Posted on 03/16/2007 6:21:30 AM PDT by seanmerc
President Bush, standing in front of a banner that read "Rebuilding Our Republican Majority" and flanked by two giant puzzle pieces, last night pledged to House Republicans that the GOP will retake both congressional chambers and "hold the White House in 2008." Attending the first National Republican Congressional Committee dinner in Washington since the party lost control of the House and the Senate in November, the president fed hundreds of Republican lawmakers red meat, lambasted Democrats for trying to "micromanage" the war in Iraq and vowed to continue to appoint conservative judges. "We've got a strong record to run on," Mr. Bush said as members of Congress dined on beef tenderloin and jumbo shrimp. "The key is to learn from every election and to come back stronger. And with your help, that's exactly what we're going to do in 2008." Looking fresh after a five-country trip south of the border, the president reviewed Republican accomplishments during his administration: the largest tax cuts since Ronald Reagan, a booming economy that has created 7.5 million jobs in less than four years, and a newly revamped education system in which "minority students are beginning to close the achievement gap." "Ours is an optimistic agenda and ours is a realistic agenda. And by pushing good ideas and standing strong for what's right, I believe that we can retake the Senate and the House and hold the White House in 2008," Mr. Bush said to cheers from the party faithful. More than 1,200 people attended the annual Washington Hilton dinner, which raised more $6.2 million for congressional candidates. The president was greeted by a lengthy and hearty applause, a far cry from what he got in South America and Mexico.
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SZonian
Since Feb 7, 2004
I can't concisely put into words my disappointment in his presidency. I guess the wuss doesn't fall far from the tree.
Well said and sadly true among a vocal group within the RNC base.....But on the whole it is a minority group.
I'll tell you how he'll do it. All of those illegal aliens he said he wanted to make legal this week will be more than happy to vote for him. Twelve million new Republican voters will do wonders for the party potency.
However, the fact remains that the Left and the Democrat Party must be defeated.
I don't know much about Fred Thompson, though what I know I like, and I know nothing about Mitch McConnell, but if your appraisal of them is as dependable as the appraisals given in your analysis, they're men to watch.
George Bush and the current Republican leadership are a big disappointment, but we cannot allow this to cloud our judgment; the Democrats are far worse, and they must be defeated.
Keep your smart analyses coming as time progresses. We'll be looking for them here on FR.
No, because he is not running for office again. The Dems have already gotten credit for whatever amnesty is achieved, It will be a Dem congress that passes it and La Raza and the labor unions have been very vocal in their support of it. It was Kennedy, Moran, and Hillary that were speaking before the big illegal demonstrations last year. The Reps supported the enforcement first bill in the House and the Dems voted 39-4 for the Senate amnesty bill last year while the Reps voted 32*23 AGAINST it.
You are wrong if you believe that pandering to the illegals will help the Reps. Politics aside, it is just plain wrong to reward people who break our laws.
No thanks, we've had enough of big government, big deficit, big spending "conservatism." Hunter has shown that he either approves or favors big government, or he lacks the courage to stand against it. Either way, he's more of the problem, not more of the solution.
Iraq is 100% part of the larger WOT. There is no question about this. As our CINC correctly said..(paraphrased here).."we did not ask for this war, our enemies did....and war is what they are now getting....It did not start on a date of our choosing, but it will be fought at the times and "places" of our choosing now".
Which is absolutely correct.
Additionally much good is happening in Iraq (as well as Stan). There is an evil in these places that must be confronted. Plain and simple. And the simple reality is since Sept 11th, our enemies have suffered one strategic defeat after another....we have not suffered one (hell you'd be hard pressed to find a tactical engagement we've lost). Over 3/4 of al Qeada's known leadership has been killed or captured and thousands of their supporters are in the ground as well.
The world is safer because of our actions in Iraq and Stan. We are deliberately and systematically destroying al Qeada and their mimics 24/7 throughout the ME, SE Asia as well as the Horn of Africa.
One could talk or think themselves in circles for reasons not to act...or reasons not to be proactive....That luxury of thinking in circles passed on Sept 11th, 2001. We are in a world war here against a mindset (not nations) that want to kill us.
The world today is too small not to be proactive (preemptive) against such people / groups. For far too long the citizens of the ME have been at the mercy of thugs, warlords and tyrants......providing the opportunity to begin to shape their own destiny is the only long-term solution to this war. That won't happen over night....but that process is most assuredly happening (it is just not reported about with the enthusiasm which it should be by the world MSM.....because they have an agenda to see us fail....GWB fail).
People say the ME can never support free ideas or quasi-democracy's.....but the same was said of the Japanese at the end of WWII (there are differences here, I'm well aware, but the premise remains the same).
The notion that we are simply playing "whackamole" isn't true on the whole....and where it is true, it is because there is no better option..and until the political solution takes full root......whacking thugs/terrorists is the safest and most productive policy for our national security interests.
One of the first steps to true leadership is understanding one has to make choices between options that are actually available to them (not wringing ones hands foolishly over pie in the sky solutions that aren't actually available to begin with).
After Sept 11th, we had to take action. We had to acknowledge we were 15 years late to entering a war that was being waged against us. We have since removed two national security threats in the regimes of Saddam and the Taliban (the world is safer because of this).
We removed Saddam for a variety of reasons with the WMD equation being simply one of those reasons. And that equation has been solved! Saddam will never pose a threat again via WMDs (bluffing or not). The world is safer because of this fact.
And your point would be what?
SZ
I didn't have one but it's just standard practice here that when you can't refute a substantive post, you post the person's sign up date.
Bush promises to restore party potency in two years........
yeah, of course he means the mexican socialist party......
In a related story, Matt Millen promises to have the Detroit Lions in the the Super Bowl in two years.
Seems the main criteria for the use of those gunslingers is the crime of offending Mexico....
Of course, offing a few Americans to appease Mexico is going to really help in November '08
Damn, NS. You actually said something I agree with! :)
Would have been a great idea. But the fact it never entered Bush's mind is no mere oversight. It is reflective of the fact that he has never harbored the intention of limiting or shrinking the size of government. Outspending Bill Clinton on worthless domestic programs is an empirical indicator that Dubya couldn't care less.
No.
And here's why:
The guy who translates the news into spanish for me will assure me that it comes to pass courtesy of the pressure the democrats put on Bush and the racist republicans to change their minds. I will be told that the only reason for the good news is because Nancy Pelosi and Teddy Kennedy forced Bush's hand. And I will believe it. Si se puede.
Oh, good grief.
This site is becoming more fringe by the hour.
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