Why Bush isn't happy about an all-GOP Congress (Truly pathetic)

The Buffalo News | 11/17/02 | Robert Reich

[eleni121]

He really needs to grow up/grow.

[WOSG]

The problem in 1994 to 1996 was not trying to do too much, it was simply that we were facing a man desperate to do anything for another 4 years. It was really a failure by the GOP in Congress to match the Clinton spin machine. The attacks on Newt could not be countered because the media just played along and underwrote many of the CLinton attacks.

Yet, in the end, what did the GOP Congress lose? 6 seats in 1996 for being too bold? They held the House *every term since*!!! And they lost more after timidness (1998,2000) than boldness.


I feel the FAR GREATER error is doing too little than too much. But it is more important to communicate your intentions, support your positions, ie make the case for you policies, fulfill them and to do what you promise. Overpromising is wrong; overdelivering is a virtue.

[eleni121]

The average Republican lives and breathes the political center - exactly where he should be. Right wing means nothing to the conservative republican except to the disillusioned and dimocrats like you.

[Hildy]

"BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD," Dr. Eville.

[ErinsDaddy]

A pathetic little piece by a pathetic little man.

And he's short too!

He's less than short, he's a munchkin!

We are the lollipop kids, lollipop kids, lollipop kids!

[goldstategop]

Yes, you have to wonder where Robert Reichhhhhhh left his brains when he wrote this hash of an article. Its funny as hell but between the beginning and the conclusion, there's not one worth of truth to it. The Dems, now that they're out of power, have in their desperation, been reduced to out and outright lying about the President's character and his record. All this from the party of Clinton and from a little man who couldn't win the primary for governor in a state so safely Democratic a liberal troll like Reichhhhhhhh should be able to win there in a cakewalk. It turned out he couldn't. He should really shove his advice to President Bush about how winning is really losing and now you have the whole tar baby. Bwahahaha!!! Liberals are funny out of power and right now in the making is another Rush Limbaugh gem.

[phothus]

Funny, he must have really thought that all that campaigning would hurt the Republican Senate candidates...

The sad part here is that the people in the Clinton White-house sat around thinking of ways to position themselves so they wouldn't have to take action because they thought it would help them get elected. Bush is just the opposite, he wants to do the right thing to help the country and knew that he couldn't do that without a Republican Congress. They're confused because doing something simply because they think it's the right thing is utterly foreign to them.

[ApesForEvolution]

Reich trips on acid between lucid spells...

[stands2reason]

"Dear non-denominational Santa, I've been relatively good, please oh please oh please bring me a pony and a horrible economy and lots of death in Iraq so Bush loses."

ROFLMAOCB!!!! (can't breathe...)

[AFPhys]

Yes, the president campaigned like mad for Republican candidates. But that doesn't mean he wanted all of them to win

You have got to be kidding me! My sister-in-law, while not being a koolaid-drinking clintonoid, really loves this guy, and thinks he is one of the brightest bulbs on this rock. She took one of his classes once upon a time. I still haven't seen a lot of evidence that he is anything but a typical liberal professor type, and they are a dime a dozen around here, and very few even know how to think at all.

Sorry, sir, but this President knows what he wants, and works to get it. If he didn't want Republican support, he would have been chopping wood at the ranch.

The Demodogs are pathetic now. It is amazing that they are so constitutionally incapable of figuring out what is going on. Only when they can attract less voters than the Greens and Libertarians will they realize the voters no longer want what they have been marketing with their dirty tactics so long. That comment is not meant to say I believe the war is over; only that the outcome is no longer in doubt.

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