Posted on 06/03/2002 10:04:46 AM PDT by hchutch
Just the headline
i care nothing about my credibility with you.
and, fyi, i read deb's posts and i disagree with her.
Everything she stated about the FBI was the truth...
What do you think all the hoopla about the guideline changes at the FBI was all about?
My guess it will get so bad and deteriorate to the point where it will get pulled before morning...
It's a horde of political good will, still in the high 70s, a modest retreat from those heady 90+ days, but look at all we've gotten for spending those 12 points so judiciously. Look how the Dems have absolutely CAVED on our issues!
The lesson that Bush the Elder didn't learn was that when you have 80% or 90% approval, you can't bank it, you binge.... gamble.... go for broke.
Because in the end you'll be broke or out to pasture anyway.
Political capital is nothing like financial capital, for it often accrues through spending and has a shelf-life that can't be ignored.
He's winning in his foreign policy postures as his administration is breaking the code of the "evil doer" network and he will eventually successfully bring them down. And in the meantime, domestically, he has developed a much more modern playbook that certainly has successfully blocked and muzzled the old left's stale and predictable political maneuvering. Each time the left gathers strength to rise up with over confidence, Bush easily swats them away like pesky mosquitos.
The fact that some of the twists to the left and slides to the center domestically are like rubbing salt into the wounds of conservative principles and visions.
Beats me, though, really what is going on, but in the final analysis, IMHO, President Bush is thinking long range and lasting legacy in his ardent and fervent protection of America against the "evil doers" and thinking short term on the domestic perhaps to get us into the election with a winning opportunity to win stunningly more republican seats in Congress.
It is not as easy to frankly know what is going on, as Rush states, we aren't in planning meetings with the President, and without him actually sitting down and telling conservatives just what the heck is going on around here, who knows? But, he is perfectly clear about the present dangers America faces from her enemies. Even most of the left is aware of this first and foremost fact after picking themselves up again for their next attempt in trying to lower the President's popularity. To date, they have failed miserably.
I consider this statement ridiculous. According to you logical and restrained policies can not be applies by Republican administrations because they democrats don't like them. Can I infer that illogical and unrestrained policy making would make you happy?
Bush has also left our borders wide open to terrorists, continues to allow immigration from Muslim nations that harbor terrorism, refuses to enforce our nation's immigration laws, keeps an open borders libertarian in charge of the INS, has banned profiling in airports, pursues amnesty for lawbreaking illegal aliens, allows Mexico to mettle in our domestic affairs and otherwise push us around.
Can I assume from this that you're not a libertarian? LOL. I agree that "illegal" immigration is a problem that has to be dealt with now. I also agree that searching Grannies, thats my wife, shoes when she is an American Army vet and grandmother of 5 while not paying closer attention to men between the ages of 17 and 45 of Middle Eastern descent does not make a helluva lot of sense.
When it comes to protecting Americans against terrorism and standing up for our sovereignty as a nation Bush is about as wimpy as they come.
Tell that to the dead skells pushing up poppies in Afghanistan.
With what do you disagree?
1. The Supreme Court won't void all of CFR, and it's all bad.
2. Bush could have sustained a veto if he'd tried.
3. Further ground was given on the principle that it is acceptable for the government to limit free speech under the guise of campaign finance regulation. We'll bleed for that turf later.
If they don't then they will with anything that means anything...
3. Further ground was given on the principle that it is unacceptable for the government to limit free speech under the guise of campaign finance regulation. We'll bleed for that turf later.
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