Saw Donald Trump on Fox and Friends this morning. Asked what you do when you have defeated your opponent, do you make nice, extend an olive branch...etc... He said CRUSH THEM. ~I Agree~ .. The Senate must seize on this opporunity, and NOT squander another session trying to be liked by the likes of Pelosi, Kennedy, etc. Everytime a hand was extended, the bit and spit. So.. GOVERN ON PUBBIES!
What I hear coming from the dems is, to my mind, hilarious. They are saying, essentially, you won so you had better reach out to us and give us some power or we will continue to pout and obstruct. They sound like 7 year olds.
Be polite and smile, but get the agenda into motion. Change cloture rules in the Senate and get conservative judges on the bench.
If deep inroads in the courts are made early, the mass of the electorate will forget all about it in four years. Only the crazoids will rave about the long-term consequences. Weaning the nation from the myriad of social entitlements is a long-term project that will take time and deliberation.
It will also be necessary to secure judicial rulings that certain relics of leftist machinery in government are unconstitutional before going forward with dismantling. We'll want full participation from all branches before implementation of hot-button changes.
The war on terror is critical. But some issues, like the appointment of decent judges who follow the constitution, are even more important. In fact, these two things go together, because Bush has a duty to defend our families and our country just as he has a duty to defend our unborn children.
The Democrats have torn up our traditional society and tried to destroy it. Bush's job must be to repair it. There can be no compromise on issues of right and wrong, good and evil, life and death.
You can bet, though that they'll save their hot-air for Supreme Court nominees. I'm hoping Bush will pick really well respected strict constructivists, and fight like hell if they try to Bork them.
If they had won there would have been no talks of not having a mandate, no talks of "healing divisions"
As expected its just the usual set of tricks they pull when they lose. Hopefully the republicans won't fall for it this time.
Excellent! May it be so.
Political unity, indeed, is not an important goal in its own right. In fact, I view our country as UNITED. Yes, we have strong disagreements between the right and the left. But millions of us got out to the polls and voted. We woke up the next day and, for the most part, accepted the results. America rolls on, the greatest nation on earth.
Political disagreement is not the same thing as national division.
There is a good portion of Kerry's voters who are beyond hope, totally obsessed with their hatred of Bush, but there are many people who voted for Kerry who did so because they were swayed by the Democrats' rhetoric or unhappy with the situation in Iraq, but who earlier admired Bush's handling of the situation after 9/11. By standing true to what he believes in but in a non-arrogant way, Bush can win some of those people over.