Posted on 08/01/2006 8:07:50 AM PDT by conservativecorner
I'm not going to make any friends or win any popularity contests with the following, but I don't write commentary based on aspirations of social acceptance.
I once thought Bill Clinton was the greatest example of wasted ability. Granted he was/is a hillbilly with a college diploma – from a pretty good school – but he's still a Joe-Billy-Bob hillbilly who confused Monica Lewinski with domestic policy and couldn't control his diminutive personality pursuant to his lurid desires.
But I had high expectations of President Bush – as presidential material, as a man and as president. As presidential material and as a man, my high regard for him remains unaltered. As president, I am increasingly disappointed, and for good reasons.
George Bush was elected with an overwhelming mandate of the people. Republicans controlled both sides of Congress. Republican governors controlled the majority of states. Yet, instead of capitalizing on these advantages, he has turned a blind eye to what many of his supporters are saying (ideologues do not count).
This president has given us No Child Left Behind, which has not only virtually guaranteed leaving children behind, as teachers teach for test results juxtaposed to learning, but it comes with an $87 billion price tag. He has given us a $6 trillion dollar Medicare prescription program, which many claim is too complicated to be easily understood. He misled his base on the $286 billion highway bill, which he claimed was off the table and would not be signed in 2004 – then five minutes after he was re-elected, the mega pork bill couldn't be signed fast enough.
There is his attempt at sleight of hand pursuant to illegals – not to mention Karl Rove's attempt to stab the base in the back by encouraging La Raza – the radical, extremist, Mexican hate group – to embrace the Senate's version of an immigration bill for "their own good." The Senate bill will grant some version of amnesty to the tens of millions of illegal aliens. The actions of his attorney general, which helped lead to race-based preferences in the University of Michigan Law School case, are inexcusable. But his shameless pandering before the NAACP is beyond the pale.
To equate random and isolated acts of racial intolerance – perceived or real – with a pandemic atmosphere of racism is a damnable heterodoxy – I don't care whose mouth it comes out of. However, for it to come from the lips of a president who should (and hopefully does) know better is disgraceful.
The Republican Party did not "let go of its historic ties" with blacks. To even suggest that, much less state it categorically as Bush did is an affront to all conservatives who have fought for civil rights – from Everett Dirksen to Bush's father, who appointed Justice Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court.
To call slavery "a stain" that has yet to be cleaned is a grotesquely wrongful analogy, second only to someone claiming abortion is good for unborn children. The only thing missing in Bush's disgusting performance was blackface and formalwear, ala Al Jolson.
Then there came "The Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006," which is good for 25 years. I was personally insulted and deeply offended by the White House's invitation to attend the signing of same. I ask you: Is there any scenario or circumstance imaginable whereby a black American, being legally registered today or in the future, could be turned away from the ballot box because they're black? It is inconceivable. Furthermore, to reference it as being chiefly necessary because of Southern opinion is an insult to those Southerners who have fought to reverse the legacy of Jim Crow.
America doesn't need a special "black" law to allow blacks to vote. We have the Constitution – all rights and guarantees are found within it. Had the Constitution been adhered to in 1965, the black marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., would have been able to vote. But it was not because of the racist behavior of local officials.
Had Democrat President Johnson federalized the local National Guard as Republican President Eisenhower did in Arkansas, blacks would have suffered no harm and would have been permitted to vote.
President Bush continues to show himself forth as one who is willing to thumb his nose at those who fought to elect him, while genuflecting bottom up to those who curse him. How dare he brand members of the party responsible for the office he holds as residual elements of racism and bigotry!
There is more to being a conservative than lowering taxes, going to war and saying "in God we trust." It is time for us to continue swallowing our sensibilities and call this president what he is – a globalist with a Texas mean streak.
If you don't agree, don't write me. I warned you ahead of time I wasn't writing this to make friends or curry favor.
geeze...this writer is allowed own his opinion, but not his own facts...
where to begin...
Well, okey-dokey. I guess he doesn't want to hear any differing opinions. LOL!
I got plenty of complaints about Bush, but all in all, I'll take him over the alternative, any minute of any day.
The point being made is Bush talks Conservative and spends like a Liberal. What's up with that mindset? His Immigration policies are nuts. We are going to give away Billions under the proposed Amnesty Act in the Earned Income Credit. So much for any benefits in paying into Social Security. He is a New World Order crowd member. Sorry I want a Nationalist who puts the US First. Not Israel. And I do believe Israel has a right to exist.
We should provide Israel what it needs to defend itself. But I am opposed to sending any US Troops there. We are already spread too thin as it is.
Bush was the most conservative person who could get elected in 2000. He has done a fine job with the war on terror (of which this current Israel-Hezbollah fight is just a part.) Hezbollah has killed more Americans than any terrorist group except Al Qaeda. Israel is on our side, and you should be rooting for them instead of carping.
That's all I have to say.
These Pat Buchanan wannabes are getting to be a dime a dozen. And their opinions don't get any more intelligent or any less ad hominem with repitition. Get over it. Bush won. Pat lost a LONG time ago.
I'll begin with the lie that Bush was elected with an overwhelming mandate. SHeeeeesh!
Where was this guy during the election recount and aftermath? Hanging chads and all that. Not to mention winning with less than a majority of the popular vote.
The House had been GOP since Newt and the boys took it. But the Senate, for crying out loud, was 50 Dems 50 Pubs (including several RINOS) with Cheney having to break a tie vote. Then Jeffords bolted and the Dems took over the Senate (later to lose it).
There's plenty to discuss about Rove at La Raza and Bush at the NAACP. But No Child Left Behind was something Bush absolutely campaigned on all over this nation, and was patterned as much as possible (with Ted Kennedy in the mix to pass it) after what Bush did in Texas. Yet this writer acts like Bush betrayed him by pushing it after getting elected.
Where WAS this guy at crucial moments that he seems to have completely forgotten?
Bush is MEAN?? Come on. You can argue that he has worked too much with those who fight against him and not enough with those who voted and worked for him... But to ascribe that to MEANNESS is just plain dumb.
Thank you! All the whining little babies think that by huffing and puffing and holding their breath, viola, magically, hard core conservatives will get elected and can ram through an agenda. When you consider how close Kerry came to getting elected president, you realize that we do not hold the big advantage that some delusional types think we do.
LOL! What the Hell does Pat Buchanan have to do with this writer's article. Staying on point helps in the matter of facts and not opinion.
The author is black. I don't blame him for hating affirmative action, but Bush didn't want the fight over voting rights act, I presume. btw, I moved last week and the crew chief asserted that right wing Republicans tried to stop the VRA. I finally set him straight that it ws Republicans who passed it in '64 and Republicans that renewed it last week.
What the Hell is wrong with a Texas mean streak?!
To all: This is a great pissant post, saved from a deleted duplicate thread.
Did Bush suspend the abortion $ that was going to in foreign aid, reversing a clintoon exec order?
Did Bush unilaterally withdraw from the ABM?
Did Bush reject the Kyoto protocol against world condemnations?
Did Bush give the harshest speech to the UN it ever received in the lead up to the Iraq war?
Did Bush appoint John Bolton over the UN's and the Dems vociferous objections?
Did Bush unilaterally reject the International Criminal Court?
Is Bush the only world leader giving Israel cover to wipe out Hezbollah?
Did Bush give in and stop the NSA surveillance program because europe complained?
Did Bush conquer Iraq despite the UN telling him not to invade?
Did Bush allow bombings of a terrorist pow-wow accross the Pakistani border without UN approval?
Did he allow a hellfire missile to take out some terror scum in Yemen w/o UN approval of an attack on yemeni soil?
Did Bush put up steel tarrifs for a year despite the gnashing of teeth from the GATT and our allies?
Did Bush play hardball with the Canadians on soft lumber for the last 5 years? Did Bush play hardball with the canadians on salmon fishing harvests in 2001/2002?
Is Bush pushing for nuclear power plants, more coal plants and drilling in ANWR despite the howls of the global warming cretins and envirowackos?
Do our troops operate anywhere in the world under the UN banner or did Bush sign an executive order prohibiting it?
Is Bush heeding the UN and other world critics about the need to ban the death penalty?
Did Bush close down Guantanamo or any other prison despite the international condemnation?
Did Bush send Rummy to NATO to get along with the status quo or to pull it out of its stupor?
Did Bush sit down for one on one talks with NoKo because Kofi Annan and the globalists said he must?
Is Bush offering Japan and Israel and Australia and Britain our missile defense systems because Russia and China approve?
Did Bush and Cheney call Putin on the carpet because it would smooth international relations?
Who, besides Bush and the Pope, call on China to open up to political and religious freedom?
Who was the only president to EXPLICITLY say we will defend Taiwan against a chinese aggression?
Which world leader told the UN to pound sand and caused it's gun grabbing conference on small arms control to flop?
Who said that we will treat any regime that sponsors terrorists the same as the terrorists themselves?
Who is the only world leader pushing hard to isloate Iran over the nuclear program?
Did Bush allow the execution of Mexican criminals over the screeching objections of the Mexican gov't?
Who is pushing for massive UN reform?
Who has been insisting on a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.
Who spearheaded the arms shipment interception policy with a handful of other countries that did not ask the UN for approval, and which led to busting Kaddafi?
Which country is putting the kabash on UN talks regarding international taxation?
Who is having troops operate in the horn of Africa w/o UN approval?
Which leader has called the islamo fascists islamo fascists?
Is Bush content with the status quo in the ME or is he ramrodding changes down their throats?
Has Bush lifted the sanctions on Cuba due to international pressure, or did he up the fines to Americans that travel there?
Did Bush cave into the euroweenies who complained about the size of the corporate tax cuts he signed into law?
Globalist my ass.
pissant
LOL.....clearly this poor fool has spent far too much time contemplating his navel.
Sigh... Some just desperately need to create big boogie men, the facts be damned.
As for funding education mandates for the poorest children.....I guess we'll have to disagree.
I'll take that Texas mean streak AND the stagger! LOL......anytime, my friend, any time at all!
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