Posted on 06/01/2007 5:31:01 AM PDT by Mark Felton
Bush is now doing an Arnold. He went hard right with social security, and once that was defeated and his party lost the legislature, he figured to accomplish anything in office, it will be much easier to accomplish a liberal agenda. Our only hope from here on out is to stop him in the Senate through the Filibuster. He should be counted and treated now as a liberal Democrat President.
Win back Congress? Have the MSM bow down to Bush’s awesome display of power and poker playing skills of diplomacy? Have the EU say “golly gee, let’s just quit talking to Nancy, Bush is sure some tricky guy”.
“Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances.” – Sun Tzu. Nations can read Bush like a book (If this method you wrote is the primary reason he is having these talks). Also the GW communist have the Congresscritter majority leaders as negotiating leverage. Wake me up when Bush starts acting like a man instead of some crash test dummy.
Tell me, was signing CFR a great hand at poker and a telling display of an act of marvelous diplomacy? Mediscare bill? Allowing all kinds of pork and not checking it when he had the advantage?
Bush is tearing apart the Repubs. right now in case you did not notice. Yet you are in awe of potential diplomacy skills that have backfired before.
Also America is still strongest country in the world. Instead Bush thinks he must negotiate out of weakness.
Earth is warming but the earth is also very “trendy”. The science is there but the GW crowd Bush is pandering to is about control, not science.
Another nail in the coffin of the former supporters of George, Jr.
It was just a matter of time before he sold out on this just like he did on CFR.
Move along, nothing to see here.
BINGO, bw17, I looked at all responses to this thread to see if anyone else seen the strategy of Bush, thank you for your post, it saved me from posting the same thing.
Sadly, we were mistaken. The game has never been poker - it 's actually three-card-monte...
It's called International Masonry.
Charlie Browns
yeah Bush has a conservative strategy, LOL,
...here get ready to punt the football, Lucy will hold it for you, she won’t pull it away anymore, she means it this time, really Charlie.
I think the Republican elites are trying to divide and conquer to get the Trent Lott noodle spine elitists back into control.
Nope, I live in a ‘Rat district that The Repubs refuse to field a candidate in.
yeah but they are in control anyway. The chairmanship of all committees from which all laws come and by whom all agendas are advanced go ONLY to confirmed true blue uberparty members.
All control of legislative power is in the committees. It is unequal representation that junior members do not have equal opportunity to chair.
I wonder if the DC left wing bureacrat echo chamber is getting louder with the various people leaving due to the end of the term.
People are leaving because they need to secure new jobs.
Other talent has been squandered. (ie Tony Snow having to go out to push Amnesty despite the obvious.)
This expectation extends even to the point where other signing nations cease to exist.
This allows the left to circumvent our legislative process and use Treaties to amend the Constitution.
I was still up in the air about all this globalist stuff and maybe an attempt at limited government by our Parties but after the last few months I guess tin foil time.
“We are the world, we are the collectivist, lets just go out and rape the individual’s bank account, property and freedom to make a brighter day, so lets start giving. We are the world...”
Baloney.
Bush has gone from the viewpoint of questioning AGW to recognizing AGW. He has legitimized AGW, whether India and China sign on or not.
All he’s done is de-legitimize Kyoto, which has been fully discredited by most scientists, even those who believe AGW.
You remember that thread right before the state of the union that said Bush was going to do this exactly? And then after he didn’t do it that night, a particular poster pinged all of us and demanded our apologies for ever thinking Bush would do that. I can’t find the thread, but somebody should so we can ping that poster to this thread.
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