Posted on 09/06/2001 9:53:26 PM PDT by ClancyJ
What an onslaught of personal, harshly negative invective being spewing forth daily from the Left and their comrades in the elitist media!
It’s been non-stop, at a near-dizzying pace on any issue they think will gain traction.
And all of this from the very same hypocrites who so vehemently – and falsely – charge Republicans with being mean-spirited and evil.
It shouldn’t come as any surprise, because the Left knows no decency and has no shame. What is amazing is the relentless and desperate nature of the attacks.
From the economy (read: Clinton’s recession, which began in October) to Kyoto (which the Senate turned away by a unanimous vote) to the ABM Treaty (which ceased to have any relevance when the U.S.S.R. disintegrated) to missile defense (which frightens the Russians, the communist Chinese and their friends at the New York Times) to the surplus (which should be returned to taxpayers, especially during a slow down) to the Middle East conflict (which the President wisely has maintained must first be realistically addressed by the parties themselves before U.S. involvement) to the President’s supposed "lack” of intelligence (notwithstanding that he graduated from both Yale and Harvard, unlike Junior Gore who flunked out of divinity school and mysteriously ‘left’ law school) to any other issue, real or imagined, the Left attempts to bang the President about the head and shoulders in a sick attempt to belittle him.
The President, to his great credit, hasn’t allowed any of these attacks by the Leftist elite to affect his policy considerations a single iota. He has a strong sense of self, something sorely lacking on the Left, which bolsters him amid this smelly chorus of personal disparagement and seems to steel his resolve.
There is a valuable lesson to be learned from George W. Bush: ignore the Left and do what’s right by the people. Republicans in Congress and elected office at the state and local levels should follow his lead, for all too often they seek to please their natural enemies rather than working to best them by enacting their agendas.
That’s the best way to deal with the Left: by simply ignoring them and moving forward, leaving them squealing in our dust, to the delight of a grateful electorate.
I respect your opinion, even though I strongly disagree. But that's not the point. If Bush is "destroying" the country, than what did Clinton do for 8 years? Are you suggesting Bush is just as bad as Clinton? To me that attitude reminds of Ralph Nader, who was so far to the left that he saw no distinction between Gore and Bush, despite their huge differences.
Well let's see now.... Bush isn't actively investigating anything Clinton. That makes him an accomplice to the entire eight year scandal, wouldn't you say?
Sound the alarm!! etc. etc. etc. ( yaaaawwwnnnn..)
You need rest.
Watching one manufactured crisis after another peter out, and all these hysterical accusations against Bush come to nothing, makes these people look like the desperate losers they really are.
I am truly embarassed for the Democrats and those gullible enough to be fooled by them...and I thank God I left the Democrat party years ago.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Not necessarily. But then again, neither standard applies to you, so it is a moot point.
I would have expected such a long hysterical rant had I actually bashed your boy on this thread. *sniff*
Instead you find yourself violently agreeing with what I did say. No I don't agree with this crap about incrementalism. REAL leaders aren't limp-wristed incrementalists. Lincoln's emancipation proclamation wasn't wimpish increntalism, neither was FDR's new deal or Johnson's war on poverty. Yeah conservatives hate the the last two. FDR and Johnson weren't pussy incrementalists, they were leaders of the opposition. It's too bad the current GOP leadership, including Bush, is a bunch of incrementalist pussies.
OK now your hysterical rant was justified.
Ahh another DU agent exposed by his own stupidity.
While the entire political process has been dragged to the left over the past 30 years by democrats, I wouldn't call Bush's policies leftist. For example, the following policies are not leftist:
1. Tax cuts for productive, upper-income people. 2. Support for National Missile Defense (instead of passively hoping that terrorists never fire a nuclear missile at us.) 3. Oil drilling in ANWR. 4. End to rediculous DOJ effort to break up Microsoft.
I can go on for a while longer but I've made my point. Beyond his policies, Bush is infinitely superior to Gore in character. (Just look at the way Gore attacked the military voters last Fall.) The most disturbing thing about the Democrats these days is how flagrantly dishonest they are. They'll say anything, no matter how untrue, to win a political fight and gain power. They don't care about truth any more, only power. That's the frightening reality of the Democratic party. Bush is far more honest and genuinely patriotic than Gore and the democrats.
Whoops... I'm sorry FDR and Johnson were ineffective milquetoast incrementalist leaders.
You don't even want the honest truth about the opposition let alone you're-soon-to-be-forgotten-"Chester A. Arthur"-boy-unless-he-grows-some.
We happen to have surplus. Where's the spending cuts?
2. Support for National Missile Defense (instead of passively hoping that terrorists never fire a nuclear missile at us.)
3. Oil drilling in ANWR.
4. End to rediculous DOJ effort to break up Microsoft.
All great. I agree.
However now what about Bush's support of...
1) A new prescription drug social entitlement.
2) The federalization of educational standards.
(nationalized testing) What happened to shutting down the Department of Education? Why a proposed $45 billion budget increase for this useless department? That's worse than even Clinton! 3) Federal funds for stem cell research.
4) Federalization of private charities. I thought the intent was to defund public programs. This is actually a new program with NO cuts in existing programs.
In all honesty what you list above that I agree with are 1 time decisions with immediate impact. What I list above are things that have awful long term repercussions. It seems to me that Bush is still playing the bread and circuses game.
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