Phony strawman. The President can respond without being viewed as some sort of nut. He just needs to state some commonsense facts. The enemy must take some comfort in the House Resolution. And if the war is such a mistake, why would anyone want to sacrifice themselves or a loved one from now on forward?
NOW, 6 months later that SAME President is going to have to go hat in hand and ask that SAME Congress to appropriate money for the War. So WHAT do you suppose the response to the Talk Radio Fantasy President is going to be from the primadonna geeks that run the Congress if he goes out and slimes them now?
Hat in hand? The President has a little more power than that. If the Dems want to operate on a continuing resolution for the next two years, so be it. If they want to withhold funds for DOD, let them do it. Reagan operated most of his Presidency with a Democrat controlled Congress, including a House that was overwhelmingly Dem.
It may feed egos to sit around here scream about how the President should be going out and talking all big and tough too bad for the President but he has to operate in the REAL world, not Talk Radio Fantasy Land.
You keep on constructing these phony strawmen and knocking them down. Bush is not running for reelection. It is not about "going out and talking all big and tough," but rather being blunt and truthful. There are some things that cannot be finessed politically and transcend partisan politics.
You know what the problem is here? The Talk Radio Generation all worship caricature of Reagan. The REAL Reagan spent a whole lot of time kissing these Congressional clown's butts. Talk Radio Fantasy Land Reagan supposedly was over at the Capitol every other day slapping the snot out of the Congress and the "news" Media
Reagan compromised on some issues and not others. He also knew how to use the bully pulpit. I am 63 and not part of the Talk Radio generation. I live in the real world and have seen a lot of it.
"The President can respond without being viewed as some sort of nut. He just needs to state some commonsense facts. The enemy must take some comfort in the House Resolution. And if the war is such a mistake, why would anyone want to sacrifice themselves or a loved one from now on forward?"
That all well and good. Like I've been telling you repeatedly on here and you refuse to liste to...unless you have a media that's willing to actually REPEAT what the President is telling the people...his message will never get out.
"Hat in hand? The President has a little more power than that. If the Dems want to operate on a continuing resolution for the next two years, so be it. If they want to withhold funds for DOD, let them do it. Reagan operated most of his Presidency with a Democrat controlled Congress, including a House that was overwhelmingly Dem."
Reagan also haad a Republican controlled Senate. The fact of the matter is that the Libtards in this Congress have no fear of blow back from openly opposing the President in a time of war like they would have in years past because of their total control of what the majority of the people see and hear.
And I never thought I'd see the day when a Conservative...a REAL conservative would advocate LETTING the Dems cut off funding?
Do you WANT soldiers to die?
"I am 63 and not part of the Talk Radio generation. I live in the real world and have seen a lot of it."
You are living in a reality that is not up to date with the current situation. The fact of the matter is that in today's environment in D.C. Reagan would NOT have the success he did in 1981. As I stated above...the DBM has tightened it's grip on what the message is they want the people to see. They are the water carriers for the Connumists that call themselves Democrats in D.C. and they have no compunction against outright lying in what they report.