For what it's worth, conservatives didn't start this food fight. Bush did.
I have supported Bush for five years, in spite of his sometimes doing things I don't like. But as I've said before, judicial appointments are the bottom line. A lot of other conservatives feel the same way.
Bush has done this to himself. There still may be time to pull his ratings and his reputation back up, and he has certainly shown himself capable of recovering before. He can be a fighter, but I hope he decides to fight his enemies instead of his friends. I hope he takes a good hard look at this whole business and finds a graceful way to back out of it and start over.
And you have no concrete evidence thus far that you have been betrayed on this point.
Nonsense. I have seen nothing from the Conservative Establishment making the case that Bush picked the wrong person. YOU all jumped up and started screaming about it on day one. None of you has bothered to find out ANY facts about her or why Bush did this. Your side has even to this date failed to provide a rational factual argument against her. Boil all the hand wringing by the Conservative Establishment down so far and all the Anti-Miers argument amounts to is "She isn't OUR choice." OK, sorry you are mad but that is irrelevent. We are a Consitutional Republic, not a Democracy.
Spot on, Cicero.
This reminds me of 1991-1992, when Dick Darman gave Dubya's dad shockingly bad economic advice, in the wake of breaking the tax pledge. Remember how the IRS withholding tables were tweaked, to reduce taxes withheld from a paycheck?
It accomplished nothing, because the average increase was less than $10 a week. Even economic illiterates discovered (the following year) that it wasn't a tax cut.
It seems to me that second terms fail because the nature of being President, and the isolation from the real world.
I wouldn't want to be a Presidential staffer for more than six months: the hours alone would wear me out, let alone the stress. I truly think that part of the problem is staff fatigue. President Bush may be in bed at 9:30, but everybody else is doing 16 hours a day.
Amen.