America's Summer is Over - Another great Column by Pat Buchanan

World Net Daily ^ | September 7, 2005 | Pat Buchanan

[rcocean]

Yet, make no mistake. Summer is over for America – and George Bush. That unifying image of Bush atop the pile of debris in lower Manhattan days after 9-11 has been displaced by ugly accusations and recriminations over who lost New Orleans. Katrina has exposed the limits of federal power and the absence of a serious set of national priorities.

[rcocean]

Another great column by Pat. We need to wake up and start solving the Border problem, the energy crisis, and find a way to reduce our trade and budgetary deficits. Summer is truely over.

[the invisib1e hand]

another great swan song for a nation that will never die.

[Betaille]

Okay as soon as he mentioned that Bush has "media allies", I knew this was all lies. Anybody who blames Bush for New Orleans doesn't have one ounce of objectivity or reasoning in them.

[pissant]

The US "Summer" ended with the onslaught of the Civil War. Just like all natural disasters, this one will fade to distant memory.

Winning the war on Terror will assure a long, prosperous future. Bush vs. Buchanan in this regard is painfully one sided.

[bnelson44]

Hey Pat, when Bush rises again, just like America, will you write an article on him raising from the ashes?

[elhombrelibre]

Another one note song by a former great American. Another egotistical rant by a former pro-freedom writer who quit caring about freedom when we'd stopped the communists. Another vain and silly column for a tiny percentage of group-think Buchananites. Pat's kept in business because the MSM needs to have someone bashing Bush with no repsect from the Right from a man who was so goofy he thought the presidency was a reasonable first elected job for him in government. I could go on and on. He betrayed Consevatism and now associates with pinkos and swishes. The man is now a clown.

[satchmodog9]

He makes some good points and then regresses into some of his usual Patisms.

[the Real fifi]

You think? I think he's a has been touting policies few support.A gas bag.
I think Bush will serve out his term with control of Congress and a good shot at achieving his aims. I think Republicans around the country will not be hurt in their reelection battles by whatever happened in LA a year earlier; I think the Dems will find that with the outmigration from NO, the state will only becoming redder--that is all Republican.

And I think Buchanan will be little remembered, but Bush will go down in history as one of the great American Presidents.

[stopem]

Let's hope his legacy won't be based solely on Katrina.

What is with Buchanan What's his beef with this administration and Republicans in general?

[roses of sharon]

He gets paid by our enemies on the left, ie, CNN and MSNBC, he works for the DNC/MSM to dispense propaganda.

He is a traitor to his country.

[claudiustg]

---And what are 37,000 U.S. troops still doing on a DMZ defending South Korea from a country with one-half its population and 3 percent of its economic wealth?---

Containing Communist aggression, maybe?

[Patriot from Philly]

I truly despise Buchanon. He hates the Bushes and yet allows the media to use him as the token conservative. This allows them to have two Bush haters in their little debates.

He knows what the media does to conservatives, yet he lets his hatred of the President make him a willing participant in the sham.

He needs to retire.

[sayfer bullets]

He makes some good points

That sums up Pat pretty well.

He would do well to be the Rodney Dangerfield of conservative populism...stick to the one-liners.

[rcocean]

His beef is quite simple. He wants Bush to act like a conservative. That is, protect the borders, balance the budget, appoint more Scalia's to the SCOTUS, and stop wasting our money on UNNESSECARY foreign aid, and foreign conflicts. And negotiate trade deals that will reduce our massive trade deficit.

In other words, he wants Bush to act like Reagan instead of simply talking like him.

I don't agree with everything he says - but if we need to start protecting the borders and solve the illegal immigration crisis instead of just holding hands, singing KUMBAYA, and hoping the problem will go away.

[COEXERJ145]

Go Pat, Go Straight To Hell!

[THX 1138]

He gets paid by our enemies on the left, ie, CNN and MSNBC, he works for the DNC/MSM to dispense propaganda.

And gladly cashes their checks. This man is shameless...

[adorno]

...but Bush will go down in history as one of the great American Presidents.

If a president is judged by the challenges that confronted him and how he answered those challenges, then by all means, president Bush is already one of the great ones. And, the liberals and some Europeans and the MSM cannot stand him because of his accomplishments.

This has been the right president and the right time of our history.

[msnimje]

Pat Buchanan's Summer was over many summers ago.

[adorno]

What is with Buchanan What's his beef with this administration and Republicans in general?

He's still smarting from rejections by voters in primary and presidential campaign losses. Overwhelming rejections can turn people into bitter, vengeful attack dogs.

[G.Mason]

Well stated. In fact it was so well stated that I cannot add anything to it. ;)

Build their gallows high