Posted on 05/15/2006 7:45:36 PM PDT by bobsunshine
Today conservatives and Americans across this nation, especially those who voted for George W Bush, should be thankful for what we have accomplished and for having George Bush as President. My tolerance for the whiners who don’t get all they want, or who say the pace of getting America to become more responsive to conservative ideas is too slow, is totally used up. Tonight, when George Bush speaks his is going to discuss how we can take SOME steps towards getting a handle on immigration and the security threats it represents.
I want to give thanks to W for taking the war to the Taliban and Al Qaeda, and for not shrinking from his course when the French and Germans bawked, when the UN whimpered, when the left wailed and when the right ran away.
I want to thank him for protecting all our families and neighbors since 9-11.
I want to thank him for reducing taxes and pulling this economy together since my family just about went under due to the economic hits from 9-11, and now I am working a dream job exploring the solar system.
I want to thank W for protecting the lives of some of the embryos who otherwise would have become a product to harvest for spare cells (to make spare parts).
I want to thank W for making the education system accountable and force it to produce statistics on its performance.
Thanks also for giving my 80+year old parents a prescription drug plan so they can live out their lives with dignity and in the best health preventive medicine can offer. I know that at their age to fix things once their broken is much harder than keeping them from breaking in the first place.
Thank you as well to the immigrants who come here and extend the American fabric and re-establish respect for the family and the work ethic. I still believe working without papers is aking to driving a car which is not properly registered. While not legal, it pales next to the people I deal with everyday in my 75 mile commute on the busy and dangerous DC Beltway. For perspective, I do not thank all the drivers chatting on the phone, reading, eating, doing their face who risk my LIFE with their casualness. I am less concerned about the immigrant workers coming to do top notch work on my house than the insane drivers who could kill me or my family. Let’s not even discuss how little thanks I have for drunk drivers (and drunk is only a few drinks away).
I want to thank LJSTrata for putting up with me for so long and keeping this site going through its first Blogoversart (5/18/06).
I owe a big thanks to Powerline this week for naming us Blog of the Week - which is an extreme honor we will cherish.
I want to thank my kids and family for being who they are.
I do not have any words of thanks to he those who leak national secrets to the media because they cannot address their issues through our established political processes. None. Anomous leaks are not a badge of honor.
I have no words of thanks to those who are so frustrated they have turned on Bush when he needs our support, and threaten to sit out elections. Why would I have any thanks for that kind of action? I am thankful we avoided a President Gore and President Kerry. Gore would have lost his mind after 9-11 (look at how he handled the 2000 election). And Kerry would have been so confused about what to do he would have signed legislation beforing vetoing it.
I am thankful for our new allies in Iraq, Afgahnistan, the UAE, Qatar and Pakistan. They are not perfect allies, but they are better than enemies. Just like Bush is 100 fold better than a manic Gore or a confused Kerry. I thank Bush for doing all he did, and doing it despite the naysayers and quitters, the moaners and whiners, and especially the serial surrenderers. Thanks George Bush. And no thanks goes to anyone who gives us nothing on immigration because they could not get all they wanted. I am tired of the zero sum game. It is a game for fools.
W didn't do a 180, but perhaps a 135 which is something in the right direction. With a lot more prodding, we can get Congress, the courts and W to be headed straight into the wind.
I still say he is the best president of my lifetime. He has realigned our foreign policy with ourvalues so we don't have to be ashamed of cozying up to dictators. His economic policies have recouped loses of 2 trillion $, revived state budgets and lifted the boats of the world into growth. He has reorganized two big disfunctional bureaucracies, though he is still working on intelligence and Homeland Security. He has signed 750 bills. He walks through fields seeded with landmines with aplomb and good humor. And his stealth energy independance plan has our demand falling just when the opposition wanted that issue. Go GWB.
These ignorant SOB's CANNOT be conservatives, because no serious conservative I have ever known is a knee jerk reactionary who is willing to see Hillary Clinton as our next President so they can say they taught the country a lesson. This is the thinking of a friggin Mongoloid, not a conservative
I didn't see Dobbs but have seen a couple of posters on different threads say that he liked the plan and the speech. I just turned CNN on to see a replay but they are showing Anderson Cooper.
I agree with you and I doubt I will live long enough to see how history will written, but I believe he will be among the best ever. IMHO he is more conservative than Ronald Reagan and the numbers back it up, In order for Bush to match Reagan's increase in the size of the Government, the Federal budget will have to 4 Trillion Dollars by 2008
Tancredo is on bor's now.
I live in CA and I thought his speech stunk...all smoke and mirrors...what a disapointment.
So you admit you're a Troll but not a DNC plant?
He's doing more to handle this problem than any president in your lifetime.
lol, yes, bravo...you are too brilliant for words.
In order for Bush to match Reagan's increase in the size of the Government, the Federal budget will have to 4 Trillion Dollars by 2008
Bush's 2006 budget funds only 210 new border agents
nuff said...
let me know when they start pouring the concrete for my wall. LOL
I won't be holding my breath.
These ignorant SOB's CANNOT be conservatives, because no serious conservative I have ever known is a knee jerk reactionary who is willing to see Hillary Clinton as our next President so they can say they taught the country a lesson.
Why don't you save your venom for those jokers in Washington--the ball is in their court whether they want Hillary to be president. I for one am tired of people who don't belong here demand citizenship while flaging their flag in my face!
Amen.
I live in Los Angeles, and I sure as heck do not agree with the extremists who want mass roundups and deportation of illegals, a Berlin Wall on our southern border, and regular Army troops every few feet with orders to shoot to kill. That's what most of the hysterics want, even if they aren't honest enough to admit it.
That's not saying much....let's be serious, he doesn't want to fix this...this speech wouldn't have happened if he wasn't losing his base...worst of all is that he didn't even speak to his base tonight..
Flaging=Flying
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