[WaterDragon]

During the Reagan administration Republican leaders in and out of Congress near fainted with disbelief at Reagan's policies and bewailed in public and private that Reagan was no 'true' conservative. Leaders in Lincoln's own cabinet actively plotted against him. It's a good thing Americans have had the good sense to elect men that their party leaders could not control.

[princess leah]

WRITTEN by none other than those from the city of "Brotherly Love" (for their democrat partners!)

[HarleyLady27]

All I have to do is see the philadelphia inquirer and know this is a lib piece...the rag that bows down to fast eddy rendell and arlen specter....

[kjo]

I don't know, this sure isn't what I bargained for. Open borders, trillion dollar deficits, still, abortion on demand.

The best thing Bush has going for him is the hatred of the MSM. Americans hate the media even more than Bush's failures.

Still, I'm leaning toward the Constitutional Party in November. Throwing my vote away? What difference does it really make?

[Radix]

Personally, I wouldn't vote for any incumbent, but I am not like most.

Does anyone have a list of which congress persons seats actually are in jeopardy this year?

[Doctor Raoul]

Thomas Lipscomb is senior fellow of the Annenberg Center for the Digital Future. He founded Times Books. tom@digitalfuture.org.

It's like asking Satan to review the Bible...

[True Republican Patriot]

GOD BLESS President George W. Bush, He is fantastic and so is Our Republican Party and Our Great United States!!!!

[DLfromthedesert]

Kevin Phillips made a LEFT turn in the mid-nineties.

[RWR8189]

With President Bush's Nixonian economic policies

Are you kidding me?

This idiot lost me right here.

Show me some wage and price controls, then we'll talk.

[sgtbono2002]

I am not near as unhappy with George Bush as I am with Reublican Congressmen and Senators.

The republican lawmakers are supposed to be sending up laws to the white House and getting our people placed in positions of power. Instead they spend their days crawfishing. They have taken a republican win and through hard work turned it into a loss.

[Astronaut]

We are going to lose the Congress in 2006. People are getting hit hard at the gas pump; I paid $3.13 a gallon today. The price gets higher every week. Despite the generally good economy, this is what people are going to vote about in November. Our do-nothing, spineless GOP Congress wont pass a bill to drill in ANWR, preferring to keep paying the Arabs to fund the war against us. The President's response was Jimmy Carter-like: " I cant do anything."

We should have declared victory in Iraq and left by now. We deposed the dictator and beat the snot out of Al Qaeda. Mission accomplished. Time to come home. Instead, we are bogged down with no end in sight, and the voters dont like that either.

We are handing the democrats the Congress on a plate. We are going to hand Hitlery the keys to the White House in 2008 as well, if we dont snap out of it. Does Bush really want to preside over a GOP collapse and a democrat resurgence led by Hillary Clinton?

[Tarpon]

Why not explore the depths of dim distress, lots more better material in that pond.

Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, soon to be indicted can probably help the idle writers of the press with some new material. I wonder how the drunk is doing?

[SunnyD1182]

When all is said and done, I think George Bush will be known as the guy who killed off the conservative movement, once and for all.

His administration's incompetence, refusal to spend responsibly, constant failure to communicate, numerous examples of corruption, and preference for big government has demonized the Republican Party so badly that it will take decades for the party to recover.

It's not all his fault- the Senate has some pathetic Republican leaders and so does the House- but Bush is the leader, and he has failed to lead responsibly.

I was once fully in support of this President. After the past year and a half, I'm no longer going to blindly back him. You know there is a problem when Democrats everywhere try to immediately link their GOP opponents to George Bush. He has rapidly becoming a cancer to the party.

[lawnguy]

No one I know has taken Kevin Phillips seriously in 20 years.

[LS]

Absolutely right. Edward Luttow's new book, "Ronald Reagan and the Quest to Abolish Nuclear Weapons" revealed that he shocked Meese and Baker by privately telling them that if the time came and the U.S. was attacked with nukes, he was not sure if he could order an all-out nuclear counterattack. Likewise, when he was governor of CA, he repeatedly (according to his own book, "An American Life") claimed that his biggest obstacle to passing legislation was the CONSERVATIVES in the CA legislature.

Moreover, Phillips and Bartlett are NOT what you would call good "litmus tests" on where Republicans stand.

That said, there is a lot of conservative discontent, but in the end, if the option is the Democrats and their coddling of AQ and the jihadists, it's no contest in November.

[Retired Chemist]

Many of its supporters claim to feel demoralized, if not seduced and abandoned, by the conservative president they thought they elected in 2004

FR Poll: 15% say turn it over to the rats in 2006

[sgtyork]

...as it shambles..

You know you are about to receive a prime piece of Media BS when they pervert the language by using a Noun as a Verb. Don't they teach these people anything?



sham·bles ( P ) Pronunciation Key (shmblz)
pl.n. (used with a sing. verb)

A scene or condition of complete disorder or ruin: “The economy was in a shambles” (W. Bruce Lincoln).
Great clutter or jumble; a total mess: made dinner and left the kitchen a shambles.

A place or scene of bloodshed or carnage.
A scene or condition of great devastation.
A slaughterhouse.
Archaic. A meat market or butcher shop.

[Cementjungle]

I still remember attending a party hosted at the home of a Philadelphia Inquirer employee (he still works there). All the Inquirer big-shots were there. Later in the evening it devolved into a gay-o-rama in and around the pool.

My GF and I went back into the house and saw two of them naked on the living room floor in doggie-position, at which time we decided it was time to say our goodbyes.

That was my first glimpse "behind the scenes" with the big newspaper hotshots.

[eleni121]

It's a good thing Americans have had the good sense to elect men that their party leaders could not control.
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Well said! Excellent.

[Paleo Conservative]

President Bush's Nixonian economic policies

Does he mean W has imposed price and wage controls on the economy? I must have been asleep.

[maine-iac7]

as it shambles toward

using a noun as a verb?

illustrative of lib thinking - the rules are for everyone else...