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

MAKnight | 11/09/2005 | MAKnight

[La Enchiladita]

That was a good move, Arizona. I believe they keep track of FR at the White House. While reading this thread, I was hoping he would too.

[Chena]

Just so you know, the article in post #187 was from a FR thread quoting Fox News which I cut & pasted to this thread. So those words are not mine, although I do agree with them.

Your advice is well received. I also believe that we must be patient in spite of our itchy trigger fingers. :)

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

"Refusing to protect our own borders "

Wrong! He explained very well why he couldn't shut down the border completely!

Did the MSM played it?

Nope!

[Siena Dreaming]

To add to your list...Afganistan just opened their first 5 star hotel...thanks to our great President.

[TCats]

Thank you.

W's problems are inexplicable to this Rep/Conservative. I have not seen any of the nominal Reps actually proceeding as Reps and I honestly doubt whether Dems in office would make that much of a difference in Domestic Policy - Foreign Policy is another matter.

The puzzling thing is that the problems W has appear to all be self inflicted and could have (IMO) been easily avoided by fairly strict adherence to the principles he ran under and doing away with the nauseating preference of loyalty over competence approach to his personnel (Tenet, Miers, etc.).

[Chunga]

"Your post makes me wonder why any conservative would waste their vote on a Republican."

If you're really that myopic, I'll help you out:

IT'S IMPORTANT TO DEFEAT DEMOCRATS LIKE BILL CLINTON AND JOHN KERRY AT THE BALLOT BOX

[hosepipe]

You missed one Hack...
He actively and arrogantly gave Sandy Berger a pass..
Sandy Berger of all people.. Why?.. We may never know..
Sandy getting a pass says more about Bush than it does Berger..

I'll give it to you Bush is no obvious in your face democrat.. like Kerry or Gore..
But all told.. He is a BIG government republican which is no small government republican which is a traditional republican..
He is something NEW.. A republican doing democrat things correctly.. Thats a republican?..

Obviously Hack I'm not too smart I have proof..
I voted for him his father and brother multiple times..

[Paul_Denton]

Source please

[Diddle E. Squat]

Yes, but the problem is that the administration isn't effectively communication this. Not even close.

Wall Street Journal poll states that 57% believe that the President purposely mislead them about the justification for war, and only 35% believe that acted in good faith and gave us the best info that he had. The administration's effective silence and totally inept communications wing has allowed the lies to spread virtually unrefuted, which threaten to become permanently established political urban legends. Totally avoidable and inexcusable.

An integral part of leading is communicating. I'm starting to come around to the longstanding complaints from old school party members that this administration is relatively inept compared to previous ones.

[antisocial]

"He treats the WOT the way it should be treated"

I kind of take issue with that statement. If he would treat the Palestenians like the terrorists they are instead of treating Israel like the bad guys, I would be more impressed.

[antisocial]

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

I wish he would sign an executive order that countermands the one Clinton signed authorizing the UN's Agenda 21 be implemented. Google agenda 21 and see what I mean.

[Soul Seeker]

Thanks. :-)

I'm still not entirely sure what motivated the President to choose Miers other than in part desire to avoid a fight with Liberals in and out of his Party, but it wasn't typical of his usual operation in that for the big positions G.W.B. picks People like Cheney, Rice, Rummy, Roberts, and Bernancke. He goes for the height of qualifications and schooling specific to the area of nomination that arguably makes them the best choice for the position. Miers was a very odd choice in this respect. She is well qualified for other positions, but not a Supreme Court Justice. Alito is more akin to what I've come to expect from the President.

While I don't think the fight is necessarily all dried up, it is absent. Many of us sense that absence. It's worrisome. Especially in part because for the first part of the year it was evident, even when he was having trouble selling S.S. There's been an abrupt change in the latter part of the year and I don't understand it. I only know it's damaging to his and our agenda and it must be corrected.

I agree prayers are a necessity. Perhaps more so in coming days.

[ladyinred]

As a very proud bushbot, I have to say this is ridiculous. He does speak out, perhaps there are those who just don't listen. Perhaps he isn't really given the face time on the networks. Perhaps this isn't any way to help the President or the cause. But what do I know, afterall, I am a Bushbot, one who all of you seem to love to ridicule for whatever reason.

[antisocial]

"Wrong! He explained very well why he couldn't shut down the border completely!"

Yeah, he wants the US and Mexico and Canada to become the equivalent to the European Union.

[antisocial]

Thanks for the post, I agree with most of it.

[wildwood]

okay, not to belabor this miers point...i avoided posting during the heated days of argument on harriet because the whole thing made me sick....i particulary avoided the corner as they tore him and her apart like wolves with red meat.... i believe, as you do, she was NOT the most qualified person for the job and that there were certainly better choices.

from my observation, (which admittedly is distant and probably inaccurate) it seemed to me that he dropped the ball on that one, thinking that he was pulling another one out of the hat, like roberts, because he knew that she was truly conservative.....he just didn't see the big picture as those of us outside did.

the miers mess upset me greatly, if i may be honest. i couldn't stand watching some of my favorite talking heads behaving so harshly and so loftily. on one hand, i understood...but on another, it sickened me.

who wouldn't be disturbed by EVERYONE turning against you?

picture this...al gore, or worse (?) john kerry, handling all these bombings, the hurricanes, the restructuring of the airlines.....shudder...

[Burf]

Drink your Kool Aid and do your little Bushie dance.

[Collier]

bump

[inquest]

So the executive order never went through. Thanks, it's good to have all the facts available. I always have to keep a sharp eye out for people who credit Bush for doing this, that, or the other thing, when in fact he never actually accomplished it. If they want to say that he attempted to do these things, that's fine; that would be honest. But saying that he actually did them when in fact he didn't is not honest.