Dear hearts, that is not the way a strong and competent president works. You do the same thing Reagan did. You make your argument in such a way that it is overwhelming and then take it to the people. Bush hasn't the prerequisite study, the intellect, or the spine to do it. Since the day he began running for the office I have never heard anything forceful or incisive from him.
Sir, your post is as fatuous as it is puerile. You did the same thing yesterday, and 24 hours appears to have changed the nature of your responses.
Bush was thinking in larger terms than simple partisanship in the wake of the attacks on America. That's why he threw the goodies at the Dems. It is not his fault that they reverted to their craven selves.
Reagan never confronted this kind of challenge. Bush has, and has done rather well. The Soviets that Reagan confronted were rational men who cared about perpetuating their power. The al-Qaeda who we confront today want to kill us all. That is an entirely different personality than your garden variety Party Hack who's puttering along salivating after his retirement to a dascha.
Your assessment of Bush is simple to refute. One wonders why you even opened your piehole to make such an ass of yourself in a short period of time.
If Bush is so stupid, why do we have a Senate majority? Why isn't that smart guy, Tom Daschle, running rings around him?
If he is so spineless, why has Bush renominated Charles Pickering? Why will Bush renominate Priscilla Owen and Miguel Estrada?
If Bush has no vision, why has he been the driving force behind a worldwide campaign to destroy three regimes: our friend Saddam, the Iranian theocracy, and the regime of Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang.
I'm sorry if Bush hasn't brought back flogging yet, so I guess you'll have to settle for the monthly offal that those ass-clowns at Chronicles magazine put out. However, the fact that you haven't heard anything forceful from Bush since he began his run at the Presidency tells the rest of us one thing: not only have you not been listening, you don't even want to hear.
Anyway, I won't be wasting my time on you again. You are as I described you: a reflexive Bush-basher. As such, your posts have all the intellectual currency of the Collected Works of Maxine Waters.
Now put a sock in it, unless you're willing to come up with something better than casual assertions based on your own biases.
Remember: Saying so does not Make it so.
Be Seeing You,
Chris