The Real Bush?

Townhall.com ^ | 2/2/2006 | Robert Novak

[Paul Ross]

I most certainly am not kidding; he's said so himself.

Okay, well where and when was that?

[nickcarraway]

Remember Reagan?

[Howlin]

He's said it more than once, but he said it on CNN's -geez, I can't even remmber the name of it now -- the one he walked off of.

[Siena Dreaming]

Uhhhh....yeah?

[nickcarraway]

He had a worse Congress to deal with than Bush does.

[Siena Dreaming]

Yup...true.

[Paul Ross]

No kidding.

Tip O'Neill was constantly going for the jugular.

[af_vet_rr]

I don't think it's an accurate reflection - if you look over the past six months on FR, you can see more and more threads critical of President Bush, with less and less people defending him (it's hard for them to argue that they are conservatives if they are supporting liberal policies, and so they probably lay low).

Two years ago, you would have caught hell for daring to cricitize Bush. Now there are threads popping up everyday (maybe his defenders are spread thin, lol).

I think a lot of us are asking ourselves "did we hold off criticizing him for so long, because he was a Republican?".

[af_vet_rr]

He had a worse Congress to deal with than Bush does.

And that is what makes a lot of us wonder, just what the hell is going on in Washington. President Bush has a Republican-controlled Congress, and yet he won't work to reduce the size and power of the federal government (in fact he goes the other way), he won't work to reduce the federal government's budget, etc.

I am beginning to think now that it should be no surprise that the government's budget is the biggest it's ever been.