I think Roberts may have been a brilliant move, Miers was not a brilliant move at all and I have this gut feeling that she was chosen at the First Ladies nudging and the President thinking (incorrectly) he could name her and satisfy his base and not get into a battle with the left... a huge misunderstanding on his or Rove's part because if he had gone for a true, known, conservative the base would have come out of the woodwork in support of his decision.
Now this stupid tax panel is coming out with back door tax increases and that's already setting the base reeling -- and -- I suspect -- it will the middle-roaders, too...
These are just off the top of my head... but basically, I'm tired of the turn the other cheek and would be thrilled if the President would get mad and come out swinging like he did after 9/11 (which Laura chastised him for at the time)....
I remember you.
Better now than in Nov 2006 and Nov 2008.
I think we'd all like to see this, but "W" is a measured man, he thinks before he acts and his Christian values play a huge role in his life.
We live in very troubled times, socially, politically, culturally and morally. It's not just in America either, but it's spread all over the earth. I look at what's going on in our world from a spiritual/religious perspective more than a political one, and what I see is a massive spiritual battle going on between good and evil; like the world has never seen before. So to me it isn't all about political genius, brains, cleverness and the like, it's more about facing the relentless hostility to everything good with unflinching faith and conviction. I think today we need a leader like George W. Bush more than some great political strategist. Bush is indeed surrounded by genuis-types and political wizards, but as I said this is a spiritual battle more than anything else.
I have never, ever seen a media so contemptuous and so blatantly biased. I've never seen the forces of anti-religion, liberalism, socialism and communism so strongly united and so vicious. The assault against conservative/religious values and tradition is animated by a phenominal hatred today, and possesses an almost demonic energy. It's just one attack after another on Bush, on Christianity, on the family, even on the Truth. It's astonishing to watch this stuff unfold everyday.
I honestly don't think any one man out there could do a much better job of it than Bush is doing right now. I say this because the opposition to whatever he does is so powerful and aggressive, and comes from so many sources united in evil, that only a calm, faithful man could hold it all together and stay the course. I know he tries to please everyone at times, and I think that's dead wrong and it aggravates me no end. But who out there right now could do a better job?