[Kermit]

On the War on (some) Terrorism Bush is half-right. He makes an exception for Palestinian Terror. His tax cut plan was pitiful. On missile defense he's been good. On everything else, Bush has been bad news: Campaign Finance Reform, education, foreign aid, environment, war on drugs and the steel tariff. Them's the facts.

[CaptBlack]

On the War on (some) Terrorism Bush is half-right. He makes an exception for Palestinian Terror. His tax cut plan was pitiful. On missile defense he's been good. On everything else, Bush has been bad news: Campaign Finance Reform, education, foreign aid, environment, war on drugs and the steel tariff. Them's the facts.

Amen!

[LS]

This is a pretty bogus and simplistic account of everything. I am VERY pleased with the "war on terror," but I'll be the first to say that we can't MEASURE the effectiveness of this for years, and WHO KNOWS where the Palestinian issue will be when Bush is ready to deal with it?

In WW II, we completely ignored Japanese garrisons on some islands and in China---not because they weren't the enemy, but because our resources were needed elsewhere. That is the case with the Palestinians. So I give Bush an A+ on the war, which is THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE FACING US.

On abortion, in those areas where Bush has had executive authority, his administration has done more to roll abortion back than Reagan and Bush 1 put together. That's an A+.

On taxes, he got what he could get. Do you SERIOUSLY think that a Reagan-type cut was possible? If you do, you are deluded. For reality, that rates a B.

On ed, as I have argued elsewhere, the bill introduces two conservative concepts: it sends power to the states, and it introduces ACCOUNTABILITY---something the unions have fought against for decades. There is also a small window---that will become a canyon after the USSC ruling in June---for vouchers. I give that bill, in terms of its potential, a B.

Amnesty? "D." The intent to keep families together has to merit SOME applause, but apparently keeping Hispanic families together is not important to conservatives.

[carenot]

What you said.