Posted on 11/08/2006 8:56:05 PM PST by John Carey
President Bush was left weakened and more isolated than at any time in his presidency by Tuesday's Democratic thumping of Republicans. He offered Democrats gestures of reconciliation and capitulated to demands for Donald H. Rumsfeld's removal but history suggests his last two years will be filled with more confrontation and challenges.
Except for rare instances, Bush has ignored Democrats in Congress during his first six years in the White House and has relied on Republican might to ram through legislation. Although he came to Washington promising to be a uniter rather than a divider, the partisan bitterness and acrimony only got worse.
Suddenly, that's supposed to change on a dime. Bush is supposed to forget that Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record), the incoming House speaker, called him dangerous, incompetent and an emperor with no clothes. Democrats are supposed to forget that a combative Bush said "terrorists win and America loses" if the Democrats won on Tuesday.
Bush invited Pelosi to a makeup luncheon Thursday. "She's not going to abandon her principles and I'm not going to abandon mine," the president said. "But I do believe we have an opportunity to find some common ground to move forward on."
The president's turnabout was dictated by Washington's seismic shake-up of power. Democrats suddenly hold the whiphand in Congress, controlling both the House and the Senate for the first time in 12 years.
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If the Dems took your advice in '00, '02, and '04 they would not have control of congress today. He absolutely needs to keep fighting. Every victory that we achieved, the Dems fought us and made us spend our political capital. By the time Nov. 7th rolled around we were dead broke. If Bush gives them any easy liberal victories without exacting some toll he will be letting conservatism down.
I don't say he has to stop fighting. He has to pick his battles carefully.
I agree. He should only fight all legislation proposed by Democrats and moderate Republicans..; )
Thanx, I needed that! Looks like the moonbats *have* run amok.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1735359/posts?page=22#29
I don't understand your question! The will of the people about what? He should have listened to the will of his conservative base & acted on illegals. There are already laws on the books for illegals, but they aren't being enforced!!!
Huh? Spell it out, President Bush.... WHAT common ground could you possibly share with that San Fransicko scumbag? Whatever it is, I'm pretty sure the Republican base won't like it.
If he were any more conciliatory, we would all be singing "The Internationale" as our national anthem.
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