I cannot even tell you how sick I am of this CRAP.
Laura Ingraham was on this pathetic tear this morning.
President Bush inherited a country that was (in spite of the Reagan years) firmly entrenched in the Great Society mentality of Lyndon Johnson.
The welfare state had reigned so supreme that, whatever the third rail means -- I never knew -- it was the fourth or fifth rail. It's children were single moms, poverty pimps and increasing racial divide.
Other children were political correctness, feminism, environmental wacko-ism. These children gave us refusals to drill for oil, myriad standards for gasoline making it fiscally unprofitable to build refineries, abortions by the millions, including partial birth.
This is the society he inherited. You can't change an ingrained mindset like this over night. If you try, you will just lose, as Hillary found out when she tried to force a health care agenda all at once. She could probably have done it incrementally.
Bush has done SO much. He opened up the Social Security discussion that no one before him had dared to touch. He may not get it done, but at least people are thinking about it. This is important--because, left untouched, the social security system would have inevitably led to socialism.
He got tax cuts which the demos fight tooth and nail. He has dealt with a horrible attack on the country and led a war that we won so easily, everyone has decided it wasn't necessary.
He has remained courteous and affable in the face of the most unfair and lying attacks.
And NOW he has to hear this kind of crap from his own people.
Er, you shouldn't include the refutation right in the middle of your argument.
President Reagan inherited a country that was more firmly entrenched in the Great Society mentality of Lyndon Johnson (its failures hadn't yet become as obvious, and it had of course not yet been weakened by his own efforts). He got off his butt and did something about it.