Yes, sir! The border is being actively debated in D.C., which is a wonderful thing (I agree with Pence's plan). But you know you can't get one-issuers to focus on anything else.
Posted on 06/08/2006 5:12:02 AM PDT by FerdieMurphy
As Carole King sang thirty years ago, “It’s too late, Baby.” She was referring to romance, but in this context it is too late for Team Bush to recapture the loyalty of the conservative GOP base.
Immigration/amnesty, Dubai Ports, Harriet Meyers, Katrina, deficits and Iraq have destroyed Mr. Bush’s credibility as president. The new federal effort on gay marriage is as transparent as the dispatching of “less than 5,000 unarmed national guardsmen” to our southern border: a cosmetic ploy in a vain effort to keep the conservatives in line.
This White House just doesn’t get it. Period.
Before - when Bush was in the 50's in all national polls - he could keep the GOP in line; and the GOP was happy to follow because they were winning.
But when your leader plummets to 29% - and is voted in the latest Quinnipiac poll as the worst president since WW II - there is no hope of enforcing party discipline. Thus you see the open defiance in the House on the Bush/Senate/McCain/Kennedy amnesty for illegal immigrants. And you see Speaker Hastert basically tell off the president over the FBI raid of Representative Jefferson’s Capitol Hill office.
The internal state of the Republican Party is one of total turmoil. They are floundering - and do not know what to do to right the ship of state.
So they are - again - trying to federalize a state issue: marriage.
Since when did we conservatives believe the federal government should usurp state’s rights? This is yet another example of the Bush Big Government philosophy changing the basic tenets of the Republican Party. The Bushes - believers in a Big Federal Government - have become the un-conservatives: a huge Department of Education, a bloated and ridiculous Department of Homeland Security, massive deficits, a new ‘entitlement’ - prescription drugs, a never-ending war that has morphed into the dreaded ‘nation-building’ and on and on and on.
After all of that, why would conservatives happily re-join Team Bush just because he mouths a few platitudes about an issue a close friend of his tells Newsweek, “He doesn’t give a s*** about”?
Both George Bushes - father and son - tried to portray themselves as conservatives; both were cynical manipulators who cleverly used symbols - pork rinds, country music, a phony ‘ranch’ with no animals - to hide their Rockefellerism belief in massive federal power, especially when they control that power.
But it is indeed “too late.” GW Bush’s credibility is shot; his power eroded; his ability to influence events virtually gone.
His own arrogance and ignorance caused his downfall. He was too arrogant to listen when warned about the impending fiasco in Iraq; and he was too ignorant - and lazy - to study history to see what lay ahead in a war such as this.
The result?
A presidency deteriorating right before our eyes. Never - even under the inept Carter or the corrupt Nixon - have we seen a self-immolation quite like this. And we still have 2 ½ years to go!
The Republican Party is a mess; the Democrats are horrible and should never be trusted again.
No wonder more and more people are calling for a Third Party. Or, as has been written in this space for more than a year, an Independent Third Candidate who runs against both parties.
That may indeed happen in ‘08. But that is a long, long way away.
First comes a major battle: where is the heart of the Republican Party? Is it for someone like McCain - a Teddy Kennedy in GOP clothing?
Or is there another Ronald Reagan true-blue conservative out there somewhere who wants to re-take our party and put it back on conservative principles?
That is the key question today.
Katrina and Iraq (up to this point) should have had nothing to do with the slide in the president's popularity. The others can be laid at his doorstep.
The White House got Zarqawi. With a lot of help from their friends on the ground, in the air and at sea of course.
John LeBoutillier thinks the MSM's negative spinning on
Immigration/amnesty, Dubai Ports, Harriet Meyers, Katrina, deficits and Iraq have destroyed Mr. Bush’s credibility as president?????
What a wuss!!
Really? Which member of the WH staff was in the planes, on the ground or even at the planning meeting of the bombing raid? Was GW there?
What a load......
Start shipping the illegals back --- now!
And Dubai Ports. If we'd broken our deal on Dubai Ports, all the IOUs that the US is giving out around the world would have been worthless.
This sums it up, though...
Both George Bushes - father and son - tried to portray themselves as conservatives; both were cynical manipulators who cleverly used symbols - pork rinds, country music, a phony ‘ranch’ with no animals - to hide their Rockefellerism belief in massive federal power, especially when they control that power.
The load is in your pants. The freaking White House has taken a lot of heat for their continued determination in fighting jihadists in Iraq. I already credited the men and women on the ground. So kiss my ass, I've had it with pantloads like you.
I seem to recall that this guy has ALWAYS hated Bush.
Harriet Meyers = Harriet Meirs.
Bush ordered it.
As shown in the latest special election in California the off year election is not going to be a referendum on George Bush. If Republican candidates position themselves on the right side of the issues they will win. If they don't, they won't. Bush's popularity or approval rating is not going to be a factor. Let's just hope the Dems don't wake up and realize it.
Yeah, but you credited the WH first. Get over yourself. Bush is a failure as far as domestic policy is concerned. He's a freakin' liberal as far as domestic policy is concerned.
Amen, they act just like those fools over at DU, To hell with all of them
Bid deal. You or I could have "ordered" it.
The one I'm most angry about right now is the failure to immediately, that's IMMEDIATELY........... END THE DEATH TAX !
Bill Archer and the Republican Congress are rolling over for the Democrats on this issue. If we can't get anything done when we control the Presidency and both Houses, why in the hell should we continue to work for the election of these worthless clowns ?
I'm completely fed up !
george bush didn't conjure up katrina either but you libs blame him anyway......speak out of both sides of yer mouth....just like ann says....:-)
Regards.
Yes, sir! The border is being actively debated in D.C., which is a wonderful thing (I agree with Pence's plan). But you know you can't get one-issuers to focus on anything else.
No chance of that. The Dems are blinded by their hatred of Bush, making all sorts of judgement blunders. but YIKES!!! We are doing the same thing. I guess the leadership of the House and Senate will be decided by which side turns out to be the least stupid.
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