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Conservatives Disappointed with Bush 'State of the Union' Speech
The National Ledger ^ | 2-2-06 | Robert Novak

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalledger.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bush; bush43; consevatives; novak; sotu; stateoftheunion
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To: nopardons
>>>>What matters, what REALLY matters, is that you are a Johnny ones note and now, a liar.

What counts at this point is obvious. You've lost another debate. You offer no facts. You're a hit and run poster who employs rhetorical trashtalk to sound important. Truth is, what you post amounts to nothing.

Time for you to cut and run.

541 posted on 02/02/2006 1:21:19 AM PST by Reagan Man (Secure our borders;punish employers who hire illegals;stop all welfare to illegals)
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To: onyx

The Border is the really one big issue I have with the current GOP....lots of Business money trying to keep the cheap labor coming across.....it is NOT Bush that is the real problem....


542 posted on 02/02/2006 1:21:24 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: onyx

Blame me. :O)


543 posted on 02/02/2006 1:21:37 AM PST by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: onyx

I don't even know who that poster is; never noticed it before. Must be on the Neverending Bush Bashing Borders threads.


544 posted on 02/02/2006 1:21:44 AM PST by Howlin (Why don't you just report the news, instead of what might be the news? - Donald Rumsfeld 1/25/2006)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach


Neither party wants to do ANYTHING meaningful about the borders.


545 posted on 02/02/2006 1:22:30 AM PST by onyx
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To: onyx
Canada has a huge population of Muslims and the border is easily crossed.

Their metropolitian centers of Vancouver and Toronto are both a city of immigrants! There are countless Muslims in Toronto.

546 posted on 02/02/2006 1:22:36 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (Proud to be a cotton-pickin' Republican on the GOP Plantation)
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To: Petronski


OK!


547 posted on 02/02/2006 1:22:51 AM PST by onyx
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To: onyx
Don't omit Canaduh's border. I'm worried about that one too!

I am more concerned about Canadian liberals getting terrorists across the border than I am about Mexican Catholics, even though the drugs are worse and a form of terrorism all in themselves.

548 posted on 02/02/2006 1:23:06 AM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: Howlin


LOL!


549 posted on 02/02/2006 1:23:11 AM PST by onyx
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To: Cboldt
*sigh*

I was the first to tell you where the term was used. You went after me tooth and nail; fang and claw. A link, a link, a link, your kingdom for a link! If you had said, when all this began, you would have accepted the title of a thread...I would have gone searching for it. All that your baiting and goading did, was turn me against doing that.

Blame yourself...I don't "bring joy" to people who act as you have done.

And I never state things with certainty, that I am not certain of. But hey....that's just me. LOL

550 posted on 02/02/2006 1:23:34 AM PST by nopardons
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To: BigSkyFreeper


And DETROIT is conveniently situated.


551 posted on 02/02/2006 1:23:58 AM PST by onyx
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood


I concur! Good thinking!


552 posted on 02/02/2006 1:24:26 AM PST by onyx
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To: onyx

Just ping to the reply, when it is. I'm going to bed.


553 posted on 02/02/2006 1:24:52 AM PST by nopardons
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To: onyx
Neither party wants to do ANYTHING meaningful about the borders.

Exactly right. It may take one more 9/11 to pound it into the thick skulls of alot of these politicians cloistered in Washington.

554 posted on 02/02/2006 1:25:01 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (Proud to be a cotton-pickin' Republican on the GOP Plantation)
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To: onyx

Absolutely. Seattle too.


555 posted on 02/02/2006 1:25:33 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (Proud to be a cotton-pickin' Republican on the GOP Plantation)
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To: nopardons


Nite!


556 posted on 02/02/2006 1:25:40 AM PST by onyx
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

Sir Francis I think your being too kind to Bush. There was nothing conservative about his speech. It was just more BIG government spending and liberal appeasement. For example if he wants to reduce our dependences on Mid East oil, then why not talk about ANWAR and Nuclear power. France has many Nuclear power plants, that produce hydrogen at night during low demand. Nuclear is the safest cleanest Big power producer, solar and corn oil gas is just a drop in the bucket, sort of like collecting soft drink cans to help pay the mortgage.


557 posted on 02/02/2006 1:26:08 AM PST by Exton1
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To: BigSkyFreeper


Right, but Detroit is like a mecca of Muslims.


558 posted on 02/02/2006 1:26:28 AM PST by onyx
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To: onyx
He [Keyes] advocated REPARATIONS.

I wonder if Keyes' version of Reparations would cost as much as Bush's Prescription Drug Entitlement will.

And, I wonder which (if any) of the two programs is Constitutional.

And I wonder if Bush will ever veto anything...

559 posted on 02/02/2006 1:26:33 AM PST by sargon (How could anyone have voted for the socialist, weak-on-defense fraud named John Kerry?)
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To: nopardons

Good nite to you! :)


560 posted on 02/02/2006 1:26:40 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (Proud to be a cotton-pickin' Republican on the GOP Plantation)
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