MUST READ . . .
WHY THE SURGE MIGHT NOT BE STOPPED
By: Jim VandeHei
Aug 1, 2007 06:10 AM EST
Sens. Pete V. Domenici (R-N.M.) and Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) grabbed all the headlines last month when they called for change in Iraq war strategy. But conversations reveal that many more Republicans privately fear the war is lost — both politically and on the ground.
This has created a widespread perception that President Bush will be forced to shift plans and begin bringing U.S. troops home in early 2008 after a military progress report is delivered to Congress next month. And that might happen.
Yet there are very good reasons to believe the prevailing conventional wisdom on Iraq might turn out to be wrong once again.
The reasons are simple: the power of the presidency, the anguished feelings of many congressional Republicans and math. In short, Bush is in no mood to yield.
You can read the entire commentary here:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0707/5193.html
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LISTEN TO GOLDWATER
By Quin Hillyer
Published 8/1/2007 12:08:59 AM
At the 1960 Republican National Convention in Chicago, Barry Goldwater famously told conservatives to “grow up.” It’s time we hear that message again.
As in 1960, the conservative movement seems grumbling, disaffected, even downright angry — and, most importantly, it sometimes seems more interested in complaining and moaning than in uniting, constructively, to achieve political success.
What’s worse is that we seem to be fighting among ourselves. Every chance we get, we take shots at other conservatives. Nobody, it seems, is good enough. We moan that nobody is another Reagan. Nobody is another Churchill. Nobody is another Washington.
To which we ought to say, so what? There’s only one Second Coming, and He isn’t running for anything.
It’s time we look at the good things we’ve got — and the good people, and the good times. Take stock of those goods, and celebrate them, and consolidate them in an attractive way, and build, build, build upon them.
You can read the entire commentary here:
http://spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=11811
That's great news, and as such, will sour the stomachs of the pundits in DC!
No kidding! I got so fed up last week on one of the "Fred's not conservative enough for me, because he doesn't support deporting everyone now" threads that I commented that, at this point, not even Jesus would meet their criteria because He said to "Welcome the stranger in your midst".
A Wartime President
Hugh Hewitt
President Bush invited ten talk hosts into the Oval Office for an hour of conversation today --Glenn Beck, Bill Bennett, Neal Boortz, Scott Hennon, Laura Ingraham, Lars Larson, Mark Levin, Michael Medved, Janet Parshall and me. This was an off-the-record conversation, and so I won't be quoting the president.
I will say on today's show that I am confident about the course of the war and about the momentum in Iraq, as well of the president's absolute commitment to doing right by the troops and his concern for every lost and wounded soldier and their families. President Bush's command of the details and his broad view of the conflict is reassuring, and among my comments to him was the wish that he found more opportunities to engage in long interviews that would allow the American public to see that grasp and that commitment.