Speaking of Conservative Bonafides...
My skepticism about the authenticity of President Bush's conservativism is well aged and settled by now but I agree with Peggy Noonan, this posturing on the immigartion debate has removed all doubt.
When she is on, nobody's better, and when she's off, she's still better than most.
rtwt http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110010148&mod=RSS_Opinion_Journal&ojrss=frontpage#top
(I promise I'll learn how to make prettier links someday, but this one is just too good to delay)
PS got nice comment back from Vic today. I agree that perhaps the biggest failure of the war is the administrations inability to sell why it was, and continues to be, necessary. From early on my biggest frustration with this presidency has been it's inability to utilize the bully pulpit. That typical ham fistedness is on full display in the immigration debate.
In these days of rampant information doing the right thing is only as important as effectively explaining why it's the right thing. And in that regard this administration has rarely risen to the level the situation warrants. I don't know if it is inability, though I suspect it is more an unwillingness, but either reason explains and justifies the poll numbers they currently endure.
When she is on, nobody's better, and when she's off, she's still better than most.
rtwt http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110010148&mod=RSS_Opinion_Journal&ojrss=frontpage#top
(I promise I'll learn how to make prettier links someday, but this one is just too good to delay)
PS got nice comment back from Vic today. I agree that perhaps the biggest failure of the war is the administrations inability to sell why it was, and continues to be, necessary. From early on my biggest frustration with this presidency has been it's inability to utilize the bully pulpit. That typical ham fistedness is on full display in the immigration debate.
In these days of rampant information doing the right thing is only as important as effectively explaining why it's the right thing. And in that regard this administration has rarely risen to the level the situation warrants. I don't know if it is inability, though I suspect it is more an unwillingness, but either reason explains and justifies the poll numbers they currently endure.
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