Posted on 06/08/2006 5:12:02 AM PDT by FerdieMurphy
As Carole King sang thirty years ago, “It’s too late, Baby.” She was referring to romance, but in this context it is too late for Team Bush to recapture the loyalty of the conservative GOP base.
Immigration/amnesty, Dubai Ports, Harriet Meyers, Katrina, deficits and Iraq have destroyed Mr. Bush’s credibility as president. The new federal effort on gay marriage is as transparent as the dispatching of “less than 5,000 unarmed national guardsmen” to our southern border: a cosmetic ploy in a vain effort to keep the conservatives in line.
This White House just doesn’t get it. Period.
Before - when Bush was in the 50's in all national polls - he could keep the GOP in line; and the GOP was happy to follow because they were winning.
But when your leader plummets to 29% - and is voted in the latest Quinnipiac poll as the worst president since WW II - there is no hope of enforcing party discipline. Thus you see the open defiance in the House on the Bush/Senate/McCain/Kennedy amnesty for illegal immigrants. And you see Speaker Hastert basically tell off the president over the FBI raid of Representative Jefferson’s Capitol Hill office.
The internal state of the Republican Party is one of total turmoil. They are floundering - and do not know what to do to right the ship of state.
So they are - again - trying to federalize a state issue: marriage.
Since when did we conservatives believe the federal government should usurp state’s rights? This is yet another example of the Bush Big Government philosophy changing the basic tenets of the Republican Party. The Bushes - believers in a Big Federal Government - have become the un-conservatives: a huge Department of Education, a bloated and ridiculous Department of Homeland Security, massive deficits, a new ‘entitlement’ - prescription drugs, a never-ending war that has morphed into the dreaded ‘nation-building’ and on and on and on.
After all of that, why would conservatives happily re-join Team Bush just because he mouths a few platitudes about an issue a close friend of his tells Newsweek, “He doesn’t give a s*** about”?
Both George Bushes - father and son - tried to portray themselves as conservatives; both were cynical manipulators who cleverly used symbols - pork rinds, country music, a phony ‘ranch’ with no animals - to hide their Rockefellerism belief in massive federal power, especially when they control that power.
But it is indeed “too late.” GW Bush’s credibility is shot; his power eroded; his ability to influence events virtually gone.
His own arrogance and ignorance caused his downfall. He was too arrogant to listen when warned about the impending fiasco in Iraq; and he was too ignorant - and lazy - to study history to see what lay ahead in a war such as this.
The result?
A presidency deteriorating right before our eyes. Never - even under the inept Carter or the corrupt Nixon - have we seen a self-immolation quite like this. And we still have 2 ½ years to go!
The Republican Party is a mess; the Democrats are horrible and should never be trusted again.
No wonder more and more people are calling for a Third Party. Or, as has been written in this space for more than a year, an Independent Third Candidate who runs against both parties.
That may indeed happen in ‘08. But that is a long, long way away.
First comes a major battle: where is the heart of the Republican Party? Is it for someone like McCain - a Teddy Kennedy in GOP clothing?
Or is there another Ronald Reagan true-blue conservative out there somewhere who wants to re-take our party and put it back on conservative principles?
That is the key question today.
Your post is the load. The WH got Zarquai because it was in ultimate command of the operation. The military rule is a commander is responsible for all his people do, good or bad. Our military did magnificently here, much of it because of the support given by the WH; hence, the WH deserves credit.
>>>Since when did we conservatives believe the federal government should usurp state’s rights?<<<
Since federal and state judges started usurping state's rights. If LeBoutillier took the time he might recall that state legislatures now serve at the whim of state and federal judges, who have, at the encouragement of the ACLU and similiar haters of American culture, systematically made "unconstitutional" everything that was good and decent in our culture. There are few options in restoring our culture, other than constitutional amendments, or impeaching large numbers of judges at the state and federal level.
There is one other option: the congress could limit, via legislation, the jurisdiction of the federal judiciary, for example, in matters of religion, abortion, and public decency. If the judiciary is forbidden to rule on cultural issues, they are also forbidden to destroy our culture.
Of course, as long as there is the unconstitutional filibuster in the senate, it will be difficult to place restrictions on the judiciary.
We know you want to, you just don't have the guts to say it.
I have heard of Katrina. You claimed I blamed Bush for it. Hence, the name, nutjob for you.
as i recall the constitution provides for the Congress to provide for those subjects you have listed and those who voted for the stuff probably will find things slim pickins come their next election cycle....
You could have ordered it? You can't even spell Big. What a load!!!!!
Rally? Which god are you that can read my mind? Which deity do you lead so that I may stay far away from your followers?
He took an oath to uphold the laws of the land. There are very clearly written laws regarding immigration procedures. It is not Bush's place to pick and choose what laws he upholds and which ones at which he thumbs his nose. He is a failure.
lord save us from parents who can't keep their kids off the computer at 8:40 in the morning.....
You won't get an argument out of me FRiend. I'm not saying that I admire that he won't enforce the laws.
I think he should be taken to the woodshed (and has been here on this board at least), for not seeing to it that our laws are enforced.
Oh, my God!!! You got me. Your extrapolation of my cognitive abilities by one misspelling is highly indicative of your capability to ratiocinate.
the word is 'really' and it don't take no God to note the obvious...:-)
I can read your posts enough to say you want to impeach Bush.
It's in every other word you don't say. You hate the man with all the blinded rage of a liberal, but just can't take that final step to actually say it.
Coward.
sheesh! just like a lib....i got to give it to ann, i took exception to her grouping all the libs into one convenient category, but you are looking more and more like you belong in that narrow group every time you open your mouth....:-)
You are an ass.
I've never been there but I have yet to find anyplace in CT that has good pizza.
Rally? :)
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