President Bush is Doing Well
November 20th, 2007 at 11:49am Mark Noonan
I guess with only a bit more than a year to go, the MSM has decided that they’d better tell a bit of the truth in order to tidy things up - don’t want to have the historians only find MSM reports at complete variance with the facts, now do they? Anyways, here is the Washington Post’s entry:
The war in Iraq seems to have taken a turn for the better and the opposition at home has failed in all efforts to impose its own strategy. North Korea is dismantling its nuclear program. The budget deficit is falling. A new attorney general has been confirmed despite objections from the left.
After more than two years of being buffeted by one political disaster after another, President Bush and his strategists think they may finally be getting back at least a bit of their footing. While still facing enormous challenges, from the crisis in Pakistan to the backlash over children’s health care, they hope Bush has arrested his downward spiral and established a better foundation for the remainder of his time in office.
In many ways, the shifting political fortunes may owe as much to the absence of bad news as to any particular good news. No one lately has been indicted, botched a hurricane relief effort or shot someone in a hunting accident. Instead, pictures from Iraq show people returning to the streets as often as they show a new suicide bombing. And Bush has bolstered morale inside the West Wing and rallied his Republican base through a strategy of confrontation with the Democratic Congress, built on the expansive use of his veto pen.
Of course, the story goes on to the obligatory reference to President Bush’s record low approval ratings…numbers I don’t entirely buy given the fact that President Bush has managed to put a backbone into the Congressional GOP; something which should not have been possible if his approval ratings were as low as stated. Unless, of course, the Democrats managed to beat just the right GOPers in 2006 - you know, our real wet noodles (and, come to think of it, we’re not burdened with Chaffee anymore…but we are still stuck with Specter).
Anyways, what we have seen since election day 2006 is a masterful political performance by a man who is still misunderestimated by his critics. You’d think that since he’s been running rings around the Democrats and the MSM since 2000 that they would finally get a clue about how over-matched they are by President Bush. But, no: they keep on as if their stories of him being stupid are true. Ah, well - it will be 50 years before a true understanding of President Bush can be presented to the American people. We of our generation with all of our passions will have to pass from the scene, and then people will be able to learn about one of America’s greatest Presidents as he really is.
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20 Comments
1. President Bush is Doing W&hellip | November 20th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
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2. DougH | November 20th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
Itt seems that Bush ddn’t fall for the line that we had to allow embyros to be used for stem cell research.
Stem cell breakthrough uses no embryos
By Gretchen Vogel
ScienceNOW Daily News
20 November 2007
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/1120/1
Don’t worry I won’t be holding my breathe waiting for some bleeding heart to say oops, they were wrong and went around misleading people
3. anarchist | November 20th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
A massive increase in the size of government of over 60%.
Two big unnecessary wars, tons of new contentions between us and other countries, and a new foreign policy based on preventive war.
Almost 3 trillion in new debt, almost 20 trillion in new liabilities.
A 40% decline in the value of the dollar.
Soft assault on civil liberties.
Great success…
4. AgentFear | November 20th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Bhwaaaaaahhaaaaahhaaaaaahaa!!!!
5. mitche | November 20th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
This is it. Are you going to trash Scott?? Or the real nefarious characters in this tragic passion play?
Cheney. Bush.And the ghost of Nixon.
You authoritarians are a scourge to America and all she has stood for.
Bush will go down in history as the most anti-american least prepaired “leader” our great nation has ever had to endure.
He will, however, be a shining example for the mentaly disabled and why they should not seek public office.
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20071120/D8T1L7L00.html
6. lenny | November 20th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
markabulous
did you see this?
or are you not a buchanan fan?
what’s your call?
Guest pundit Pat Buchanan, himself a former adviser to President Richard Nixon, agreed with Abrams’assessment.
“[Bush] is a liability to the Republican candidate next year,” said Buchanan. “I mean, Karl Rove is acting as a strategist here and he’s saying exactly what I would say, which is once that convention gets going…move away from the president and the administration. Put distance between them and make Hillary Rodham Clinton the issue and don’t let them make Bush the issue.
7. mitche | November 20th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
Hillary won’t be the nominee.
A democratic front runner will be though and what do you all think of those apples?? Especially when he she it wins???
8. neocon | November 20th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
After reading the extremely pedestrian talking points that still pass as relevant conversation amongst brain dead liberals, is it wonder Reid, Pelosi, et al have single digit approval ratings?
It matches their IQ.
9. CallMeTeach | November 20th, 2007 at 7:24 pm
First, Doug H. - There is now a blog for your topic so you should definately go express your views on this new emerging form of stem cell development. However, don’t say what you said here because in order for them to get to this point, they HAD to use embryonic stem cells for research. Secondly, it will still be some time before this will become a viable option because in order to reprogram the skin cells they have to use virus’s and cancer causing cells to do so. I think this is a great advancement that will hopefully clear the way for science and the miraculous cures that may be possible through stem cell therapy.
Now, well nobody. No lemmings to speak of thus far perhaps because it is ironic that in order for Bush to raise his approval ratings he has to start fixing what he broke. I must admit things are looking up… kind of. Iraq is looking promising (not so much in Afghanistan), North Korea did stand down, and Bush is actively working towards shutting down Guantanamo. So, it looks like he is starting to do the right things. It is worth pointing out that even though Bush gets the credit for these things, save Guantanamo, it isn’t actually him that did these. The real heroes rarely ever get credit for the great things they do. I hope things continue to get better and he is able to pass the torch to the next president who can continue to improve instead of digging out of a deep hole.
10. james allegro | November 20th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Mark, great post. Its a great feeling to know that someone who I consider a hero, is the president of our country. Aside from all of President Bush’s numerous accomplishments, he will always be that man standing on the rubble of the WTC with his arm around a fireman and a bull horn in the other, the man who stood on the mound in game 3 at Yankee Stadium to throw out the first pitch, giving the country a thumbs up while standing there like a brick wall and then throwing a perfect strike, giving his speech at the Day of National Prayer and Rememberance after 9/11 at the Washington Cathedral telling the enemy that it will end at an hour and time of our choosing and the man who in his first State of the Union on January 29, 2002, after stating the axis of evil countries gave his country their marching orders, let’s roll!! God Bless President George W. Bush, the greatest president in american history.
11. AgentFear | November 20th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
James Allegro,
YOU are my hero!
12. AgentFear | November 20th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
I’m sorry fellows, I don’t know who paid who to write this assessment for the WaPo but, the Bush administration has left the United States of America in state of ruination that will undoubtedly take many many years to recover from.
Bush is doing well? Give me a freakin break.
The great “uniter” has driven a stake between parties in this country that hasn’t been seen since the civil war.
The world’s people hold the United States of America in contempt.
He has put his (yes, HIS) Iraqi adventure on a credit card issued by China.
He has done nothing, NOTHING to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
He has left our civil liberties in tatters. Abused signing statements, wiretapped, and waterboarded.
He has left the foreign policies waste away in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, (just to name a few).
He has vetoed children’s heath care, water infrastructure, and domestic spending on health, education and jobs.
Today, Scott McClellan has stated in a book that he lied for the great decider.
What ever this Anti-Christ has touched turned to manure.
Bush is doing well?
What bizarre dimension are you visiting from?
13. Mark Noonan | November 21st, 2007 at 12:05 am
James,
I do believe he will be remembered well - certainly in the top ten. His critics have gone from foolish to absurd to rather stupid. And they still don’t let up - only a year to go and they’re hammering away at him as if it were October of 2004.
14. Mark Noonan | November 21st, 2007 at 12:07 am
Lenny,
Buchanan has been off the ranch for a while - a very disturbing thing for me to see in a fellow Irish-Catholic American. But don’t feel bad about it - he’s also off on Catholicism, too…he’s one of those who thinks that Vatican II was the Devil’s work.
At any rate, how the GOP treats President Bush in 2008 will be determined by what is happening…if President Bush is hosting a series of victory parades for our returning troops in August of 2008, then you’ll have to use riot control to keep GOPer candidates away from him…
15. diane | November 21st, 2007 at 12:13 am
James,
Your post says it all. He is my hero too.
16. neocon | November 21st, 2007 at 8:41 am
AgentFear must be one of the left most favorite pawn. This one is my favorite:
The world’s people hold the United States of America in contempt.
People like AgentSmear are the reason LA elected a Republican Governor and the reason why the GOP will win in ‘08.
They have no solutions for anything, only complaints of people who do. Their goal is to bring everyone else down into the sewer with them because they haven’t the vision nor the intellect to lift themselves out of it.
17. searp | November 21st, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Of course, covering up for the people who outed Valerie Plame will be one of the highlights of his Presidency. I like the pardon bit, personally.
I am really, really glad we have such an honest President.
18. neocon | November 21st, 2007 at 5:04 pm
Valerie who?
19. Ricorun | November 21st, 2007 at 5:10 pm
neocon: Valerie who?
Wouldn’t it be nice if that was actually a valid question.
20. neocon | November 21st, 2007 at 6:04 pm
It would be nice Rico. And if she was really worried about her identity, wouldn’t you think she would have stepped back from insisting her husband go to Niger. I mean what’s more important, her identity, or the chance to slander Bush?
Her own agenda was her downfall and I love it.