President Bush Addresses Democrats
on 01/03/2007 at 02:45 PM
If the Democrats let their agenda get hijacked by the left in the same manner that the Republicans let their agenda get hijacked by the right, they may go right back to sitting on the political sidelines in another two years. I am hoping that they are smarter than that. The Republicans have proven not to be.
I received a valuable education from this blog just before the election. I had it brought to my attention that I as a “RINO” (Republican In Name Only), because I was not far enough to the right on a variety of issues. I assume that there is a corresponding “DINO” label for those not far enough to the left in the Democratic Party. My hope for this election cycle, would be for these two labels to start being applied to those individuals on the far right and far left of their respective parties, instead of those of us in the middle.
Someone is not evil, just because they are on the other side of the isle. I liked what Tom Brokaw said in Gerald Ford’s eulogy…
In many ways I believe football was a metaphor for his life in politics and after. He played in the middle of the line. He was a center, a position that seldom receives much praise. But he had his hands on the ball for every play and no play could start without him. And when the game was over and others received the credit, he didn’t whine or whimper.
I typed up this comment in Word to check my spelling. I meant to attach it to the post before this. It works well here however. Don’t “Give ‘em Hell” Mr President, meet them half way and help them do what needs to be done.
But mostly have the 40 pound red VETO stamp in hand
Halfway, Yeller dawg? are you full of shit? There is no halfway with Donks. Or haven’t you been paying attention lately? Try watching TV and see Cindy Sheehan and her lunatic friends shout down even their own friends in the capital?
You’re backing the wrong horse, dawg. Get a clue.
Time to start a letter writing campaign to tell your elected officials at local, state, and federal levels to cooperate so as to better serve the American people. If someone is a speed bump then vote him out during the next election cycle.
Yellow, I think you’re seeing the balance beam but not how much the fulcrum has been moved. A lot of us are annoyed at the Repubs not because they weren’t conservative enough, but because they weren’t conservative AT ALL. The problem with meeting the Dems in the middle of the road is that a very large part of their party has gone so far past the opposite curb that they have moved the street. This shifts all the cars on it and makes the riders carsick. Today’s Republicans would have been seen as center-left Democrats just two generations ago. Today’s centrist Dems are blatant socialists if your viewfinder is set on 1962. Fascists if you think in terms of 1942. The far left (nanny-state, no borders, government involved in every aspect of your life, America is the root of all evil always, heavily tax anyone who earns more than “average") are this close to being bomb throwing communists. Until about 1980, those people were called enemies.
Oh, and yellow? I don’t think the GOP agenda was hijacked by the far right at all. Actually its the exact opposite: they abandoned the far right as fast as they could. They got in power with Newt’s Contract With America, which was soon violated and forgotten. They spent money and grew the government faster than that socialist FDR ever did. They let shitstain turd-world foreigners abuse us at will. Etc, etc, et al.
True conservatism isn’t about repression, or prudishness, or keeping the masses down. It’s about being a constructionist and accepting the moralality and responsibility that goes with that.
