Posted on 06/18/2002 9:57:13 AM PDT by jimkress
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:54:48 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Conservative lawmakers and activists disappointed with President Bush's first 18 months in office are calling into question his tactics and strategy in advancing the conservative agenda.
"The president for the most part has been our guy," said House Majority Leader Dick Armey, Texas Republican and a prominent conservative on Capitol Hill. "A few times we disagree."
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Well Nan let's go over your laundry list.
Now, let's talk the farm bill,
Yep let's talk about that. You seem to be a rural type of gal, how come you haven't educated your fellow farmers about the evils of farm subsidies. Seems like a lot of small farmers like those subsidies. Looks like you have a beef with your neighbors.
Let's talk that ridiculous education bill that he and Teddy cooked up. Well no need. Good? Nah!
Uh if tom dashole wasn't Senate majority leader maybe Bush would have had some leeway defanging bloated Ted.
How ab out the new down payment idea for his newest citizens.
Uh, this isn't for the "newest" citizens as you scornfully call them. This is about making people private property owners and getting them off the govt. housing morass.
And we lost that seat on the Human Rights committee - and to Mexico, wasn't it? Not sure. Good? Nah!
Actually it was Sudan, but your fetish of all things Mexican being evil sure shown through with the above italicized passage.
Nan maybe you should educate yourself before shooting off your Buchananbot mouth.
I am speaking for myself only, but I suspect there are others, if I wanted, I could come up with a way to get many of the handouts the government is giving - but I want this country to be a country of opportunities. And I do not mean the opportunity to raid the pockets of hardworking people. All the giveaways and freebies are so crushing to taxpayers and working families and create such a waste of the human potential.
My concern is for this country. I will not be around to see a lot of the damage, but I want my grandchildren to be able to be Americans and dream and work for the American dream. I don't want them to have to stand and hold their hands out for some politican to give it to them or to tell them how much of their life they have to sacrifice so the government can give it to someone else.
Furthermore, I am not aware that the conservative message or the Republican party was not appropriate for Hispanics or any other race or group of people. Quite frankly, I'm not sure I like the notion that we should not reach out to certain groups who might agree with us on a number of issues, like Hispanics.
There seem to be some rather sharp Hispanic Republicans, particularly a guy running in the new 39th district in California. The gubernatorial candidate in New Mexico for the GOP also looks sharp and conservative, too. If anything, I'd want to get more candidates like those two.
1.) Recognizing the 2nd Amendment for what it truly is for the first time in decades -- the personal right to bear arms.
2.) Stopped overseas abortion funding (Mexico City Policy)
3.) Lowered taxes in the biggest tax refund in American history. (Remember that?)
4.) Pulled the U.S. out of the ABM treaty with the now-defunct USSR in order to finally begin constructing a national missle defense shield.
5.) Said "Thanks, but No Thanks" to the Kyoto treaty. (The previous administration, true liberals, signed it.)
6.) Is currently in the process of rebuilding and restructuring the military.
7.) Brought U.S. airmen home safely without a shot fired after they were held prisoner by China. (Oh yeah!)
8.) Responded correctly to the 2001 attacks on the United States with decisive action and security measures. (The War on Terror is a bold, unmistakeable move.)
9.) Signed a nuclear arsenal reduction treaty with the Russian Republic to promote peaceful relations with our former enemy.
10.) Directed the Secretary of Energy to re-fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (as opposed to wasting it to alter gas prices, as the previous President did).
11.) PROVIDES TRUE LEADERSHIP to the country, even when his own "supporters" turn their backs on him because he hasn't yet scaled back liberalism to the 1800's. Get real people.
Oh yeah, and that was all in one year. Carry on! :-)
His fighting of the war on the foreign front may be OK, I really don't know and will not comment on that - but his war on terror here, would be a joke if it were not so frightening.
I am just a 'little ole' woman',and surely can't be expected to understand all the political, social and economical ramifications (sarcasm), but to me, war is something you fight to win and you fight it with everything you have at your disposal. Anything less and you shouldn't even show up.
. I support him because he loves this country and loves his fellow man. I support the President because I know what he's up against and it's bigger than most here seem to understand.
It isn't simply the press, though they are actively working to divide and anger the base by planting half truths and accusations, it isn't simply Carville/Clinton's particularly destructive brand of politics based on envy and hate, it isn't even the international socialists and the decline of our culture over the past decade, it isn't simply the Unions, or the lawyers, the teachers or the NAACP, the envirals or Hollywood....it is the militant Muslim terrorists that woke me up.
Folks can quote Jefferson and Washington, Madison and Reagan...but I believe that those God-fearing men would do all they could to unify this country to fight the terrorists. They would be shocked at our culture...our families, our filth, how quickly we adjusted to and even defended the indefensible..."gay education", abortion, child porn protection....no way would our founding father (or any GOOD father) defend these in the name of personal freedom.
The Corinthians of Jesus' day would understand us, I think. We're not so different than other cultures that have fallen...except for the weapons of mass destruction, etc.(sarcasm).
We've been so splintered by those who seek political advantage by pitting us against each other, while we've become so comfortable in our vices...each with an opinion, few with any consideration for the enemies we face in a nuclear age, with mass communications, transportation and financing.
None of us have to read the daily security briefings and we should all thank God for that. There has never been a President with this much on his shoulders, with the potential death of millions in his hands...terrorist cells in over 60 nations fueled by hate and using our own press and legal system for their own benefit, the mideast inflamed by promises made over the past decade and seeing the opportunity while China watches, armed and arming with our technology.
President Bush deserves our support because he is our President doing his best in the middle of an international nest of vipers, armchair quarterbacks without the weight of the world on their shoulders accusing and backbiting. President Bush is only a man who is living in DC Rat central, surrounded by enemies. His family is the #1 target for assassins, not simply his wife and daughters, but the militant Muslims go after Aunts, grandparents...babies...families of leaders.
Anyone been paying attention to the words and deeds of our Dem. Senators post-Jeffords? The press hasn't.
Anyone care about the career civil service...how many conservatives are willing to serve in the government? Could we even find 25,000 to fill the jobs in Justice alone?
You proud and perfect conservatives who constantly point out the faults of our President, who are the first to condemn even when a source is known to be unreliable, even when the press has lied last week and the week before....you gleefully point your fingers and condemn again, not waiting for verification, not caring whether the press is working to undermine us...you believe you or anyone else could do better as President in today's world? Not even Margaret Thatcher's there to help GW.
The man will not brag. He quietly works to do his job, as does his cabinet. They will not boast of things they do not do, or things they do.
If you need a reminder of some of the things our President has been left to clean upGood Clinton Links
Anatomy of Treason, Washington Times, excellent, Balint Vazsonyi, Published 11/13/01
Hillary: "Dying to become President, Nov. 2001...Chris Matthews: I'll tell you this about Hillary," Matthews told Russert. "She once said, 'I pledge allegiance to the America that can be.'
Clinton opened nuclear labs to terrorist state visitors, Paul Sperry:
"Every terrorist country was represented at the labs, either as post-doctoral workers and students assigned there, or as visitors," said ret. Col. Edward McCallum, former head of Energy's Office of Safeguards and Security. "Iran, Iraq, Syria ... you name it, we had them from all of those places."
In an exclusive interview with WorldNetDaily, McCallum revealed that, over the last decade, "hundreds" of students from sensitive Middle Eastern countries worked at Energy's labs, including Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore and Sandia labs, where America's nuclear weapons are designed and maintained.
Clinton and Terrorism Joseph Farah's good article re. OK City, Flight 800 and polling to gage whether terrorism's popular
His Narcissism, Our Problem, Loral, history, terrorism, etc
Why Clinton SleptTapes used to provide evidence against Islamic terrorist funding "charities" made in '93. Dick Morris:
Liberals felt that the civil rights of suspected terrorists were more important than cutting off their funds. George Stephanopoulos, the ankle bracelet that kept Clinton on the liberal reservation, explains in his memoir "All Too Human" that he opposed the proposal to "publish the names of suspected terrorists in the newspapers" with a "civil liberties argument" and by pointing out that Attorney General Janet Reno would object.
Sorry, NY Times, THIS military is NOT Clintons, NY Times BIAS. Case closed.
Clinton Blew 3 Chances to Get Bin Laden
The Video Clinton's Admin. gave to the military...PC training
60 year old female Afghani general nails the EU and other western feminists, including Hillary.
Clinton Cut Military to Half the Gulf War Size
Clinton has no clothes, what 9-11 revealed about the ex-President. Byron York. (GOOD)
Feds nixed deal for plane plot tipoff under Clinton's watch, Mary Jo White's office turns down potential terrorist squealing evidence.
O'Reilly takes out Hillaryinterview with Ferraro re. Hillary and Blinky the hamburger boy.
Clinton's Advisor Blames Clinton for 9-11, Dick Morris
The Truth and Mrs. and Mr. Clinton, Larry Elder
Gore Airline Safety Commission Bought Off
How Gore aborted airline safety, better details.
Hillary compares her critics to Osama
Clinton culpability, Rubin, Leahy, the report on terrorism.
Did Clinton nod to Mubarak overthrow? Book suggests foreign policy goof led to Luxor terror massacre, Oct. 15, 2001, World net daily.
CIA agent responds to Albright's claims, Clinton administration detailed failures re. terrorism.
Widow of USS Cole Sailor Blames Clinton, details including ignored warnings that Bin Laden would bomb one of our ships in 2000, taking Yemen off the terrorist list, etc.
CIA: Clinton didn't want Bin Laden arrested
Clinton blames US history for 9-11
Putin: Clinton wasn't interested in fighting terrorism
Paying the price for Clinton, blaming a whole people for crimes of its leader, pagan..
I am actually a one-issue person. That issue is immigration. But it is not one issue. It is defense, economic, legal, education, law enforcement. It covers and affects most all aspects of our country. It would have been so easy, and entirely appropriate, for him to do something about this post 9/11. Instead, he just let the amnesty question cool a little and is now starting to push it in private.
I still say to control the WH, the House, a 2 vote minority in the Senate, and a just war to fight to give him public support, is a good politicans dream and he is either blowing it or doing exactly what he intended to do.
There are some who say we knew what we were getting, and when I think back to my disgust with the blatant pandering done at the convention, I realize they are absolutely right.
The same goes for reaching elsewhere. And we have to also be a little more selective in the battles we fight. I outlined when I'd fight elsewhere in this post, an approach that I call common sense. We cannot put our principles into legislation unless we win elections.
What a mindless posting...Only a sheeple would say something like this....
Now the President is in the WH, his party has control of the House and he is two votes shy of a majority in the Senate, now that looks like pretty good odds to me. Or we saying one person, Daschle, outweighs the other? Doesn't make sense to me.
The government cannot make people private property owners. They can only take private property from others and give it to them. Some have said this is a tax credit. These are low income people! And if it is not for his newest citizens (he, himself, said it was for minorities - black and Hispanic, not me), who is it? Why is public housing a morass? Many, many low-income, hard-working people live in apartments and they are not the horrible places public housing is. This is my fault and that of my children and grandchildren who will have to sacrifice for these people.
As for Mexican being all things evil, you stopped short of calling me a rascist. That would have been just silly. In my part of this country, many, many of the evils we are living with is caused by these people and it is not a fetish. They are not all Mexicans just because they came across the Mexican border. But I will repeat President Bush said it was 'for minorities - Hispanics and blacks'. He said it, I didn't.
Now I am not sure what a Buchananbot is - but I suspect it was not meant to be a compliment. If it means I agree with a lot of his points - then it was a compliment. When there is a poverty of facts or legitmate points, many resort to name-calling.
Well then you are out of sync with your rural neighbors.
The government cannot make people private property owners. They can only take private property from others and give it to them.
Huh I guess the homestead acts of the 1850's are null and void according to you.
Don't be so quick to swat away the so-called "hard-core Buchanan types," my FRiend, only 0.5% voted for him the last time around, but there are a lot of good folks who were ready and willing to follow him were he not to have marginalized himself with his own ill-advised and ineffective attempt at Triangulation. If folks honestly believe Dubyuh's seriously willing to begin the process of down-sizing the Federal Leviathan, many of us will beat a path to his door.
"...but we'll more than make up for it with increased union and Hispanic support"
Which we can accomplish without surrendering to the temptation to buy their votes with yet more federal largesse.
"...plus a lot of the "undecided" voters who went Gore the last time due to the DUI smear. After the way Bush handled 9/11, and the competent job he is doing now, they're not going to go Dem this next time."
Granted, the Right's got a unique opportunity to do a heck of a lotta good in the next few years, so let's not set our sights so low as to mimic the Left's lethargic extention of the Status Quo of Federal Involvement in every aspect of our lives!!
Yes, the opportunity for a landslide is palpable, but only if we dare to be bold!!
FReegards...MUD
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