Posted on 06/08/2002 4:53:49 AM PDT by TomGuy
Secondly, this is no time to undermine the man's authority. The world is watching and deciding if he has the power to carry out his threats. When they see his own country expressing doubts about his moral authority then they may decide that he won't be able to punish them if they defy us. This puts our men on the front lines at greater risk and it definitely gives the terrorists the idea that maybe they can attack us on our own land without retribution.
Third, the goal is to regain the Senate, win a second term, and get some honorable judges on the bench.
It's always confused me that so many missed the point of this bill. Bush always said that vouchers or other remedial options would take effect after 3 years of trying to improve. He didn't get the voucher word into the legislation, but he did get the accountability provisions.
If all the schools perform up to standards in 3 years, vouchers or other remedies will be a moot point. If they don't, then we will be discussing the money allocation again. But first we have to know which schools are failing.
LOL!
*Wiping away tears....* I guess you Bush bashers have some redeeming values.:-).
And yes, Bush is not a purist conservative. No purist conservative could ever have a prayer of winning the Presidency. He is a conservative politician. Politicians make compromises in order to win and in order to govern effectively.
Luckily, he is a very savvy politician, so he has not needed to compromise as much the average politician does. And if Jeffords and McCain hadn't been Clymers, he wouldn't have made as many compromises as he has.
P.S. The Congress, who are the elected representatives of we the people, nationalized airport security. President Bush advised them against it, and they didn't take his advice.
And he used that position to do some very gutsy things.
1. nixed Kyoto
2. withdrew from the ABM treaty, and insisted on building missile defense system
3. drew a line in the sand over ICC
4. enunciated the Bush Doctrine, that terrorist organization of global reach (meaning representing a direct threat to the U.S.A.) and those that harbor them were going to pay.
He has done some other good things, but those things were gutsy and principled in my opinion.
This means the Bush Bashers here are not the 1 percenters like before 2000 but are now the 4 percenters !
This means you have not been paying attention to the news.
Al-Queada is still in existence. And Bin Laden is still alive.
I think that is hardly the definition of "toast." When you start a job, you finish it.
You had better just hope and pray to God YOU are not standing at the next Ground Zero.
...only to order Israel not to follow it. Condemns Bin-Lauden as a terrorist, and Arafat as a diplomat! Anyone else see a problem with this so called Doctrine? Its as hollow as a Bush promise,(which seems to have as much weight as a Clinton promise lately) and its these breaking of promises to the base that got him in thats reflecting on his poll numbers!
4. enunciated the Bush Doctrine, that terrorist organization of global reach (meaning representing a direct threat to the U.S.A.) and those that harbor them were going to pay.
I would have marked the whole post off as a non-sequitur.
As Bill Clinton so finely demonstrated, saying and doing are two different things. Based on what I have seen, I would say wholeheartedly Bush has backed away from his own policy.
Would you be able to comment on this or any of the other points I have brought up in this thread thus far??
I'd like to live in your world. Truth is, we've over 700,000 NGOs operating from within the US, most on the left, ABA (who Bush kicked out..along with NOW), NEA, AFL/CIO, NAACP, NOW, AP, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, NYT, WP, XXX-42, DNC, DU, PFAW, ACLU...we pretty much just mind our own business while they've been busy infiltrating our infrastructures until we now have a truly unbalanced and rude group of unelected folks influencing policy...and these folks know they're unaccountable to anyone.
About Johnny Jihad, the Bush administration is most definitely working to get info from terrorists in spite of the left and libertarian attempts to bash them for racial profiling and abusing civil liberties, but more folks are interested in believing press lies spin than the facts.
Check:
Lawsuit Abuse: " Trial lawyers are robbing decent, honest, Americans of their money, trust, freedom and peace of mind."
See also: Protecting the trial lawyer monopoly
www.overlaywered.com.
Conservatives attacked Reagan for not being able to get past the Rats in DC. If Reagan had a tough time with the organized crime machine on the left during relative peace, why do we lose focus on our real, many enemies in a more corrupt America during wartime against the nastiest group of thugs we've ever faced?
Losing by Winning?
Clinton's approval ratings indicated to me that three-fourths of Americans are non-sentient. I can forgive the American people for supporting Bill Clinton, but I can never forget how stupid they were for doing so.
Would you? What kind of world do you live in now? One where there is not going to be, with an absolute certainty, another attack upon Americans on US soil?
Only fools believe that.
I live in the real world, and I am not afraid to be realistic in matters such as this.
About Johnny Jihad, the Bush administration is most definitely working to get info from terrorists in spite of the left and libertarian attempts to bash them for racial profiling and abusing civil liberties, but more folks are interested in believing press spin than the facts.
And you know this because.....?
Bush's duty is to look after the interests of the U.S. first, not the interests of Israel first. He has never said that Israel is not a sovereign nation that must implement his every whim just on his say-so. He enunciates positions vis-a-vis their problems that he believes are in the best interests of the U.S., but has not threatened force if they do not agree with us and do otherwise.
At the moment the Palestinians per se are not 'proved' to be involved in plots to harm Americans on American soil. Hamas and Hezbollah and other groups are on our terrorist list, and they are also a threat to Israel, and although they most likely have ties to Arafat, the U.S., as far as I know, doesn't have proof of this of sufficient weight to justify a unilaterally attack on him by the U.S.
So far, our President has never personally spoken to Arafat, let alone shaken his hand, nor has Laura kissed his wife on the cheek. His opinion of Arafat could hardly be lower, but he is looking out for the best interests of the United States of America. You may believe he has it wrong, but he does not believe that the pretext exists yet for the U.S. to attack or condone attacks on the person of Arafat.
If Arafat is tied to a plot to harm Americans on American soil, this will turn on a dime.
I firmly believe that we are getting our ducks in a row to do things that will prove Bush, far from backing away from his own policy, has every intention of blowing these people away.
But we cannot take on 60 countries all at once. And often it is more politic for us to use surrogates, who may not be as competent....like the attack on the terrorists holding the Burnhams hostage showed.
Sorry it's not on TV right now for your viewing pleasure, but Republicans like to wage wars in effective ways that do not carelessly expend the lives of our soldiers. It isn't always as exciting as the body counts the Dems rack up.
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