[RLK]

And he offered them concession after concession.

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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.

[My2Cents]

Ordinarily I'd agree with you. But Geo. W. Bush has achieved something even the Great Reagan did not achieve -- Republican majorities in both houses of Congress. I'm not willing to call Bush's approach a failure. The fact that the Democrats have been about as nasty as they can be, and it's been futile in terms of their megalomaniacal goals impresses me in terms of how Bush has been able to tie them into knots with velvet gloves.

[arkfreepdom]

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.

Where's the sarcasm-off. You can't possibly be this clueless. He has made, many "backbone" decisions...the economic plan this week the most recent and busting his butt to get pubs elected in 2002. The latter decision was argued against by many because of the obvious risks...the main one being loss of political capital if unsuccessful. It was also a payback to dasshole. I can understand disagreeing with W on issues but saying he doesn't have a spine is....well...dimocratish. Pardon the neologism.

[trebb]

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.

I have to disagree - President Bush made a campaign promise that he would do his best to bring both sides of the aisle together in a non-partisan cooperation. That's exactly what he tried to do with a quid-pro-quo set of agreements. The only problem is that there is no honor among the DemocRats - they reneged and stabbed him in the back. You can be sure that he remembers this and will make them eat their own sh*t, only he will feed it to them one finesse at a time.

[section9]

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

[baseballmom]

Since the day he began running for the office I have never heard anything forceful or incisive from him.

Then you are not listening.

[Uncle Bill]

"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."

Exactly right. His character evaluation is stunning though.

"And then, of course, there's Senator Edward Kennedy. And the folks at the Crawford Coffee Shop would be somewhat shocked when I told them I actually like the fellow. He is a fabulous United States senator."
George W. Bush - Source.

"And he offered them concession after concession."

The compassionate conservative concessionaire:

"A Bush administration insider has privately leaked word that a deal was struck between Democratic congressional leaders and the Bush White House not to prosecute Bill and/or Hillary Clinton on an array of charges"

[swheats]

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.

[america-rules]

"You do the same thing Reagan did"

Name 3 things Reagan did besides the first tax breaks and increased military spending?

Tip O'Neil ran all over Reagan and once the Senate went to the Rates in 84 he was a lame duck for the next 6 years ! He had to make a deal for everything ! The list of non-conservative things Reagan went along with is several pages long so don't think it would be any different with Bush?

I remember thinking about Reagan with distain back then like some of the 1 percenters think about Bush II here on FR. Looking back I was a fool.

[Paulus Invictus]

Then you are asleep! Or a RAT. Or blind deaf and dumb.