Saturday, August 18, 2007
Someone turn out the lights, please.
Right up front, I voted for President Bush, twice. And I was proud of those votes even with the prescription drug bill that I considered the biggest waste of taxpayer money since the invention of entitlements. I also supported the war and still do. I just think the President has blown it trying to fight a PC war against an enemy that doesn’t play by the same rules and a media ready to surrender. But W lost my support when he collaborated with appeasers on the amnesty bill. Okay, my cards are on the table.
Karl Rove is on his way out. Many, mostly with a liberal, no wait, they are now progressive since liberal sounds too…liberal. Anyway, many on the liberal side are gloating, as though they had something to do with chasing him away. In fact, or in my opinion, Rove is leaving because there is nothing further for him to do in the White House. The Bush Administration is over.
It ended at precisely the same time as the McCain candidacy for president went belly up. It ended at precisely the same time Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina had a come-to-Jesus moment on immigration and reversed his position from pro illegal to against, really, really against. That was the moment the legal citizens of the United States rose up and fought the attempt by politicians to enlarge their voting blocks and George W. Bush to do...whatever it was he was trying to do with illegal immigrants. It was when the Bush presidency ended. Kerplunk!
Bush used every scrap of political capital he had left to push the amnesty bill and lost big time. He now has nothing left with which to initiate any major legislation. The Democrats control Congress and two of the most inept politicians this country has ever seen are leading them. Can you say Pelosi and Reid? The result is that nothing has been done, other than wrecking wages with the minimum wage bill, and nothing will be done. Over the next year the only thing to come out of Congress will be proposals put forth by one side or the other in an attempt to define the other side for the next election. So, the President has one task remaining before he turns the office over to Fred Thompson, bring the Iraq War to a foreseeable conclusion. That is to say, he does not have to finish the job but he must show how America can complete the mission.
And that is why Karl Rove resigned. He could have stayed around and collected a paycheck for doing nothing, as all those in Congress will do for the next 1 ½ years. But, apparently, Rove has other things to do.
The staff of the White House will slowly dwindle as the official end to the administration approaches. Hopefully, when the last person leaves, someone will turn out the lights. No need to burn excess electricity.
Karl Rove is on his way out. Many, mostly with a liberal, no wait, they are now progressive since liberal sounds too…liberal. Anyway, many on the liberal side are gloating, as though they had something to do with chasing him away. In fact, or in my opinion, Rove is leaving because there is nothing further for him to do in the White House. The Bush Administration is over.
It ended at precisely the same time as the McCain candidacy for president went belly up. It ended at precisely the same time Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina had a come-to-Jesus moment on immigration and reversed his position from pro illegal to against, really, really against. That was the moment the legal citizens of the United States rose up and fought the attempt by politicians to enlarge their voting blocks and George W. Bush to do...whatever it was he was trying to do with illegal immigrants. It was when the Bush presidency ended. Kerplunk!
Bush used every scrap of political capital he had left to push the amnesty bill and lost big time. He now has nothing left with which to initiate any major legislation. The Democrats control Congress and two of the most inept politicians this country has ever seen are leading them. Can you say Pelosi and Reid? The result is that nothing has been done, other than wrecking wages with the minimum wage bill, and nothing will be done. Over the next year the only thing to come out of Congress will be proposals put forth by one side or the other in an attempt to define the other side for the next election. So, the President has one task remaining before he turns the office over to Fred Thompson, bring the Iraq War to a foreseeable conclusion. That is to say, he does not have to finish the job but he must show how America can complete the mission.
And that is why Karl Rove resigned. He could have stayed around and collected a paycheck for doing nothing, as all those in Congress will do for the next 1 ½ years. But, apparently, Rove has other things to do.
The staff of the White House will slowly dwindle as the official end to the administration approaches. Hopefully, when the last person leaves, someone will turn out the lights. No need to burn excess electricity.
# posted by Richard W Black : 6:12 AM
