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Bush Goes Back to the Basics
NewsMax.com's Washington Insider ^ | 7 Dec 06 | Ronald Kessler

Posted on 12/07/2006 5:28:53 AM PST by Small-L

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To: Miss Marple
"Much of this is due to the crummy "sight reading" method and a lack of phonics."

I learned reading the old-fashioned way. I read four or five books a week and my reading speed is very high. When I was introduced to phonics, I thought they were confusing and didn't do much for spelling ability, either.

Carolyn

41 posted on 12/07/2006 8:48:01 AM PST by CDHart ("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)
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To: LiveFree99
...without increasing the national debt because the economy was healthy and tax revenues were still pouring in...

Good argument about 9-11, the wars, and DHS, but let's not forget that Clinton left him with a recession and a zero-deficit federal budget. The classic big government solution to a recession is massive increases in Federal deficit spending. Bush combined that with tax cuts and it worked spectacularly, but once we were recovering, he couldn't stop spending, and spending, and spending...

42 posted on 12/07/2006 8:50:27 AM PST by Small-L ("Government is not the answer to our problems -- government IS the problem." -- RR)
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To: HarleyD

Harley, dear....WINNING is the exit strategy.....Bush SR did not finish his job...partly due to Powell.


43 posted on 12/07/2006 8:53:57 AM PST by Suzy Quzy
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To: em2vn

I am keeping hope alive.


44 posted on 12/07/2006 8:54:35 AM PST by Suzy Quzy
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To: Suzy Quzy
Winning what??? Winning the war on "terrorism"? How long have we been in Afghanistan?

For those who can remember, we were told we were "winning" in Vietnam right up to the day we got in the helicopters and got the heck out of there.
45 posted on 12/07/2006 9:20:19 AM PST by HarleyD
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To: Colonel PK

>>>President Bush has done all that he could in the fight against "Islamofascists".

Instead of stopping the inflow of Muslims into the US and deporting the huge number of Muslim visa holders, he instituted searches of grandma's and pregnant women at the airports. He calls Islam a religion of peace when it is not.


46 posted on 12/07/2006 9:43:07 AM PST by Hop A Long Cassidy
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To: Small-L

>>>While Bush will tilt more to the right, he will not abandon key programs that illustrate his compassionate conservative approach, a way of helping people by developing government programs and policies that allow them help themselves.

This is a remarkable sentence. The author is saying that while Bush tilts to the right, he's going to remain tilting left.

The confusion is answered in the next sentence:

>>>Under this approach, Bush does not see government as an enemy, as traditional conservatives do.

Thus, Bush will remain a big government spender... and spout sweet nothings to the conservatives that elected him. He and his partner Rove are truly lost and unfortunately have destroyed the Republican Party -- at least until Bush-bots can be flushed from the party leadership.


47 posted on 12/07/2006 9:53:46 AM PST by Hop A Long Cassidy
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To: Small-L

Here's what Bush can do to show he's "tilting to the right:"

- Announce a tax credit for parents that educate their children privately. The cost of tuition and books can be CREDITED against their income tax, dollar for dollar.

- Announce that to help fund this tax loss, the Dept. of Education will be abolished.

Now that's tilting to the right.


48 posted on 12/07/2006 9:56:17 AM PST by Hop A Long Cassidy
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To: Miss Marple

Where was the LEADERSHIP? He had both houses... he should have been able to get things through.


49 posted on 12/07/2006 10:23:51 AM PST by MrRights
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To: MrRights
Where have you been? Are you unaware that the Senate blocked things with the Rat filibusters? Are you aware that anything the Rats didn't want shelved? What was Bush supposed to do? He made umpty-gazillion speeches about the energy bill and drilling in Alaska. The Republicans in Congress couldn't get enough members to pass it.

Bush doesn't control the Congress, and although he can propose things, and even make speeches about them, there are all sorts of arcane legislative procedures that enable blocking of a bill.

Personally, I blame Congress.

50 posted on 12/07/2006 10:33:49 AM PST by Miss Marple (Lord, thank you for Mozart Lover's son's safe return, and look after Jemian's son, please!)
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To: Hop A Long Cassidy
Good idea. I see your Dept. of Education and raise you one Dept. of Energy and one DHS.

Getting rid of federal departments will never happen, of course. I call it the Brezhnev Doctrine of government: Once a federal department is established it can never be abolished. Ah, for the good old days when President Reagan actually had the courage to (gasp!) propose the elimination of cabinet-level departments.

51 posted on 12/07/2006 10:40:36 AM PST by LiveFree99
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To: Suzy Quzy

AMEN!!!!!


52 posted on 12/07/2006 10:44:02 AM PST by Plains Drifter (America First, Last, and Always!!!)
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To: HarleyD
"... we were told we were "winning" in Vietnam right up to the day we got in the helicopters..."

We were winning. We won every military engagement we entered, including the Tet offensive. It was Walter Cronkite and the rest of the media, aided and abetted by Hanoi Jane and Purple Hearts Kerry, who told us we were losing and made us believe it.

53 posted on 12/07/2006 3:47:19 PM PST by Tenniel (The First Amendment: Freedom OF religion, not freedom FROM religion.)
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To: Tenniel

I can't argue with you there. But do you think the media has changed? Do you think they will cut the Republicans a break and tell the American public the success stories of Iraq? No matter how much good we do it will never be broadcast. And how long are we going to stay over there and at what cost? Are we willing to spend $126 billion a year on this not to mention the yearly lost of life? This is deja vu all over again. The Republicans need to come back to reality.


54 posted on 12/07/2006 4:54:19 PM PST by HarleyD
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To: Small-L

Get rid of your AMNESTY scheme, Mr. President, and you'll get Republican rank-and-filers back.


55 posted on 12/07/2006 4:56:52 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Why can't Republicans stand up to Democrats like they do to terrorists?)
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To: everyone

I wish the President well. We all should. But I wonder if a "sharper, clearer message," or "better candidates," is really compatible with this endless, and now apparently strengthened, compulsion to "work with" the Democrats in Congress.


56 posted on 12/07/2006 5:02:22 PM PST by California Patriot ("That's not Charlie the Tuna out there. It's Jaws." -- Richard Nixon)
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To: Small-L

"While Bush will tilt more to the right, he will not abandon key programs that illustrate his compassionate conservative approach, a way of helping people by developing government programs and policies that allow them help themselves. Under this approach, Bush does not see government as an enemy, as traditional conservatives do."

The title of this article is "Bush goes back to the basics." If anything, Rove's pronouncements indicate that Bush intends to do anything BUT that. Its going to be a long two more years of this administration.


57 posted on 12/07/2006 5:09:34 PM PST by KantianBurke
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To: rrrod
Good solid conservatives stayed home.

BUT MORE LIBS CAME OUT....This was one of the biggest turnouts in modern history. You can blame this on the Conservatives who sat home, but I'm telling you we are not a staunch Conservative Country anymore.

58 posted on 12/07/2006 5:11:20 PM PST by Hildy ("Death plucks my ear and says - LIVE - I am coming.....")
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To: Hop A Long Cassidy

"He and his partner Rove are truly lost and unfortunately have destroyed the Republican Party -- at least until Bush-bots can be flushed from the party leadership."

bump to those sentiments.


59 posted on 12/07/2006 5:17:59 PM PST by KantianBurke
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