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To: Joe Boucher
"Starting to be disappointed by President Bush."

Yes. Some feeble tax cuts (more than made up for by the voracious monster known as AMT, which the GOP has done nothing about), and a good job on the War on Terror and making up for almost a decade of cowardice and neglect on the part of Clinton, and a marvelous rebuilding of the military, decimated by Clinton. He's quietly dismantled some of the regulatory uberstadt, and at least under Ashcroft the DOJ held firm against gun-grabbers. Fine.

Balancing that, though: He signed McCain/Feingold into law, he has done nothing about Kelo, he ballooned entitlements with the Medicare drug giveaway, he spends and spends on Federal education nannying, he's done nothing to diminish the grossly unconstitutional War on Drugs and all its horrors, and on and on. And he let multimillionaire Sandy Berger get off with a pittance penalty and token suspension of his security clearance.

I voted for Bush twice but regret that he's the best the GOP could cough up. He is not a small-government conservative, that much is certain.

Having said that, the problem is the GOP, not Bush. He is a symptom.
15 posted on 01/13/2007 1:32:38 PM PST by RightOnTheLeftCoast ([Hunter/Rumsfeld 2008!])
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To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
and a good job on the War on Terror

I take it you are referring to the following:

The way he has rallied the world to our side in the war on terrorism.

The way he has protected our ports against infiltration of deadly weapons of mass destruction like atomic bonds.

The way he has protected the homeland by closing off our southern and northern borders against unchecked illegal immigrants.

The way he has intimidated the North Koreans from getting the bomb.

The way he has intimidated the Iranians from getting of the bomb.

The way he kept sufficient troops in Afghanistan and augmented them at Tora Bora and caught Osama bin Laden.

The way he sealed off the borders of Iraq against Syrian and Iranian infiltrators.

The way he dismantled the Iraqi army in the name of debathification.

The way he dismantled the administrative bureaucracy of Iraq in the name of debathification.

The way he inserted enough troops in Iraq to prevent widespread looting, and seizure of weapons and ammunition.

The way he foresaw that there really were no weapons of mass distraction in Iraq.

The way that he has explained to the American people why the war in Iraq is essential in the war against terrorism.

The way that he has imposed rules of engagement on our troops which were not too restrictive.

The way that he is successfully built up the Iraqi army so that they can take over for our boys.

The way that he has rid the Iraqi police forces of corruption.

The way that all of his stratagems have outflanked Iran, made them a week here in a stronger, and Iran less likely to get the bomb.

The way that the entire Bush strategy in the last four years has destroyed the Bush doctrine and and ended the age of Pax Americana.

The way that...

Now it shall we discuss

and a marvelous rebuilding of the military


41 posted on 01/13/2007 2:56:36 PM PST by nathanbedford ("I like to legislate. I feel I've done a lot of good." Sen. Robert Byrd)
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To: RightOnTheLeftCoast

I too voted twice for President Bush. I want smaller less intrusive govt.
Why does he think making nice with the dems will get them to make nice? The dems still can't get over the 2000 election loss and will never forgive him or work with him.
Berger belong in jail. Why would this president have any confidence in this judge in this case?
Oft times the presidents judgement seems clouded.


54 posted on 01/14/2007 4:17:55 AM PST by Joe Boucher (an enemy of islam)
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