's just wrong and embarrassing on so many levels.
So why do "we the people" hafta' have CAFTA?
bttt
http://www.forbes.com/business/2005/07/29/pelosi-cafta-dunce-cz_rk_0729dunce.html
Nancy Pelosi: CAFTA Contra
Rich Karlgaard,FORBES
Nancy Pelosi
NEW YORK - This week our dunce's cap gets passed to Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Leader, U.S. House of Representatives. In coming out against the Central America Free Trade Agreement, which passed the House this week, Pelosi made the familiar (and disingenuous) left-wing case: CAFTA, written by greedy capitalists, fails to include protections for labor and the environment. Otherwise she'd have voted for it.
Yeah, right. Over John Sweeney's dead body you would. If Pelosi and her "petulant progressives" had their way on CAFTA, here is what would have happened:
— No American job would be saved. Low-value jobs are doomed to extinction anyway, mostly from technology automation.
— Poor Central Americans would be hurt. The World Bank estimates that CAFTA will create 300,000 new jobs in shoes, textiles and apparel.
— Honduras and Guatemala, whose legislatures voted overwhelmingly for CAFTA, would have to explain to voters why America stiffed them.
Support for free trade around the world would have been dealt a severe blow if the mightiest economic power had rejected it. Free trade has been an engine of prosperity and peace since World War II. To abandon it now would make the world a poorer, more dangerous place.