So W, trying to rescue his own political ass goes on TV last night and promises a chicken in every pot. Only his backers, smelling the burnt toast that his presidency is say: "Whoa. We aint chippin' in." http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/16/p...da6e9d718&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss Has there ever been a conservative President, who didn't believe in government, that was such a free spender? Timberrrrr.....
This is going to be like New Deal 2 (and I'm not a big fan of it). Except that Bush's own party is gunna say "No Dice", especially the people he stomped on along the way, like SD Reep Sen John Thune.
Daschle would have saved that military base. SD elected an incompetent and and now I'm happy to see them pay for it.
Looks like a lose/lose scenario for the GOP in '06. Either their congressional candidates stick with Bush and risk getting hammered by their constituencies by association, or they run from him like they stole something. Either way, party strength suffers.
Not necesarily. Bush is proposing merely what government is supposed to do if a disaster of this magnitude strikes. You can be against big government, but if you have common sense you can still understand the need for government involvement in this particular type of situation. If congressional republicans (and democrats too) are willing to give up their hard earned 'pork' and work together to put all that money towards helping the victims of the hurricane and the rebuilding process, they will not only be doing the right thing but I think it will also help them politically. But I wouldn't bet on them doing it. Most politicians don't think that way.
The king is dead! Iraq and Katrina will be remembered as the reasons for the fall of the Conservative Empire. The base is crumbling. And continuing on the Roman Empire analogy, watch the base go ballistic over immigration - among other things.
Yeah, it does seem like Bush has lost Congress over this. Next three years are going to be brutal for Bush.
Hmmm...seems like a good time for BushCo to start screaming about gay marriage again, or maybe a flag burning amendment....or both....
Before we start getting all self-satisfied and declare Bush's rule dead. . . Let's get our head out of our asses, Lefty Liberal Moonbats. If Bush & the Republican Party DOES, in fact, start to falter, we need to be organized and ready with plans and new ideas. We need to stick to the facts, and stick to what the American people want from a Government. Bush's speech writer did a smart thing in how he handled the race issue - he admitted it, made if official, but didn't beat it to death. He moved the conversation forward. If Democrats, instead, go back to sinking everyone in a giant swamp of blame and anger, we're just gonna end up back where we were - the minority party. I'm not saying we need to dump our values, I'm saying we need to stay on message. It's about the Security of our Nation, stupid. The Democratic party has been handed a golden opportunity - Bush's Department of Homeland Security failed on a grand scale and at a very deep-seeded level. They failed to have an organized response to the disaster. That's the issue. Everything else is gravy.
BushCo will do everything with tax increases. I wonder when they will address the tax cuts. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050916/ap_on_go_pr_wh/katrina_bush;_ylt=Aqc11D1L3Gk9iTI4B9rYx5Ks0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--
Fixed. Bush is not a fiscal conservative in any way or shape. He has never been in the past five years.
'Nuts don't want to spend the money, and I think my fellow 'bats don't trust Bush to spend the money wisely. Eight billion up and vanished in Iraq - that would be enough to rebuild New Orleans on the moon. On top of that, I've been convinced by Mike Segroves that New Orleans as we knew it was untenable. The French Quarter and business districts survived, sure, but the Port is fighting nature. We need a long-term plan down there, as well as short-term relief. If we're going to WPA New Orleans - and we have to have SOME kind of port and oil facilities down there - we shouldn't screw it up.
Neglecting the fact that he's the scion of an old-money New England family who attended prep school (prep school!) in Massachusetts, as well as Yale and Harvard and that his "ranch" is a campaign prop that was purchased in 1999, there's the small issue that George W. Bush couldn't hold LBJ's jock.
What's funny is that the Republican Congress has done such a great job cutting wasteful spending out of the budget that I figured we. [giggle]. . . we'd . .[giggle, giggle] sorry, I just couldn't stop laughing at what I was writing. . .