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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (765769)	10/7/2007 11:37:01 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Is there anything that George Bush or the republican party does that you can even look critically at? I, for one, do not want the government under the complete control of the Democrats in 2009. I can't figure out why President Bush think vetoing this bipartisan bill (with people like Orin Hatch in full support of it - yes, Orin Hatch, the noted liberal) will help Republicans. All it will do is give the Democrats photo op after photo op....and even if the veto is sustained the Democrats still win! They can run against this all next year. Look, if you want the Republican Party to go down in flames next year, fine..just say so. If you want to stand on principle regardless of the results among the electorate, fine. I would be happier if we had no program in this area. But we do and have for years. This President has granted waivers from the income limits (as did Clinton). Virtually all Governors of both parties laud the program. Now, if you really believe people with private family insurance will drop that coverage so their kids can come under this program, I think you are wrong. Me, I commented on the fact that the President's veto was a bad political move. It was, it is and it still is. It is a dead loser. Hillary as President...with both houses of Congress strongly Democratic. My god. This, below, is the problem so many rational conservatives see... _____________________ What I can’t figure out is why there is no organized opposition to Bush among Republicans. You’d think that self-preservation would motivate some of them to do something. But I see no evidence of any such effort. I can only conclude that they would rather switch than fight. It’s easier to become an independent or even a Democrat than try to fight the stranglehold that Bush, the neocons and the religious kooks have on the party these days. The only solution I see if for Republicans to lose as badly as possible next year. Then, maybe, they will wake up. andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com And Sullivan's response: The cult of the Decider still has enormous power, I think. And it's largely because it's rooted in religious faith in the party's base, not rational judgment. The elites know this is where the power lies, the none of them has the bond with the Christianist voters like Bush has, and so are completely intimidated in taking him on in the primaries. And maybe thereafter.