Suprisingly to many, I do not support all of President Bush's policies. I am on record as opposing the education bill, primarily because I do not think it will work. However, most of the Congress and most of the American people do agree with it, and I am in the minority, so I will just have to wait and see if I am right about it or not.
I think that the pilots should be armed; I also, however, support the random searches, primarily because if we do not do them, the terrorists will take advantage of that situationi.
I do not think the TIPS program is the George Orwell nightmare some are portraying. I do not think that the government is waging war on us. It behooves, however, us all to pay attention to over-zealous folks from both sides of the aisle.I think the addition of a national ID card is NOT a good idea.
The basic problem I have is that in attacking the President in such a personal way, as I see people do from time to time, the impression is given that the attacks are not really about policy, but rather about the President himself. When I see disparaging nicknames, both for him and his supporters, I cannot help but note that there is more than a smattering of envy and maliciousness involved.
What this article does is say that many of the conservative issues that we know won't get past Daschle are doomed because of the Jeffords defection. Rather than placing blame where it belongs, on Jeffords and Daschle, the author is attempting to place the blame for the obstructed Senate on President Bush.
I guess if we elect more democrats that will teach somebody a lesson. Who, I don't know, but I am sure there is a lesson there somewhere. At least that's what I keep reading.