Comments on: President Bush’s year in review; Update: Budget director will review earmarks; On the GOP prez race…”You can’t be the president unless you have a firm set of principles to guide you;” “I believe we will keep the White House”

By: vickisoup

vickisoup — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:34:47 +0000

So, while Paris burned….as they say, anyway. Did you all know that the Social Security taxable income level was raised from $90k in 2007 to $108k in 2008? That’s roughly a $1350+ tax increase. More than $100/month.
Anyone see that coming, or was it snuck through someplace? Or maybe I was dancing or sleeping or something besides paying attention.

By: On-my-soap-box

On-my-soap-box — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:58:16 +0000

I’m still Trying to Figure out how you got to be a troll in the first place.

Must be the bridge my wife is building me!

By: On-my-soap-box

On-my-soap-box — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:56:48 +0000

SHoward,

Had to be it. I thought everyone here knew I had a sarcastic, caustic personality? Tough For me.

By: Al in St. Lou

Al in St. Lou — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:18:11 +0000

Michelle, thanks for putting each update at the bottom!

Soap, how seriously can you take someone who thinks “taters” is spelled with three t’s?

OffTopic: I saw something on TV where they previewed the next segment by saying they were going to show “The good, the bad, and the Rosie,” and displayed a photo of Ms. O’Donnell when they said her first name! I groaned, but I enjoyed it.

By: Speakup

Speakup — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:57:32 +0000

”You can’t be the president unless you have a firm set of principles to guide you;”

Yeah, a full set of Constitutionally mandated principles.

Fulfilling one out three major mandates isn’t very firm.

By: Health Care BS

Health Care BS — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:46:51 +0000

SCHIP BROKE UP ON THE SHOALS OF PUBLIC OPINION…

At the Health Affairs blog, Sarah Dine affects mystification at the failure of this year’s SCHIP expansion effort:
The failure to reauthorize a SCHIP program that allows states to continue the flexibility represented by the Republican frontrunne…

By: SHoward

SHoward — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:25:04 +0000

Methinks Soap’s jab about stealing the election was Taken Far too literally.

Oh, and thanks from me, Chad!

By: backwoods conservative

backwoods conservative — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:18:48 +0000

On December 20th, 2007 at 12:13 pm, On-my-soap-box said: If I T F myself, do I get extra points?

I'm still Trying to Figure out how you got to be a troll in the first place.

By: On-my-soap-box

On-my-soap-box — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:13:19 +0000

If I T F myself, do I get extra points?

By: Rablesk

Rablesk — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:43:55 +0000

The good: Chief Justice Roberts
The bad: Allowing patriots to be prosecuted…The Haditha Hoax,Border Guards in prison and not arresting propagandists for treason.

By: On-my-soap-box

On-my-soap-box — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:28:05 +0000

10:30am Eastern. Talks up his global warming strategy and the Big Greenie energy bill.

Add to bad column.

soapbox troll – WHAAA?

By: Grey Fox

Grey Fox — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:24:02 +0000

A bit of speculation: I wonder if in college Bush was one of those people that screwed around until the paper was nearly due, then at the last minute worked his tail off to produce a reasonably good paper…He seems to function best in adversity.

As for his mistakes in the war, more and more people seems to think that the success of the Surge built upon trends already existing. I’ll make a prediction: 25-50 years from now, when there is a lot more information available, some the passions have faded, and with the benefit of hindsight, Iraq will look no more mismanaged than any other war and Bush will come out looking pretty good. Thank about it – How many wars have we ever won that we didn’t get our nose bloodied in the first part, but persevered, learned from our mistakes, and applied those leassons to win? The Revolutionary War (Washington made some MAJOR mistakes early on), the War of the Barbary Pirates, the War of 1812, the Civil War (Union side, obviously), WWII, most of our conflicts with the Indians, Korea…Exceptions might be the Mexican-American War (I don’t know enough to comment there) and WWI (we got in very late. Nevertheless, we did have some early disasters, and learned from them, IIRC). Even in Vietnam we followed that pattern, we just didn’t persevere long enough.

Incidentally, the British also tend to lose the first battles, but win the war. Maybe it a cultural or government thing? Dunno…

By: BOB

BOB — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:23:28 +0000

I was glad to here him support nuclear power. Of course I’m a little biased, since I retired from a nuclear power plant after 30 years in operations and as an instructor. It’s nuts to ignore nuclear power. It will be used to a much greater extent IMO, the only question is how bad we have to need it before we get off our duffs and start building new plants. I think it’s called “crisis management.”

By: tony the tiger

tony the tiger — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:21:01 +0000

QUESTION:
I heard W say something to the effect of “The ultimate weapon against terrorism… is Freedom.”
Can’t find anything from today’s press conference – so I googled it.
Turns out he’s said that a lot.

So anyways, even if it’s cliche… I’d say that was the good.

The bad? Well, he wasn’t hard enough on this Congress. Hope he makes some good recess appointments while they’re out.

By: Rinoalert

Rinoalert — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:18:23 +0000

From a conservative perspective, Bush is one of the worst presidents in American history.

He is a quarterback who knowingly turns over the ball on almost every play to hurt the team.

Redefining conservatism may be his lasting legacy and the ruin of the country because we have no party left to support.