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May 12, 2006I’m off on politics for a while - UPDATEDUPDATE: That didn’t last long. I was “off on politics” for, what two days? Because I am feeling a little mischaracterized by some bloggers, let me re-iterate: My weariness of several days ago had little to do with President Bush and everything to do with both my fellow conservatives and the press. I try to fairly and accurately represent what other bloggers are saying in their posts, and I’m disappointed to see that some bloggers will not accord me the same consideration. You have to be wilfully misreading me to conclude that I am “exhausted” with Dubya. See “related” posts at bottom. *** END UPDATE I’ve decided that if I’m going to keep blogging, I’m going to have to leave off writing or reading about politics for a little while, because it’s all making me sick. But as I put the subject away, I just have to ask all of you people - on every side - who have decided that immigration is one man’s burden, and that every good thing President Bush has done is to be negated because he hasn’t snapped his fingers and done what YOU think is the solution to the immigration problem…what did Clinton do about immigration, what did Bush 41 do? What did St. Reagan do? What did Carter do? What has any president, congressperson or senator done about immigration for the last 30 years, except kick the issue down the road for someone else to deal with? Reagan, if you remember, was the amnesty president. Clinton was the “borders? What’s borders, everyone is our pal” president. Lots of bills that were ignored by past presidents, particularly during our “vacation from history” have come due on Dubya’s watch. The whole world seems to be coming due on his watch, and damn him for not handling everything perfectly. What a loser, eh? And it’s easy to kick a guy when he’s down, isn’t it? AJ is getting weary of it, too. Energy. We were promised back in the 1970’s by President Carter that we would cease to be dependant on Middle East for our energy. How’s that been working out, all these years, all these presidents, later? Oh…Bush DID try to get a comprehensive energy bill passed in congress. No go. Congress kicked it down the road for someone else to deal with. Whatever happened to expanding and strengthening the grid? What will we say this summer when the blackouts and brownouts occur? That bastard Bush…he didn’t fix this. No mention that congress kicked and kicked that ball away. Social Security. We’ve been told it’s the “most important issue” - or at least we hear it every election year…but everyone knows it’s going to hell. Oh…Bush DID try to get a comprehensive reform of Social Security passed in congress. No go. Congress kicked it down the road for someone else to deal with. Social Security is a joke, but it’s a joke with a lockbox, and the key’s long throw-away. Terrorism. We’ve essentially been at war with Islamofascism since our countrymen were held hostage for 444 days, since our soldiers were slaughtered in their barracks. Since Saddam tried to kill a former president. “This will not stand,” yeah, yeah, yeah…we heard it all. What did Carter do about it? What did Reagan? What did Bush 41? What did Clinton do - particularly when AlQ began to attack American interests, holdings and naval vessels on an average of every 20 months? What? Are those crickets I hear chirping? Finally after 3,000 of our countrymen died action was taken, and the action continues…and Bush has worked very hard to keep us safe and to destroy the infrastructure, funding and communications of Al Qaeda and their ilk, but…you know…it’s a bad thing for us to monitor the calling habits of AlQ and their co-horts. That would be an awful abuse of power, wouldn’t it? Right up there with accessing FBI files on political opponants and other Nixonian tactics, right? Better to completely mischaracterize what he’s doing and call a hero a tyrant and a traitor a hero…because…because…well, because the truth is Bush is doing the job on terrorism too damn well, and we can’t bring ourselves to report that. And now, immigration…one man is to blame, one man is at fault, one man must find the Solomonic solution. And if he doesn’t, he’s a bum no matter what else he’s done. Meanwhile, the press can’t get over the president who smiled and cried his way through two terms, and they still work on his legacy. Can you ever recall a time in history where 6 years after an administration ends, the ex-president is still breathlessly being polled-on, still being given (on most days) as much press as the current president? I can’t. When Clinton was being waylaid, his party closed ranks. Now Bush - a good man despite his flaws, (and what president is not flawed) is being attacked on all sides, and his party just jumps in with both feet and kicks away. It just doesn’t seem right to me. And I know, I KNOW…he’s been a job to defend for all these years against unprecedented attacks - I’m tired, too. But I cannot go along with the “get Bush” mentality from the right. The question I keep asking myself is…right now, at this moment in time, who is BETTER than him? Giuliani? The religious right will never go for him. Allen? Mush-mouthed bore, the religious right will love him, and the rest will turn the page, and neither of them will be elected in this atmosphere - and if they could be, it won’t be for two more years. Bush is what we’ve got, the best we’ve got…but you know, maybe he’s too punch drunk, after 6 years of abuse, and a feckless party that squanders its majority again and again…one year ago, on May 10, he was dancing with free Georgians…but none of that counts, anymore, right? We forget the good stuff pretty easily, it seems to me. It’s not just about the president, though. There is a terrible toxicity to our political and social exchanges - there is little real thought and lots of shrieking going on, lots of noise, little real discourse and precious little honesty. There is no way to debate because - no matter which side tries to get serious - a well-thought-out discourse is immediately shot down by the other side with a one-line-sneer, usually a specious one, that distorts or misdirects and never allows a thought to go forward. The disrespect between “sides” is staggering, and completely unproductive. But non-productivity seems to be what people like. It’s “safe.” If you don’t do anything, you can’t get blamed, right? More kicking things down the road. Let the guy who actually wants to take some action bear the brunt of your fear, your insecurity, your anger, your scorn, your impotence. If he doesn’t do it all perfectly, he’s a bum. Prof. Bainbridge and Ed Morrissey report that “conservatives are abandoning Bush.” Ah, well…I never did think of myself as a conservative, anyway…more like a classical liberal without a home… I wonder who all those principled conservatives are going to vote for in ‘08. We did this “he’s not conservative enough for me, I’ll vote principles or stay home” thing once before, in 1992, didn’t we? How’d that work out for you? There are games within games, and strategies within strategies, and in the end, I wonder if anyone - anyone at all - is really looking out for America beyond their own interests. I think the president is. I think certain exceptional blogs and a few - very few - professional folks in the press are. But there is a great deal of stuff out there that is all about taking the easy route - cynicism is easy, sneering is easy, rabble-rousing is easy - in order to promote oneself or one’s cause…and it’s beginning to drown out the rest. The roiling hate that is the driving force behind the MSM and some parts of the blogosphere and so much more cannot produce anything good. All of these negatives cannot create a positive. I can’t be the only one who is feeling increasingly ill - not ill-at-ease, but physically ill - when looking at it. I have to think that there are folks on both sides, GOP and Dem, Liberal and Conservative who are looking at all of this and thinking…I’m not walking into that insanity. I wonder how many GOOD people, on either side of political spectrum, are NOT considering running for office because of the atmosphere. Seems to me both sides are completely infected with a blood-poisoning that could take down the nation. And I have no help to offer, because when I try to read about politics, lately - any story, be it a Kennedy car crash, or an imploding CIA, I want to puke. I physically want to vomit. And so, for a while, I’m off the subject. We’ll talk sex, religion, baseball, opera and even - Lord help us - television. But to stay in the middle of the deleterious snakepit of politics…no…there be monsters. I think for the summer, my little boat will sail in the other direction. Post-script: Some emailers are telling me that various lefty blogs are carrying on that “The Anchoress is ‘packing it in’ because Bush is toast.” Apparently my citing the latest “Clinton-Bush” poll convinces them of this fact; the poll merely made me roll my eyes and wonder what past administration has ever been so incessantly written about and polled-on, fully six years after its demise, but whatever. I’m not fed-up with Bush. I suppose if you want to wilfully misread me, you can come to that conclusion, but I like and admire him, and I am glad he is our president. I thought I had written that I was disgusted with the tone and tenor of political discourse - something I’ve been saying for over a month, actually - and with the conservatives who manage to forget all the good Bush has done because he’s not their boy on a particular issue. But if someone else wants to believe I’ve written differently, well, people will always believe what they want to believe, that’s just the way of the world. My policy has always been to leave other bloggers to their own work. How a blogger characterizes or mischaracterizes another is out of my control, so I don’t stew about it. We bloggers, like water, tend sink or rise to our own levels, and anyone can have a hot-headed day! Related: Arnold Kling, looking forward to the demise of the GOP in ‘06, has a heads-up for the Democrats. Meanwhile, Jim Geraghty makes sense and Siggy is dropping politics for a little while, too, it seems. WELCOME: Gateway Pundit and Bruce Kesler readers, and thanks, Jim and Bruce, for the link. While you’re here, please look around. Blogging has been and continues to be light until I’m fully recovered, but we’re recently talking about Don Giovanni, my shameful obsession with Celtic men, Buster’s refusal to be indoctrinated at school, the prescient genius of Paddy Chayevsky, Dick Meyer on political parenting and the unending mendacity that never actually grabs the attention of the press. We won’t get into the mendacity that IS the press, today. I’m too tired for it, and it would be redundant, anyway. You can always go check out the Fourth Estate category! RELATED: http://theanchoressonline.com/2006/05/12/im-off-on-politics-for-a-while/trackback/ 53 Responses to “I’m off on politics for a while - UPDATED” |
May 12th, 2006 at 9:20 pm
Anchoress, I couldn’t agree with you more. I marvel at how folks have turned against the president. I know he’s done somethings, that I don’t get at all, but I voted for him twice and so proud I did. I will jump ship because things look bleak right now. And I don’t blame you for not wanting to discuss how he has not lived up to expectations.
God’s speed to you. I’m glad you’re feeling better.
May 12th, 2006 at 9:20 pm
I meant to say, I will not jump ship.
May 13th, 2006 at 12:39 am
[...] The Anchoress has expressed tonight what I have been thinking but couldn’t put into words recently because it would have taken too many words and too much time and I didn’t have either. [...]
May 13th, 2006 at 5:33 am
I knew you would be one of the few remaining reasonable people left on the internets.
I am utterly FURIOUS with the defeatists within our own ranks. All the yahoos shrieking for Bush’s head can (self-censored). Buncha freaking spoiled children. Peggy Noonan can (self censored) too. Reagan’s speechwriter? He must be turning over in his grave.
I can barely be civil with politics for the last week or so. Think I sound fired up now? This is after HOURS of distraction doing totally apolitical surfing, and I’m at a blog and a post I adore. Imagine how I’m seething elsewhere! I can’t swear off politics though, as much as I try. I just keep it at a hiss/growl level at my site, thanks to Martin, being the level-headed (former) Englishman he is, speaking more clearly than me, with my speaking in tongues AT the yahoos.
BLAH. LB and Polipundit (not the others at PP, just Polipundit himself) and others have gone totally Kossack. They’re dead to me.
And I won’t even start ranting about the debate/argumentative/reasoning skills of the hardcore immigration fanatics. That stuff is just embarrassing.
You’re right–the negatives can’t create a positive. Yet I can’t get away from it, and every so often go nuclear.
Let me put a disclaimer here: Those who disagree with me, let’s take it outside. I won’t fight you in the comments here, because I’m lately not feeling particularly charitable towards those who argue with me at all. I’m venting–that’s it.
(Thankfully, you have a better class of commenters/readers than the typical blog.)
It’s a ridiculous hour right now, so if I’m obviously showing my lack of sleep, delete me.
May 13th, 2006 at 7:03 am
Beth, thank God for you, folks like you- and our Anchoress.
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I won’t bring myself to frequent those ~other~ blogs that can’t support our President. I personally don’t understand this phobic(if that means rabid) behaviour of Americans- living in the land of the free, but- it WILL pass and this fever will subside, hopefully leaving some very sheepish folk to look at themselves hard and deep inside- and repent from this foolish, destructiveness.
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Hang in there, Beth and A and All Things Beautiful and J, et al… and so , too, will i. And, Newton has her very own blog, now- did you know?
May 13th, 2006 at 7:09 am
… and amba and Wordgirl :).
May 13th, 2006 at 8:34 am
I understand completely, dear Anchoress, but may I implore you to, perhaps weekly (weakly?,) post a comment such as today’s to remind those of us hurting that at the center there is hope?
May 13th, 2006 at 9:58 am
Well, Anchoress, I have to be for and against you here. You’re sure right that decades of neglected doody fell on Bush’s desk all at once. And, despite the fervent beliefs of the democrats to the contrary, by our constitution the powers of a US president do not equal the Almighty’s. If you want to attribute such omnipotence to any political leader, move to North Korea or someplace.
But that said, sometimes a particular issue passes the threshold of what’s endurable, which immigration, or rather the refusal to enforce American law, has.
The debate reminds me of something that NYT columnist Tom Friendman made in his book The World is Flat. Something to the effect that we may be seeing a complete political realignment of parties in this country, the leftish one-worlders and globalizing financial elites going one way, small town conservatives and working class Americans going the other.
So, Anchoress, it’s possible that all this turbulence on the blogs is a sign of these two massive weather systems colliding, mixing, dividing and redividing, before going their separate ways. Just a thought.
PS: I give your retreat one week max, before you’re back brawling.
May 13th, 2006 at 11:30 am
Brava Anchoress. Politics have just gotten increasingly ugly over the last several years…I’m pretty much stopped paying attention.
May 13th, 2006 at 12:07 pm
[...] UPDATE: And The Anchoress is burned out on politics, too. I understand where she's coming from. The toxicity is becoming a major problem. [...]
May 13th, 2006 at 12:16 pm
Boy am I glad to see someone with some sense! They’re going nuts on another blog calling the president names and all and these were the ones acting so big when his numbers were high. Fair weather friends–ptui! Who needs them?
May 13th, 2006 at 12:22 pm
[...] It’s one thing to have read almost every day that the vast majority of Americans dislike and disapprove of the Leader and that more and more Americans abandon him by the day. But to have to read that Americans overwhelmingly prefer Bill Clinton to George Bush in every area — including foreign affairs (by an embarrassing margin of 56-32%), national security (46-42%), and on the question of “which man was more honest as president” (46-41%) — must be truly difficult for those remaining Bush followers. And, indeed, it did lead one pro-Bush blogger, The Anchoress, to announce: [...]
May 13th, 2006 at 12:49 pm
Putting Things In Perspective
I get exhausted and tired of talking politics everyday, but something inside keeps pushing me. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think about quitting, but never do. The Anchoress is having to take a well deserved breather on po…
May 13th, 2006 at 1:03 pm
Conservative Battle Fatigue
Several of my favorite bloggers, self-described conservatives of various stripes, properly respected stalwarts of reasonability and probity, have offered considered reasons to split with George Bush. Mark Tapscott’s decades of dedication and contributi…
May 13th, 2006 at 2:15 pm
I agree with you completely, and hope your return to political blogging soon. You are a voice I hate to see stilled.
I suspect he is going to push for something closer to amnesty than I would not like to see until we have a fence across the entire border AND we have the military doing training exercises on the border, helping the Border Patrol, and at the same time learning how to close the borders in Iraq and Afganistan.
I also wish he would start vetoing some of these obscene spending bills
But he is still orders of magnitude better than anything the Democrats could come up with.
May 13th, 2006 at 4:40 pm
I agree with Anchoress and I think conservatives need to remember they are a minority in this country. This self destructive behavior will not help that.
May 13th, 2006 at 4:43 pm
The politic of Destruction
The way political pubdutry has been going in the past few years it is very easy to get tired of all the political postiioning from both parties. They don’t seem to want to really do anything, but yell and scream
May 13th, 2006 at 5:53 pm
Well, I hope your silence on Politics doesn’t last too long, or I may have to start visiting the more radical right sites like I used to.
May 13th, 2006 at 6:10 pm
It is certainly the case that there is little left to write about in our politics and all of it is becoming repetitive.
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Then, too, there is so much that is so utterly inexplicable in our current politics,if you are actually willing to face it. For example, questions such as why the “War On Terror” requires monitoring the phone calls I make to set doctor appointments. At least I wouldn’t want to try to answer it.
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I wonder how many GOOD people, on either side of political spectrum, are NOT considering running for office because of the atmosphere.
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Well, actually, quite a few GOOD people have already made the commitment to do so. You can see a lot of them if you hang around in my part of America. And they made the decision because the actions of certain folks in Washington [I would never want to be a hate monger, so I won't name them] became absolutely insupportable to them, and because they cared about America.
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I just met one a couple of weeks ago, knocking on my door for my vote–a fine lady by the name of Jan Fleming. She was one of the losers, unfortunately, in my local Democratic primary. But she wouldn’t have been there at all if not for the Howard Dean campaign. We figured out that we had already encountered one another back then.
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There are now hundreds, perhaps thousands, like her all around the country, bred by the election of 2004. They are starting at the bottom of the ladder, in the old traditional way, in local politics.
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A funny way to indulge your taste in Bush Bashing, isn’t it?
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Then, too, on the Democratic side of the fence, we are well on our way to fielding more candidates for the House of Representatives than any party has ever done before. A great many are new faces, are simply cannon fodder in “safe” Republican districts, and are perfectly well aware of this fact, but they are willing to participate anyway because they really are “looking out for America”.
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And this is certainly not because of Hillary Clinton, the New York Times, or the “precious little honesty” of Nancy Pelosi, who, apparently, can’t seem to say anything in plain English without being called a liar.
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We actually even have quite a few returning vets from the Iraq war running as Democrats in the current elections. Haven’t heard of any Republicans among them yet. I wonder why?
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But then, I always marvel, when I travel among the blogs of my political adversaries at how little real politics I find in them. Most of the folks there seem to prefer to leave the real politics to the well-bankrolled professionals.
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Perhaps the “Bush Bashing On The Right” is a form of buyer’s remorse for that very fact. In any event, the fact that Democratic professionals are generally so dithery and spineless leaves most of us under no illusion that real politics should be left in their hands.
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So enjoy your social blogging Anchoress. Nobody should write unless they enjoy it. If and when you come back to politics, you’ll find it pretty much as you left it, at least as far as issues are concerned.
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And, as far as serious action goes, we will see what is possible following the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
May 13th, 2006 at 10:20 pm
It’s amazing to me, on reading your postscript, how many can willfully misread what people write. It seemed quite clear what you are saying. But then again, De Nile is a river in Egypt- and I think a lot of people, on both sides, have bought houseboats there the last few years. You think it was getting a little crowded!
May 13th, 2006 at 10:42 pm
The other day, while having a similar discussion with my brother, his son who is 11 years old was sitting and taking it all in. I was relating how tired I was of the talking heads and those whose hatred could allow no common sense into the discussion. I thought I would take a break from all of this and just ignore it. After a few moments, my nephew asked both of us a question. “Do you think Satan ever gets tired and takes a break,” and walked away.
May 13th, 2006 at 10:52 pm
(I seem to have pushed the wrong key and sent the first part of this off without intending to. Let me try to pick up where I left off, more or less.)
I count myself on the side of those who are now called conservative and I have a pretty good — no, make that a very good — idea of what I stand for.
I believe in the dignity and worth and preciousness of each human being — period. Even when they don’t deserve to be honored for these things because of their own failings and their own behavior, they deserve to be because they are creations of God.
I think that any system or action or belief that goes against this is not just wrong but evil in its very nature.
I could go on and on from here — spouting aesthetics and economics and sexual practices to buttress my point but you already know what I’m talking about.
I think American is something totally unique and valuable in all of human history. It is, truly, the shining city on a hill. And anyone who tries to besmirch it, to tear it down, to destroy it, must be met and opposed.
That is why I have no patience with where you’re coming from. I understand your tiredness with all the contention and turmoil. I understand, too, that you have not been well physically and that that takes an awful toll.
But the unfortunate thing is, that we can never choose our fights. They always come when we least want them and when we are least capable and least prepared. That is a rule of life, whether we like it or not.
There are only two things that we can do. We can fight the good fight. Or we can quit.
And, if we quit — if we even back off — we are not only taking away from our side, the side of right, but we are actively aiding our opponents.
Like you, I wish George Bush were the perfect man, the perfect president, one who did everything I wanted him to in just the way I wanted him to.
But that’s not the way life works, kiddo.
You obviously know that. And you know what you have to do.
best wishes,
Ted Joy
May 13th, 2006 at 11:22 pm
The only people polling lower than Bush are the Democrats in Congress. The MSM has been engaging in a war of attrition this term, they want you to grow weary and move on to other things. Fat chance! Play your games now. Eventually, both sides will be heard. When people remember(when someone is there to remind them), it’s a different game. For example, it’s amazing how fast you can get a voter to tell the Democrats to shut their lying mouths when you remind them that the Dems wanted $5/gal gasoline in 1992. If it was ‘the right thing to do’ then, why isn’t it now? Hmmm? See you in September! Relaxed and loaded for bear!
May 14th, 2006 at 2:34 am
We’re In This Togeter
Conservative Fatigue is the watchword of the day. Bruce Kebler diagnoses those who are backing away from supporting the President with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Meanwhile, one of our favorite bloggers, the Anchoress takes a step back from politic…
May 14th, 2006 at 1:09 pm
Sunday in My Pajamas
Neo comes out from behind the Apple Godzilla vs. Mothra @ Manolo’s The Anchoress has diagnosed “a blood-poisoning that could take down the nation.” Belmont Club senses “a change in the tone of the blogosphere.”…
May 14th, 2006 at 3:27 pm
This is bad news
Anchoress had decided to swear off of politics for a while: “I’ve decided that if I’m going to keep blogging, I’m going to have to leave off writing or reading about politics for a little while, because it’s all making…
May 14th, 2006 at 7:01 pm
[...] = false;’,100); Who Links Here Affiliations All I Can Say Is Wow! Sunday 14 May 2006 @ 8:01 pm I followed a URL link from a comment on this post to a Blog writtenby Don Singleton. I then poked around Don’s site and found the below blog item from The Anchoress. It is powerful stuff. I sympathize with her frustration and appreciate her tone. I agree with most, not all, but most of what she says. Read the opening salvo below and the whole piece here: I’ve decided that if I’m going to keep blogging, I’m going to have to leave off writing or reading about politics for a little while, because it’s all making me sick. [...]
May 14th, 2006 at 8:00 pm
The founders recognized an unerasable desire for monarchy deep within the human soul. How much more fun to have a ‘monarch’ to stomp all over (Bush) and one to keep as a pet (Clinton). We expect too much of these merely human creatures - simultaneously wanting to anoint them as gods and kill them. (Didn’t we see that play 2000 years ago?) Call it the Simon Cowell instinct in all of us. Nice post Anchoress.
May 14th, 2006 at 8:20 pm
[...] Found this at The Anchoress that pretty much sums up everything I have been trying to say, but much more eloquently: But as I put the subject away, I just have to ask all of you people - on every side - who have decided that immigration is one man’s burden, and that every good thing President Bush has done is to be negated because he hasn’t snapped his fingers and done what YOU think is the solution to the immigration problem…what did Clinton do about immigration, what did Bush 41 do? What did St. Reagan do? What did Carter do? What has any president, congressperson or senator done about immigration for the last 30 years, except kick the issue down the road for someone else to deal with? [...]
May 15th, 2006 at 12:16 am
I don’t blame you one bit, Anchoress… I’m so sick and tired of people just throwing everything but the kitchen sink at GWB, I just want to turn the TV, the radio, and the Internet off… and go to some remote island in the Pacific for a good long time… and wake me up when November ends…
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Oh, that’s right! I can’t go anywhere until after November! There’s a Little Fig coming around that time! Silly me!
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I definitely agree with the assertion that this man has been given the job of cleaning decades’ worth of messes in a space of eight years. C’mon, people! He only has two hands! Count’em: two!
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And the media doesn’t help matters a bit. All they want to do, actively is to destroy him. What does the media want to have? His head on a platter? Or worse yet, the headline of “President Found Hanged from WH Balcony, Couldn’t Face the Pressure Anymore”? I teel ya, they’d love to strip him off any bit of dignity, if they could, like the vultures they are.
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See? I’m p’ed off already!
May 15th, 2006 at 12:42 am
Here’s the trackback to my post:
http://freecircuses.blogspot.com/2006/05/wake-me-up-when-november-ends.html
May 15th, 2006 at 9:44 am
Lots of bills that were ignored by past presidents…have come due on Dubya’s watch.
Charlene happened to leave The Anchoress open at this post …But as I put the subject away, I just have to ask all of you people - on every side - who have decided that immigration is one man’s…
May 15th, 2006 at 10:49 am
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May 15th, 2006 at 10:50 am
Don’t blame you at all. You write well - lyrically at times - on so many subjects. There’ll be no dearth of postings here once you catch your breath.
We’re still gonna be here!
May 15th, 2006 at 11:28 am
[...] Stop the ACLU agrees, and quotes the Anchoress: [...]
May 15th, 2006 at 11:35 am
[...] Stop the ACLU agrees, and quotes the Anchoress: I just have to ask all of you people - on every side - who have decided that immigration is one man’s burden, and that every good thing President Bush has done is to be negated because he hasn’t snapped his fingers and done what YOU think is the solution to the immigration problem…what did Clinton do about immigration, what did Bush 41 do? What did St. Reagan do? What did Carter do? What has any president, congressperson or senator done about immigration for the last 30 years, except kick the issue down the road for someone else to deal with? [...]
May 15th, 2006 at 11:37 am
[...] Stop the ACLU agrees, and quotes the Anchoress: [...]
May 15th, 2006 at 11:42 am
[...] Stop the ACLU agrees, and quotes the Anchoress: I just have to ask all of you people - on every side - who have decided that immigration is one man’s burden, and that every good thing President Bush has done is to be negated because he hasn’t snapped his fingers and done what YOU think is the solution to the immigration problem…what did Clinton do about immigration, what did Bush 41 do? What did St. Reagan do? What did Carter do? What has any president, congressperson or senator done about immigration for the last 30 years, except kick the issue down the road for someone else to deal with? [...]
May 15th, 2006 at 12:09 pm
Guard the Borders Blogburst
Reformation or Revolution?
by Heidi and Kit at Euphoric Reality
Tonight, the President will address the nation on his …
May 15th, 2006 at 12:33 pm
[...] Stop the ACLU agrees, and quotes the Anchoress: [...]
May 15th, 2006 at 12:46 pm
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May 15th, 2006 at 12:48 pm
Conservative Fatigue Syndrome
There have been a number of articles written recently about Conservative Fatigue Syndrome with Bruce Kesler going so far as to suggest that sufferers are struggling with a form of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder):I think all three [Ed Morrissey,
May 15th, 2006 at 1:02 pm
[...] Stop the ACLU agrees, and quotes the Anchoress: I just have to ask all of you people - on every side - who have decided that immigration is one man’s burden, and that every good thing President Bush has done is to be negated because he hasn’t snapped his fingers and done what YOU think is the solution to the immigration problem…what did Clinton do about immigration, what did Bush 41 do? What did St. Reagan do? What did Carter do? What has any president, congressperson or senator done about immigration for the last 30 years, except kick the issue down the road for someone else to deal with? [...]
May 15th, 2006 at 2:28 pm
[...] Stop the ACLU agrees, and quotes the Anchoress: [...]
May 15th, 2006 at 2:30 pm
[...] Stop the ACLU agrees, and quotes the Anchoress: I just have to ask all of you people - on every side - who have decided that immigration is one man’s burden, and that every good thing President Bush has done is to be negated because he hasn’t snapped his fingers and done what YOU think is the solution to the immigration problem…what did Clinton do about immigration, what did Bush 41 do? What did St. Reagan do? What did Carter do? What has any president, congressperson or senator done about immigration for the last 30 years, except kick the issue down the road for someone else to deal with? [...]
May 15th, 2006 at 6:23 pm
[...] Stop the ACLU agrees, and quotes the Anchoress: I just have to ask all of you people - on every side - who have decided that immigration is one man�s burden, and that every good thing President Bush has done is to be negated because he hasn�t snapped his fingers and done what YOU think is the solution to the immigration problem�what did Clinton do about immigration, what did Bush 41 do? What did St. Reagan do? What did Carter do? What has any president, congressperson or senator done about immigration for the last 30 years, except kick the issue down the road for someone else to deal with? [...]
May 15th, 2006 at 7:02 pm
[...] Well, the suspense is long over. The substance of the speech has already been released and it is just what I and hundreds of conservative bloggers, from Higher Beings all the way down to Insignificant Microbes, predicted. Bush has no intention of deviating from his course of opening the borders even wider. The Anchoress has made the point that overall, Bush has been a good president, and that one man alone cannot fix a problem that has been contributed to by thousands of Congresscritters for the last thirty years. That is certainly true - but the complaint that I and many others have about President Bush on this issue is that he is not just one man bravely fighting this battle against entrenched bureaocracy and thirty years of bad policy and a corrupt Congress. No. He is actively working against any efforts to slow the invasion. Passionate America trackbacked with Live Blogging President Bush’s 5/15 Speech… [...]
May 15th, 2006 at 8:32 pm
[...] Is illegal immigration a new phenomenon all of a sudden? As The Anchoress said very eloquently: I just have to ask all of you people - on every side - who have decided that immigration is one man’s burden, and that every good thing President Bush has done is to be negated because he hasn’t snapped his fingers and done what YOU think is the solution to the immigration problem…what did Clinton do about immigration, what did Bush 41 do? What did St. Reagan do? What did Carter do? What has any president, congressperson or senator done about immigration for the last 30 years, except kick the issue down the road for someone else to deal with? [...]
May 16th, 2006 at 11:20 am
[...] Stop the ACLU agrees, and quotes the Anchoress: I just have to ask all of you people - on every side - who have decided that immigration is one man’s burden, and that every good thing President Bush has done is to be negated because he hasn’t snapped his fingers and done what YOU think is the solution to the immigration problem…what did Clinton do about immigration, what did Bush 41 do? What did St. Reagan do? What did Carter do? What has any president, congressperson or senator done about immigration for the last 30 years, except kick the issue down the road for someone else to deal with? [...]
May 18th, 2006 at 12:26 pm
[...] There has been a lot of ennui in evidence in the blogosphere over the last few months. There are plenty of plausible and sufficient reasons given for this. We think Ahmadinejad may be a factor, like storm clouds off to the West. There is hail and lightning in the distance; maybe tornadoes too. All you have to do is be willing to look in the right direction. No wonder people are uneasy. [...]
May 23rd, 2006 at 6:33 am
[...] I doubted the strategic wisdom of conservatives sitting out this election to “teach Republicans a lesson”; several bloggers have responded. [...]
July 7th, 2006 at 1:15 am
[...] Stop the ACLU agrees, and quotes the Anchoress: I just have to ask all of you people - on every side - who have decided that immigration is one man’s burden, and that every good thing President Bush has done is to be negated because he hasn’t snapped his fingers and done what YOU think is the solution to the immigration problem…what did Clinton do about immigration, what did Bush 41 do? What did St. Reagan do? What did Carter do? What has any president, congressperson or senator done about immigration for the last 30 years, except kick the issue down the road for someone else to deal with? [...]
August 21st, 2006 at 4:44 pm
A PONDERING AMERICAN EXPOSE: Tancredo Loses It!
The PA from LA!
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Immigration, Tancredo loses it, and how far we have fallen
I have …