Second, I figured out a long time ago that I'm going to agree with about 70% of the Republican agenda and about 5% of the democrats agenda. Example being welfare reform. 70% I can live with, 5% I don't want to go back there.
The bottom line is the judiciary. If the House goes back to the dems or we don't win the Senate, none of the true conservative nominees are going to get approval in the Senate. Everything else can be challenged in the courts, but if we lose the House/Senate, there's not a prayer in the world that a true conservative would make it to a Federal Appelate Court or the Supreme Court.
Does anybody honestly believe that CFR would have passed had it not been for the Enron grandstanding that's been done, primarily by the dems in congress? I don't. Does anybody honestly believe that GWB would have had to compromise on his education bill and give up on vouchers if we had control of both the House and the Senate? I don't.
I like a lot of what President Bush has done. The tax cuts, telling the Kyote (sp?) Treaty people to take a flying leap, authorizing federal dollars for stem cell research ONLY on those cells that have already been destroyed. Restoring respect to the White House. Restoring respect to our Military.
Let me tell you, these last two items go a long way in my book toward my support of President Bush. We no longer have to see slobs in sweatpants and t-shirts showing up for a meeting with x42. We no longer have to wonder about what's really going on in the Oval Office with the interns. The sinks won't have to be replaced when GWB leaves office and you can bet there won't be any pornographic pictures left on copy machines or computer and telephone equipment vandalized. The day he got off the helicopter and was trying to round up one of the dogs that wasn't behaving, and he actually came back to salute that young Marine sealed it for me. The #1 job of the Federal Government is and always has been National Defense. If the people doing the defending haven't got an ounce of respect for their CIC we're toast.
So McCain's unconstitutional legislation can be his legacy after that portion of the bill gets booted. Am I thrilled that it's apparantly not going to be vetoed? Nope!
So, are we going to complain for the next eight months and then two more years and help get Hillary or Daschle or Edwards elected? I'm not. I love a good fight, but like the President, I choose my battles or I just look like an obstructionist. Sound familiar?
I have 100% faith that if Bush can actually get support from both the House and the Senate for his agenda, you'll see the President you thought you elected on more than just respect for the military and the office he holds.
I have zero interest in doing whatever I can to vote for the likes of Buchanan or Perot or Keyes just to teach them (the Rino's) a lesson. I'd much rather focus on getting rid of the problems and taking my chances that a true conservative agenda can then take shape without a Kennedy, Daschle, Edwards road block at every turn.
/Rant off
"So, are we going to complain for the next eight months and then two more years and help get Hillary or Daschle or Edwards elected? I'm not. I love a good fight, but like the President, I choose my battles or I just look like an obstructionist."
Seems that way doesn't it? You know why? Because conservatives can be "all or nothing", "eat their own", "back stabbing", hysterical FOOLS!
President Bush is a good man. I may not agree with everything he does or understand it at the time. He has proven to me he is a brilliant, strategic politician. People can sit here and trash him till the cows come home. Democrats are quaking in their boots. They are scared to death of him, foaming at the mouth like the rabid animals they are. They are lost and don't have a game plan. He has demolished anything they had to stand on. To me, that says plenty. I'm thrilled the Dem's are wetting their pants over my old governor. I will never abandon him or the Republican Party because I got my precious, little, conservative feelings hurt.