Posted on 12/07/2006 5:28:53 AM PST by Small-L
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
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...
Harley, dear....WINNING is the exit strategy.....Bush SR did not finish his job...partly due to Powell.
I am keeping hope alive.
>>>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.
>>>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.
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.
Where was the LEADERSHIP? He had both houses... he should have been able to get things through.
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.
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.
AMEN!!!!!
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.
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.
Get rid of your AMNESTY scheme, Mr. President, and you'll get Republican rank-and-filers back.
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.
"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.
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.
"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.
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