Posted on 05/10/2006 7:15:13 PM PDT by Dems_R_Losers
Disaffection over spending and immigration have caused conservatives to take flight from President Bush and the Republican Congress at a rapid pace in recent weeks, sending Bush's approval ratings to record lows and presenting a new threat to the GOP's 12-year reign on Capitol Hill, according to White House officials, lawmakers and new polling data.
Bush and Congress have suffered a decline in support from almost every part of the conservative coalition over the past year, a trend that has accelerated with alarming implications for Bush's governing strategy.
The Gallup polling organization recorded a 13-percentage-point drop in Republican support for Bush in the past couple weeks. These usually reliable voters are telling pollsters and lawmakers they are fed up with what they see as out-of-control spending by Washington and an abandonment of core conservative principles more generally.
There are also significant pockets of conservatives turning on Bush and Congress over the their failure to tighten immigration laws, restrict gay marriage and to put an end to the Iraq war and the rash of political scandals, according to lawmakers and pollsters.
Bush won two presidential elections by pursuing a political and governing model that was predicated on winning and sustaining the loyal backing of social, economic and foreign policy conservatives. The strategy was based on the belief that conservatives, who are often more politically active than the general public, could be inspired to vote in larger numbers and would serve as a reliable foundation for his presidency. The theory, as explained by Bush strategists, is that the president would enjoy a floor below which his support would never fall.
It is now apparent that this floor has weakened dramatically and collapsed in places.
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Are you accusing me of breaking the law "under color of authority"?
What do you think it means. If you need a dictionary, there are plenty on-line.
If you are active duty then you are close to abusing your authority on this website.
What authority would I be close to abusing?
I'm 100% positive that the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights, protects my use of this site.
Do you need reading comprehension lessons?
Those can be found on-line also.
Nice try. What "border" are you "protecting"? I think you are full of crap. If you were working for Homeland Security you sure as hell wouldn't be saying the things you say on this and other sites.
The text at your link can't even complete two sentences without resorting to a bald-faced lie: "...allows foreign workers to fill jobs that Americans are not willing to do..."
As we have observed a number of times, these are the people who have either an economic or ethnic bias on the illegal alien issue. When run to ground, it always turns out to be one or the other, or both.Always.
But of course, that's a given. : )
Is that supposed to bother me?
If you were working for Homeland Security you sure as hell wouldn't be saying the things you say on this and other sites.
Why is that? Are DHS employees not allowed to have opinions?
After eight years of Clinton, mad dogs could not keep me from voting. Also, I couldn't live with the shame of putting our troops under direction of a democrat.
I didn't say anything worse than some here joking about landmines for illegals or being locked in a freezer truck.
First, it appears that the illegals are going to get amnesty without the libs taking over!!! Second, the libs are going to take over, not because of me but, because of the pubbies in DC, GW included. I would like to see things differently, but I am sorry to say that I don't. It seems that the republican party has never learned how to be the 'party in power'........
Using your logic, one could never ever complain about the Republicans, beause the alternative is so much worse.
How about holding them accountable, FOR A CHANGE??
Well if you call using the first 3 paragraphs of your homepage calling your boss a liar opinions then I guess so. I don't believe you would do that as an active agent.
Complaining is one thing, "fleeing" the party is another (especially under the ospices of being concerned about conservatism). If you vote for a 3rd party or sit out the obvious consequence is putting Rats in power. Period. It's really that simple.
If the GOP politicians lose this November, they have no one to blame but themselves.
Not exactly. It will be voters like you (?) who throw multiple other issues under the bus over one gripe. If you want the Rats hammering the CIC with impeachment hearings in the heat of the WOT, you ax-to-grind voters will be responsible. Own it.
President Bush isn't perfect, but for any of you to sabotage the good things and efforts he has made to "make a statement" is disgraceful and nothing to be proud of or brag about.
I disagree. There would be plenty of blame to go around including the voters who would allow such a thing to happen.
If you don't like an R politican, why not defeat them in an R primary.
Still sore about Dear Harriet. Ain't ya?
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