IMHO by nominating Meiers, Bush forced the Judicial Committee Republicans to fight for someone like Alito - "put up or shut up" type gambit. Worked? Well...did it?
On the UAE Port Security deal...has anyone else noticed that this is the first time since 9/11 that Congress has been united on anything???
Bush is not the President of Republicans or conservatives - he is the President of the United States of America. As such, it is partly his responsibility to get Congress working together to pass legislation. This was not proposed by Bush nor did he ever defend it. I don't believe he ever intended to have this deal consumated. He has essentially managed to finaly unite conservatives and liberals on the subject of National Security. Can anyone say "brilliant"?
White House Defends Port Sale to Arab Co.
The Bush administration on Thursday rebuffed criticism about potential security risks of a $6.8 billion sale that gives a company in the United Arab Emirates control over significant operations at six major American ports.
Democrats are terrible on national security but without the media the public will never know.
Nancy pelosi will be the next speaker of the house and hillary rodham clinton will be the next president.
When that happens thank Lou Dobbs for never going after democrats.
Bush gets no credit for the good moves he has made on security. And when dems stop wiretapping, fund hamas, close guantonoma bay, stop extraodinary renditions, stop predator drone attacks in pakistan, run from iraq and do a whole lot more you can thank lou dobbs and pelosi.
You had the vote in the house will republicans voting for a fence and dems voting against it and yet republicans get blamed.
Damn the media for turning this country into pelosiland. She is going to take san francisco nationwide.
Bring her on already because we are witnessing a death by a thousand cuts by the national media.
Then when pelosi and hillary rodham act like the liberals they are the media will blame bush. We will also have to put up with higher taxes, assault weapons ban, no oil drillign, ruth bader ginsberg supreme court judges.
Until the conservatives revolt and take over the main stream media we are destined to san francisco going nationwide under pelosi and hillary rodham.
We are destined to have a president like al gore who goes to saudi arabia and screams how the us doesn't give enough visas to the saudis.
DID JACK CAFFERTY HAVE AN E-MAIL QUESTION WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT AL GORE VISITING SAUDI ARABIA AND BASHING THE US ABOUT THEIR TREATMENT OF ARABS.
NO THEY WERE WORRIED ABOUT CHENEY. THEY PAID NO ATTENTION TO GORE. IF BUSH HAD DONE THAT YOU WOULDN'T HAVE HEARD THE END OF IT. GORE GOT NO PRESS.
OUR MEDIA IS UNDEMOCRATIC.
It's amazing how no matter how stupid W apparently acts, some will find a theory to say that he's working in mysterious ways. I have a host of issues with him, including Prescription Drugs for seniors, McCain-Feingold, immigration enforcement laxity, Sarbanes-Oxley, rebuilding New Orleans, etc., that are not so mysterious. Okay, let's wait for W to speak about this lunatic idea before we add this to his bonehead pile.