To: Scenic Sounds
So will everyone if Bush gets his act together, if not he is toast!
Rush just said... ...he doesn't care if the democrats are elected and it would be better because then the conservatives would hold them to account unlike Bush and his liberal democrat agenda.
186 posted on 07/01/2003 2:40 PM EDT by TLBSHOW (The Gift is to See the Truth)
Howlin
***This is what Rush said, verbatim:
(Note: this was in a discussion with Snerdly concerning the possible defeat of the Medicare bill, and Snerdly evidently said that it was an election year, etc., and we might lose the House and then the Dems would be in charge of national security.)
"I'd just soon go back and be in the minority and raise hell -- you know, like it was back in the good old days.
"Let them be in charge of national defense. I'm about to adopt the policy of "Let's just show the country how rotten it can be with Democrats in charge. I mean, let them be in charge of national defense. We've beaten terrorism. There is no problem. The Democrats keep telling us that that terrorism isn't that big a deal."
Not seeing the full context that Howlin provided might lead a careless reader to think TBLSHOW was trying to say Rush said he didn't want Bush to be re-elected. I made that mistake myself. In truth, what TBLSHOW states is that with a 'less than conservative Bush administration' (admitedly by his standard), Rush thinks the house gets by with too much, where they wouldn't if the House was in the Democrat's hands. If the House was in the Democrats hands, Bush would strike down some of this nonsense.
Hey, I misread it. I think I made a mistake.
I will admit that the lead in sentence sure doesn't seem to back my premise, but I don't think the follow-on paragraph says exactly what you folks think it did.
It's also possible that TBLSHOW extrapolated that the natives are restless, even Rush. By election time those folks may have settled down, but I do see a growing feeling of resentment.
Look folks, people are not here to take down Bush. They are not advocating Gore or Hillary or Daschle be our standard bearer. What they are saying is that a $400 billion dollare medicare enhancement is the very thing Roosevelt would have done. It simply isn't defensible in my opinion at least in conservative terms, and I might add my perception isn't in a vacuum. Please don't think folks hate Bush simply because they are willing to call a spade a spade.
I can only speak for myself, but I don't feel this way. Conversely, don't think that folks agree with everything Bush does simply because they support him.