I just LOVE photos that feature our down-to-earth, people-loving president interacting with 'the folks'!!
MUST READ:
PRESIDENT GIVES TROOPS A FOURTH OF JULY PEP RALLY
By Paul Woolverton
Staff writer
. . . "During the speech, Staff Sgt. Charles Maxwell of the 7th Special Forces Group sat behind the president with other Green Berets in a living backdrop of soldiers. The president greeted them afterward.
“When he finished, he came back, rendered my salute,” Maxwell said. “He said, ‘Well, let’s get a picture.’ When he did, I was absolutely honored to do that. I just told him my family loved him, and we all loved him and supported him and we were behind him 100 percent.”
[WE MUST MAKE SGT MAXWELL AN HONORARY DOSER!]
You can read the entire article here [AWESOME PHOTO included]:
http://www.fayettevillenc.com/
THE TIDES TURN IN FAVOR OF BUSH AND THE GOP
July 5th, 2006
Did you hear that sound on Thursday, June 29? That was millions of conservatives gasping in horror when the Supreme Court issued its Hamdan v. Rumsfeld decision seemingly giving the Bush administration a stunning defeat over terrorist detention centers at Guantanamo Bay.
Irrespective of such justifiable concerns, when combined with another leak by the New York Times of a counterterrorism program just six days prior, Republicans were actually handed a tremendous gift dramatically improving their chances to hold both chambers of Congress in the November elections.
You can read the entire commentary here:
[DrDeb Editorial Comment: We should expect the President's JA rating to decline abit over the next 2 months for two reasons: 1.) it's summer (no self-respecting Republican responds to polls over the summer; we barely do so during the 'regular' academic/fiscal year, and 2.) gas prices have just surged above $3.00/gal and will probably remain high for the duration of the summer! . . . Just REMEMBER, polls mean nothing; it's the elections that count!]
http://americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5645
July 05, 2006
THE BUSH BOOM
By Larry Kudlow
Conventional demand-side economists keep talking about an economic slowdown. (See today's WSJ front-page story (reg req)).
These folks are stubborn if nothing else. They ignore the huge success of supply side tax cuts that lowered the marginal tax rate on capital to the lowest level in history.
Private business investment continues its surge. It remains an explosive engine of growth creating jobs, incomes and consumer spending.
The thought here is very simple: Low tax rates on capital benefit both businesses and consumers. In fact, a combination of record low taxes and record high profits is the key to understanding our current economic boom, which is the greatest story never told.
Just take a look at today's factory orders report for May. It shows that order backlogs are surging at a 13 percent rate. This is yet another indicator of the business boom.
Moreover, the ADP jobs report hints at a much stronger than expected jobs gain in Friday's report--368,000 new jobs in June, compared to street consensus of only 160,000. (This is the largest monthly increase in employment since the ADP index was created five years ago.)
Yet, the demand-siders continue their doom and gloom. They've predicted four or five growth pauses in the last three years, as the economy shrugged off their pessimism and roared ahead. They have been wrong over and over again. And all signs suggest they will continue to be wrong.
Low tax rates work. Just look at the economy.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/blog/2006/07/the_bush_boom_larry_kudlow_1.html
I recommend that you visit the following FR post:
PRESIDENT BUSH ANSWERS QUESTIONS FROM DOWNRANGE
Stars & Stripes ^ | July 5, 2006 | Jeff Schogol
Posted on 07/05/2006 5:17:11 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
President Bush has met hundreds of families of fallen soldiers, but he has yet to attend a servicemember’s funeral, he said Tuesday.
“Because which funeral do you go to? In my judgment, I think if I go to one I should go to all. How do you honor one person but not another?” he said.
The appropriate way to express his appreciation to the family members of fallen troops is to meet with them in private, he said.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1660953/posts
I don't suppose you have seen any photos of the fireworks from last night anywhere
BUMP and thanks!
"I just LOVE photos that feature our down-to-earth, people-loving president interacting with 'the folks'!!"
As do I!
& while I'm at it thanks for including me in your daily info pings!
Republicans were actually handed a tremendous gift dramatically improving their chances to hold both chambers of Congress in the November elections.
And thank you, Dems--LOL!
Great links, as always. Thank you so much for the time you spend. I really do appreciate it.
I remember trying to explain on a thread several years ago why Bush wasn't going to funerals or meeting returning caskets.
Say you start, at what point do you find you can't go to them all and stop? Because, when you stop the enemy scores a big propaganda windfall.
And the funeral should be family, not a photo op for the President, aside from all the additional security making it an huge inconvenience for those attending.
Still got the broken record of he isn't showing respect for the fallen.
@@ (eyes rolling up in head)