What the heck is wrong with you, Mr. President?

MAKnight | 11/09/2005 | MAKnight

[MAKnight]

Good day Mr. President,

With all due respect, sir, what in the name of the Almighty is wrong with you?

And when I ask you this question I do believe I am speaking for the vast majority of those people who walked the precincts, sent down the checks, who cheered loudest when the Ohio results came in last year in November. I am talking about your supporters. Those of us who have and most likely will continue to stick by you until the day you finally return to Crawford three years from now.

We are the ones who have kept your poll numbers up when everyone else expected and hoped for them to go down. We are the ones who have remained your staunchest supporters even as the world mocked and insulted you. More importantly, We are the ones who got you elected, re-elected and provided you with majorities in both Houses of Congress, not just once, but twice.

We are the ones who hope and pray that you succeed.

So, again, with all due respect Mr. President, listen and take heed; we're tired. We're sick and tired.

We're sick and tired of seeing your poll numbers descending into the twenties. We're sick and tired of watching attacks by the other side and their Press allies on your Administration being met with only impotent and cowering silence. We're sick and tired of reading far better arguments on behalf of your own policies from the keyboards of anonymous posters on a myriad of websites than we hear from the mouths of your Administration's spokesmen (and this includes you). We're sick and tired of watching so many good men and women being slandered by the Democrats and their Press allies simply for being your nominees, without your Administration standing up to defend their honor. We're sick and tired of watching your administration compromising on the principles that got you elected, avoiding necessary confrontations, refusing to criticize even the harshest and most mendacious of your opponents, all in order to pander to an audience that hates you beyond the scope of reason.

And at the end of it all, what does your administration have to show for it? A torrent of anger, hate, lies and attacks from the other side and the Press that cannot have been any more than what you would have gotten if you had gone all out for a truly Reaganite Republican agenda and defended yourself and your administration, instead of listening to so-called "moderates/centrist" demands that you triangulate and turn the other cheek. Your continued dedication to cowering from your opponents in order to enamor yourself to the Left (or the so-called "Center") has only yielded continuously declining poll numbers for your administration and disastrous portents for your party's future as the majority party in Congress.

For goodness sake, why is it not yet obvious to you, Mr. President, that this dogged adherence to this "new tone" fantasy is actively harming you and your party? How much longer is your administration planning to continue imitating a punching bag? When, in the name all that is holy, are you going to start fighting back?! You are being overtly accused of deliberately sacrificing the lives of American soldiers in Iraq for personal gain by the Senate Democrat Leader and his Press allies, and yet you remain silent!

Why should I, or anybody else, continue to fight for someone who lacks the fortitude to defend his own honor and principles? Why should I continue to take the time to defend you when you refuse to defend yourself?

Mr. President, once again with all due respect, I implore you, stand up and fight. You were not elected to get along with Democrats or to make them like you. You were not elected to just get "things" done, but to get the "right things" done. You were elected because the American people trusted you more than the other guy to know what those "right things" are. Stand fast and fight back. Not just because you owe it to yourself, but, more importantly, because you owe it to your party, which made you their standard bearer and do not deserve to be dragged down along with you. Because you owe it to us, your supporters. Even more, you owe it to the soldiers fighting in Iraq, because you sent them there and yet they still gave you over 70% of their votes last year. And, finally, you owe it to the country, which looks to you for leadership, which needs to know that you did not send the best of its sons and daughters to die in vain.

Stand up and fight.

That is all.

Sincerely Yours
MartinAKnight

[CommieCutter]

"You of all people should be frustrated by his lack of fortitude against these communist rats".

This above statement has nothing to do with how he treats the WOT. That's what makes this frustrating. He treats the WOT the way it should be treated, however the Dems on the political front need to be treated the same way, and he won't. There's a big difference here, fortitude applied in one area and not the other is imbalance.
My wife was just flipping through the channels and Russert and Williams were having boners over their polls that have only 33% of Americans think the president tells the truth.
Rush can't carry all the water.

[Chena]

I won't be wondering. I will know full-well that it was the product of backstabbing "true conservative leaders" who accept thirty pieces of silver from liberals in return for trashing less-than-perfect conservatives, all in return for the opportunity to sell doom and gloom to gullible "true conservative" sheeple.

The "backstabbing" being done by some Republicans will do to the Republican party what the Dems have not been able to do. Oh how they must love lurking on some of these threads, reading the "doom 'n gloom" posts, the rants from those who wanted President Bush to solve EVERYTHING, PERFECTLY, AND TO EACH PERSON'S EXACT WISHES.

Focusing on the negative while ignoring the postive is hardly constructive.

[proud American in Canada]

You can see it in his face... and the way he carries himself now. I keep thinking of Lincoln... and how he aged so quickly with the tremendous burden placed upon him.

You're absolutely right. And with 9/11, Iraq, Katrina... Two major American cities devastated, attacks on U.S. soil, plus wars on the ground on foreign soil--much more than any recent president has ever faced.

I haven't said a prayer recently for President Bush but I will tonight.

Thank you for your posts, and for reminding us that pointing out that maybe the wind has gone out of his sails (for now, I hope) does not mean that we do not support the president.

[Jorge]

If they end up doing to Iraq what Clinton did to Somalia, what do you think?

If we lose or surrender in Iraq our soldiers will have died in vain, regardless of WHO wins elections.

[CommieCutter]

Yeah this is where I get moonbatty. Behavior like that makes me think this is a big charade and they're all in this together. For what reason? I have no clue. New World Order? Who the heck knows.
Time to take my medicine.

[proud American in Canada]

Gosh, my mother used the expression all the time. :) A "nervous nellie" is an "unduly timid or anxious person," according to this dictionary:

http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/n/n0065600.html

[LucyJo]

THANK YOU!

[Recon Dad]

Your paragraph best summed up my feeling, thank you.

I like President Bush, but so much left undone.

In Texas they have a phrase if believe can aptly be applied.

"All hat and no cattle"

[ichabod1]

Rack it for later.

[demkicker]

Chena, I respect your loyalty to our President, but this post is full of some constructive truths that cannot be denied. Bush is getting steam-rolled by the dems and their willing MSM accomplices. Bush is our commander in chief and needs to wake up to the war at home. His house.... OUR house is on fire and he needs to get with the program and engage the enemy at home.

[Borax Queen]

There is something going on with Bush and the GOP but I can't figure it out.

They seem to be paving the way for Dems to take over in '08. It is the Clintons' turn in the WH again, after all :(

[demkicker]

My wife was just flipping through the channels and Russert and Williams were having boners over their polls that have only 33% of Americans think the president tells the truth. Rush can't carry all the water.

Very true. Time for this administration to start self-promoting and carrying their own damn water. Good PR people can't be THAT hard to find!

[La Enchiladita]

God forgive me, I think the same thing sometimes.

[NYC Republican]

I agree with you. It's not just about the President, his legacy, and how he's treated by history.

It's about judicial appointments, it's about House/Senate control in '06, it's about us living in blue or purple states who are constantly ridiculed at being strong, principled GOPers and/or conservatives... It's MUCH bigger than the President.

It's about setting a national agenda, it's about acting like the party in power, I could go on and on...

[Cboldt]

Forgive me for being grateful to Pres. Bush for refusing to ratify the Kyoto treaty even though 141 countries had signed it.

A couple points -- A President cannot singlehandedly subscribe the US to any treaty. THe Senate is also involved in that. On July 25, 1997, by a 95-0 vote, the US Senate expressed a sense against the Kyoto Protocol. (link to Senate debate and vote below)

The other point is that President Bush's primary objection to the Kyoto Protocol was that it was not even-handed, e.g., China nd India were exempt from the emission reduction requirements. President Bush has expressed a belief in human-causation for global warming, and is not hostile to enforced reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

President Bush's objections to Kyoto ...
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/03/20010314.html <-

Mash here -> 105th Congress - Senate _ July 25, 1997
Navigate to: EXPRESSING SENSE OF SENATE REGARDING U.N. FRAMEWORK CONVENTION

Not voting:
Bryan
Feinstein
Grams
Harkin
Reid

Keep an eye on the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate.
President Bush and the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development
http://www.state.gov/g/oes/rls/fs/50314.htm

[La Enchiladita]

It's about our frustration and disbelief that our party is not exploiting its triple crown advantage!

[Chena]

Chena, I respect your loyalty to our President, but this post is full of some constructive truths that cannot be denied. Bush is getting steam-rolled by the dems and their willing MSM accomplices. Bush is our commander in chief and needs to wake up to the war at home. His house.... OUR house is on fire and he needs to get with the program and engage the enemy at home.

I agree with everything you just said and appreciate that you respect my opinion as I do yours.

I'm as frustrated as anyone else that our President and his Administration are getting "steam-rolled" by the Dems and the MSM. I wish I could understand why he hasn't come out swinging, but I don't. All I can figure is that perhaps he has a plan of action that we are not privvy to. One hopes anyhow.

[Samwise]

Thank you!

[Southack]

"Neither of those had a prayer of passing the Senate. Maybe you should do some fact checking before posting such a barrage of pap designed to appeal more to emotion than to thought."

President Clinton not only signed the Kyoto Global Warming nonsense, but he also signed an Executive Order that mandated that all government agencies treat Kyoto as though it had been ratified by Congress.

That XO forced our Defense companies to comply with Kyoto emissions limits, among other things.

President Bush killed Kyoto by first unsigning that treaty and then signing a new XO that repealed former President Clinton's Kyoto enforcement order.

...And if you find the above "emotional" instead of factual, let me have whatever it is that you're drinking.

[demkicker]

All I can figure is that perhaps he has a plan of action that we are not privvy to. One hopes anyhow.

Because his inactions have been so jaw-dropping, I tend to agree with you and hope something is being worked on behind the scenes.

I'd LOVE to see some congressional, FBI and CIA arrests for traitorous actions because sadly, our own government is FULL OF TRAITORS! Again, it is so eerily quiet at the White House that all we can do is hope & pray that there is a plan and the bad guys will soon be exposed.