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

[Cboldt]

BRIT HUME: The White House is ready to fight back
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1516791/posts

White House to 'hit back' at Democrats (About Time!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1518576/posts

[birbear]

The problem is, the rope ain't tied to nothing...

The dems have plenty of it... nobody's tied it to the tree yet, though.

[demkicker]

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

Yes, you're right. These times are more dangerous than ever. I really fear the democrats as much as Al Queda, and that may sound kooky, but I'm serious. I know they are enemies of capitalism, freedom, and our military. Socialists & communists are the make-up of the democrat party. If they do get control of the White House and Congress, we can kiss America as we know it goodbye forever.

[Unicorn]

BTTT

[AmusedBystander]

"We shouldn't elect a President; we should elect a magician." Will Rogers

[Cboldt]

President Bush killed Kyoto by first unsigning that treaty and then signing a new XO that repealed former President Clinton's Kyoto enforcement order.

This would be a fun one to fact-find on. I wonder what the details REALLY are. Seems both sides are making hay with sweeping assertions. At any rate, Congress has legislative power if it dares to assert it.

... the day before he left office, Clinton signed an Executive Order implementing the Kyoto Protocol. George W. Bush wrote an Executive Order canceling Clinton's executive order. The environmental lobby took Bush to court and sued in the Clinton federal court in DC to override Bush's executive order. The DC US District Court ruled that, in this one instance, a new president could not vacate the Executive Order of an outgoing president since HIS MOTIVE FOR DOING SO WAS PURELY POLITICAL.

http://www.internet-grocer.net/oilsuply.htm

[Chena]

I took the liberty of cutting and pasting the Fox News report and posting it here for those who may have missed it.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1516791/posts

Nov. 6, 2005

Washington, D.C.

After many, many months of being a punching bag, the punching bag is ready to fight back. Republicans believe it is long overdue.

On FOX NEWS SUNDAY this morning, Brit Hume reported that he was told at the highest levels that the White House was finally going to engage the Democrats. They will be coming out with a defense of the war in Iraq.

On this forum and around the blogosphere, Republican loyalists have been wondering why the President has allowed the Democrats to get away with calling him a liar. There is a wealth of evidence justifying the war, including 500 tons of yellowcake uranium discovered in Iraq in March of 2003 at the nuclear research center of Al-Tuwaitha. 1.8 tons was enriched. That is not Betty Crocker yellow cake. Hussein wanted a bomb. And yet, a majority of our population does not even know about that find.

The Democrats are doing exactly what they said they would do in their secret memo that was captured by a Republican staffer. They are using the war for political purposes, while they are pretending it is not for political purposes.

If the President will light a fire under his team, support for the war will increase, perhaps dramatically. The President owes it to the troops who have sacrificed and to those who are still out there risking their lives everyday. Step up, Mr. President.

[Chena]

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.

I will dance barefoot in the snow at 50 below if and when the day comes that someone finally makes these traitors accountable for their actions.

[Treader]

Thank you, MAKnight. I deeply appreciate true US Patriots!

[Southack]

"You should get a job working for the Bush folks, if you don't already have one. You have put more effort into defending his presidency in this post than I have seen his administration do in 5 years. I think that was MAKnight's point."

If you don't follow politics and aren't at the top of the game, then the Bush Administration's actions can easily be forgiven for being overshadowed by the drubbing that they are getting via words from the news media.

But the news media, like the modern Democrats, don't know their Bre'r Rabbit.

Bre'r Fox finally caught Bre'r Rabbit with the Tar Baby, you see. The more that Bre'r Rabbit attacked the Tar Baby, the more stuck he became, which mad him madder, which caused him to attack the Tar Baby ever more wildly until finally he was helpless.

Likewise, the Democrats and the News Media are attacking President Bush, per Karl Rove's plan. The Democrats and the News Media haven't figured out yet that President Bush can't run for office again in 2008. Nor do they know their Bre'r Rabbit.

So off they go bashing Rove's tar baby. Each day there is a mandatory anti-Bush article in every major newspaper. Mandatory. Ditto for the news coverage on TV.

None of which touches Allen or McCain or Giuliani or Jeb or any other major GOP candidate for 2008.

Of course, while effective, this strategy has a cost...and that cost is what has loyal GOP'ers howling...in that we have to sit around and take lots of news media hits without returning much fire.

We're being hurt by words.

In exchange, we're winning tax cuts, Hussein is in jail, we've passed lawsuit immunity for our firearms manufacturers, banned partial birth abortion, changed the makeup of the SCOTUS, reformed bankruptcy law, passed CAFTA, killed Kyoto, deployed land, sea, and air national missile defenses, as well as expanded oil drilling in Alaska (e.g. opened the Arctic Petroleum Reserve already and soon will open ANWR, too).

If you keep a scorecard of actions, then the GOP is way ahead. If you track only the tone of the news media, then the GOP is way behind.

In the meantime, the Democrats are becoming unhinged while the GOP is getting what we want passed into law.

[demkicker]

Thanks, Cboldt!

[Chena]

Here I've been posting on this thread without stopping first to comment on your letter. Shame on me!

As for your letter, I FEEL YOUR PAIN! chena

[Wild Irish Rogue]

"If the President will light a fire under his team, support for the war will increase, perhaps dramatically. The President owes it to the troops who have sacrificed and to those who are still out there risking their lives everyday. Step up, Mr. President."

Sometimes, I think the White House has no tvs, no radios and no internet connection.
And no idea how to communicate.
They stumble about,bowing and scraping, making kissing noises to the Democrats and the media, while at the same time, they are beating the crap out of the terrorists- in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The disconnect is unbelievable.
Maybe if the White House would look at the Democrats and the media the same way we do-as threats to America, they might start fighting back.
They owe it to the troops, at the very least.

[birbear]

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

I'm thinking right about NOW would be a good time to activate that plan.


I would have agreed with you about 2.5 months ago. The more days go by without an active "plan" the more I'm thinking there's no plan to activate.

[Southack]

"If the President will light a fire under his team, support for the war will increase, perhaps dramatically. The President owes it to the troops who have sacrificed and to those who are still out there risking their lives everyday. Step up, Mr. President."

The Democrats peaked too early. 2005 is not an election year for the House or Senate.

They've fired their shots out of range, and some on our side are howling that we haven't yet fired back (even though it's not yet an election year).

Patience.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Why should I continue to take the time to defend you when you refuse to defend yourself?

It pains me to admit this, but I would add: "Why should I defend your decisions when you won't; and why should I stand up against your enemies when you seek their advice over breakfast and choose not to expose their hypocrisy?"

[wildwood]

e're not being critical because we want to take advantage of a low ebb. We're being critical because we sense something we never have before. That the fight is gone. He's off course, and if not corrected, he'll hit that iceberg up ahead.

while i agree with much of what you say, i do not believe the "fight is gone" in dubya. i believe he is discouraged, worried about his mission and his focus, and off course.

personally i have confidence that harriet miers would have been a conservative pick, and that dubya was trusting his instincts on that one. i believe that he turned to her because she has been there in his saddest most reflective hours, and he felt if he could not trust her on that most important task, then who?

but i have sensed a need to pray for him lately, more than ever before, and i am not one to post perfunctory daily prayer requests on this or any other board. we cannot even begin to imagine how bleak and difficult his nights are, and i know he grieves greatly with each injury and death of young (and old) courageous soldier who fights for the name and safety of this magnificent country.

if he truly believes that he has listened to God's direction in his life, he has to be wondering what has been going wrong lately.

but the darkest hours teach the greatest lessons. i trust God's hand in this. He will not leave us empty.

oh, and feel free to "borrow" any of my words...that's one reason i post:>

[hosepipe]

Well said.. plus Mr. President are you French.?.

[Arizona]

I did send a note to the President suggesting that he read this particular discussion on FR including the comments following the original article. I gave him the link. I don't really expect that he will, but maybe if he gets bombarded with a similar suggestion by other FReepers????

[Eagle Eye]

rules that would have shut down every home business in America

Not to be persnickety, but that is a blatant falsehood.

If you can't make your case without false statements, maybe the case isn't worth making.