National Politics
President Bush has rubber-stamped every piece of budget legislation pushed through Congress, and failed to rein in all the pork spending that adds billions to our federal deficit. In fact, Bush has yet to veto a single piece of legislation.
Didn’t he claim to be a fiscal conservative during the election campaign?
What ever happened to the ideals of limited, frugal government championed by Republican leaders like Ronald Reagan? Reagan wielded the veto pen 78 times during his administration, with only nine vetoes overridden. W’s father, Bush Sr., vetoed 44 times.
In contrast, in 2004 Bush threatened to veto any highway bill exceeding $256 billion; but in 2005 he raised his line-in-the-sand to avoid a veto to $284 billion. What did he get from Congress and sign into law? $286.5 billion.
Raymond Kreisel
Aliso Viejo
Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel is right about Iraq: It is another Vietnam. If it had been anyone else, the GOP long knives already would have started slicing and dicing him. Trouble is, Hagel’s no peacenik or liberal softy. He received two Purple Hearts during the Vietnam War.
I will be interested to see how far he gets in convincing other Republicans in Congress they, too, need to stand up to the president.
Denny Freidenrich
First Strategies LLC
Laguna Beach
Our claim to be the great power probably is over.
It’s a sad fact, but a country must know how to wage war to survive.
This country cannot wage war when we are more concerned with what Ted Kennedy, John Kerry and Jane Fonda think; the negative side to any story from our elite media; giving credence to what Al-Jeer has to say; what the ACLU and many lawyers think about our conduct; leaving our borders wide open and calling this an “insurgency” instead of World War III.
Oh, man. Give me strength.
Barry M. Gold
Irvine
