MORE PROOF DUBYA STANDS FOR WIMP

DUBYA'S RECORD:

• MEDICARE EXPANSION AND EDUCATION SPENDING EXPANSION. TOGETHER: THE LARGES INCREASE IN DOEMSTIC SPENDING SINCE LBJ.
• SIGNED MCCAIN-FEINGOLD.
• WANTED AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS.

NOW THIS - HE'S CAVING IN ON AGW (JUST AS IT'S BECOMING CLEAR IT'S A HOAX!):

Bush prepares global warming initiative

President Bush is poised to change course and announce as early as this week that he wants Congress to pass a bill to combat global warming, and will lay out principles for what that should include.

Specifics of the policy are still being fiercely debated, but Bush administration officials have told Republicans in Congress that they feel pressure to act now because they fear a coming regulatory nightmare. It would be the first time Mr. Bush has called for statutory authority on the subject.

THIS IS HORRIBLE.

DUBYA STANDS FOR WIMP:

• A LIB ON DOMESTIC ISSUES.
• AND HE MADE US FIGHT THE AFGHAN AND IRAQ WARS WITH ONE HAND BEHIND OUR BACK.
• AND HE DIDN'T FIGHT BACK ON WILSON-PLAME LIES.
• HE LET ASSAD OFF THE ROPES.
• HE LET IRAN GET NUKE CENTRIFUGES.
• HE FAILED TO GET SOCIAL SECURITY REFORMED.
• HE FAILED TO OPEN ANWR.

DUBYA STANDS FOR WIMP. A LIBERAL WIMP.

AND MCCAIN AIN'T ANY BETTER.

EXCEPT THEY'RE BETTER THAN ANY AND ALL DEMS.

SHIT. WE HAVE TO VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

USA AND IRAN ARE ALREADY AT WAR

NYTIMES:

Iran is engaging in a proxy war with the United States in Iraq, adopting tactics similar to those it has used to back fighters in Lebanon, the United States ambassador to Iraq said Friday.

The remarks by the ambassador, Ryan C. Crocker, reflected the sharper criticism of Iran by President Bush and his top deputies over the past week, as administration officials have sought to trace many of their troubles in Iraq to Iran.

Mr. Crocker said in an interview that there had been no substantive change in Iranian behavior in Iraq, despite more than a year of talks between the Bush administration and Iran over how to calm Shiite-Sunni tensions in Iraq. He said that the paramilitary branch of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps was continuing to direct attacks by Shiite militias against American and Iraqi targets, although he offered no direct evidence.

Asked if the United States and Iran were engaged in a proxy war in Iraq, Mr. Crocker said, “I don’t think a proxy war is being waged from an American point of view.” But, he added, “When you look at what the Iranians are doing and how they’re doing it, it could well be that.”

• MORE ON IRAN'S INVOLVEMENT IN IRAQ - AND THE BUSH ADMISTRATION'S SLOW "REAWAKENING" - HERE.
• BOTTOM-LINE: WE SHOULD BE FIGHTING THE IRANIANS BACK MUCH MORE EFFECTIVELY.
• FDR AND TRUMAN KNEW HOW TO WAGE WAR, AND WOULDN'T HAVE LET IRAN INFLICT SO MUCH DAMAGE ON IRAQ OR ON OUR FORCES.
  
• EXCEPT FOR TARDY THE SURGE, ALL BUSH HAS PROVEN THE LAST FEW YEARS IS THAT DUBYA STANDS FOR WIMP.
• IF BUSH LEAVES OFFICE HAVING ALLOWED IRAN TO GO UNPUNISHED AND THEIR NUKE PROGRAM TO GO UNTOUCHED -- AND IF A DEM DOVE APPEASER FOLLOWS HIM IN OFFICE-- THEN BUSH WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS THE WORST PRESIDENT OF ALL TIME.
• A LOUSY, APPEASING, BIG GOVERNMENT LIBERAL.
• HE ONLY HAS A FEW MONTHS MORE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
  

GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE: RELIAPUNDIT AND JONAH GOLDBERG

JONAH TODAY (AT THE CORNER AND HIS BIGTIME SYNDICATED COLUMN):

Most of the criticisms aimed at McCain can be directed at President Bush himself.

... Campaign-finance reform is a great example... George W. Bush. The president signed the McCain-Feingold bill ...

Amnesty for illegal immigrants? To be sure, McCain was a big player last year in pushing legislation many on the right detest. But the biggest player of all was, again, Bush.

... Didn't McCain say something about Justice Samuel Alito being too conservative? they ask. Well, didn't Bush's instincts guide him to naming White House insider Harriet Miers before conservatives revolted and forced him to choose again?

...President Bush who pushed through the biggest expansion of the welfare state since the Great Society with his prescription drug benefit — a plan McCain opposed and promises to scale back.

RELIAPUNDIT - LAST WEEK:

YA SEE: GW BUSH IS A LIB:

* HE WAS FOR AMNESTY.
* HE WAS FOR MIERS.
* HE PUSHED FOR AND WON THE LARGEST EXPANSION OF MEDICARE SINCE LBJ.
* HE PUSHED FOR AND WON THE LARGEST EXPANSION OF EDUCATION SPENDING EVER.
* HE PUSHED FOR AND WON THE MOST MONEY FOR AFRICA EVER.
* HE PUSHED FOR AND WON THE MOST MONEY FOR AIDS - AN STD - THAN EVER.
* AT LEAST HE GOT THE WAR RIGHT.

YUP: LIKE MCCAIN, DUBYA IS A LIB.

MCCAIN IS JUST A LITTLE MORE OF A DEFICIT HAWK AND A TIGHT-WAD.

IN CASE YOU THINK I'M BEING AND EGOTIST BY POINTING THE SIMILARITY OF HIS RECENT POST TO MY OLDER ONE, LET ME POINT OUT THAT JONAH HIMSELF DID THE SAME THING TODAY:

Not Quite Just In [Jonah Goldberg]

From the great minds think alike dept.

Cal Thomas opens his column today: "This just in: Ronald Reagan is dead and he's not coming back."

Here's how I opened mine, back in October: "Ronald Reagan is dead, and he’s not coming back."

02/12 07:45 AM

GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE: RELIAPUNDIT AND JONAH.

• MY UNDERLYING POINT IS TWO-FOLD: WE HAVEN'T HAD A CONSERVATIVE PRESIDENT SINCE REAGAN.
• AND MCCAIN IS ONLY SLIGHTLY TO THE LEFT OF BUSH.
• TOO BAD THERE ISN'T GONNA BE A CONSERVATIVE AT THE TOP OF ANY TICKET AGAIN THIS FALL.
• THIS FACT MAY DISHEARTEN GOP VOTERS AND HAND THE WHITE HOUSE TO THE COMMIE DOVES.

GULP.

MORE PROOF THAT GEORGE DUBYA BUSH IS A LIBERAL: FOR THE FIRST TIME WINCE WW2, FED JOBS OUTGREW PRIVATE SECTOR

NYTIMES:

George W. Bush is in line to be the first president since World War II to preside over an economy in which federal government employment rose more rapidly than employment in the private sector.

YA SEE: GW BUSH IS A LIB:

• HE WAS FOR AMNESTY.
• HE WAS FOR MIERS.
• HE PUSHED FOR AND WON THE LARGEST EXPANSION OF MEDICARE SINCE LBJ.
• HE PUSHED FOR AND WON THE LARGEST EXPANSION OF EDUCATION SPENDING EVER.
• HE PUSHED FOR AND WON THE MOST MONEY FOR AFRICA EVER.
• HE PUSHED FOR AND WON THE MOST MONEY FOR AIDS - AN STD - THAN EVER.
• AT LEAST HE GOT THE WAR RIGHT.

YUP: LIKE MCCAIN, DUBYA IS A LIB.

MCCAIN IS JUST A LITTLE MORE OF A DEFICIT HAWK AND A TIGHT-WAD.

WE VEER LEFT FROM "COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATISM" IF MCCAIN WINS THE NOMINATION...

BECAUSE THEN WE GO FROM A "COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATIVE" - (WHICH IS MERELY "GERSON-SPEAK" FOR A GOP LIBERAL WHO SUPPORTS SHAMNESTY AND WILDLY INCREASING DOMESTIC SPENDING)...








TO AN OUT-AND-OUT LYING LIBERAL.

MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT: MCCAIN IS TO THE LEFT OF BUSH.




AND I THINK WE NEED TO GO TO THE RIGHT OF BUSH - NOT TO THE LEFT.



IT'S SIMPLE, REALLY:

I WANT A REAGAN REPUBLICAN.

AND THAT MEANS CONSERVATIVE - PERIOD.

WITHOUT ANY HYPHENS.





I THINK MITT'S THE CLOSEST TO THAT IDEAL.

EITHER DUBYA IS JUST KICKING THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD, OR HE'S BEEN MADE A SUCKER BY IRAN, NORTH KOREA - AND "OUR" CIA

I posted a few weeks ago, that it seemed to me that Bush had just "kicked the can down the road" vis a vis North Korea and Iran.

He seems more interested in twisting Israel's arm into making a deal with Fatah than in twisting North Korea's arm, or Iran's arm or Syria's arm or Hamas or Hizballah's arms.

As Jeff Jacoby wrote this week: the Bush Doctrine is dead - a victim of Bush and Rice and Baker and the traitorous CIA.

Here's more proof that either Bush has become an appeaser or a wimp:

AFP:

North Korea is unlikely to abandon its nuclear weapons before US President George W. Bush leaves office in January 2009, his special envoy said Thursday, calling for a revamp of six-party talks on the crisis.

Jay Lefkowitz, special envoy for human rights in North Korea, also accused China and South Korea of not exerting enough pressure on North Korea during the talks that first began in 2003 to end Pyongyang's nuclear weapons drive.

"It is increasingly clear that North Korea will remain in its present nuclear status when the administration leaves office in one year," he told a forum in Washington.

Of this is true, then I'm extraordinarily disappointed in Bush.

And since the traitorous and misleading but propagandistically effective NIE report (more here) was released, Iran is OFF THE HOOK, and the pressure on them seems gone, and they seem more adventurous as a result; (for example, one mist only think back to that cigarette boat incident of last week).

It seems that Iran and North Korea - with the help of anti-American leftists in the State Department and the CIA - have "run out the clock" on the Bush Administration.

And while this is happening Turkey is STEADILY becoming more and more hostile to the Kurds of northern Iraq and more and more Islamicized at home. This is the same islamicist regime which forbade the USA the ability to enter Saddam's Iraq via Turkey and prevented us from smashing Saddam with a hammer and anvil as had been planned by Tommy Franks. This was a sever blow to both our war and our post war effort.

And Pakistan is destabilizing, and Thailand has had a coup while the southern "restive" regions roil with islamoterror and thousands of deaths.

If Bush leaves the problems for the next president to deal with (as now seems likely), then it is ALL THE MORE IMPORTANT who the next president is.

We mustn't elect anyone to the left of the liberal hawk and wimp Bush.

Been there; done that. It's doesn't work.

We need a real conservative HAWK who will reinvent the Bush Doctrine and smash our enemies.

Or at least be tougher with them than he is with Israel.

The Folly and Peril of Bush's Policy of Appeasing of Palestinian Jihadoterror

JEFF JACOBY/BOSTON GLOBE:

THE Bush Doctrine - born on Sept. 20, 2001, when President Bush bluntly warned the sponsors of violent jihad: "You are either with us, or you are with the terrorists" - is dead. Its demise was announced by Condoleezza Rice last Friday.

The secretary of state was speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One en route with the president to Kuwait from Israel. She was explaining why the administration had abandoned the most fundamental condition of its support for Palestinian statehood - an end to Palestinian terror.

Rice's explanation, recounted here by The Washington Times, was as striking for its candor as for its moral blindness:

"The 'road map' for peace, conceived in 2002 by Mr. Bush, had become a hindrance to the peace process, because the first requirement was that the Palestinians stop terrorist attacks.

As a result, every time there was a terrorist bombing, the peace process fell apart and went back to square one. Neither side ever began discussing the 'core issues': the freezing of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, the right of Palestinian refugees to return, the outline of Israel's border, and the future of Jerusalem.

"The reason that we haven't really been able to move forward on the peace process for a number of years is that we were stuck in the sequentiality of the road map. So you had to do the first phase of the road map before you moved on to the third phase of the road map, which was the actual negotiations of final status," Rice said.

. . . What the US-hosted November peace summit in Annapolis did was... "break that tight sequentiality. . . . You don't want people to get hung up on settlement activity or the fact that the Palestinians haven't fully been able to deal with the terrorist infrastructure. . ."

Thus the president who once insisted that a "Palestinian state will never be created by terror" now insists that a Palestinian state be created regardless of terror.

... Whatever happened to the moral clarity that informed the president's worldview in the wake of 9/11? Whatever happened to the conviction that was at the core of the Bush Doctrine: that terrorists must be anathematized and defeated, and the fever-swamps that breed them drained and detoxified?

Bush's support for the creation of a Palestinian state was always misguided - rarely has a society shown itself less suited for sovereignty ...

... If the Bush Doctrine - "with us or with the terrorists" - were still in force, the peace process would be shelved. The administration would be treating the Palestinians as pariahs, allowing them no assistance of any kind, much less movement toward statehood, so long as their encouragement of terrorism persisted.

But it is the Bush Doctrine that has been shelved. In its hunger for Arab support against Iran - and perhaps in a quest for a historic "legacy" - the administration has dropped "with us or with the terrorists." It is hellbent instead on bestowing statehood upon a regime that stands unequivocally with the terrorists.

... When George W. Bush succeeded Bill Clinton, he was determined not to replicate his predecessor's blunders in the Middle East, a determination that intensified after 9/11. Yet now he too has succumbed to the messianism that leads US presidents to imagine they can resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict. Clinton's legacy in this arena was the second intifada, which drenched the region in blood.

To what fresh hell will Bush's diplomacy lead?

• IT CANNOT LEAD TO PEACE.
• APPEASEMENT NEVER DOES - NOT FOR LONG.
• PEACE IS A BY-PRODUCT OF VICTORY.
• THE ARABISTS OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT AND THE EU, THE ANTI-SEMITIC "REALISTS" OF THE JAMES BAKER CAMP HAVE "WON" THE DAY.
• ONLY THOSE WHO THINK IF CEDING EASTERN EUROPE TO STALIN WAS SMART CAN BACK BUSH'S CURRENT POLICY.

• WHEN FATAH CHANGES THEIR EMBLEM AND STOPS SUPPORTING TERROR THERE WILL BE PEACE AND A PARTNER FOR PEACE, NOT BEFORE.
• AND THAT WILL ONLY HAPPEN AFTER THEY ARE SMASHED.
• REPEAT: "the president who once insisted that a "Palestinian state will never be created by terror" now insists that a Palestinian state be created regardless of terror."
• THIS IS FOLLY.
  

AND THIS FOLLY PUTS US ALL IN GREATER PERIL BECAUSE IT SENDS THE MESSAGE THAT TERROR WORKS.

THAT BUSH IS DOING THIS PROVES THAT DUBYA STANDS FOR WIMP.

MORE PROOF THAT ABBAS AND FATAH SHOULD NOT BE TRUSTED

FROM JIHAD WATCH:

(1) Abbas urges dialogue with Hamas just weeks after US pledges $555 million to strengthen him against jihad group

If you're surprised by this, call me. I've got a very nice deal I can make you on a lovely suspension bridge. "'Peace partner' ready to make nice with Hamas: Weeks after U.S. announced $555 million to bolster Abbas against terror group," by Aaron Klein for WorldNetDaily.com (thanks to Doug):

JERUSALEM – In a major policy speech today, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas urged dialogue with rival Hamas, calling for a "new page" to be started with the terror group.

EVERY PENNY WE GIVE FATAH SUPPORTS JIHADOTERROR.

(2) Fatah intel officer, policeman identified as killers of two Israeli soldiers

"[Ali] Dandis worked as a clerk at the Sharia courts in Hebron. Both are residents of the West Bank city, security officials said. They noted that Friday's attack was not the first time that Palestinian security officials or policemen were involved in terror attacks. Last month, Ido Zoldan was gunned down in the West Bank by Palestinian terrorists that turned out to be members of the PA security forces."

Act of war. Imagine the outrage if Israeli soldiers had killed two Fatah men under the same circumstances; indeed, there is an appalling double standard, but it also underscores the fact that the forces of any legitimate state are expected to conduct themselves with order and discipline. (Then again, it also begs the question: were they following orders?) Is "Palestine," in any form, at any point in time, to be exempt from that expectation? "'Killers were from Fatah, one was Palestinian police'," by Yaakov Katz for the Jerusalem Post:

As first published in The Jerusalem Post on Sunday , one of the terrorists who killed two Israeli hikers on Friday near Hebron is a policeman in the Palestinian National Security Force, and the other is a known Fatah operative and a close associate of the Palestinian Intelligence Service, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Service) revealed Tuesday night.

According to details of the murder of off-duty soldiers and nature enthusiasts David Rubin and Ahikam Amihai, the gunmen, Ali Dandis, 24, and Amar Taha, 26, surrendered on the day of the attack to the Palestinian security forces in Hebron out of fear that they would be caught by the IDF. They also handed over the weapons they captured from the hikers.

THEY SURRENDERED TO ABBAS BECAUSE THEY KNOW HE'LL PROTECT THEM THE WAY ARAFAT DID.

YET BUSH IS PLEDGING ABBAS $500MILLION AND IS GOING TO MEET WITH HIM - HAARTETZ: Olmert, Bush and Abbas to hold three-way summit in J'lem

The leaders of Israel, the Palestinian Authority and the United States are expected to hold a joint meeting during President George W. Bush's visit here next week, in an effort to accelerate negotiations on the conflict's core issues - borders, refugees, and Jerusalem.

Bush will visit Israel and the Palestinian Authority next Wednesday and Thursday as part of a regional tour that will cover seven states in nine days.

The main focus of the president's talks will be the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and the Iranian nuclear program.

THE REAL CORE ISSUE IS THAT THE ARABS WANT TO DESTROY ISRAEL. NEGOTIATIONS WON'T CHANGE THAT.

• BUSH AND CONDI AND THE EU ARE NUTS FOR PLEDGING ONE PENNY TO ABBAS AND FATAH.

• WE'D MIGHT AS WELL BE SENDING MONEY TO HAMAS AND BAKING A CAKE FOR OSAMA.

WE NEED TO CRUSH OUR ENEMIES, NOT APPEASE THEM.

IS BUSH APPEASING THE ENEMY BY ALIGNING WITH FATAH?

YES.