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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President Ronald Reagan gave Phyllis Schlafly, a lifetime fulltime volunteer in public policymaking, this tribute at a national meeting in 1984:
"Eagle Forum has set a high standard of volunteer participation in the political and legislative process. . . . You've been out front on so many of the most important issues of our time. . . . Your work is an example to all those who would struggle for an America that is prosperous and free. . . . Our nation needs the kind of dedicated individual volunteer service you and Eagle Forum have demonstrated over the last 20 years."
Projection?
I'd swear that Bush could put up a 20 ft. fortress around the country, and some people would pout and say it wasn't high enough! They'd want it to be 50 ft! I don't recall the immigration problems suddenly happening in G. Bush's time.
They've been happening for a very long time, and very few presidents did anything much about it! But all of a sudden, G.Bush is expected to just make it stop in 5 years; or by glory, we'll just get mad and throw a fit!
Good grief, he's not a magician! Did Ronald Reagan have a magic wand somewhere, and G. Bush was supposed to find it and use it? After 8 years of B. Clinton, some of us are actually glad to have someone that actually cares for this country again! Even if they're not Ronald Reagan! (Don't get me wrong, RR was a wonderful man, and a great leader, God Bless his soul! But even he wasn't a perfect, pure and saintly conservative all the time, either!)
Reagan talked about abortion and actually did almost nothing else.
O'Conner was an AFFIRMATIVE ACTION pick and a way to be a "first" in history books.
Rehnquist and Scallia are great. We have to wait to see how Roberts and Alito work out; however, I'm betting that they are head and shoulders above O'Connor and Kennedy.
You don't ever give president Bush good marks for much and then ALWAYS drag in Reagan. That, in turn, forces people, like me, who supported Reagan, to have to poke you in the eye with his faults. That really is not only a waste of time, but never proves your contemptuous posts about President Bush. Give it a rest................
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It's more money....
If that statement is truly sincere, you're an idiot.
Now, prove it!
You know the world of law better than most of us....I think it operates ,like so many other worlds,on its own...
Im not smart enough to judge it but Im pretty sure O J is guilty
Get used to it.
Pettiness on parade once again.
And it sure sounds like sour grapes to me.
But what does it matter to you, you aren't in the GOP anyway.
Oh, come on. Enforcement of the laws against hiring illegals has plummeted to almost zero under this administration.
>>>>Projection?
Nope. The truth.
Ooooh -- flame UP!
I didn't assign that to you, but if you insist ....
Your short term memory is getting worse by the minute.
That's why it's called "short" term.
It's little wonder that you doubt my memory, because obviously, since YOU stated that your long term memory is worse than your short term memory,
I thought I said my short term meory is wrse than my long term memory. Oh my. I'm losing it. Woe is me.
Backpedaling is silly. You've not mentioned, until now, that deport is in the link.
I just linked to a thread --- anybody can click on it and see who said "Donner Party" and when they said it. I'm a believer in full transparency and citation. Have to be, my memory sucks.
you most assuredly did post to me, in such an accusatory way, that I made the claim!
Indeed I did post to you, and invited you to become emotionally invested. But my honorable object was to determine the first use of "Donner Party" at FR, as an insult. I'll fully admit that I aimed to goad you to emotional reaction. I figure a ligh-hearteded insult exchange (no hard feelings) is a bit of naughty fun.
Your shucking and jiving, now, isn't doing you nor your cause any good at all.
Well I have a few causes, naughty fun being one, and historical research being another.
And it is precisely because you demanded that I MUST link, even when I repeatedly explained to you, in the simplest words possible, that I am incapable of complying with your demands, that I do not trust you at all.
That has a sort of Dr. Suess ring to it. I like it.
I do not trust you c-b-o, I do not trust you, no-no-no
Good do your own scut work. Prove me wrong and then gloat; or be completely shamed.
Oh but you miss my point. I am depending on you for your historical expertise. It's not that I think you are wrong. Indeed, if I thought you were out and out fabricating history, it would be a waste of time to ask you for a lead.
Frankly, I couldn't care less what you think or say. All you want is to hector me. And all I'm doing, now, is laughing at you
You sure know how to kill a good buzz.
Right!!! Drug Plan is a scam. I am a retired Federal employee...as are Congressman...all GOV employees.. and my medical coverage and drug plan are superior. I was hospitalized last June for diabetic problems...hosp bill was $22,000 for 5 days. I paid $100 total...plus $75 for $600 ambulance ride of 3 miles. Just lucky that I chose to be employed by big GOV for 20 years!!!
You are aware that this President has yet to exercise the veto, correct?
Oh my gosh...see how little I know about this stuff? LOL
I'm going to have to look into this!
That's his post, DUmmie.
He is saying Bush doesn't know what a VETO is... NOT that he hasn't made use of his veto power.
Dream on. It is YOU with the sorry, pitiful life. I know it's tough for you ALWAYS being unappeased.
Veto his own legislation?
As you can see, this is NOT an area of my expertise.
The truth as you see it, of course.
And everybody knows that you all have a dire need for that to be true about us in order to puff yourself up.
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