Posted on 02/01/2006 9:51:00 PM PST by Coastal
WASHINGTON -- While jumping up on cue to cheer during the speech and delivering rave reviews afterward in the Capitol's Statuary Hall, conservative members of Congress were deeply disappointed by George W. Bush Tuesday night. It was not merely that the president abandoned past domestic goals. He appeared to be moving toward bigger government.
The consensus on the Right was that President Bush's fifth State of the Union Address was his worst. Republican congressmen agreed privately that he was most effective at the beginning with his familiar message of why U.S. forces cannot abandon Iraq. The problem for these lawmakers was the rest of the 51-minute presentation, which was filled with unpleasant surprises.
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And some of them you can't please at all. :-)
I saw that dreadful Bob Beckel substituting for Colmes this week; is there some talk of him taking Colmes' place?
Because he's a registered Democrat.
Oh, silly me. LOL
He was the president of the Reagan Alumni.
How about you? Did you serve on the foreign policy team for the Gipper?
Novak is on Fox.
hmmm
Unlike Bush, Reagan did this with a Democrat controlled House
Dubya had a 50/50 Senate the first 4 months and rat control until 2003. Reagan had a Republican Senate for the first 6 years. He also had the friendship of House Speaker O'Neill who GAVE Reagan his taxcuts in the House without a fight. Reagan had the opportunity to campaign for other Republicans but choose to pad his 04 victory instead.
Reagan made pro-life issues a mainstay of his eight years as POTUS.
Dubya actually passed a PBA ban and changed federal policy...even though he doesn't talk as good as the great communicator.
His court nominees were for the most part highly conservative picks.
LOL. You can do better than this.
And lets not forget, Reagan's two historical landslide election victories.
I prefer Dubya adding members to the Republican Congresss while just getting enough votes to win. Maybe Dubya was more concerned about America than his place in the history alminacs.
Not a perfect record, but a great legacy nonetheless.
Dutch or Dubya?
How nice...a teensy box with a blue and red thingy in it. :-)
Lots of IF'S in there. That is the trouble. NO president is willing to put troops on the border. It'll take a terrorist hit that is proven to have entered thru POROUS borders.
We had the golden opportunity to seal the borders on 9-12-01. Nobody worth a damn, would have said BOO at that point.
Fine.
Now post the one where he comes out for reparations.
(You must have gotten all gooshy inside when I brought him up; nobody even mentions him anymore and it gave you a chance to "be" somebody for just a few seconds, huh?)
I can only imagine!
This is the lot of being a moderate and trying to please everyone.
Fight in Iraq, but throw our borders wide open.
Put down the U.N.'s global designs, but rally for international free trade that outsources American jobs and helps enemy economies more than or own, (China).
Form a Homeland Security Agency, but allow millions of unknown foreignors into our country every year.
Tell the people we need to stop being dependent on foreign oil in the SOTU address, but fail to mention that the Democrats have blocked his (meager) attempts to drill in the Alaksan oil reserves.
Stand against the liberals but be a big government spender.
Get constantly viscerated in the media by B. Clinton, but help keep him in the media lime-light by tapping him to raise money for Asian tsunami victims.
Stand up and declare that the "powerful and the strong have a duty to protect the weak", and in the same speech claim that he is "powerless" to help Terri Schiavo.
Eventually this business of being a political moderate and a 'good guy' erodes a man's substance. Bush is a fine, honest gentleman who possesses a lot of courage, but his politics are wishy-washy. Ronald Reagan he is not.
No President accomplishes everything he wants.
Self-portrait?
You liked that speech, eh?
We're talking about your hero, not me.
ELECTED office is his stint on the Reagan Alumni?
Lord have mercy --- he's unelectable. His speeches mean nothing!
Clinton forced THE highest tax, in history, on us and made it retroactive; which is unconstitutional! And the ONLY reason the balanced budget and welfare reforms were passed, on the Toon's watch, was because of the GOP run House!
But what do you think about it?
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