DR,
re: Besides, no fiscal issues matter.
Spoken like a true talk show conservative. Don't feel bad you are not alone.
I said before, the Bush actions are much more liberal than Clinton's, probably more liberal than anyone since Roosevelt. The guy is nation building, deficit building, tarriff building, government size building, entitlement building. He's a fiscal nightmare, posing as a <gulp> "conservative".
Really honest here. LOOK at what he's doing, REALLY doing. We all know that 9/11, and the subsequent angst, gave him a free pass to do whatever he wanted, with close to 100% approval, as long as he did SOMETHING. How is he using that opportunity; is it for a personal agenda, or for a public service agenda?
We've had some great recent Presidents; Eisenhower and Kennedy; Ford and Clinton were OK, even Nixon, though misguided seemed to have the public interest at the front of his agenda. I don't see any of that in Bush.
It's real easy to follow any leader after a tragedy like 9/11; it takes a lot of intellectual courage to really look through the short term into the long term. He's doing a lot of stuff, and that's a relief and easy to appreciate, but is it the right stuff?
Don't take the easy way out. Fiscal issue DO MATTER. NATO matters, Iraq matters, the UN matters. Institutions matter. Lives really matter. Does Bush care?
John |
