Posted on 04/12/2008 12:31:48 AM PDT by T.L.Sink
You’re right. A strong and committed President can exercise LEADERSHIP which can mobilize public and congressional support. The Executive branch can be as influential - sometimes moreso - in shaping policy as the Legislative.
You’re right - Bush is not conservative and I don’t think any true conservatives believe he is. He’s given us the biggest entitlement (prescription drugs) since LBJ; in his first term he refused to veto every piece of wasteful, earmarked, pork legislation that came before him. Yes, he cut taxes but that was nullified by a spending binge that would shame many liberals! By the way, we don’t feel the pinch right now but Heritage has projected that the unfunded liability of the drug program will saddle the next generation with a multi-trillion dollar debt.
A cartoon is worth a thousand words!
That’s a really good question. I’d guess that it takes a lot to make Americans fighting mad, and sometimes we’re slow in recognizing who our enemies really are, but eventually we get the picture and then - look out! The question, in my opinion, is whether or not today we have the capacity to respond as a unified country in time. By that I mean that we are a balkanized nation - consisting of so many ethnocentric, racial, and commercial special interest groups that we seldom speak with one voice. That impedes decisive and unified action. We see that PC thought, moral equivalence, and cultural relativity have infected all our educational, political and social structures. Have we lost what’s necessary to act as America traditionally has?
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