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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
make them give the president line item veto...........duh
I'm surprised to see you on these threads; after all, there's a new Rick Santorum thread up (he's doing much better!!) -- I thought for sure you'd be over there trashing him.
Nope I sure don't agree with you, I understand that we have a small majority in Congress and we do not RULE Congress, so you and I will NEVER get everything we want... It's called life, and the sooner you accept this fact of life, the sooner you will climb out of your pit of despair
Me too. I don't agree with everything he does. But then, I don't agree with anyone in the entire world 100%. It will never happen.
And with Bush, you get what you see. He doesn't play word games.
That's completely untrue. The President has for the most part kept his promises. That fact that some are upset he hasn't changed his position on guest workers is their problem, not his.
To accuse the President of breaking promises is unfair. He didn't promise to seal the borders.
Lord have mercy.
So you're voting Democratic this year?
you know, I've been reading your replies from yesterday and today and I want to ask you one question: Who the hell are you to shout anybody on this forum down? If you can't argue without insults and capping your replies, why don't you get the hell off the site?
I'm 22 and Social Security is one of my biggest issues but it's certainly not going to get done if the rats are in charge. As I recall, THEY'RE the ones who were applauding during the SOTU about nothing getting done, not the Republicans.
Don't worry, I live in Pennsylvania and there is no way I am voting for Ed Rendell or Bob Casey this fall, or for the 32-year-old dufus the Dems are running against Mike Fitzpatrick. And I'm not staying home either. So I am not falling prey to the liberals trying to sow discord among Republicans. Nor do I think most Republicans will. But we do wish we had some way of getting through to Karl Rove that his Hispanic strategy has backfired, and of getting through to the GOP leaders in Congress that we did not send them there to spend our money like drunken sailors!!
I've been a loyal Republican worker since the late 1970s when it was not very fashionable to be a Republican. I predate Ronald Reagan and I remember what it was like when Republicans held almost no offices of consequence anywhere and we had spineless "leaders" like Bob Michel. And we are rapidly headed back there. I've worked too hard and seen too many GOP triumphs based on ideas and real reform of government to enjoy watching Republicans campaign now on fear of how much worse it will be if the Democrats win. That's a sign of an exhausted party that does not deserve to govern anymore. And it might sell once this year, but if Bush and the Congress don't make some drastic changes it won't sell again in 2008, and you can say hello to President Hillary.
That finatic Mamood ahmeteenyjihad who spouts off for Iran, keeps claiming that he will bring about the end of the world so the 12th Imam will retun to earth
LOL!! Want some more grapes, goddess?
Bush wore himself out last year pushing his social security plan, and nobody would listen, not Democrats, and not even most Republicans.
And you weren't "promised" tax reform in the second term.
Just to wall 800 miles of the Southern Border will cost approx. $2.2 billion and since this isn't really loose change in the President's pocket it will take Congressional Appropriations. If the Senate proposed a bill for the appropriations but couldn't get the 60 needed because of obstructionist Democrats, would it be "bye bye" for the Democrats?
Both of those issues have been blocked in the Senate. And in any case, the President did NOT promise "privatization" of SS.
ROFL!
It was passed into law during Bush 41, then the Supremes axed it.
"Hard Core Republicans Are Fleeing President"
That's a pretty interesting statement when one considers it with the fact that people with a brain fled the Dimocrat Potty 40 years ago; a lot of them fled to the Republican side, others are now Greenies, Libertarians or undecided's. Probably this year, more Dim devotees will leave their potty since it becomes more rank with each passing day. The death of the Dims is almost within sight.
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