Posted on 12/07/2006 5:28:53 AM PST by Small-L
More lame Bush-bashing posts.
The time to bash President Bush is over. Get off your armchair and do something positive.
add to the list... what happened to
TORT REFORM,
ENERGY BILL
DRILLING IN ANWAR
No. "Good solid conservatives" did not stay home. Smug, self righteous idiots did.
Why don't you ask those dimwits that were in Congress what happened to those bills?
To wit: “We need better candidates, stronger organization, and a sharper, clearer message,” Rove said in a post-election debriefing. “We need to have the courage to say to members who have misbehaved or have overstayed their welcome that it is time to consider retirement.”
"It's not our [Bush's and Rove's] fault,
Rove! You're the problem!!! along with your uncontrolled deficit spending, big government "solutions", earmarks (alias Corruption), NCLB, snuggling up to Mexico and the Hispanics, ...
"Good solid conservatives stayed home".
This is like saying "Good solid soldiers deserted to Canada"!
You are either one clueless fool or a DU troll....
That is very true, and I said the exact same thing the other day to a friend. I teach my kids to sound the word out, like I was taught. Not only do they remember the word they sound, it gives them a skill to figure out other words they don't know or haven't yet remembered. You've nailed the core problem.
Nothing about our problem with illegals.
"He sees a problem and immediately posits a big government program as the only solution. A true conservative ( one without "compassion," I guess) would view government as the last possible solution, if at all."
Very well said.
Remember the highly proven method of victory in war, discovered several thousand years ago and even more true in this age;
DIVIDE AND CONQUER!
The Democrats have executed this law flawlessly. And the ignorant/clueless Neanderthal factions in the conservative ranks, still cannot fugure it out nor they probably never will.
“We need to have the courage to say to members who have misbehaved or have overstayed their welcome that it is time to consider retirement.”
It's the American voters who own that voice, Karl. Not you, not Republicans, not Democrats, not Conservatives, and not Liberals.
"The standards set in the No Child Left Behind Act are federal standards which districts must meet in order to get federal money."
It is all about the money. I would so love to see a school district tell the feds to keep their money, similar to what Hillsdale College has done. I doubt it will ever happen, but I continue to hope.
The question you have to ask yourself is would Buh and Rove be making these kind of statements the Repubs had won the election? Methinks not. The fact that they got trounced is reason one for the turnaround. So something good DID come out of the election...
Their focus is on not losing instead of winning, and that's a no win.
The first step in curing the disease is to know what is causing it. If Bush, Rove, the RNC, and the PTB in Congress aren't willing to look into themselves for the cause of the problem, the GOP is doomed to another 40 years wandering in the wilderness.
The Smug, self righteous idiots didn't stay home. The party didn't give the voters a reason to come out to vote. Many saw little difference between Republican big spenders and Democratic big spenders; Republicans who want amnesty for illegal immigrants and Democrats who want to allow illegal immigrants to vote; Republicans who take campaign contributions from those to who they give earmarks and Democrats who are corrupt; Republicans who want Medicare Drug Coverage and Democrats who want universal health care; ...
Don't blame the voters for the choices they made, or the non-voters for not coming to the polls, blame the politicians who didn't provide a reason for them to vote for the GOP.
Sorry, but having an "exit strategy" is not the first rule of war. Having a definition of victory, that is, knowing what you're entering the war for, is the first rule of war. If you don't have a clear idea of why you're fighting, then there's no way to develop a strategy for achieving victory.
The latest edition of Air Force Doctrine Document 2 notes that the "ultimate aim in war" is not to destroy the enemy but to bend him to your will. Before you can do that, you need to have a will to bend him to. Without a goal of what you want the enemy to do (or quit doing), you're just flailing.
Thanks for the compliment. It should be remembered that W. was a free-spending big-government governor of Texas as well. Becoming president in 2001, he believed that he could implement his expensive programs without increasing the national debt because the economy was healthy and tax revenues were still pouring in. Well, you know what they say about the best laid plans. The Internet bubble was bursting, and then 9-11 really put a serious hit on the economy. Add in unvetoed pork barrel spending, the two wars and the billions spent on Homeland Security and you get a monster federal bloatocracy and $400 billion annual budget deficits. We're slowing digging our way out, but it's much worse than it could have been.
I somehow missed what Sun Tzu wrote about having an exit strategy when going to war. I also don't recall George Washington, Lincoln, Patton, et. al. saying much about the matter either.
Well, you're probably right that it isn't the "first" rule of war. And I would agree you must have a clear "definition of victory". However I would say that a clear definition of victory is different from an "idea" of why you're fighting. "Removing Sadam from Kuwait" is a clear definition of victory. "Fighting terrorists" or "Stabblizing Iraq" is an idea. How do you know when you achieve your goal?
As much as I hate to admit it, the Democrats are right when they compare this to Vietnam. The mottos back then were to "Fight communists" and "Stabblize Southeast Asia". (Anyone remember the Domino Effect?) We are fighting for an idea, but without a clear definition of victory. If the Republicans don't see this then they will be a minority power for another forty years.
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