Posted on 03/26/2002 3:28:09 PM PST by TLBSHOW
I'm reading a Time magazine Reporters' Notebook column and I tell you, I could have written this piece. Is this not amazing? The Boston Globe also has a column on Bush going along with so much of the Democrat agenda, suggesting it's for 2004, not 2002 as is the conventional wisdom. George Will has a column on this same topic, asking why Bush is giving in. Bill Bennett and Charles Krauthammer are also going the same way.
So I think some of you who have been telling me to shut up about my criticism of Bush have a lot of other people to write and tell to shut up. You might want to call or write and ask them to be quiet, because there seems to be a growing chorus of criticism. Yeah, I know, I started it. Is that right? Oh, I'm the one that paved the way? Yeah, yeah, it's my fault. I gave everybody the "go" sign. I made it okay for everybody to ask why the president has stopped pushing his agenda during the war, when, say, FDR pushed the New Deal through during WWII.
It's always going to fall back to me. I'm going to be the one responsible for it all happening since I'm the point man. I led off. But is Time magazine taking cues from me? I mean, they've written the same story that I've been doing since the stimulus package days, and it's quite illustrative of things. There are quite a few of these stories out there that are examining the political strategery of the Bush White House on the domestic agenda side versus the war side, and examining how they're doing and what they're doing and what it's all aimed at.
I just want to prepare you for it, because I know a lot of you think that there's been too much criticism here. We even read that the Democrats are emboldened, and will ask for even more money to buy votes. They know the president won't spend his political capital! This is frustrating, because you hear people saying Bush can do no wrong, so he should do what's right!
I know Bush is trying to get a workable majority in Congress, but this acting defensively to take issues away from the Democrats is not the way to do it. Even those "normal people" on the Jerry Springer Show, an e-mailer tells me, cheer Bush during the show. That's probably scripted, but there it is. They know it!
Gingrich wasn't upset at all.
Yeah and they said the same about Reagan.
This Gingrich you keep bringing up. Was he not the guy who had to give up his postion in congress because.... And was he the guy who was cheating on his wife or some such thing. Why would you use his statements to back up anything? He is just one of the same crew. Crooked as the rest.
They already have. They just call themselves Republicans for looks.
I don't listen to Rush much anymore but he used to joke about who he would have to kick around after Clinton was gone. For his show to succeed he must have controversy to stir up the faithful. You see the same with what's his name that files lawsuits against his mother. He went from suing Clinton to suing Bush. He cares not where the donations come just so they come.
Well now. That we have in common.
Scary for me is if this is the real him, not just him being political to gain a senate majority and a second term. What if this is the real GWB?
Not that he isn't a million times better than X42, but is he a million times better than Gore?
He should slap himself across the face a few times and shake himself out of what he's gotten himself into and get back to the conservative business of righting this crooked immoral sinking ship that Clinton and company built.
That's exactly what he's doing. He's out-libbing the liberals and there is no honor or integrity in that.
Friend, I didn't learn what I know about the constitution from a place mat in Denny's as you seem to have. The Constitution put into place 3 co-equal branches of Government with SPECIFIC powers granted to each. When the constitution was being debated there was STRONG opposition to giving the executive the veto at all. In the end they decided to grant the veto but to limit it to the term of office of the person elected. They also granted the USSC the power to declare law and executive actions unconstitutional. If you don't like the process take it up with the founders. The concept of an imperial president was the one thing all the founders agreed was to be avoided at all costs.
I take it you are a Rushbot? Rush is a funny man that loves to stir the pot. That is why he makes the big bucks.
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