[Karsus]

Damnit. Wanting the goverment to get out of peoples lives, wanting the goverment to shrink/cut spending/waste, and wanting to do away with the IRS makes you a LIBERAL DEMOCRAT NOW???

[Howlin]

That's not what I said.......but your response sure does LOOK like a liberal answer to my statement to you.

There are plenty of people who will willing you quote you chapter and verse about Bush's views on those questions.

But THIS thread is not about that; it's a live thread about a Bush speech on affirmative access; you're disrupting it.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn't like it. "Compromise" was a dirty word to them and they wouldn't face the fact that we couldn't get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don't get it all, some said, don't take anything. "I'd learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: 'I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.'

"If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that's what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.

~~ Ronald Reagan, in his autobiography, An American Life