Bush looks for united America

[Class1]

?I will work to earn it. I will do all I can do to deserve your trust,? he said. ?When we come together and work together, there is no limit to the greatness of America.?

This guy is so full of it. There's no way he's getting Democratic support. This nation will remain divided for the next 4 years at least.

 

[joshw10]

Hah, he said this 4 years ago.

His idea of bipartisan is Democrats do exactly what Republicans want, and if they try to vote down legislation or dont approve of his appointments then they're not uniting America!

If he wants to prove he's serious let's see some Democrat or moderate Republican appointments.

 

[assemblage]

No doubt, Bush doesn't realize that everyone hates him.

 

[conjur]

Translation: "If you're not with us, you're against us."

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Class1
Topic Title: Bush looks for united America

He can look all he wants, he will not find it while he is in Office, period.

 

[jjzelinski]

Here's my diatribe on the issue.

 

[Chadder007]

Looks fine to me... Over 50% are united with Bush. Even more so than American was united with Clinton.

 

[T2T III]

Originally posted by: Class1

?I will work to earn it. I will do all I can do to deserve your trust,? he said. ?When we come together and work together, there is no limit to the greatness of America.?

This guy is so full of it. There's no way he's getting Democratic support. This nation will remain divided for the next 4 years at least.

Do the Republicans really need the support of Democrats? The way it appears right now, the Repubs will own the Dems come January.

 

[joshw10]

Originally posted by: Chadder007
Looks fine to me... Over 50% are united with Bush. Even more so than American was united with Clinton.

Wrong. Take a look at Clinton's approval ratings: http://www.pollingreport.com/clinton-.htm

He consistently had about a 65% approval rating. Bush has trouble just getting over 50%, with brief exceptions on events such as 9/11. Clinton's retrospective approval rating is 62%.

Bush is doing something wrong when he cant get the approval of people who didnt vote for him.

 

[joshw10]

Originally posted by: Tiles2Tech

Originally posted by: Class1

?I will work to earn it. I will do all I can do to deserve your trust,? he said. ?When we come together and work together, there is no limit to the greatness of America.?

This guy is so full of it. There's no way he's getting Democratic support. This nation will remain divided for the next 4 years at least.

Do the Republicans really need the support of Democrats? The way it appears right now, the Repubs will own the Dems come January.

That's exactly the problem. They dont need support of Democrats, so who cares what they want? Just run the government one-sided like the last few years. That's really good for the country. All of this talk about unity is just that, talk.

 

[TravisT]

Originally posted by: assemblage
No doubt, Bush doesn't realize that everyone hates him.

lol, you are right, everyone does hate him... including the 51% of the nation that voted for him 2 days ago.

 

[arsbanned]

THis is the "Honeymoon" posturing. The guy is so transparent it's pathetic. Sccccrew him, the only way he can reach out to me is to undo every single thing he did over the last 4 years, except -rightly-going after al Quada and their supporters, the Taliban- in Afghanistan.

 

[assemblage]

Originally posted by: TravisT

Originally posted by: assemblage
No doubt, Bush doesn't realize that everyone hates him.

lol, you are right, everyone does hate him... including the 51% of the nation that voted for him 2 days ago.

They hate him too, except for Rush Limbaugh.

 

[arsbanned]

Democrat: Heal thyself.



W. doesn't see division as a danger. He sees it as a

wingman.



The president got re-elected by dividing the country along fault lines of fear, intolerance, ignorance and religious rule. He doesn't want to heal rifts; he wants to bring any riffraff who disagree to heel.



W. ran a jihad in America so he can fight one in Iraq -

drawing a devoted flock of evangelicals, or "values

voters," as they call themselves, to the polls by opposing abortion, suffocating stem cell research and supporting a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.



Mr. Bush, whose administration drummed up fake evidence to trick us into war with Iraq, sticking our troops in an immoral position with no exit strategy, won on "moral issues."



The president says he's "humbled" and wants to reach out to

the whole country. What humbug. The Bushes are always

gracious until they don't get their way. If W. didn't reach

out after the last election, which he barely grabbed, why

would he reach out now that he has what Dick Cheney calls a "broad, nationwide victory"?



While Mr. Bush was making his little speech about reaching

out, Republicans said they had "the green light" to pursue their conservative agenda, like drilling in Alaska's wilderness and rewriting the tax code.



"He'll be a lot more aggressive in Iraq now," one Bush

insider predicts. "He'll raze Falluja if he has to. He

feels that the election results endorsed his version of the war." Never mind that the more insurgents American troops kill, the more they create.



Just listen to Dick (Oh, lordy, is this cuckoo clock still

vice president?) Cheney, introducing the Man for his

victory speech: "This has been a consequential presidency

which has revitalized our economy and reasserted a

confident American role in the world." Well, it has

revitalized the Halliburton segment of the economy, anyhow.

And "confident" is not the first word that comes to mind

for the foreign policy of a country that has alienated

everyone except Fiji.



Vice continued, "Now we move forward to serve and to guard

the country we love." Only Dick Cheney can make "to serve

and to guard" sound like "to rape and to pillage."



He's creating the sort of "democracy" he likes. One party controls all power in the country. One network serves as state TV. One nation dominates the world as a hyperpower. One firm controls contracts in Iraq.



Just as Zell Miller was so over the top at the G.O.P. convention that he made Mr. Cheney seem reasonable, so several new members of Congress will make W. seem moderate.





Tom Coburn, the new senator from Oklahoma, has advocated

the death penalty for doctors who perform abortions and

warned that "the gay agenda" would undermine the country.

He also characterized his race as a choice between "good

and evil" and said he had heard there was "rampant

lesbianism" in Oklahoma schools.



Jim DeMint, the new senator from South Carolina, said

during his campaign that he supported a state G.O.P.

platform plank banning gays from teaching in public

schools. He explained, "I would have given the same answer

when asked if a single woman who was pregnant and living

with her boyfriend should be hired to teach my third-grade children."



John Thune, who toppled Tom Daschle, is an anti-abortion Christian conservative - or "servant leader," as he was hailed in a campaign ad - who supports constitutional amendments banning flag burning and gay marriage.



Seeing the exit polls, the Democrats immediately started talking about values and religion. Their sudden passion for wooing Southern white Christian soldiers may put a crimp in Hillary's 2008 campaign (nothing but a wooden stake would stop it). Meanwhile, the blue puddle is comforting itself with the expectation that this loony bunch will fatally overreach, just as Newt Gingrich did in the 90's.



But with this crowd, it's hard to imagine what would

constitute overreaching.



Invading France?

 

[Class1]

Do the Republicans really need the support of Democrats? The way it appears right now, the Repubs will own the Dems come January.

The dems can hold any bill hostage they feel like. They can keep them in committee and filibuster forever. This is just another assphat that will fade away in 4 years without any real change taking place. There will be no draft and he will not be able to touch social security. Everything he plans to do will fail.

 

[jpeyton]

The next four years will hopefully be marked by some of the greatest fillibusters to grace our Congress.

 

[Budarow]

Bush Jr. is full of BS...just like Reagan and Bush Sr. I can still remember Bush Sr. saying "I'm going to be an environmental president" when he was first elected! LOL!!! After Bush SR. was elected, he put Vice President Dan Quayle in charge of regularly held meetings with leaders of big business (behind closed doors of course with no minutes taken and no press allowed) and they discussed ways in which big business could utilize loop-holes to avoid following anti-pollution laws. What a joke...environmental president!!

I've come to realize over the last ~30 years that republican politicians use a different set of "definitions" when it came to discussing taxes, the environment, war, health care and all the remaining important issues. That way they can give speeches and say exactly what they mean, but the audiance actually thinks they are saying something totally different and they clap loudly. HA!


http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r102:E30AP2-447:

GOD I LOVE GOOGLE!!!!!! I found the above link in <5 seconds! HA!

 

[lordtyranus]

The left does not want to be united, regardless of what Bush does.

 

[dahunan]

UNITE THIS

 

[jtusa]

Originally posted by: dahunan
UNITE THIS

Oh no! The finger! He's worse than Satan himself! Lord help us! :roll:

 

[dahunan]

Originally posted by: jtusa4

Originally posted by: dahunan
UNITE THIS

Oh no! The finger! He's worse than Satan himself! Lord help us! :roll:

I think it is great.. That is what he is telling 49% of the populaton and the non-christians and the Iraqis he killed and the UN and to those countries who wished to help rebuild Iraq and to everyone's Momma et al.

 

[FuzzyBee]

Originally posted by: arsbanned
Sccccrew him, the only way he can reach out to me is to undo every single thing he did over the last 4 years

translated:

Dammit! I'm not changing my position one bit, and it's your fault if you don't change to accomodate me.

 

[dahunan]

Does he want to change people via Protestant Reformation and Manifest Destiny?

 

[Budarow]

Originally posted by: lordtyranus
The left does not want to be united, regardless of what Bush does.

Do you understand why "the left" (and centrist like myself) dislike Bush and the rest of the modern republican party (MRP) so much? It's because the MRP attempts to further enrich the already richest in our society at the expense of everyone and everything else (e.g, "middle class", "lower class", environment, other countries, etc.).

I believe the MRP generally cares only about the $$$ (and the power/means to obtain more $$$) and they are willing to say and do anything to get more power/$$$.

As for me...I freaking LOVE money and TOTALLY enjoy spending it!! However, I'm not willing to do just about ANYTHING to obtain tons of it (i.e., I refuse to severly screw everyone else around me in every way possible for my own gain...in other words, I have a conscience and believe if others are willing to work hard they too should be rewarded even if it means my slice of pie is a little smaller).

And YES I am a man of business and do quite well for myself/family WITHOUT having to resort to stealing the pensions of old ladies, taking the food out of a child's mouth, strip mining the forest to leave desolation behind, etc.

Believe it or not...there is such a thing as "balance" of riches, charity, and work and the MRP cares nothing of balance. I'm not sure if they truely believe they just deserve it all (because they're plain better?) and the rest of us deserve next to nothing or what the deal is. And NO I do not believe ALL republican voters fit the bill of the "modern republican party". That's why I believe at least 1/2 of you repub voters should vote democratic;-)

 

[ciba]

I don't think we will see as much filibustering next year. I think the democrats will learn their lesson from Tom Daschle.

And Bush can't bring people together? Look at the bills that got passed in four years:

NCLB (He worked with a %^&amp;* Kennedy on this)
Patriot Act (We certainly may not like it, but it should have taken at least some work on his part for it to pass so overwhelmingly).
among others.