Posted on 03/16/2006 11:56:08 PM PST by EternalVigilance
President Bush's troubles with congressional Republicans, which erupted during the backlash to the Dubai seaport deal, are rooted in policy frustrations and personal resentments that GOP lawmakers say stretch back to the opening days of the administration.
For years, the Bush White House and its allies on Capitol Hill seemed like one of the most unified teams Washington had ever seen, passing most of Bush's agenda with little dissent. Privately, however, many lawmakers felt underappreciated, ignored and sometimes bullied by what they regarded as a White House intent on running government with little input from them.
Often it was to pass items -- an expanded federal role in education under the No Child Left Behind law and an expensive prescription drug benefit under Medicare -- that left conservatives deeply uneasy. What Bush is facing now, beyond just election-year jitters by legislators eyeing his depressed approval ratings, is a rebellion that has been brewing since the days when he looked invincible, say many lawmakers and strategists.
Newly unleashed grievances could signal even bigger problems for Bush's last two years in office, as he would be forced to abandon a governing strategy that until recently counted on solid support from congressional Republicans.
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Thanks, B4. I refuse to get into it with mm any further.
Vigilante was the first one that broke my heart.
David Frum reading regular traditional conservatives out of HIS Republican Party a couple of years before, just made me mad.
Vigilante was called by HIMSELF. Which is why I was so shocked and hurt.
And your taking the work of the New York Post about Thune vs. the WH admin?
Gimme a break.
Not unless you provide names and dates.
As long as Fred is "tanned, rested and ready" for 2008.... :)
Name something else.
I was distracted by another thread about the 2008 presidential race, which I thought I was responding to.
Weird.
:o)
The current White House political director, at the 2000 GOP convention.
Their attitude towards conservatives in the party is hardly something new.
Any President who has more compassion for these predatory illegal aliens and raghead arab muslims than he does for American citizens doesn't rate too awful high on my charts. His idea of a modern Patriot is someone who is willing to die fighting for Irans freedom. A US Border Patrol Agent fighting to secure our borders is just another nuisance to his globalism plans in his mind. Sad, to say the least.
You obviously know nothing about the Minutemen and what has been going on down on the border for the last year.
Can you name one vigilante action taken by the Minutemen?
S'okay. Fred Thompson is my secret dream candidate. :-)
Of course, you are setting up a strawman here, but it does allow you to exhibit your bigotry against Arabs.
I still think it's a good idea.
Only this time he should be leading the GOP ticket.
:0)
Give me a quote.
Their attitude towards conservatives in the party is hardly something new."
IIRC, in our last exchange you claimed to have worked very hard for the Bush campaign. That claim seems to be very odd with this admission.
No. I don't think the Minutemen are vigilantes. I do agree with the President that vigilantiism is not the way to go.
Why? The hacks in the GOP have patronized and insulted conservatives no matter how much we've helped them. It's simple.
How disingenous of you. That is not what the President said, and you know it.
So is this the daily Dump On Bush Thread, inhabited by the usual malcontents?
Provide the quote, and I will see if I misunderstood it.
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