Posted on 10/03/2005 11:11:34 PM PDT by sine_nomine
A key question. The exploding US deficit is now so profound that it is worrying other countries (such as Australia, our currency is unofficially pegged to the US dollar.)
That term went out the window when Bush was elected. No one in Congress wants to overide spending.
My whole problem is that if Clinton did the things bush has been doing, we would be in the streets marching...if we weren't so busy working for a living. I don't understand the intolerance toward any criticism towards the President. Ann Coulter is a bi7@h, mark Levin has lost it, Rush is slipping, Savage is mental...All these people have legimate questions about this candidate, and once she's on the Court, she doesn't go away. Better to discuss this now.
But President Reagan (who is still in my mind one of the great presidents ever) did NOT stand up and fight during the Bork hearings. There was virtually no support for Bork from the WH until most of the damage was done and the vote a forgone conclusion.
The mythography of Reagan, rather than the factual history of his presidency, hakes my teeth ache.
Reagan didn't know O'Connor, but wanted to be the first to nominate a woman. OTOH, President Bush KNOWS Mieres.
How about that neato BLANKET AMNESTY, that Reagan gave to ALL illegals?
No, he was pro-life before 1988.
The mythography of Reagan, rather than the factual history of his presidency, hakes my teeth ache.
Reagan didn't know O'Connor, but wanted to be the first to nominate a woman. OTOH, President Bush KNOWS Miers.
How about that neato BLANKET AMNESTY, that Reagan gave to ALL illegals?
You're forgetting about the Reagan Democrats/southern Democrats.
Didn't we know that when we elected him? No one could campaign with "I want to be the education President" as your slogan and be a real conservative. But what was our choice? Gore or Bush? Kerry or Bush? He's by far the more conservative of the two in both elections. Even now, we are going to get an even LESS conservative candidate in 2008. Every one is talking about either McCain or Giuliani -- both of whom are RINOs, neither are particularly conservative.
I refuse to speculate. If you want me to use just the first term of both, I'll do so tomorrow.
Reagan did nothing to halt terrorism. He pulled us out of Lebanon; remember?
Though, on paper, the GOP has both Houses, you know as well as I, that our majority, especially in the Senate, is fragile and not what it appears to be. And Reagan did have the House, for one term.
You have already ignored reality utterly; why do you tell me to not do what you are doing?
The disgusting truth, is that many on FR are not Conservatives at all, are fair weather friends, have no remembrance of recent FACTUAL history, have mythographized Reagan beyond all recognition ( he fought the COLD WAR all alone, he fought it for decades, when he wasn't president for even one full decade? ), and are the same people who, if Reagan were president today, would be calling him a RINO, or much worse.
An interesting slip if it was a slip. Part of being Christian is to be Jesus like. I always thought the "G" in G.W.s name was for God. Part of being a Christian is to be God like.
To answer this question, Bush sent Roberts straight to the Chief Justice position because he could. It worked pretty good didn't it?
Can anyone PLEASE tell me why Jesus W. Bush sent Roberts straight to Supreme Court JUSTICE, snubbing a far superior justice in Antonin Scalia.
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Because Reagan was Irish and Bush is so English that he's related to the Queen of England.
Italian Cheif or a WASP? It's always about tribe,it seems.
Reagan = 10
Bush = 10
Reagan never had a World Trade Center be taken down by terrorists. The war on terror will be one that will as costly as the Cold War. The peace dividend is history. Reagan never had Florida hit by four hurricanes in a row. He also did not have anything on the scale of Katrina hit a region of such national consequence.
President Bush has had his nose on the grindstone fixing some real problems to worry about if he is acting conservative enough. Washington DC is a hard town to get anything done. Too many conservatives have this TV Dinner mentality. They want everything to pop in and pop out a done deal, exactly the way they want it in a flash. Part of being in power is being a little mature in your approach. The first thing you learn when you are in Washington DC is patience.
A second thing one should learn is that snivelers should stay out of the way because when things do get done it is by those with a positive attitude.
I vote for GWBush twice. He has been a true conservative in going after Muslim terrorists in Afghanistan. In going into Iraq. GW is a fantastic supporter of our military. All of this is great and papers over how liberal he is in every other area. Where he's doing nothing a John McCain or Hillary wouldn't do.
So GW's war on terror is the most conservative thing he does. On everything else he's like his father. A Rockefeller Republican. Ronald Reagan was the last conservative President
As a last resort, he issues an executive order that declares it Unconstitutional.
You aren't serious are you? Prove it to whom?
Besides, judicial experience and tests does not a conervative make. Rehnquist was nominated with no judicial experience and he was very conservative.
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