President Bush adds another victory to his string of successes. Citing the success of his surge strategy in Iraq, the president stated that by Christmas he can begin bringing home the extra troops he sent to Iraq at the beginning of the year. “By next summer, he said, “we should be back to the level we were two years ago.”
Mr. Bush’s stunning success in Iraq has been equaled in other areas. Sure, even though Bush’s FEMA director did a heck of a job after Hurricane Katrina, there was some damage inflicted on New Orleans, but you have to look at the good side: A lot of undesirables moved away, leaving it with a smaller population.
And Bush’s attorney general really cleaned up the Justice Department. He got rid of a lot of closet Democrats and others who didn’t show appropriate party loyalty. The department is a lot different from what it was six years ago.
One of the great milestones of the Bush administration has been the Orwellian Medicare prescription drug program with its irrational “donut hole” and its penalty to seniors who do not sign up for the program as soon as they’re eligible.
His one big failure was the attempt to take Social Security into some kind of private enterprise program. But you can’t say he didn’t try. If those Democrats hadn’t fought him tooth and nail, he might have succeeded even there.
As of today Bush has 496 days to occupy the White House. We hope he doesn’t have too many more successes like the ones he has had so far.
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Friday, September 14, 2007
Saturday, July 21, 2007
WHAT DOES ROMNEY REALLY BELIEVE?
MASSACHUSETTS FLIP FLOPPER
No, not John Kerry. We’re talking about that other Massachusetts flip-flopper, Mitt Romney. John McCain’s campaign is running out of steam, and we don’t know what to expect from Rudy Guiliani. But we do know what to expect from former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney: We can expect him to flip flop on issues. You remember Romney, the man who described himself as a life-long hunter, when it turned out that in his long life he had been on only two hunting trips.
It turns out that the secret of his success so far has been to flip flop on everything. In Massachusetts he presented himself as a moderate. Now he is trying to woo conservative voters by claiming to be a conservative. In 1994, while running for the U. S. Senate, he was pro-abortion, pro-homosexual rights. He said, “We seek to establish full equality for America’s gay and lesbian citizens.” Now he is anti-abortion and a strong advocate of traditional marriage. He is against adding sexual orientation to nondiscrimination laws. He has come out firmly on both sides of every issue from crop subsidies to immigration to Iraq to campaign financing to Guantanamo.
Our favorite candidate, Dr. Carl Perrin, was born in Massachusetts, but he is no flip-flopper. Perrin has always been in favor of cheap beer, American-brewed cheap beer. He is in favor of crop supports for barley to keep the price of beer affordable to every American. A vote for Perrin is a vote for cheap beer.
No, not John Kerry. We’re talking about that other Massachusetts flip-flopper, Mitt Romney. John McCain’s campaign is running out of steam, and we don’t know what to expect from Rudy Guiliani. But we do know what to expect from former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney: We can expect him to flip flop on issues. You remember Romney, the man who described himself as a life-long hunter, when it turned out that in his long life he had been on only two hunting trips.
It turns out that the secret of his success so far has been to flip flop on everything. In Massachusetts he presented himself as a moderate. Now he is trying to woo conservative voters by claiming to be a conservative. In 1994, while running for the U. S. Senate, he was pro-abortion, pro-homosexual rights. He said, “We seek to establish full equality for America’s gay and lesbian citizens.” Now he is anti-abortion and a strong advocate of traditional marriage. He is against adding sexual orientation to nondiscrimination laws. He has come out firmly on both sides of every issue from crop subsidies to immigration to Iraq to campaign financing to Guantanamo.
Our favorite candidate, Dr. Carl Perrin, was born in Massachusetts, but he is no flip-flopper. Perrin has always been in favor of cheap beer, American-brewed cheap beer. He is in favor of crop supports for barley to keep the price of beer affordable to every American. A vote for Perrin is a vote for cheap beer.
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