Bush did not use the bully pulpit. He let dashole & gephardt play their little games and said nothing. He let the dems hold up his judicial appointments and said nothing.
He should have let the public know the dems are obstructionists.
Either republicrats do not know how to play the political game or they are just clones of the dems. I'm fed up with both parties. Neither of them have any honorable people within their ranks. They swore to uphold the Constitution and have continously violated their oath.
It's amazing how many people want to criticize politicians for "lacking principles," yet don't run themselves. And, when they do, poet, suddenly THEY "have no principles." Funny, isn't it?
If you want to tell me that J.D. Hayworth and J.C. Watts and my own Dave Hobson and Rob Portman have no principles, then you live on a different planet than I do. I KNOW some of these people and you don't know what you are talking about.