After President Bush vetoed the timetable bill this week(he called it a 'date for failure,' which I liked), Congress and the president are trying to compromise on a bill that sets benchmarks for the Iraqi government. What a novel concept.
Didn't the founders of our country create a three branch government so that the decision makers ("deciders") would have to compromise? If we wanted a dictatorship we wouldn't have Congress. It is obvious that the president doesn't want to pull out of Iraq, and it is obvious that Congress wants to pull out of Iraq. So how about they quit trying to convince each other that they are right? How about a compromise?
If Congress and the president don't start working together two years will go by with no progress...hmmmm could this be what Congress wants so they get a new Democratic president?
It obviously is or they wouldn't be spinning their wheels passing bills that the president has guaranteed to veto. They're just wasting time, doing the popular things even though they know nothing will come from it.
It will just make all Republicans look uncooperative and will pave a golden road to the White House for the Democratic nominee in 2008.
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Okay … lets take a step back
What we have here is 2008 presidential politics at its ugliest on both sides of the aisle and a media that is solely about their opinion and their ratings. Not to mention the daily pillaging of every candidate on every gaffe, from Rudy’s “ferret tirade to Obama’s “10,000 vs 10” misstatement. Or statements like Tucker, the boyish weasel, who opined that the latest bill Richardson campaign commercial was from a “candidate with the best resume who would not be President”. And then there is the ever and increasingly ego-centric boorishness of Chris Mathews, which knows no limits.
What we don’t have in this country is a vision and if you want a primer on the definition of Vision, start with the beginning of the constitution.
The solutions to our latest national and international ills, quite frankly, are larger in scope and impact than any one party label can address.
Is, Katrina a republican fiasco or quite simply, an appalling management fiasco that both national and state parties are to blame for … as well as the elected and appointed parish politicians in Louisiana of the past 10-12 yrs that failed in their duty to protect a key source of revenue, prosperity and quality of life in a city rich with history.
Is Iraq, in reality a republican fiasco or a quite simply an appalling management fiasco by both parties and countless pundits that has consequences that we and future generations will be living with, at a tremendous cost in national treasure … lives and dollars … but maybe most importantly, in the spirit for generations to come.
Ask any CEO of any successful company or an owner of the local restaurant or the garage owner down the street about the number one quality that he or she strives to maintain in their business and that is the “can-do “spirit of their employees, be they just a few or thousands.
It is this spirit that we seem to be willing to give up and has, up until this point, made America different from every other country in the world.
Why are we allowing the media to determine the format to present the candidates to us? 90 minutes answering random questions with no opportunity for intelligent dialogue? This isn’t a game show, where we are are selecting the next winning bachelor or the next survivor winner … to lead America.
We should be demanding meat and potatoes and we are settling for media prepared strained carrots.
Take the last Democratic debate and the question re: the horrific “we have been attacked … “ scenario. Why did only two candidates have the chance to answer the question? It was a great question but presented in a game show format.
Each candidate should have been given 90 seconds to list the first 5 steps in order of priority to secure this nation. Put their pencils down and have their answers placed on the screen for the world to see. I would offer that some of them would no longer be able to raise a dime, because their answer could not have “spinned” and we, the people would have learned something.
What if we used the same format to ask: In 30 words or less, describe your vision for America that you will strive to achieve every day of your presidency?
90 seconds later, pencils down, and the answers are up for the entire world to see. The result?
We, the American people win. And maybe, just maybe the world will see, what they can expect from their next American President and plan appropriately.
Wake up, America! It is us or the Chris Mathews of the world (plus the spin-meisters) … deciding who will be President
lets take a lesson from our founding fathers and take the media out of this.
lets make candidates debate intelligently in free flowing exchanges that will be unspinnable but will show us what we are getting if they are elected.
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